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I have a Z31 with a 350 in it. I think there are a couple others who are either doing this swap or contemplating it. Here is my experience so far. There is a ton of room in the engine bay for the V8. I have no experience with the LS-1 but so I don't know how much horsepower they make stock. Whether a fuel injected engine makes more power than a carbed one depends on how much you want to invest building IMHO. My 350 is putting out about 380hp and 415 lb torque at the flywheel with a 750 carter carb, and a mild cam. I have stack injection to put on but haven't gotten around to it yet. The car is really quick, but I haven't been to the strip yet so I can't really say how well it runs. The swap is pretty easy and there should be enough room for the manual tranny. I have a th350 with a TransAction manuial valve body. All I had to do was slightly modify the tunnel (sledge hammer) for clearance of the bell housing. I hope these ramblings are of some help to you because I would like tosee a few more Z31s represented here.

I hear a lot of this from the "new" bikers. Hell, I've even had some of them ask what the kick starter was.

People are starving in some parts of the world, and these guys are making burgers that size? Quick, somebody call Fed EX

The same group of researchers, in a paper on sex change opperations, came to the conclusion that changing a man into a woman is relative safe, except for the part where they open up the mans head to remove half of his brain.

So a skydiver leaps out of a plane at 5000 feet and after a few seconds of freefall he pulls the cord to open his chute. Nothing happens. By now he is about 900 feet from the ground when low and behold he sees a man going in the opposite direction. As they pass in mid air the skydiver screams, " Do you know how to deploy an emergency parachute?" The other man, still accelerating upward screams back, "No, do you know how much gasoline it takes to light a charcoal grill?"

So I'm coming home from the yard where I leave my truck, just going about 40 miles an hour. I want to get a few miles on the ZX before I push it very hard seeing as how the engine has less than 20 miles on it. In the mirror is a second generation Camaro with a guy who must have a bad attitude. There is plenty of room for him to get around, but he wants to tailgate. I've just finished 350 miles on the interstate putting up with jerks like him so i stop rather abruptly at the light he damn near runs me over. This really fries his nads so he pulls up beside me, gives me as one finger salute, and revs his engine. I guess he figures all that noise will scare the crap out of an old fat guy in a really ugly 300ZX. I return his greeting (using the same finger) and point down the road. When the light changes he stands on his chevy and jumps out about a half a car length. I slam the car into low range and stand on it. By now we have traveled about 50 feet across the intersection. I pass him with the tires smokin' and at 6500 rpm push ther shifter into second and I get a little more smoke from th tires. I hit the red line and pop it into drive the didlo is about 6 car length behind me. I slowed down but he wouldn't come up to play. What did I learn? Well, the engine is a lot stronger than I thought I would be, and the old Z31 goes pretty good for a 2900 lb car. Oh yeah, it sure felt good to rip him a new a$$ !!

what do yu expect from the alma mater of the tappet brothers??

I was browsing at recingjunk.com a while back and found a place that is selling 454 sbc short blocks for $4100 so it sounds likd a good deal to me. Just my two cents.

Just finished putting the pan back on the tranny. I 've never had a tranny leak before. When I got the exhaust installed, and thought I could start on the body, the car started dripping like rain in Seattle. Bought a new tranny oil filler tube and installed it. It didn't even slow down the downpour. so today I pulled the exhaust, dropped the rear cross member, and pulled the pan. I found the problem, bad o-ring on tube, so just in case, I changed the one on the kickdown cable and I think I got it under control. now all I have left is the power steering pressure line to change and maybe I can take the thing for a ride. Am I the only one that can do all the "hard" stuff and then have all the little stuff bite me?

Has anyone seen the '65 Impala that is featured in the new Summit catalogue? I'm not nuts about the injector hat, but what do I know.

That is a neat looking little car. As they say in NASCAR country, "Y'all done real good Bubba!" I'll send you a large box, if you'll fedex it to me. It would be neat to have something that will pass a gasoline station.

I already have a garage full of tools and access to friends that have what I don't. Lasat year my project passed $4000 at a dead run and there is no end in sight.

