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    You favourite looking Z?

    in Body Kits & Paint

    Posted

    heheheheheheh it's ok MIKE, thanks guys for the complements, to be exact, started the the whole project back in mid november 2006, project is officialy finished today, about 3 monthes and a half, let's say 4 monthes to transform a white, bit rusty with blown L28 1977 280Z into this WILD ride :)

    BTW, MIKE, if you know Kuwait as much as i do, you'll have alo0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0ot of things to do here :) if you know what i'm sayin...

    thanks again

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    what? that's all? just remove it while the engine is running or what??

    BTW, my car is running fine, no more fire :) fixed the old Z harness and bought new (junk yard) fusible links boxes, isolated the alternator from this weak harness by connecting it directly to the battery, alternator went bad and had to change half of it maybe, the problem of loosing power is solved, one of the sparkplug wires melted on the headers and i was running on 7 cylenders only, i saw it today when i took all the wires of and checked them again. drove it few minutes ago and she's running wild, will have to buy 2 14'' wheels to stick my BFGoodrich on them, found a nice pair at the junk yard for 90 bucks, will get them after tomorow, also i have to reinstall the nitrous system because i took everything out after the small fire i had, timing is set at 9 and will see if my car likes it or not, our pump gas is at 98 Octane so we'll see how it goes with NOS....

     

    WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE HERE THAT HELPED ME OR TRYED TO HELP ME, SPECIAL THANK TO Gr8White (Will) for all your support and beeing so0o0o0o kind and answering all my questions :)

     

    thanks

    Post Your Interior Photos!

    in Body Kits & Paint

    Posted

    for some reason i don't think that is a z interior it looks kinda small around the transmission tunnel area.. but i might be wrong i don't know

    i think the car is a Z, check the second picture, the guy is opening the battery cover, not alot of cars have those openings.

    SBC 260Z Winner on "PINKS"

    in Gen I & II Chevy V8 Tech Board

    Posted

    Bartman, The wheel base is 98'' long. The fiberglass front end has been streched 6'' long. We took 4 fenders and 2 hoods cut and added together to do this that a guy ( don't rember his name ) molded for us out of Knoxville, Tn back in 1989 when we built the Z car

    Jon

    :mrgreen: i was 9 years old and you were building a hybrid Z, all my RESPECT Jon :icon6:

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    Will, if i'm gonna get the kit from trick flow, i'm gonna buy trickflow's forged pistons .30 over so valve clearence would not be a problem and i'll be able to switch cams whenever i want.

    for now, i'll have a 306 with forged pistons, heads, cam, intake,cold air kit, 30lbs, the whole MSD thing, a superchip, 150hp dry shot and drag radilas.... how does it sound?? if you hit 11.60 with a 3200lbs mustang spraying 125hp shot?? what do you think my Z will run with 2800lbs and 150hp shot?? i would say low 11s to high 10s. also, having forged pistons, i could go all the way to a 200hp shot or not??

    331 Stroker

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    if i do get the trickflow package because i'm thinking about it eventhough i dont like the 61cc i would rather a 58cc, what do you guys think?? and should i stick with the cam that comes with it or switch to another one?? if switching is a good idea, what cam would you guys recommend??? knowing that i'll be spraying a 150hp dry shot?

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    hi will, thanks for all your advices, ok my friend told me that he is going to seperate the alternator from the Z's old harness, do you get it? he's going to connect the alternator directly to the battery without passing throw the Z's harness, hope this will work, if it does, i have to check my distributer too, if it went bad, ill have to buy a new one :(

    will, what do you think about the TOP END KIT BY trickflow??? the track heat one??

    http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=TFS%2DK514%2D360%2D350&autoview=sku

    do you think its worth it?? and would my stock pistons clear the valves??? if not, what pistons/rings set do you recommend (forged and same displacement)?

    331 Stroker

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    Stangracer, well i drove my car few times before the fusible links went bad, i'm telling you bro, my 5.0 with bolts on (stock heads/stock cam) is alot of fun on a 280Z, i raced a LS1 camaro the other day with no NITROUS, just motor, first and second gear only because the road ended with a roundabout :) the moment i floored the Z, i was 2 car lengths ahead, at the end of second gear, i was about 4 car lengthsor more ahead:) the guy was like" why the Z sounded like a mustang and why is it much faster then my Camaro???" LOOL

    i would say, drop the 5.0 in it and have fun :) for me, i think i'm getting new aluminum heads and a F cam for now, and later on, ill think about the stroker....

