Comrade_Charlie

Does any one have pictures of the 69-76 or 77 style hood with the later style zx turbo scoops? I have 2 turbo scoops(left and right) and was wondering if its worth while to take the time to draw everything out and cut, to put them on my hood. I might just try to find a 78 hood.

I am just trying to get the stock harness back to original condition, then I am going to start to do the 300zx maf and turbo ecu swap. it has 300zx turbo injectors(260cc, I believe stock turbo 280 injectors are 270cc, still have them but the plastic is all broken). my 300zx has nistune, I want to use the 300zx ecu because it has a maf and not a afm, and I can use nistune on both if I want. but I have 2 spare turbo ecus sitting in my room. I already did the z31 CAS and what not into the 83 turbo dizzy. I was going to swap in the whole z31 harness but I dont know what im doing with wires... so I find it might be easiest to just copy junkyard cars with uncut wiring and follow the fsm to get mine back to stock(uncut condition)

How hard are they to change, I tried pulling a harness out of a 280zx and I found no way of doing it without cutting it?

Well the injector harness is all white except for like one blue wire, maybe they are all the same, I will look through my other harnesses(I have 2 from 80+ models) and I will read some more on the fsms, I think I found some info about the wiring in the fsm. Thanks.

I think this is where this needs to be posted... Any help is always appreciated, I want this thing running and im going to finally tackle the wiring harness. looks like all that needs to be hooked up is alt, starter, maf, injectors, chts, am I missing something? The guy I got my z from for 75 bucks for some reason pulled the motor out and lets just say he did not like to unhook connectors so they are cut or ripped, who knows. I was planning on using a 300zx harness but couldnt figure out how to take it out without cutting it so. 1. Any way, the stock engine harness after the maf wire is cut, I have 2 harnesses out of later 280zxs but I dont know how to wire it up, they are all white,. does it matter if the injectors wires are mismatched, like 1 is connected to 3 and all that. or do I need to follow each wire back to the ecu and then wire it up to the correct injector(which I do not want to do) Unless there is a easy way, I think the wires said 104 on them? And the 280zx engine injector harness is all different colors, not just white. 2. Does any one know what this went/goes too? I was thinking the distributor. 3. What does this go too, its a long cable, It is coming out of the fire wall under the clutch or brake resirvoirs under the little pop up things. 4. This is just a mess, can I get a wiring diagram for this, I believe its the altenator/starter? I have a 1982 280 fsm but cant find anything. maybe someone can point me into the right direction. I also looked in this and found nothing http://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/280z/1976/ more of the alt harness

Doing the 300zx ecu swap is fairly easy(for the l28), and if you do that for the l28 I dont see why it wouldnt work for the 300zx, if you swap over the connectors, but I could be wrong. and a z32 trans pretty much bolts up to stock mounts( and can be made to work on a vg30e fairly easy). and if you can make your own motor mounts then all you would need is a custom driveshaft.

nah the 280 is getting the vg33 turbo, already have turbo parts for it, bout to pick up a 33 soon, and I have a 2wd pathy trans. All I need is to make the mounts, custom drive shaft, and I need a turbo relocation pipe, and I think I need to notch out the frame rail for the altenator in the engine bay in the 280z. Ill probably remove the stock hood latch, and get hood pins(dont know, I think hood pins only look good on some cars), I want this thing all the way back in the car for 50/50 weight dist. for the truck, I just want a driveable truck with decent power, my friend has a stock nissan 720 with the z24 and its sooooo slow. I think a vg30 will bring it too life. But I dont want a inline4 unless its a sr20 and id rather have the vh45 v8 sound(and power), if I spend over 1000. a vg30 would be cheapest for me since I have one and i have tons of spare parts for them. What size carb would be good on a 3liter v6? 300-400cfm? I was thinking of trying a stock sbc350 carb. Thats about as off subject as someone can get on here... Edit, it seems that you need a Saudi Arabian dist from a carb nissan truck for the vacuum advance to run carb on a vg30... so im going to attempt to go efi with a harness from the junkyard, I still have a 1985 na ecu so...

I would not even know how you would go about keeping the vvt without the ecu(assuming its controlled by the ecu). I just want to throw it in a 84 datsun truck fairly quick, nothing to be a dragcar, just the usual burnout, something to move engines around and to be fun. looks like the hardest part is the manifold(unless someone makes one). I guess this is kind of a waste of time, I guess Ill just go efi or not vh45, and just go with my first idea, which was a vg30i. I just dont want the z24 motor. I just love the sound of the vh45.

