WizardBlack

ITB's can be a benefit for any motor.

I think another one you can look at is the G35/350Z platform. It has several aero pieces for the rear-underside. I think this item (added to the higher models on the 350Z??) improved cd by .01 or .02. Nothing huge, but an improvement.

Well, they are something that Subaru currently competes with, so there may be something to it. I've heard claims from Mitsubishi/Subaru on their aero testing and the top-end version's slightly better cd/stability from such things. I'll see if I can dig the stuff up. If you'd seen the underside of an STi without it, you might not be quite as doubtful of it's "help". That being said, I know I certainly won't claim to be able to notice a difference on public roads...

Any new info? I am getting close to doing VH45 in my S30...

About every OE fuel pump setup I have seen has open connectors. Do you think that the little black connector that plugs up to a Walbro style fuel pump is liquid proof? It doesn't even have any sealant on it like a weather-pac connector. I had to LOL when I saw this. Very clever and I don't think it'll have any issues. By the way, the Walbro 255 lph pump that you would wanna use is a GSS342 or GSS341.

I used Evo 8/9 injectors. 560cc and good spray pattern. They are low impedance and aren't very whiney about being pushed hard on the duty cycle. -6 AN should be fine for your fuel rail. Even a set of calipers or a good metric ruler will tell you that you need the 11mm rail.

MAF's have better response at idle and very low load. They also have a little more leniency for slight flow variations. MAP is simpler, no restrictions.

Cometic is great about small run jobs and whatnot. Send them an old gasket and they can copy it in multiple thicknesses and styles, etc. They may already have it, however. I've never come to them with an application they didn't already have.

"no rust" + $3k = not likely. Make sure you peruse threads about where Z's rust before you buy.

Sounds like you are starting to make your way through the car. I live in Columbus and have a '77 280Z that I bought from a guy a stone's throw from King's Island. The wiring, sensors and (especially) AFM on these cars are pretty much toast by this point. I replaced pretty much 100% of the wiring in the car including battery/alternator, fusible links, ECU/Engine, Dash, etc. A lot of it was waiting to fail TBH. Anyways, shoot me a PM if you want contact info. I've been through a lot of stuff on the car and continue to do stuff. I have a Megasquirt in mine now and a turbo conversion that I am fabbing together. Anyways, it's always good to know other Datsun guys within a few hours, etc.

Grats on the new acquisition.

Yes, it's a pretty common problem. Go to the parts store and get electrical contact cleaner and get everything blown out and sprayed out. Let it dry, reseal the cover with a bit of RTV and make sure it won't fall off again. Make sure the "trap door" swings freely still. I've seen some of them rust up a bit and stick. PB blaster used carefully to loosen the shaft up will do wonders.

Spacers put more load on the wheel studs and nothing else. ARP can mitigate that risk to a great deal. If you use a spacer to get a funky wheel to the right offset for the car it doesn't put more load on the hubs. Modified wheel offset puts more load on the hub bearings and studs. You can (obviously) have a combination of these two issues. Aluminum (wheels, lugs or spacers) stack up the amount of plastic deformation you will have to continually re-torque against.

Have you seen those rims in person? That technique is like a thick sticker heated up and stretched over an item and then cured in place. It may look cool (to some) on the face of the part, but it gets really apparent as to what it is when you see the curves and corners of the part. The pattern stretches and warps around the slightest curve or corner (each C/F square stretches to a long diamond shape, etc.). No offense to anyone that likes them, but some ppl view them as very obviously fake. You especially don't want to put them on a car with real carbon fiber right next to it to compare with it. YMMV

Yes, the thread is still very active for the GB.

Ah, yes, of course. At the end I was only trying to explain why some Chinese manufacturers have the hit/miss record on tolerances.

No, no. Note that I said 'selling real ones' (ie., used). I imagine you basically stumbled onto them when searching with similar keywords is all. I have a 'nice used unit' myself.

Do some searching. There are some really good threads with pictures that discuss the benefits of various designs and approaches to intercooling and pipe routing. Most don't bother trying to route the 4" inlet out of the engine bay as well. I am simply slapping a filter directly onto the turbo for now.

He is simply keeping an eye on his competitors. (Those selling real ones; not these new knockoffs).

It doesn't change the fact that they are stealing from Edelbrock. I have had experience with the muscle car industry. Much of the Chinese manifolds offer you about a 1 in 3 chance of fitting up right to 'V-surface' made by the block and heads. Roller rockers break at 4krpm. Pushrods mushroom on the ends. Piping has to be ground, bent and beaten into alignment, etc. China does it willfully and it is happily supported by their govt. Look up what amount of losses Microsoft and other software companies have sustained by piracy over there. China is a communist country and it would be naive to not keep that in mind.

My point is that much of their production capacity is afforded by equipment such as that. That is why they cannot hold tolerances as reliably, etc. I am not implying they try to sell the equipment. I am referring to the equipment they use in some of the factories to make products.

Gotcha. I wondered what the deal was with that.

Don't be so fooled. China regularly comes to the United States and other industrialized companies and buys equipment that is broken, beyond service life, leaking fluids everywhere, 'messed up' and anything else 20~40 year old equipment may be. Stuff that can't be used anymore. They come over and pay retarded money for something that should really only fetch 'raw material' pricing. They don't even bother to check the equipment out. Thats what a lot of Chinese companies use. They know their junk fails a lot. They simply don't care.

LOL sweet! And then a week later you'd have a quad charged car and then three weeks later you would have a triple charged car... Heh heh. I've heard some crazy stories about how dramatic the nature in which Chinese Turbos fail.

When would a college kid ever run into the situation where they need to buy a TiAL or TiAL knockoff 'to get their car running'? Maybe if more ppl bought TiAL, said college kid could work at TiAL to get some money rather than having to flip burgers with the immigrants and restless retired. I've not heard of a TiAL ever breaking or failing when used in a proper manner (including endurance racing).