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You should have run a 3rd test without the spacer A B A . A dyno operator is like a good bookkeeper, tell me what you want.

WOW.

How about a 1.159 60 ft time. Sacramento, in the cool December air.

Check your acc pumps and squirters. Sounds like your lean.

Night Rider has the right idea. If you want to go drag racing get a old body and do a tube chassis. I have been the back half Z deal and tube chassis Z deal and the diffrence is day and night. If you want to go fast safe and easy go tube chassis. 8.46 with a sbc on gas no nitrous and the engine is built with off the sheft parts. ...Jon

Chassisworks fab 9 housing. 30" axel flange to flange. Mark Williams pro stock 3rd member with 4.86 gear, lightened ring gear and aluminum pinion yoke, aluminum spool, MW super light axels, titanium drive studs and aluminum nuts.

Quarter mile drags. With only a two gallon fuel cell and the frame at 3 inches in the front and 2 1/2 inches in the rear you arn't going very far or over too many speed bumps.

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First off you need a chassis that will get the job done. A 632 Big Chief aint goina get it in a stock chassis.

If money is no object, you could always buy my Z. 8.40's with a small block, one carb, no nitrous. That way they would puke their guts out, and you don't need no stinking big block. If you want to go faster you can always spray it.

Hi Ron. How's it going with your Z? I just put on titanium drive studs and aluminum wheel nuts, drilled rear rotors and an aluminum pinion yoke. eight hundred bucks for 3.8 pounds. Are we racers stupid or what. Ran last wekend 105 deg. and over 4000 ft air, Damm, August here sucks. Still ran mid 8.60's though, maybe that negative 3.8 pounds helped.

700 rwhp and 143 is a 3100 pound Z car. Damm, thats a porker.

Z cars go in stages. First you have a stock 240Z, then you start to tweak the 6 cylinder and suspension. Thats cool for a while then a guy in the bay area starts selling Scarabs with V8 chevys in them and your 6 cylinder looks weak even with those cool webbers you just had to have.You find out you can get the kit from him and put your own small block in your Z. You buy a 300 dollar Impala and do the swap. Everything is fine till you get used to the power and want more power. You start building hotter engines and put the hurts to every car you find out on the road. Then one of your buddies tells you your car may go around corners but he would smoke you at the drag strip. So you go to the Friday night drags and get hooked. Then you need a roll bar, then a cage, then you can't run 10's with the irs so you backhalf a Z and put a bigger engine in that Z. Then before you know it your going to fast for that homebuilt backhalf job and you get serious and build a tube Z car. Its got to stop somewhere, maybe when Selzi dumps the Celica and goes with a Z car. You always want to go faster and if you do it long enough you will go down the same road. A friend is talking about putting his 632 big chief nitrous engine in my Z but with a 95 inch wheelbase I don't know if my old man reflexes could handle that.

You need a looser converter.

Set aside some time and get out the welder.

Straight plug heads or angle plug heads ? What do you have on the car now? Why a 3 1/2" collector on a 1 3/4" primary ? Drag only ? How hot a motor and what rpm range do you run it ?

Thats beautiful Ron. Is that your new California motor home in the background? New paint, new wing, fresh engine. It looks like you are ready to go back to the top of the list.

Hard to keep it under 7 grand when your converter goes 6,300 Just not as quick with taller gears, quick wins races not mph. 8.46 but only at 156.

Hi Aaron. My old backhalfed 240Z with a 406 and a turbo 400 ran 9.50's in the quarter. With a good 350 and a glide you should go in the 10's easy.

There is something about those big wide valve covers on a BBC that sends shivers down my spine . If you want a big block, go for it. These are all toys anyway. If we wanted basic transportation we would all be driving Toyota Corollas.

You might think twice about the vht Ron. If it leak too much it is still wet and you may blow the tires off. I have run when they have just sprayed the starting line in the morning and the vht was still wet and the car just did another burnout on the launch. Also if it decided to leak as you go down the track you could make an unsuspected turn real quick. Its a neet idea but it might not be the best idea to have any liquid that could get on your tire as you go down the track. Besides it may make you too quick

I have never had the engine on a dyno but it makes enough to push it into the 8.40's in the 1/4.

Did you find the next weakest link ?

I don't think Ron is spraying it don't know for sure but I don't rember any mention of nitrous. Ron is putting the new engine on the dyno so when he comes back I am sure he will set us straight on the nitrous question.

The one picture of the rear end looks like the car has a laderbar. Big block or small block in any Z is a good thing. Blower cars are hard to hook up, all that torque at the hit of the throtle. You can go fast with a small block, or should I say quick.