Daeron
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"more photos please" is kinda what I was getting at with my post, in an offbeat and humorous way.
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I was concerned that I might be contacted from the Haynes manual legal folks about plagiarism.
I may have left a couple of things out; my post was more of a persuasive bit than an encyclopedic, "tell you how to do it" post. Point is, its a breeze. Use a jack to raise and lower the thing, but you have to use muscles to get it lined up right. It helps to have a friend, but it IS doable by yourself (and I am a SMALL guy with very little upper body strength..) The friend just gives you added stability and help threading bolts; two people can have four bolts threaded and one or two snug (ie, enough to take the load off your hands and arms) rather quickly.
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Hmmm, never noticed this thread....
My FIRST Z story has already been told in brief a handful of times.. My dad's 72 240Z is among my earliest memories. (I was born in december of 1980 and can recall Halloween of 83.. my dad moved to NC three months ahead of the rest of the family, sometime that November, so I have to call this my earliest memory that I can affirm the date of..)
Sunday mornings, I went to church with Mom and the older brothers sometimes, but SOMEtimes I got to stay home with Dad. Those Sundays, we would ride around in the Z, drinking Borden's chocolate milk, with me going "vroom vrrom" (apparently, *I* don't recall that part, heh..) Born to be a gearhead, I guess.
My INTERESTING Z story comes up in December of 2002. I got a flat tire, coasted into a local bar parking lot, and called my Dad for help. I had no spare, and incidentally, I bought my first legal beer at a bar that day. The old man showed up with an american racing rim off of a mongrel 280/240 that my brother had bought some months before. As far as we knew, these rims didn't fit properly on a Z-car without spacers.... heheheh. The rims are identical to the ones pictured here:
Anyhow, he showed up with the spacer and the rim, and I got home and put a matching rim and spacer on the other side rear.
Fast forward to Christmas Eve. I still have these AR rims on the back (no $$ for tires) and I go to my uncle's shop to do a rear brake job. It was the only opportunity I had to do it. The brake job was a BITCH because one rear wheel cylinder was shot and the other was near; I hobbled things together, bled the brakes, and by the time I was finished it was ten PM. Bade my uncle a good night, and started the drive home.
I got about half a mile down the road when I started hearing a VERY minor clunking.. which slowly grew worse. After about 1.5 miles, I pulled a U turn, and headed back to my uncle's shop with a frown on my face. Less than 1/4 mile from the yard, there is a railway crossing... I went over it gingerly, but to no avail. The cause for the clunking became immediately apparent, as the driver's side rear wheel suddenly flew off and I was screeching along dragging on my left rear LCA!!!!!!!!
I KNOW I had torqued the lugnuts down... but something must've gone awry.
Fortunately I had removed the rear bumper, but not the mount. (75 280) I got my uncle's attention, he grabbed a steely spare, a jack and some lugnuts, and we jacked the car up first from the bumper shock, then jackstanded and hit the diff to lift it enough to put the other rim on. My uncle was muttering something about lugnuts that I didn't understand at the time.. but All I knew cared about was if my car could make it home safely. It did.
Christmas morning, open presents, breakfast waits. My oldest brother and I (they were his rims) went a-hunting for the missing wheel, in the depths of the ghetto. (My uncle's shop is in an industrial zone RIGHT up the street from a neighborhood with the quaint name of "Federal Gardens") The wheel made it about 100 yards further than the car did, which brings to mind the amusing image of the thing bouncing and rolling down the road.....
and then off into a vacant lot.In the end, my dad and my brothers (and myself) discovered that these rims take an "acorn-style" lugnut instead of the flat mag lugnuts we were used to from the standard slot mags and the ~12 spoke A/R mags I had on my car... and when the proper lugnuts were used, VOILA!! No spacer necessary!! And they even STAY TORQUED! How novel, eh??
This event, probably more than any other one thing, made me a man in a certain sense: I learned FULL FORCE exactly how fallible my Elders are!!!
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Re-tape the rockers and using a Drimmel tool with a small diameter drum sander remove any and all casting lines and sharp edges (except the sides of the pads) from each of the rockers, while doing this you should make sure that you work front to back and NOT side to side.
