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List of vintage, commercially available kits I have seen so far: Turbo Carbs: BAE Crown Turbo Tom CARTECH (seen at least three styles) HKS Type 1 and 2 SK EFI: BAE Corky Bell system rossman is selling Anyone know if Dick Barbour was a reseller, or did they make their own turbo kits?

I've got one of the tools MSA offers. It's simply a piece of plastic that fits down between the chain at the very bottom and prevents the tensioner from pushing out too far. The piece of wood sits closer to the top and wedges itself between the guides to hold the chain and tensioner in place. Either one seem to work fine.

Just noticed this one, and I agree entirely.

They are a re-seller for Kameari products which are made in Japan. I haven't heard any complaints about what they sell (aside from the price:wink:) MSA also sells some Kameari products including their head gaskets. Tomorrow I'm calling Courtesy Nissan to see if they still have 1mm HKS gaskets in stock. That's about the only other feasible option I can think of.

He actually just quoted jay28, it's not RIPSNZ's car. jay28 listed his paint code in this thread: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=143279

Dashes have been re-finished successfully in the past with expanding foam to fill the cracks and SEM texture paint. They look exactly like stock. IIRC the thread I saw about it was on classiczcars.com

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=92318 I have an open diff in my Z, I know, I've had it apart. I've also done a burnout in the parking lot and seen two black marks on the pavement. Like Jon said, it's semi-normal Z behavior even though it has an open diff. Be careful not to murder the spider gears getting one wheel spinning too fast though. It also took me all of 5 seconds to type "power steering conversion" into the search box, and the first page of results had three separate threads that dealt with different racks and conversions that have been done in the past.

Wait, are we talking about a chromed intake as in "chrome plated", or chromed as in "looks like chrome because the aluminum is so polished"? If it's the former, then the chrome plating would cover up any color differences from welding up unnecessary holes. Never really heard of anyone chrome plating aluminum though. Perhaps a chrome-like ceramic coating though, that would look nice and be somewhat functional. If we're talking about the latter, a highly polished aluminum surface, then Challenger has a point.

Just spotted this one in the back of the latest GRM magazine. wheelsamerica.com alloy wheel refinishers. Looks like they have multiple locations across the U.S.

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=141117

Very interesting. Well, at least to those of us that live in Utah.

I'm 25. I bought mine with a couple of goals in mind. 1: It had to be old enough to be smog exempt, but new enough to have some technological innovations like power disk brakes. 2: I had never owned a sports car and I just plain wanted one. 3: It had to be affordable to purchase and modify (okay, passably enough to delude myself at least) My decision was between a new project car, or a pair of Edelbrock 60499 cylinder heads for my 454. I was a long distance from my other project car at the time, and I was jonesing for some wrenching. I don't recall ever having seen a 240Z in person before I started searching craigslist for one. I did know it was a two seater sports car from the early seventies with power disk brakes up front, light weight, had independent rear suspension and thanks to HybridZ I found out how infinitely modifyable they are. That was all I needed. The 2K that would have gone into some heads for my other project instead was my original budget for the car I'm coming close to completing now, and is the first car I purchased with my own hard earned cash. I'm sure my roommate/landlord at the time didn't actually suspect I'd tow home a $900 non-running old car out of the blue one day. I don't think anyone suspected I'd take on such a large project while going to school full-time and working 40+ hours a week. I'm glad now that I didn't go with one of my other choices at the time, a '68-'72 Nova or an EG hatchback.

Well, if we're voting on the low side, then I get to vote in the 20-25 category. It would seem a bit odd to me to vote myself into the 25-30 category.

Considering that it's listed for $1000 above NADA's high value and has some wear and tear (and mismatched paint that may be hiding dubious bodywork) I'd say the price may be a little off.

Those manual throttle knobs are very tough to come by nowadays too.

Looks like that's the F4W71-A, or "monkey motion" style original 4-speed transmission then. Someone else will have to chime in because I haven't played with the bushings or linkage on this style of trans yet.

If you do a simple search for "chop top" I think it'll answer most of your questions. Here's one to get you started: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=141714

I've found that IGES is the most useful cross-platform, cross-program file format. I'm currently working on finding a way to convert my Polygon mesh to NURBS in a format that won't create too many points when exporting in the IGES format. AFAIK my version of Maya can export objects into the following formats: mayaAscii and mayaBinary, move, mentalRay, animExport, FBX, DXF_XBF, OpenFlight, GE2, IGES, aliasWire, OBJ, iv2, RIB, rtg and vrml2

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=144250

Daphur280, try Modern Motorsports: http://www.modern-motorsports.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=74

Wow. I've been involved in Dodge Neon vs. mattress flung from back of truck, but nothing quite as serious as that. Time to break out the side cutters?

Rebello Racing (Antioch, CA) did mine. Since my displacement is only 2.8l they took them out to 48mm. For 3.1l strokers they go all the way up to 50mm bores. They do the whole package, new butterflies, ground down throttle shafts, custom tapered needles, etc...

Call Courtesy Nissan on the phone. They'll be quite helpful.

Or go with overbored SU's. Not to overwhelm the number of options already available, but that's what I did when I had my head ported and polished with new cam installed, and those three mods together made my car a completely different animal. I personally think it's a great option on a street car as i don't have to mess with some of the fussiness inherent with triple setups.

Search for OBX on this site. There are already a few ongoing discussions surrounding these helical LSD's.