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wonderllama

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  • Birthday 03/17/1980

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  1. wow, i never really gave adhesive a second thought, as i thought you had to overlap. but your fixes look great, and it looks like there won't be a great need for too much filler. can you grind it after it cures?
  2. while this is true, i think a fairly good point is that the hardest part of making a part like a brake caliper bracket is manufacturing the bracket. in this example, you are either going to have to machine it from stock, or weld two pieces together at the correct offset. either way, you'd have to be fairly decent at either skill to make a usable part. and while brackets will have research time involved, i'd say that anyone capable of fabrication is also capable of engineering the part. i'd wager that most of the posters in this forum are lacking in at least one of the three main categories to manufacturing their own parts; skillset, time, and tools. that's why i don't believe that having a drawing will do most people any good, and they will buy the parts from the vendors like always. the people who will benefit from these specs will be the people that would have built these parts themselves anyways. either way, it doesn't seem like anyone is interested in doing this anyway. especially since i had made a similar thread eariler that didn't even get a reply: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=127533
  3. I had an idea about creating a library of dimensional drawings of fabricated parts for the Z. For Instance, drawings that show overall and hole dimensions for adjustable control arms, rear disc brake caliper brackets, etc. I did a search on this, and could not find anything similar, even though there are some people that have posted drawings for several items. First and foremost, I understand that many on this forum might make their livings (or at the very least some extra cash) making and selling some of these aforementioned fabricated parts. However, I believe that anyone capable of using a drawing to fabricate a part would probably make it anyway, not purchase it. We’d just be saving them the time it takes to measure and document the part. I’d even offer my services to anyone that has only a “napkin scratch†drawing; as I could re-draw it in Solidworks and post it here in the correct format.
  4. so wait, when installing coilovers you don't have to section the struts? i was under the impression that you had to section them to get them to work. sorry for the hijack.
  5. well absolutely, it's unusual for a spring to degrade that much faster than it's partner, but not impossible. someone could have replaced only the one spring as well. i'd take them off and see how dead they are. springs are usually replaced when shocks are replaced anyway, especially if you are replacing "dead" shocks.
  6. 1978 280Z with an educated guess of 115K miles. All original, but soon to change that with some fiberglass parts, and some wheels. I will be completely redoing th entire suspension first, though
  7. Nice job. I'm with davy, this car/wheel combo makes a large (relatively) tire profile look just right.
  8. hard to go wrong for $300, but man is that dusty
  9. ok, i admit, chortled when you first brought up the saturn airdam. but damn, ( or should i say dam?) that looks like it was made for the fron of a z. have fun having people ask you what kind of car it is EVERYWHERE you go now.
  10. heh. well, dont make me take a picture of a stock 78 with the egr, air regulator, pcv, etc. the fuel rail makes a huge difference as well.
  11. i love that picture of your engine, i want to hire you to make my engine look that clean
  12. Are you sure you mean +04 and not +40? Because that would make a huge difference for one little typo.
  13. veritech, that is a clean looking 260/280 engine bay. kudos to you, good sir. i need mine to look like that someday.
  14. yeah, i am doing this less for hp and more for the fact that my BCDD was shot, and the RPM idssue was annoying. i guess i will just try to plumb a pipe up to the air regulator and try to tap the tb spacer.
  15. do you have the part number for this compressor? I'd liek to check it out.
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