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In a lot of the Australian Universities, the Grade Point Average (GPA) is from 1-7, seven being the highest. 3 is a conceded past (An, ok you can pass), 4 is pass etc. The saying around uni was, 3 gets you a degree, 4 gets you in the door. (I.E. All you need to aim for is a pass. Not a real good attitude but after 17 odd years of schooling, it gets pretty hard to be motivated to do much better than that). At least aim for more than a pass in the first few years, it helps keep you Average up when you slack off near the end.

You haven't changed you mind to 17s now? LOL.

Merry Christmas guys, Just interested to here what car related presents you got or gave. I got the following from my wife Low Profile 1500kg Trolley Jack http://www.tradetools.com.au/Catalogue/ProductView.aspx?ProductCode=GJLUQ1500 4 x 3 Tonne Axle Stands And I guess a present to myself (Not very charitable, oh well) is "MY CAR IS RUNNING AND TUNED!!!" I bought a new computer a while back, put LS1 coils in and rewired all engine related functions. The car was started for the first time in over a year on the 13th and was finally tuned on the Dyno on Tuesday at 5pm (Last job before the Dyno closed for Christmas). So overall, I am stoked with this Christmas.

Actually (Been thinking more, It's Christmas eve so I am a bit slow). The heaviest part of most rims would have to be the outer edge (Greatest amount of metal). So moving this edge closer to the outside of the Wheel would make a greater moment. The Tire has most of its weight at the outside edge as well. So using a lower profile tire shouldn't change the moment a great deal.

It would depend on where the weight is. If the 17 inch wheel puts the weight closer to the edge then yes it will be a greater moment. I can't say for sure, but I would bet that putting the rim further to the edge of the wheel is putting the weight closer to the edge of the wheel (I think that the metal is heavier than rubber. I.E. rim is going to be heavier than tire, so larger wheel smaller tire is heavier wheel and lighter section of the wheel is a thinner section), so I would say that the moment is greater with a 17 inch wheel. It would be easy to do the math though. Just find the weight of the two rims and the weights of the two tires.

Well done mate. Now with that 40,000 you can afford to donate to HybridZ.

It's not the size of the motor, but the size of the fan. A 2 Pole electric motor will run at 3000 rpm (But sounds terribly noisy, you would want a 4-Pole at most) Then you might be able to run a gearbox setup which could make the fan shaft spin faster (Oh yeah, and fans are a pain in the but to start), but unless you get the fan going really fast (I.E. Like a turbo impeller) then you will need very large fan blades. By the way, 3 Phase power supply in a car? How many batteries are you thinking? 415V 3-Phase out of 12V Batteries. Good luck, not only will it look like a airplane with the fan sticking through the bonnet, but it will weigh as much as a f350. Sorry to sound so negative, just the engineer coming out of me. We are generally pretty skeptical.

znow white also has them http://forums.hybridz.org/showpost.php?p=832813&postcount=85

Got my L28et tuned today. Little bit less power then I was expecting 185rwhp @ 13psi (P.O. said there was 240rwhp at 14psi). Good thing is that the tune is really smooth. Car pulls strong and smoothly. Overall, I am impressed with the tune, and the seat of my pants dyno says it is plenty powerfull enough (Even if the numbers don't do it justice).

Why not today. That would make a lovely anniversary present. Sorry, I know I am not helping, just couldn't help myself.

Put the beer down and sober up. Or is it a christmas egg nog? The fan would be larger then the car.

Another hobby which consumes my time as much (Actually more) as cars and costs me just as much. I started with a NAD T773 surround sound amp (really nice sounding amp with music). But after realising how good stereo could sound ended upgrading to a Electrocompaniet ECI-5 2 channel Amp. My speakers are B&W 805s stand mount, source is still just a NAD DVD player (Still contemplating which CD player to upgrade to). Oh, also have a Yamaha 5 CD changer that hasn't been used in a couple of years (Just doesn't sound as good through a decent amp).

Well I will say it. Sorry mate, but I don't like it. However I also don't like the original 280zxt lights. What is important is that you like it. Also, great looking craftmanship. What I would like to see is someone graft some 240z lights in there. Anyone? Overall, well done, just not for me. P.S. Did you post this before? I had major dejuvu on the Dog with evil eyes.

Dam Derek, I saw your new signature and thought. He finally bought new wheels. So I went searching through your recent posts to find the real photo. Bit disappointed it's only photoshop. Hurry up and get some of those, they look good against your paint.

Oh yeah, one more thing for all you budding engineers, LEARN MICROSOFT EXCEL, I don't mean, just know how to do graphs and crap. LEARN as much as you can, just by trial and error etc. Most useful tool to an engineer that isn't his brain.

Electrical Engineer? If so, trust me, it is a lot better once you start working. I kept thinking "I should have done Civil" but I was already two years through and couldn't be bothered changing. I learnt more in the first 6 months of working then I did in my four years of uni, and unlike the uni stuff the stuff I learnt at work all makes sense. Just battle through the uni and when your out it will be a lot better.

My tuner came out yesterday morning. Tested all the inputs and outputs (they were all wired correctly, that's what you get for being an anal engineer). He loaded a Base map and it fired straight away. Man it has been a long time since I heard that sound, man it sounded good. (Lot louder than I remembered too, will have to get use to it again). Now it is driveable it is looking like it will be on the dyno on next saturday. Just 6 more sleepless nights waiting for that.

I have been working on a new computer install. All wired up and the tuner is meant to come out tonight so that we can get her started (It has been over a year since it was last running, man time flies). Then fingers crossed it will be on a dyno before Christmas. Also made some changes along the way, you can see some of my progress in these. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=139854 http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=141981

When I changed from the large original Datsun steering wheel to a smaller momo wheel, I found that I could no longer determine my speed. The normal highway speed in Australia is 100 km/hr, however with my new steering wheel I couldn't see above ~80km/hr. Since I have very few points left on my license and any further tickets would take me off the road, I thought of a good way to fix it. And it has only taken me about a year to actually implement that fix. So here it is. It involved drilling four new mounting holes in the gauge holder and making a simple (bent piece of 1mm Aluminium strip) bracket to hold the back of the gauge.

When I get a chance, I'll measure the L28/RB30 discs properly.

RB30 wheel is the exact same size as the L28 wheel (Put them over top of each other and they are the same, same cyl 1 position too). Not sure if the z32 and rb25/26 wheels are the same, but it would surprise me if they are different. Although I was surprised when you said the Z31 has a different size wheel. The rough measurement of 1.989 in the photos is actually quite close to the true measurement. It looks really dodgy as the verniers are a bit away from the disc (Hard to hold the verniers, digital camera and distributor all at the same time). So if you have a measurement of 1.964 then I would say that is the measurement of the RB30 and L28 discs.

They are just so you don't scratch the rims when you are driving

It better work, that is what I am using. I'll let you know if it works in a couple of weeks when I get it tuned. Can't see why it wouldn't

Well it doesn't look too good. This is a L28 Distributor and a RB30 distributor. The wheels are compatible because I have changed them (The cylinder 1 marks match up, I.E. L28 distributor pictured has RB30 wheel and vice versa). L28 Distributor, measurement is roughly the inside of the distributor where the CAS sits Screw hole measurements RB30 Distributor

I'll take some pictures and measurements tomorrow for you, It is currently 11pm here and I got other stuff on. Will get them for you in another 24 hours.