Dragonfly
One question.. You say "front to back," do you mean from the left to the right in this picture? Pivot end towards valve end and vice versa, as opposed to "top" and "bottom" in an assembled sense?
Secondly this guy...
Must've set you back a penny or six... Any chance that a balance with an accuracy down to .01 gram will cut it for this job? obviously the greater the precision of the scale, the greater the precision of the results...
Nice write-up! Somehow I doubt it will be among the more frequently UTILIZED write-ups here, but thats just because too many people are too lackadaisical with their engine assembly. Thanks!
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I have to say.. choose the Irish way!! (as bloody difficult as humanly possible)
Put the Gnose on the Fair Lady!!!!!!!!!! RB it, and if you REALLY like the wide body kit, get some big fat sticky ickies on the back wheels so those flares are needed!!
Then, give me the 260 chassis. I'll use it. Honest.
My dad has a ford E-150 with a 351 hi output windsor in it, the van's toast but THAT engine is about the only V8 I think I would want in a Z.. (the vans been in my family since new, it was bought with Grandma's life insurance.. the van is gonna get crushed but the engine could live on, heh...) -
heres what I do, even though I am FAR from actively searching for a car to buy.. I do this both for old skool subarus and datsuns.
One day I took the time to go to the craigslist of each city in the state of Florida, go to the Cars for sale section and simply look up "datsun," lowercase, click on search dealers and private parties, and when I got to the results page, I bookmarked it.
I put all those bookmarks in their own sub folder, and now all I have to do is open Mozilla Firefox (web browser) and go to that bookmark folder, and at the bottom there is an option to "open all in tabs." This opens the search string for every city in a separate browser tab, instantly. (well, as fast as the connection speed can handle it) I don't know if IE or other browsers have a feature similar to the "open all in tabs" that firefox gives me.. but if not, that is only ONE of about 3496861395687 reasons to switch to firefox.
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I'd like to put my face between her gauges and say... B-B-B-B-BRITSKY!!
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I Can't believe this hasn't been said yet:
"Man, I thought my silver car which is NA and runs mid 12's was fast, but DAMN, this car would eat my silver car for LUNCH, and DINNER at only 7 PSI."
Feeeel the power of the dark side young Bryan. Feel the power, let it guide you, boost knows all, boost solves all, let it infuse through you and invite it into your soul!
Bubbles, I am your Father!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Dude, you have problems. Just because you HAPPEN to have led an AMAZINGLY interesting life which led you through Okinawa junkyards in the mid eighties, and JUST because you HAPPEN to have this mind boggling bonneville car, and JUST because you HAPPEN to have such an extensive hoard of knowledge and experience with these cars.. doesn't give you an excuse to be a weirdo.
Good thing we don't need excuses here, huh?
:One_flew_over_cuckoos_nest:Hows THIS:
I must not fear boost.
Fear of boost is the Torque-killer.
Fear of boost is the little-ping that brings total piston obliteration.
I will face my fear of boost.
I will permit it to pass over my intercooler and through my throttle bodies.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner spark to combust its path.
Where the fear of boost has gone there will be nothing.
Only Torque will remain.
and WOW, there were like, 300 views in between the time I posted the 20K comment and this post here...
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Hey Daeron, I thought you were just saying that you're old ....LOL.
whiskey-tango-foxtrot!?! I never realized that the postbit here doesnt display my age, even though I try to always check the checkbox that shows my age...
Dude, I'm only 26... thing is, all of those years have been spent in S30 Z-cars. (okay, there were 2 280ZXs and a couple of Z31s too.. but they don't count
) SO, I am kinda sentimentally attached to certain bits of the car. The dim green lighting, surging with the RPMs is one of those things.. the older style typeface on the gauges (pre-77) is another.. I am not your top-not "HybridZ" material in every sense, heh...On a side note, I rather prefer for everyone's age to post in their little header there on the side of our posts (thats what the "postbit" is) because it kind of gives something of a litmus test on their opinions.. Age doesn't ALWAYS equate to knowledge, but I am more willing to give weight to the opinions of a 40 year old than a 20 year old, everything else being equal.
I'm off to double check that I didnt leave a checkbox unchecked.
