HoustonZ

How about mine? With a brushless motor sytem in it will do the 0-60 in under 2 seconds:mrgreen: In all seriousness, take a look at the Traxxas Jato. It's a nitro model which will rip things up on and off road.

My awesome boss at the cnc machine shop gave me a christmas bonus. This means more fun stuff for the Z! I've ordered a front air dam and beautiful condition 240z bumper from ebay. Hopefully those will arrive this week. I've given myself a deadline of January 7th for completing all the paint. At the moment I'm about 20% done with all my blocking. Looks like a lot of late nights are in my future....

Exhaust or intake flanges?

Cool, are you a cnc hobbiest, or is it at your work? The best part about these flanges is that I accept Z parts in trade. Start PM'ing the offers guys. A fully installed Megasquirt system would be perfect Or 240z bumpers. Or L28 headers. Or whatever interesting junk you have around the garage.

Okay, I've got the new cad file finished. I'll cut yet another test piece Sunday. Sound good?

Sorry, I couldn't get a single piece cut from stainless. There are some people here with cnc plasma access, and I'm sure we could work out a deal with them. Yep, we can definitely do a deal with the dxf. Finals for school are k-i-l-l-i-n-g my free time, which means all this stuff takes forever to finish.

It's on a '77 L28 FI. I was thinking of 8psi as a target because won't I have problem with detonation if it's any higher. Keep in mind I won't be running an intercooler. 4 barrel is a possibility. I honestly have no idea which way to go. The fabrication is the easiest part for me. I just need someone holding my hand telling me what to make

Looking good sparky! I'll be coming to visit in January, with a painted car I hope.

More progress. This is after the first coat of Evercoat Featherfill G2. It's a high build polyester primer which makes life a whole lot easier. It fills quite nicely, and is easy to block.

I'm still working on a good cad file for them. If someone could supply one, that would be very helpful.

That is quite possibly the sickest thing I've seen all night.

I've been considering it, but that's a lot more work. At this point, I'm trying to decide if 8psi or so off the supercharger is worth constructing an entirely new runner system.

Okay, I really only need the runners. I'm working on an m90 supercharger project, and plan on chopping the stock lower portion of the manifold to adapt it. Anyone have a cheap one laying around?

Hey, that's what my garage looks like right now. It's so satisfying to actually be spraying after the months of prep work!

Looks great!

What sparky is trying to say is, yes I'll be machining the 5 lug hat tomorrow.

I know how you guys like saving old metal.... 6000lbs of 1972 Bridgeport Series II. My playtoys at work. Acra knee mill and twin Daewoo turret lathes.

Aren't we all hobbiests? It's easy, relatively speaking. Heckuva lot simplier then rebuilding engines I think. Some DC servo motors, glass rotary encoders, power supply, Gecko drivers, wires, plugs, pulleys, and you're in business.

Nice to see another machinist here. I can't tell from the photos, is it a Bridgie, Sharp, Acer, Wells Index, Alliant? The next thing you need to do is install a cnc retrofit kit

I talked to my shop tonight, annodizing is a go. After getting the hat from Sparky, I've changed a few measurements by a hair. I want to send it back to Sparky so he can bolt it up to the car, but after that we're ready to submit the order to the shop. So if I'm not terribly mistaken, we're looking at 3 weeks.

And that would allow for regenerative braking that would help the battery life, but don't get me started

Hey Arvin, you're close by. I'm in Missouri City, about 5 minutes from Sugarland. What kind of Z do you drive?

It's not a true shaved rear, since I'm keeping the bumper. However it will look much cleaner. You can basically copy what I did, except extend the sheet metal to cover the strut holes.

Hahaha, maybe I should weld the cone on myself I finally did learn how to fill those holes with the MIG while not managing to burn through or warp the panel. All the holes have now been filled properly, so you can sleep easy. Here is the picture I was going to email you. For some reason, my hosted domain went nuts, and took down all my accounts with it. Who in Houston wants to come over and swap the rear glass on the hatch for me? I've never messed around with replacing glass before, and it'll most likely be broken if I try There are Z parts/lunch/green paper bills for trade, any takers?

Maybe we can supply a 12.19 brake set?