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Video: Blog with more 350+hp N/A Z's... http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/303321/blog/12705261/&ei=0-FbS4uTJ4_WNeaCyfsO&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/303321/blog/12705261/%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DQiG Tony D, get in here! I want to know what makes that car able to do what it does. Its driving me insane?! Whats going on in Japan?! Is it like a raised roof port job with a quality cam and a GOOD set of headers like the Kameari stepped ones or what? If you look at the dudes other videos you can watch all the drag vids too. EDIT: OH GOD its so good, its perfect!

Lol I looked at the parking lot and only one wheel was spinning... I DEFINITELY had one of those "WOA I'M DOING IT" moments when in reality, the clutch is burning or something isn't going right. I smelled the burning rubber and that just boosted my testosterone when it was really one wheel. Haha The alignment in the rear is retarded too but thats not a factor, I'm just saying!

No I THINK the squirter bar is on early heads, the later ones used an internal oil system in the cam I think. I don't know what year they crossed over though...

Lol its not stock. I felt like a butthole because people were around and the gravel was there. I admit, it was an attempt to have fun and ended in me going "Oh my god *face palm*" when I watched the video. I used my webcam to do it haha. And! I let off after one spin, I bet I could do more! Grrrr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrKfJHMzp-M I am embarrassed. Not making up excuses but the pavement turned into gravel in one spot. I think the epic failure began as soon as I stepped into the car, at least it sounds cool. OH AND I just wet sanded that rear quarter panel that you see in the video. I started with 1000 grit because there was a sag in the clear and then I did 1500 and 2000 lastly (with soapy water). I want to know if the SHINE will come back when I buff and polish because right now its like a satin/flat color and its making me really worried!

I'll check, if we have any problems I'll PM you and maybe you have some flycut dimensions we can copy... Thanks!

We already have all the parts. Block is coming in on Saturday from the machine shop. We bored it .060" and bought domed pistons. I lightened the rods by 100 grams and polished them etc. I put the head together tonight and checked the lash. It was that valve snapping shut that I thought would be questionable. Now that the cam is in the head I want to check the duration and check the valve lift again since I just used some calipers last time to check the lift. Other than that, the head looks cool! The valves are HUGE and so are the ports compared to our Z's! Should make a nice motor for the little car.

There should already be a return line in there for the SU's or EFI I think... My car has 3 lines, carbon canister, into carbs, and then return. I capped the return off I think. Maybe it was the canister since I don't have one. Either way, if you want to prevent heat you could go with a ceramic coat on the headers and then wrap them, along with a heat shield. Such an effort just to keep "heat soak" away seems... I don't know... Silly to me. I'm in Texas and I don't have any problem with that stuff. Running Webers, no return, and ceramic coated headers.

There is an other than stock cam in this head and I don't know what to adjust the valves to. Cam lift is .480" and this motor (SU type) is suppose to have a .440" cam. I adjust the valves to .010" on the intake and .012" on the exhaust. Stock is .0079" intake and .0118" exhaust I believe, and thats suppose to be when its hot. My situation is that the head is off the block, I am turning the cam and it is pretty tough to turn. I suspect the valve springs are stiff ones because before I put the cam in (everything was disassembled) I lubed thoroughly and properly torqued the bearing caps. Upon finally getting one of the lobes of the cam to open a valve, as soon as the lobe goes around the rocker, it snaps shut violently, like the spring has so much pressure it slings the cam. Like if you had your finger there, it would bite. I'm having to use a 12" pry bar to turn this thing at its sprocket bolts so thats just how much leverage I need... Thoughts? I'd hate to put this thing back together, start it up and have it get funk-a-fied. I'll try to make a video tomorrow to demonstrate what I mean.

Run it before and just forget about the fuel return if I were you. Like I said, it works without a return, so if a return is in question, just don't do it.

