Toni L

March 27, 2017

Such a beast of a car! I saw a nod to you and this car in a recent issue of Banzai magazine.

Bye the way all your older pictures are broken and can not be seen. I'm curious as to what intake manifold you are using as I am slowly building up a 2JZGTE.

Yes old links are broken, but you can find all my old images in my picture gallery. http://260z.net

I´m using custom made dual plenum intake manifold.

March 25, 2017

Last billet adapter part for brakes is ready, and everything looks good!

February 9, 2017

Brake upgrade continues. New Tilton master cylinders and Ferodo DS1.11 pads.

Billet front disc bell´s by Kenax Billet with AP-racing bolts. High-class service! Company doesn´t have website at the moment but you can find from instagram @kenaxbillet

Test fitting front caliper. Now it needs new bracket and setup is ready. Also need to change from caliper bleed screws up and hard pipe down.

January 28, 2017

Brake upgrade coming with high quality parts.
New AP Racing 6-pot and 4pot calipers. Both calipers designed for ~330mm discs.

Front disc 335x32mm Compbrake
Rear disc 322x22mm EBC Turbo Groove (350Z Rear Brembo)

Ferodo Ds1.11 Pads all corners

New billet adapters and disc bells. Design by Kenax Billet (my friends company)

New Tilton master cylinders for Tilton pedalbox. Bore size calculated by Tilton.

Billet front hubs

November 18, 2016

Yesterday I got new transmission. PGS Transmissions R154 with dog engagement gearset.

October 21, 2016

The Z31 front hubs won't work for you?

Those have worked nice, but I could upgrade to billet hubs and loose some weight.

October 20, 2016

Looking for 5 Lug Billet front hubs for S30.

August 2, 2016

First trackday with new parts:

I started with (rising) low boost-settings and didn´t have any problem with traction. Problems came when I tried braking from high speed. I will need much bigger brakes with better brake pads (Probably Alcon calipers / Ferodo pads / 330mm disc all corners).

Handling was pretty good, but I´m going to try those new swaybars and stiffer springs.

Short video, I beated my previous 350Z lap record with awful driving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrOTaCwxHlE

August 2, 2016

I was too busy (or lazy) in winter but finally installed most of new parts. Engine is now running with Haltech Elite, and runs smooth with new BMW E92 M3 Coils. I changed boost controller from (3-way) to 4-way Mac-valve.

All billet suspension parts are in place. I started to create blade-style swaybars, but didn´t finish those, so continued this summer with stock ones. First setup was -2.5 camber in front and -1.3 in rear.

February 10, 2016

Nice build !...i see you never installed the 260z fender emblems....i will take them off your hands if your not using them

Yes I didn´t use those emblems, but I think those were not so expensive..

Bought some new parts for Z:

New trackday wheels 18x10 ET0

More fuel pumps, BMW E92 M3 coils, fuel cooler..

Arizona Z Car billet suspension parts

Haltech Elite 2500 ECU

October 22, 2015

Couple shots from latest cruise.

September 2, 2015

Bet that was a handful on that damp track. Would love to see a video of it full throttle on a dry track.

Have you finalised your Geo setup?

Its far away from finalised setup. I was driving with regular street setup. I have lot of work to do when winter comes.

Before that... just enjoying and driving

July 27, 2015

Some videos from first trackday test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Y8D2NjVNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCwyXTiN4Js

July 12, 2015

Went to another dyno with different tyres. Now got much better grip but that dyno didn´t give enought boost while running 4-gear. With 2.3bar boost maximum power numbers were 1036 PS / 1190Nm. Fifth gear gave +2.5bar boost like it should, but couldn´t rev it high becouse too high speed for dyno.

Now I also tested how much power 3" exhaust can flow in my car. Numbers 832.9 PS / 936.7 Nm. Same boost settings as in 1029 PS run.

Video:

3" vs 4.5" exhaust:

Fifth gear (lower RPM limit)

June 17, 2015

I made couple of before after pictures.

May 24, 2015

We took some new pictures with my friends, First two pics (my own) and last (and maybe best photo) my friend Tomi Saksa.

May 18, 2015

It´s not boring to drive In dyno we had big troubles with wheelspin and could not measure all the power. I will try it again with different tyres. Semi-slick tyre is not good at all

Some dynodata:

ZDATSUN_.doc

May 15, 2015

First dynosession 988.8 PS / 1120Nm @ 2.4bar

May 10, 2015

Have been driving couple of days in streets and it feels very fast and fun to drive with 2bar boost. Soon we will try new dynosession.

April 7, 2015

March 19, 2015

Thanks. I had bad luck in first dyno session. One day before car started running with only 5 cylinder. In dyno we tried everything (spark plugs, wires), but one coil was broken. Now I got more spare parts (I bought 3 new coil) and that should not happen again.

Car is now running fine again..