I don't think there are any manifolds to carburate a vh45, but could you get it to run without the ecu?... I don't know if it would be possible with the stock ignition, I know you can do it on a vg30 because it has a distributor, but I think the vh does not. I was reading this thread, and someone on here talked about a dist. block off plate( It is the post at the very top ). And apparently some people do not like the idea of a carburated vh45, But thats fine I do not like the idea of a carburated l28, 280zs come wired up for the l28e so... I just do not like wiring. I am wanting to put the vh in a carburated vehicle. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=91733&page=6 I dont think the stock intake manifold can be turned into a carburated manifold with the design of it. I guess you would have to go with a design like this, this is on a vh41. Looks like he has a separate ignition system. http://www.turbo-infiniti.com/viewtopic.php?t=63&sid=d6ae9b257323442dbb0192cc83bdbcb1 So I guess the main things are Ignition, and the manifold. Maybe I think its just to hard to wire it up? Any good sites on wiring up cars for different engines, because it seems like a huge task for me,I love fuel injection, but I hate wiring.

I just put a good maf on my friends 86 and it fixed his problem. He would have to start his car about 10-15 times while it was warming up. And it didnt drive smooth. But now with this other maf it runs perfect. A maf is easy to change. They are easy to find where im at, I have a extra one in my room, and a the local junkyard has like 4 of them.

I wonder if he used the vg30i tbi manifold with an adaptor, I might pick one up...

Are you ever going to use flares? I like how the Z looks stock, I cant imagen a wide tire can fit under there stock without flares. Im just not into them that much. Edit- nevermind, Bartmans setup is using 275s and it looks good!

yea I understand the whole backing plate thing, but I just dont want to have to buy 2 hubs just for a tiny bracket

I took this from your thread, How do you get that and that(that being the end of the arrow LOL) apart, so that you can remove the bracket?

I know where 1 is, Ive been reading about them and yea some are welded on, hope thats not the case with the one im going to look at. to take the hub off I just need to unbolt the halfshaft, I dont have to remove the stub axle do I(I think I would need an impact wrench for that)? ... I need to just go look.

I have heard that the 300zx ecu has a richer fuel map. plus you can use a maf and not a afm. I dont think you can use a maf on the 280 ecu

Im going to the junkyard on friday, what tools are needed to remove those brackets from the older maximas... I dont need anything special do i?

I pulled a 5spd trans out of a 280(jn1c car) today thinking it was a t5, and for some reason it wasnt... it had the same style shifter as the 4spd trans in my 76... I thought all turbos came with the t5. All t5s have the 4bolt style shifter right? Maybe it broke and someone through in a n/a 5spd trans... Are those worth trying to sell, I know my n/a 5spd from a 300zx isnt worth anything. but the drive shaft looked weird like it had a small diameter portion then a bigger diameter portion near the rear, like a bottleneck in the middle of the drive shaft(custom maybe). is that normal for a s130? Also any way to tell if the flywheel is still the turbo/2+2 flywheel

I just got refunded my money because I waited too long to pay for a part(cause im an idiot) and the dude already got rid of the part, and just gave me money back. I have never gotten screwed over by some on z forums.

I can get a p90 head out of a 83 turbo 280, and a turbo flywheel. are people paying good money for these parts? can also get a valve cover. ill get the turbo engine too if its in really good shape. and sell it

I would have pulled the engine out to remove the turbo LOL. Id remove the engine for everything lol. my cousin took a longer time pulling a turbo out than I did pulling a motor with everything on it. but if you keep on having tons of problems or no hoist, I guess its not an option.

Im going to use mirrors off of a 81 280zxt I used to have. the hole needs to be bigger like ^^^ he said but it looks like it can be made to work really easily, I just havnt charged up my drill LOL. And I dont think the left mirror can be used on either side, well thats the case on the s130 mirrors.

I think its on streetfire. but its where 2 people are racing and a black s30 just fly bys them on the left on the interstate. and someone in the comments says something like that cars something else, and someone says thats a hybridz or something like that. I looked for it before but can never find it.

No, its a pony!

Where in NC are you located, Im near charlotte.