I don't think you should put too much thought into it. I saw these accident photos from Mexico where some kids ran into the back of a parked tow truck. Went right under, made a mess. Our cars sit so low that if you were to clobber or get clobbered by someone else who, chances are will be driving something that sits a bit higher, we're roast. Its not a sobering thought but of course, no accident is, and of course, every accident has the potential to be deadly. Later year doors have the big heavy supports in them, and boy do they feel stout. When I put the doors back onto my car, passenger side is a '72, my side is a '76, much heavier... After seeing how much the insurance paid out when someone backed into the front of me I always beg for someone to back into or just give me a little love tap on my drivers side door so I can source out a '72 door. But just the door! Don't touch anything else! Then again, side bars would be nice, I just wouldn't go into the full roll bar sort of thing, only because in an accident when you rattle around in there, you don't want to smack your head on it (even with the padding) without a helmet. Just my 2 cents.

And also might I add, it was nice to see that the Z's didn't just crumble from that sort of hit. Now I know if I get clobbered I'll be... Nevermind I won't be safe I'll probably explode.

I'm not using one right now. I was curious about it too but I just went ahead and hooked it up how I figured it would work. No fire, yet, at least!

Yah I couldn't tell if it was a Z or a ZX at first since I usually just check the hatch, however that car had the longer/bigger quarter windows I guess you could say.

Haha I'm just playing devils advocate you guys. But seriously, this was tough for me to watch. At least he took out that one red car... like a Camaro or something. The abortion of a generation... I think I liked most of the other generation Camaro's just not that one. I also liked how they just dragged it behind the truck shamefully. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bxz_hAXc9I EDIT: Oh god and now a 300zx! I cant stand seeing such torture to our loves! The guy dived over the wall to avoid being hit!

My 40's would be cool, if I didn't hate them so I could get some 45's. :[ Dual SU's, not cool. Triple SU setup that we do on TR6's, pretty cool. :]

Good sounding four banger. Would be neat to see someone stick on of those in a Formula Atlantic and run like an unlimited class.

Lol I'm over in Providence, RI right now, just left Boston. The Omni Hotel treated us like kings and kissed our ass so much it was annoying. We went to some little pizza place in the North End, right down the street from Mikes Pastries. We are baffled by how many attractive women are in Boston.

Geez if that were true, guys with genuinely cool cars would have hoards of women flooding us. I mean, I already have hoards, there would just be an even bigger hoard chasing me.

Yup, thats what my dad did. Actually, it appears he went backwards in the growth pattern... He started out in endurance, went to short sprints, then bought a kart and sold his cars. Weird. Anyway, we had a single kart trailer, he welded on a top shelf with two rails and hinged it so the front could drop down. When we loaded them up, we took a ratchet and hooked it onto the socket that was on the cable thing, ratchet it down, roll his kart up, ratchet it up, and then roll mine under. When you go, all you need is a tool box and a 10 gallon jug of fuel. You can bring spares I guess but we never had to fix anything. The only time we needed a spare was because I slid off the track, splashed into a puddle and water got into the air filter (presumably that red oval canister you see) so we just threw a regular air cleaner that you find in O'Reileys. When you go to practice any time in the year, there are no fees. Typically we were the only ones there! You just unlock the gate, drive in, lock it back up, and go do some laps! Dad and I would go out together and then sometimes he brought his buddy with him who had a son with a 4 stroke and they'd make us race each other, 2 stroke against 4.

