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Very different when done properly... Driving in tandem the point is to get as close as possible with no contact. It requires a good smooth line from both drivers. Some very good driver can rub their front tire on the door of the lead car, but that was my first tandem battle and I am not willing to risk my daily that much. Entry into the first part of that course is around 80mph at the top of third, that's what the hydro is for. Once this car is fully setup it should be very decent at it. My team mate is currently rebuilding his 240z with an RB so there should be some nice Z tandem content up in the next year or two.

And now we come to the current state of the car. And my 'new' (used) camera. So no more cell phone quality!!! This car is nearly ' done '. All of the major component are in place, it just needs a bit more finishing touches and details worked out. Big brake kit coming this month, and alignment for the rear and I should be set. The block has about 280,000 miles on it so I'm building a spare drivetrain setup but that's about the limit of current plans.

After the successful track day event I have just been doing little things and daily driving the car still. Still a street car, need comfortable passenger seat! Grip is good. Once you pass novice in drifting, its about grip levels and slip angles. Inspected for damage after the track day. Not the only Z in the work lot. Spare subframe for alignment kit. Spare motor. CV swap. Spacers to raise the rear for daily. Tucked the sway bar mounts so its no longer below the frame rails. cable ebrake setup was destroyed by previous ride height.

Lol I mean I was going to try to break up the pics a bit to make the page a litlte faster to load... idk... Drifting is fun but I like grip too. I'm actually prepping the car for a grip event on thunderhill next month. "not like modifying a car for handling and performance" This is completely untrue. Anyway, part 4- lol wat I made it to the track? SKIDS! Please note, this is my first track seat time in this car. I ran it at Sonoma Raceway's Winter Jam 2014. (photo credit to those who posted on facebook... none of the pictures in this post are mine!)

And then I got it back about a week later. I had parked it at the Bart lot in Berkeley to go to work. Come back at 4pm, stroll to my spot. No ZX. Go back to station, ask the attendant, police arrive, file police report. Week later I get the call, they found it! I was out of town so my mom towed it home for me. Very lucky... Only missing thing was stereo, battery, and some misc things I had hidden in the back. They had left trash/soda cups around but it wasn't too bad. Cleaned it out and got it going again okay... still sucks but not too bad. Having it gone made me realize that this is really a car that I want to own. I got it back late September (2014) Ray was scrapping a car, because he had to move. I helped him with some of the work and he let me take extra stuff from the ZX before he scrapped it. Thank you Ray!! Now since the 510's money pit kept growing, I decided to use the ZX to make a drift event at the end of the year (2014) so I started prepping what was needed to pass tech. The windshield was still cracked and needed to be replaced, may as well fix the rust around it and the t-tops while i'm at it. Things starting to get interesting. Not enough masking... oops lol. Rattle can no bad with good prep work. Better than rust and faded paint. I ground out and sealed in the rust areas with eastwood rust stuff before painting of course. Something from parts shop max?! All better! I got a hydro. I mounted a hydro. lolwat WTF IS GOING ON I got stuck on the driveway getting into work. Someone walking by helped me push it back. Open diff life. Oh yeah I bought these wheels over a year before lol. Why am I at marcus fry's shop?! wat Do you even lift skid racing dafuq u doing week before Night before. On the track !!!

