roninjiro

im selling it... http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=159954

that is pretty neat, i am debating on using it or not. now i have 2 zx once again... and i want them to clone each other exterior wise, so i may not even get to use it. thank you for the information you have managed to dig up, it does clarify a lost history. btw nice zx knight!

s30? i dunno about mine then.... it is a pefect fit, as it contours the lower valance and all. do you remember what thread this was in?

wow, that's it. I guess a&a racing was just a distributor like motorsport auto is

it is a A&A one off in urethane. that company does not exist anymore and shut down in the mid 90's. that car pictured started off as a parts car.... had a change of heart.... just cosmetic issues and a champ mechanical wise. all it needed was a clutch.

i found a parts car with everything i need, don't need anything anymore, thanx anyhow

yes i do, thats why i also need the crank handles as well

dibs... pm sent for -complete interior (EVERYTHING except main dash, seats and carpet) -orange markers on front bumper and fenders -door mirrors -side chrome trim pieces between door window and quarter window. -fuel tank straps

Yes the search on how to remove it would be best. I unfortunately can never get that right.

Now that i think about it, that does make sense. I have had this problem before also, on my very first z. My scenario was more like cracked head and bad rings though. Also for me my car smoked white really bad as well as "coolant" blow by from the valve cover with no coolant in the oil. Talk about bad luck

that is kind of a tricky question. the only way you will know the answer is if you take the trim off, and inspect along your windshield channel, on all my cars it was always worse than the bubbling appeared, but then again i get my s130's after they have had extremely abused lives. So lets say you take the trim off and the bubbling is only one area. Meaning it has not spread all along the windshield channel. If this is the case you can do a minor repair by cleaning that area with a wire brush or spot blast it, followed by treating it with a rust inhibitor like the POR products. Once you complete that you can use a body filler, sand, prime and paint (if you can match the original). With this method you should not need to pull the windshield out. But in other cases like myself, if the damage was more than meets the eye you will have to pull the windshield, trim, wipers, and plastic grill for extensive metal replacement. I hope you do not have to go that route, as I hate it every time.

The cowl is spot welded in (integrates into the windshield channel, top portion of firewall,and so forth.). You can repair the rust damage correctly by removing the windshield, lower and side trim along with wipers to fully access the area. sorry i wish we had the removable cowls too.

Thats what i was thinking. But also I do not understand how you collected 10 oz in that short period of time. I am thinking you need to dye test the head for cracks.

Where do you have your catch can lines hooked up at??? That is extremely odd you have no excess fluid in your oil pan if your blowby is coolant. Was all of the fluid coolant with no mixture of oil?

wish i could help you, when i take them off i just break em.... i later replace with universal windshield seals

hehe... i don't wanna get rid of it, i really like it. I am just amazed at how i can't seem to find any info on it really. ideally i would like to have it re-made, but i doubt that will happen because i really do not want it redone in glass or fiber. anyone familiar with A&A racing? the original owner said they used to make dragstrip racing composites, but were shutdown due to strict air pollution requirements or something in that sense. he also said it used to have a splitter on the bottom of it. any ideas on how to refresh it?

hey! I thought you had a s30? sorry, I have the panel on ebay. also, are you still running the tire rim setup? I figured i should post up some pics of this thing... It looks pretty neat and just want some more information if anyone knows anything about it. I have gotten back into the 280zx phase that never left me again, and now have 2 of them once more, but this time these stay with me. Wife said so.....

I received this spoiler with one of the zx's I just picked up. Original owner told me it was from a company called A&A and it is made of urethane. Anyone know anything else about it or seen this style before? please don't mind my new daily driver..

yea that is it, thank you. very hard to locate pics of that piece.

Hey guys, I can't seem to find installed pics of this stainless band. I remember seeing pics of it installed on one of the threads here but cannot find it in the search engine. Anyone have pics or can point me in the right direction?

ive done a ka24t swap on my zx b/f i got rid of it. there is alot involved. the sr, like the ka24t has a front oil sump which will it the crossmember. you would then have 2 options, modify the crossmember or modify the oil pan and pick up. i chose the crossmember modification. for me it was easy, cut the crossmember in three pieces, reverse the center section, weld back up, trim the now rear edge of the crossmember off, and voila (use a 240z-280z rack and pinion as your rack is now up front, as well as lenghten your steering shaft) . now all you would have left is the actual engine mounts, and tranny mount to fab up. it's time consuming.... but worth it in the end.

I'm not leaving the forum just going to Iraq for a years deployment. I know to a lot of you guys i am a bit of an hardheaded fart, so smile for once! to everyone who thought i was ok, thank you for listening or pretending! Any who i guess i will catch ya later another time, and i must now say hello to to my new duty station.... Baghdad... bye guys jiro

nice, but i call bs on the original mpg. i have the 93 civic (bare bones model aka cx) and it was all stock and driven to get the most mpg out of it and i could only achieve 45mpg at the most. now mind you that this is in perfect working order and using the most lightest oils and even compression across the boards. (basically a new car that was broken in) now he claimed 50 to 60mpg stock....BS. i need real data from when he achieved that and how the hell he did it. if he can prove that... i will believe the rest. in my eyes anyone will try to get their 5 minutes of fame... and I'm not buying it without hardcore data to back it up. and this doesn't matter how ugly it is.