Have you ever thought about maybe racing? When I turned 8 my dad got me into karting with North Texas Karting. It has expensive initial costs but after that they're really cheap to run, compared to cars. I did the Yamaha 100cc heavy weight class which was obviously the 100cc single cylinder air cooled 2 stroke and the weight was 250lbs I believe with driver. I was stuck between heavy and light so we had to add weight to do heavy weight class. Anyway, we ran a restricter plate on the intake and a 3 hole, can style exhaust as compared to that bee sting looking exhaust. They were single speed karts so you can tinker with gears. In my situation, I was stuck running the same motor all 3 years I raced so we through on the tiny front wheel to the rear rather than running the fat ones, this way I was quick out of the turns, and we didn't have to change the actual gearing. The track we ran at was a tiny .8 mile sprint course I think. When nationals were held there and the 80cc and 125cc shifters came out they all hated it due to all the shifting. Point is, it was a really great experience. You may want to do the typical kart and then perhaps get him into a racing cart like the one I described. As he gets older you can bump up to different classes or go to different clubs. I knew one kid that ran in a totally different club and they ran the BIG car tracks, like actual car courses, those were the 80cc and 125cc shifters. My dad says during the 3 or 4 years that I raced, he saw me grow so much. I started out not giving him any feedback and ended with one of those little computer read out screens on my steering wheel so I can flip through the menus while driving, come in, and tell Dad whats going on so he could adjust. All in all I was doing 3rd place during every race, won like $75 in race money. 1st and 2nd place kids were so far ahead of us they were like lapping everyone else, their fathers put a ton of money into those motors... The REAL race was from my spot back. I didn't just blow everyone away, and thats what was fun, I had people to actually race with. Hell, my first time out, I had tire marks on the side of my cart because we crossed the finish line touching each other. Its great fun, relatively safe too! There were even 6 year olds out there running 50cc pull chain karts! Speeds at that track, because it had a lot of turns, were only like 70 mph maybe 80 if you were running really hot. You start them with the plug in starters, stick it into the hole and press the button, it spins up the motor. We all had wet clutches so we could sit there on the grid and keep the motor running. When Dad bought himself a kart so he could come out and practice with me, he had a dry clutch which meant he couldn't sit at all. I remember we had to sit him up on a 2 inch block, he'd get in and I'd push the back off the block to jump start him. Some people came to the track alone so you saw them push the kart, flip the ignition and jump in before it drove off! The only thing I never liked about the karts was that it was magneto ignition I believe so if you spun out or locked the brakes, unless you were still moving quick enough for the engine to catch again, you were stuck. The system was also good on keeping the kids from getting spoiled. every season we had to work like 2 events either waving flags or doing the entry desk. As a club, you get a yearly membership fee and then you pay like $20 for driver and $10 for each pit crew, and they have 1 race each month, up to 2 sometimes. Being a member meant you got a key to the gates so you could go out to the track any day you wanted, and run some practice laps! Gas was regular gasoline with the 2 stroke oil added, and the only thing after that were tires and they lasted a long time! I'm almost tempted to go back to karting by myself as a 19 year old college student, because its really that cheap! Here are some pictures and a video: I had orange plates to show that I was a novice. This was when I first got my kart. You can see the 3 hole can exhaust. The adults run the pipe that was big and fat, ran out behind the seat. You can also see the fat taller tires on the rear, that went to small ones later on like I said, and there also isn't any computer on the wheel. The computer only read info out to you, the intake system was a carb but by looking at the exhaust temperature you can see if you're running lean or something, blah blah blah. It did have a rev limiter in it, I think we had ours set at 12000. The only injury I ever had was when I went off roading and the seat bumped my sides up. I stole my sisters pillows the following races and stuffed them in the seat. Your suit is just a basic motorcycle suit and helmet because you aren't worried about fire, you're worried about possibly coming out and sliding along the ground, which just so happens to be what motorcyclists do... Dad made me spend Christmas and Birthday money to buy my gear so I had to dish out 2 years worth of money! I thought it was bad, really wasn't... Gloves, suit, neck brace, and helmet were $212 all together. Here is a single gear kart on the track I raced at, oh and there isn't any track to track travel unless you're into like winning national events. You go to the same track, all the time, at least for the NTK club I was in. Its been a while so things could be very different. Here is a shifter kart on the same track but going reverse:

Try Wolf Creek Racing for Mikuni stuff. I might advise, 50mm is a bit overkill. A 45mm Dellorto with 38mm venturis, which is pretty much the same as a Weber or Mikuni DCOE, will flow around 258 CFM or so. A Datsun head will only flow 220 maybe 230 CFM from what I've read. Unless you decide you want to start running a more than .6" lift cam and you raise the roof of the intake, I don't think its getting much better... Here is a link to Wolf Creek: http://www.wolfcreekracing.com/classified.htm

Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island where my mom went has tons of girls. Like 60 or 70% are females, but probably nuns. Chris and I will go to Newport! Nuns here we come! Haha EDIT: Hahahaha I just checked on that Newbury Street and one block over thers Common Wealth Street. Ironic! I thought the beautiful rich needed more than a block to separate them from the common man.