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    Will, been looking all around and no fried wires at all!!! just the fusible links, thats all, everything looks normal, i took the car to a friend's shop, he's specialist in Zs and Skylines, he'll take a look at it, are you saying i should change my alternator??? i've just spent 180dollars on this new one, now i have to hit the junk yard trying to find used fusible link boxes (if that what you call them) and we'll see how it goes, and what do you think about the distributer thing i told you about earlier?? could it be the problem why my car is not running correctly??

    280zwitha383, in your opinion, what do you think went wrong??

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    thanks guys, well i'll check it tomorow with an electricen friend, my alternator is new Will, just bought it few days ago, its the 1995 mustang 130amp alternator....could the internal regulator go bad in such short time?? also, i forgot to ask you about the distributer, when i got my engine cleaned up, i had problems starting the car because the distributar had caught alot of there cleaning product, it ran good for few days and then i startd having the problems i told you about, could it be the distributer??

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    Will

    I REALLY NEED HELP NOW,

    ok listen to me carefully, and excuse my spelling, i'm a terrible speller even in arabic. mass air is calibrated with my 30lbs injectors, IAS is cleaned up and looks new, all ground wires are in place, checked all the wiring today, bought new stock spark plugs, gaped them at 30, ran the car for 10 minutes, good idle, but still runs bad, alot of back firing and no enough power as it used to be, tried to lean? richen the car between 38psi and 46psi, still same thing, THEN I PARKED THE CAR BACK AT HOME, 10 MINUTES LATER, I STARTED THE CAR AGAIN, THE RPM ON IDLE WAS HIGER THAN NORMAL, VOLTAGE GUAGE WAS OVER 16, INTERIOR LIGHTS WERE GLOWING ALOT MORE THAN NORMAL, MY RADIO WAS NOT WORKING AND THE (ALARM WHEN DOORS ARE OPEN) WAS SOO SOO LOUD, TOO MUCH ELECTRICITY, I MOVED THE CAR FOR 20 METERS AND BOOM, NO MORE LIGHTS, BUT THE CAR STILL RUN, WENT BACK HOME, PARKED THE CAR, SMOKE CAME OUT OF THE ENGINE BAY, OPENED THE HOOD AND I SAW A SMALL FIRE UNDER MY HOOD, YES FIRE :( I DISCONNECTED THE BATTERY AND PUT DOWN THE FIRE WITH (SAND) BECAUSE I DONT HAVE AN EXTINGUESHIR AT HOME, THE TWO SMALL WHITE BOXES FROM THE Z HERNESS WITH THE FUSIBLE LINKS INSIDE THEM ARE COMPLETELY FRIED :(

    no other dammage was noticed except for the NOS ground selenoids wires, they were attached underneeth the fusible links box

     

    HELP IS NEEDED FROM ALL Z GUYS NOT ONLY FORD GUYS

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    ok, i cannot wait till tomorow, i went and checked it, its 2:24 AM here in kuwait, the mass air sensor looks fine, no dents no nothing, but i cannot start the car now, if i do, my father is going to kill me and burn my Z :) i'll see how it runs tomorow and let you know Will, does the clutch adjustment have anything to do with what im experiencing??? because when the car started to act weird, the clutch was not adjusted at all, few minutes later, i wasn't able to shift, i adjusted the clutch (first time in my life) and drove it again....and the problem was still there

    Need help choosing 5.0 swap parts

    in Ford V8Z Tech Board

    Posted

    hi Will, was waiting for you to write me back, ok i was driving the car with no spray...just motor, the plugs are new NGKs TR6, timing is at 10, new wires, new distributer cap and almost new everything, the car was running fine, floored many times and it was awesome with no smoke, no problems..... then, it started to backfire a bit and ( sh*t i dont know how to say it in english) ok i''l explain, when you floor the pedal, no immediate response is there, when you push it gradualy, it's fine but not the same power as before, i have to say that few days ago, i was cleaning my cold air kit and i saw that my Mass air sensor is bent because i've over titened the tube ....does that have any thing to do with it??

    ,i checked my plugs today and they seem fine, no signs of beeing lean at all, if i'm gonna run stock spark plugs, what gap should i have??

    ill check my mass air sensor tomorow and see if it still bent or not...

    help Will

    thanks

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