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in that case, hawk the thing and try to make your money out of it!!
if YOU want a track toy, to have fun with and not worry about "messing anything up," then REST ASSURED someone out there is trying to make a nice driver and is interested in your proposed swap. In any case, simply posting that fact buried deep in this thread is NOT enough exposure, heh...
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Remember that the l24 and l26 (if the heads are original) Have square exhaust ports and most l28s have round ports. So you'll want to find the correct header. I bolted a round port header onto a square port head and boy is it loud and leaky.
Square port header onto round port head isnt as bad.
Linuxon: go to http://carfiche.com/manuals022/cars/ and find the Factory Service Manual (FSM) for the 280ZX. That should include the wiring diagrams needed. That, combined with the reading material linked above (both the atlantic Z club page, and the aftermarket ECU page) should help inform you. Basically, you have the wiring from the ZX that runs ALL the EFI and ignition systems, and the "hard part" you are trying to overcome is how to plug power into all of that; the wiring diagrams available in the FSM should take care of you.
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really, swapping the tranny itself is only about a two hour job, if that, for those of us who have done it before... my point is that if you want to get that extra cruising milage, i would go ahead and get the fivespeed whenever you get a chance, and swap it in. Its only a matter of bellhousing bolts, remove the shifter, cross member bolts, remove the driveshaft, and drop the tranny. "Installation is the reverse of removal."
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:iagree:
boxes and bags and photographs are your best friend. I have a set of 8 color sharpie markers that make RE-assembly of ANYTHING much much easier than it could be, if I failed to use the sharpies during DISassembly.
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closing up on 20,000 views on this thread, holy cow. had to point that out.
(i believe that the giken head and the LY head both "go without saying" in any sort of comments about "the only DOHC L-series" at this point,
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If you can get those Si seats cheap, scoop them up. I would in a second. My old roommate had an '01, and those seats are about the nicest factory seats I've ever sat in (btw, 5'9"/190lb). I'm keeping my eye out for a set locally.
+1, I would try an actual test fit in the car if at ALL possible..
The Z-car seats you posted an image of appear to be 280 style seats. I cannot recall specifically if they will bolt into a 260, but I am 99% positive that you can bolts the later style seats into the earlier cars easily, and vice versa.. BUT I am not certain. Nor am I certain which style seats your Z came with originally... Does the 260 have seats in it now? If so, check out the mounting brackets. I can see the "ears" on the front of the seats in the picture; those are the "later" style front mounting points, and if the seats in your car have those mounting points then they ones pictured are a straight bolt-in swap. If not, then your seats are probably the type that has "studs" dropping straight downwards from up underneath the seat.. Please forgive me, I haven't worked with 240 style seats NEARLY as much as 280 style, and all the 240 stuff was at least ten years ago playing with my dad's "grey ghost" as a teenager.
HTH. Those civic seats ARE mighty comfy.. very firm and supporting, but DAMN nice to sit in on the long trips, too.
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HAHA, you guys really think it would blow up, what kind of faith do you have in me! LOL. NO it runs FLAWLESSLY, and honestly, it outperforms what I thought it would do. At only 7 PSI, it PULLS, and I mean PULLS. I would have to guess somewhere around 350 HP, and that in TQ also. And for only 7 PSI, thats pretty impressive to me. I am STILL only pushing it to 5400 RPM, and its STILL at a 10.2-1 AFR. I will start datalogging tomorrow, and get it to that perfect 12.5 afr for now. My wife wasnt a very good camara man, so, I tried to do it myself. I have about 300 miles on the motor now, and it stays cool, holds water pressure. I can let the car sit, for say 20 minutes, then go out and pull the radiator cap off, and it will still blow off pressure, so that says there are NO leaks. Anyways, this is probably the last vids I will post for awhile. I know the video quality sucks, but this is just to show it can take the boost! Man, I thought my silver car which is NA and runs mid 12's was fast, but DAMN, this car would eat my silver car for LUNCH, and DINNER at only 7 PSI. I was worried about how the turbos would spool when I was building the motor, but I am PLENTY pleased.
Dude, you SOUND like a kid in a candy store, possibly more than I have ever been able to notice from a message board post
I would say the third video linked just above was probably the best, and also add that you can't blame the wife.. she didn't have the perspective for the right tape.
I cannot WAIT to hear that thing when you REALLY punch the gas...