About 1 year after my brother was daily driving it, started having EFI issue and general maintenance issue that he did not want to do. So he gave it to me and got something more modern. I got it like this, while I was still doing a lot of work on my 510. It had a lot of wiring issues from the previous owner stereo install and was generally filthy ... I started stripping everything pretty much immediately when I got it. RCA cable not hooked up to anything... why?! At this point, my dad and I were considering sharing the cost of just general mantainence and getting it back to daily driver state, so he could avoid putting some miles on his S2000 for commuting. I ordered a bit of maintenance stuff to fix all the suspension issues. -MSA urethane bushing kit -MSA sway bars -ball joints + tie rods -earls stainless steel brake lines After this I was troubleshooting the EFI, it would stumble around 3000rpm and generally just drivability issues. I was looking around on hybridz for solutions when I cam across a for sale thread from rayapp2 ... And then some things happened. Impulse buy to the max. Decided rather do turbo motor swap than troubleshoot stock EFI... So the 510 got kicked out of the garage for a little bit and this thing got some work done. Mind you, I did all of this with no helper ... wtf am I doing ? IDK LOL lets find out. Hey... Now I have a close ratio box for the 510~! cool. And then I realized I had no idea how to do wiring. And it kind of sat with little progress while I was doing work on the 510. A few months later, I finally got it running. barely running, but it moved. ECCS was all kinds of broken. Got a connector kit from Fricfrac! Old L28 longblock became doner for Alex's 240z drift car! Harness goes where? Success!! I got it going well enough finally. It took another few months to get the ECCS finally operating well enough so it wasn't leaning in boost and doing all kinds of wonky things. Took it to exhaust shop to have the system put back. New cat + muffler Had to play around a lot more and have a shop tune the AFM to get it to pass smog, but passed no problem! No issues with the swap! Regular star check is fine for turbo conversion. I was storing the 510 at a shop for a while. I had access to a lift which was nice. At this point I was daily driving the ZX pretty regularly. Put T3 TC rods And then a coolant hose burst while I was driving. And my temp gauge doesn't work. oops. I put a temp gauge on it. So much trouble... for such a small thing... I put Z31 ecu connectors... This fixed some running issues. Then I thought about selling it. But nobody wanted to buy it. Windshield was cracked & had some rust bubbles. Not so clean up close. Put aluminum radiator to replace the rusted stock one. Sorry for blurry pic Daily life. Stock oil cooler lines were leaking BAD so... Water pump started leaking got a new one. AND THEN IT GOT STOLEN.

Hello I am Marshall, I've been in the datsun scene for about 5 years. I owned a 510 wagon that I recently sold in favor of building this as my track practice car ...and still daily driving it. I originally wasn't going to create a build thread for this, but as I get more into it I really would like feedback/advice mainly on how I'm proceeding with the motor setup. I've overspent a lot in the past with minimal gains I'm really trying to avoid that with this build and keep the build on track. The goal is track legal with streetability. Nuetral handling, decent power, reliability, and driving pleasure. Full interior is coming back, AC and climate control I hope to restore as well. To make it a comfortable, usable build. I treat this build as a 'practice car'. The only reason I own this car is to practice driving on track. May it be drift or grip. If I get serious about competition, I will probably start from another shell when I have the budget and means. I'm starting to regret not saving my money and getting a more modern car. I love JNC's, but I just barely have the budget to keep it on a modern performance level. This is my car- 1983 280ZX NA -> Turbo, CA smog'd, caged and on coils. P1220747 by pherexion, on Flickr But before all that- we have to go back a bit to show how this build came about, as it was not intended for track use until recently. My brother bought this car about 4 years ago after he totalled a 350z, I was trying to get him into working on cars like I had been but it didn't really work out. We got it for $2200 stock, only had an aftermarket stereo. Was in decent-good shape, ~170,000 miles. He daily drove it for about a year and then gave it to me when it started to have some motor issues. I apologize about the picture quality. It steadily improves as I went through several phones over the past years, and then recently I bought a proper DSLR so no more low quality !!! But for the early stuff, this is all I have. Going to take my time posting this so maybe the rest of the photos are going to take a bit of time. I'll try not to drop too much at once!

Looking for a P90 cylinder head. Located in SF bay area preferable.

@gacksen, My 71B box had grind problems with royal purple gear oil - I put redline MT90 and it went away. Or double clutch.

@NewZed, Sorry I misread as 'MTL is less viscosity than normal gear oil' rather than ATF. ^^

@NewZed, Redline MTL is 75w80. Its actually a lower viscosity. When I had my 83 NA box rebuilt the gear shop said MT90 was too thick, put MTL instead. I have valvoline dex/merc in my T5, I'm considering putting synchromax instead for track use.

When I was collecting parts for my ZX turbo swap, I ordered a magnaflow 36757 direct fit cat for my exhaust- So basically these 2" are the ONLY cat I can legally run? Is there any point in going with a turbo back 3" exhaust because of this ? Thanks.