You got it, Tim. Even Ted Nuegent says if you're kill it, you better eat it. What is next? Ferrel kids? You know, the ones that are running wild on local playgrounds. I mean, if their parents don't care enough to obey leash laws........

Well Larry, I guess you proved your point

This is an interesting looking engine, does anybody know anything about it? http://www.racingjunk.com/exec/ca/view/407175/4-Valves-per-Cylinder-DOHC-557-Batten-motor.html I guess the best thng to do is copy and paste the link. Someday I'll learn how to post a link

What d' you mean you can't afford it? That never stopped you before! Besides, don't you think it would be a great platform for a turboed L28?

Luckily, my caar is so old that if it were recording data I would hear the stone tablets being chiseled.

Once again, Mister Kelly is right. you should try to finish something some day. who knows, you might enjoy it.

There aren't a lot of people doing a Z31 swap. I think mine was realitvly simple. the only 300ZX swap manual i remember seeing was for a swap into a Z32. there is a lot of room in the engine bay of the Z31 after the V6 is out. Where I live in Oregon I don't have to sweat smog on a 21 year old car so that was one less problem. I fabricated my own mounts from rectangular tubing and 1/4" plate. as for the mounts I used stock chevy Here are some pictures that might help. [link]http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/665777[/link]

Okay, so I get the Z31 back from the muffler shop and park it in the driveway so I can go and drive my truck for a few days. When I get home I look under the car and there is more oil than in the Alaskin wildlife reserve. It seems the high pressure line from the power steering pump is leaking at the fitting where flexible hose meets the steel line. I pull the line off and head to the local pay and pull. For the last year they've had three z31s in the yard. The day I got there though, there were none. Seems I had missed the baler by a day or so. From there its off to every place I can think of that fabricates hydraulics. By the end of the day, I think I must be fluent in the lost language of Atlantis, because no one seems to understand that all I want is to have the joint rekrimped. Then its off again on another fun filled trip to Seattle. When I get home I decide to to something really stupid; I go to the local Nissan dealer. The guy(Lets call him Moe) says, "No sweat," I pay him a shoe box full of money. and he says come back in a few days. I go home and look at the car until it is time to go to work again. Three days later I go in to pick up my part. In the words of Gomer Pyle, "Sooprize Sooprize," wrong part. (Let me digress, the high pressure line is about 30" of steel line with a a foot of high pressure hose with a banjo fitting on the top.) So this time another parts man (Shall we call him Curly?) looks up the correct part and with out even blinking he says: "That is only Two Hundred and Seventy Nine dollars and Fifty Four Cents." Finally late this afternoon I manage to order one from a Junk Yard. The Man at the JY (Perhaps Larry?) says "only" Eighty bucks. Whoopy. Just three days to wait until I discover that what I just bought won't be the right one either. I did get to drive it about ten miles, so I guess I shouldn't complain, I've only been working on it for three years. Ahh, I feel so much better now!

If it were me, I'd just get a huge chrome fart can muffler to suspend under the rear bumper, so that everyone will know that this is not an economy car but a serious performance vehicle. Anyone who wuld steal this guys car knows that these really high performance cars don't get great milage.

Mike, Its nice to see that you are working on your car instead of enlarging your collection

Ptrust Amen!

It seems to me as if the article is espousing Social Darwinism. Basically saying that if you are old, or can't make it in the good old cutthroat world that gave us Enron and off shore tax shelters, then you should quit complaining and have the decency to go off somewhere and die. Back when the country was an agricultural society, old people lived with and were taken care of by their families. However in this era it seems that the "in thing" to do is to ship the old folks of to nursing homes to be warehoused like so much refuse. You know , "Out of sight, out of mind." Although I know that there is a problem with the system, I also know that what is being put forward isn't going to cure it. The plan of this administration is not to fix the program but to dismantle it ion an insane rush towards privatization and deregulation. As they scream about smaller government and states rights they seem only to want less government for the wealthy, while control of our everyday lives is bring more tightlyh controled all the time. I guess that I am in the minority because I feel that the job of government is to take care of its citizens. And for once I am in shock that I am in agreement with Mike. BTW, Pete did you get that stack injection on ?