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keep it comin, we're a pack of fiends here! I admire the restraint you're showing, but I imagine I would probably do the same in your shoes.. cautious break in before getting wild.
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Damn, I think you guys are more anxious to see it on the road than I am, LOL.
Quote of the day!
Honestly, I just wish I could fly out there and help
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the ones that show up by default, next to the text editor window.. At some point recently they were changed to include one that was VERY wide, and today I discover that its back to normal, "single wide" smileys, which leaves much more lateral space in the text editor window.
Clearly, this place is run by people with a few brain cells that spark together from time to time
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*double post*
if you click "edit" there is a checkbox where you can delete the post.
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I've got my harness pretty much all done but not sure how I'm gonna fit the harness though the exist harness hole in the firewall. As there's more meat to the 4G harness then the L28's harness. Where there's a will...there's a way though!
Home Depot ought to have you taken care of.. It's just a rubber grommet. Go to a store and find what diameters you can obtain, then get out a hole saw and cut the hole in the firewall to the needed size. I *think* harbor freight may even carry a selection of these guys for like, five bucks or so.. It is a common item.
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Being from the same area I'm 100% sure it's not wabbits, it's either Elk or Deer.
that WAS supposed to be a joke
but I doubt you were actually taking me seriously. Obviously I am not much of a hunter myself; I am more on Bambi's side but I AM an avid fisherman, and I AM "sportsman-friendly" even though I am a long-haired, tree hugging hippy freak.
Especially them damn deer. My dad's 72 240Z, the car that IS my first memories, (I remember riding around sunday mornings before my third birthday
) was totaled by a ten point buck doing a leap out of the forest on one side of Hwy 115 in rural North Carolina, off his hood, then back into the woods on the other side. He bought the car back from the Insurance company just for the head; a slightly decked, oversized valve E31 that had cost him about $800 to prep in 1985.... re-purchase price of the car was way less than that, and that head is currently in his 1978 280 with an AZC 4bbl manifold on it.. I *think* the hatch from that car is up in my uncle's shop, waiting to go on MY car.ye gods, i am an off-topic whore tonight.. Sorry.
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this ain't my cup of rice-wine.. BUT, it is a well written write up.
Motion for sticky?
personally, I kinda like the feel of old school incandescent illumination. Then again, I prefer the older typeface on my gauges, too.. So basically I guess I am saying that I think KTM was 100% wrong in what he did
BUT, It was a good read, and it allowed me to finally decide AGAINST wanting to even think about this.
(oh, and KTM, I hope you pick up on the humor involved in me saying you were "wrong")
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link to a relay write up that i did on my subaru forum...
http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=74632
It doesnt quite spell out what you need to do on your Z-car for you, BUT I explain practically everything you need to know about how a relay works and how to install a simple relay into your car for, just about anything.
Absorbing that knowledge and integrating a relay into the wiring on your Z is up to you.
For the record, one diagram is inaccurate; a five prong relay outputs power to terminal 87A when the relay is turned "off" and I mistakenly made the diagram showing that it outputs power with the relay "on" just like terminal 87. However, that is moot point since you only need a four prong'er anyhoo.
and then off into a vacant lot.
:One_flew_over_cuckoos_nest:
....LOL.
) SO, I am kinda sentimentally attached to certain bits of the car. The dim green lighting, surging with the RPMs is one of those things.. the older style typeface on the gauges (pre-77) is another.. I am not your top-not "HybridZ" material in every sense, heh...
:iagree:
How to balance your valve train
in L-Series
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Thanks for the machining lesson! I discovered the answer to my question in TimZs thread as soon as I posted it and moved on.. but the explanation is MUCH appreciated.
On the subject of weighing "one half" of the spring... couldnt you tie a string in the center (or the center of gravity, or the point beyond which the spring sees no motion, unsure which) and then fasten the other end of the string to a fixed arm, and weigh the moving end? If it's a matter of finding the center of gravity, I am sure you could get at LEAST a guesstimate based on the length of coil on moving end versus length of coil on stationary end..
Obviously I am in a *bit* over my head here, but thats where my ideas seem to function best.. If I am not pushing the envelope I am not really learning, the "familiar" stuff needs hands on experience to make into real knowledge.