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Im really love'n the look of that just as it sits ! We need some nice shots of the engine bay though. Guy

Yeah your codes are whats keeping the fans on. You will need to turn off the A/C, Emissions, EGR, and whatever else your not plugging in to keep those from comming back. No you can't just wire up your sending units to the stock LT1 stuff, they wont read right unless they are set up the same way as the after market stuff(which they more than likely aren't). The oil sending unit is pretty much an on/off switch, all it needs is like 5 psi to keep your oil light from coming on. Your gauge needs more than on/off to work. Guy

Tranny is getting rebuilt in the very near future(waiting on parts now). I still have to finish getting the car in primer, then its off to paint. I'm hoping that by late May it will be road ready again and start tuning the new 95' PCM with tunercat and the LM-1! I just need to get my a$$ back in the garage to finish up the body work(I really dont have much but I just hate body work!) Get some slicks on that thing and you'll be in the 12's no problem! Guy

Nice run! Gives me something to use as a base line. Im using a T56 though and my engine is warmed up a little. I'm hoping for low 12's with some practice. What gearing is your diff? Guy

Just throw a pair of vise grips on the shaft and remove the old strut since your going to replace it anyways. When installing it you can put a pair of vise grips on the shaft but do it at the very very top. That part of the shaft will never see the seal in the strut so if it gets a littel scratched it wont matter. I personally use an impact wrench to remove and install that nut. Dont really have to worry about damaging anything then, but you don't have that option. Guy

Wow all that technology and its still carb'd! Seems kind of weird to me! I guess if you can make 1100HP your doing something right! Sweet car none the less! Guy

Pop, you know johnc does this stuff for a living right? Why would the SCCA say you have to notch your tubing for a cage if butt welding it would be just as safe? Sure it may get you by but why half a$$ something like a rollcage? Guy

I dont care what anyones says, center force clutches are junk! Here's what my flywheel and pressure plate looked like after 1000 miles... http://www.datsun-280zx-lt1.com/Big_Pictures/LT1_and_T56/Flywheel_hotspots.JPG http://www.datsun-280zx-lt1.com/Big_Pictures/LT1_and_T56/CFDF_Clutch_disc.JPG I've switched to a SPEC Stage 3 now but I haven't put any miles on it yet as the car is on jack stands as I slowly do the body work. I've heard way too many stories from LT1 guys about the crappy quality of the CFDF clutches. Most LT1 guys like the SPEC clutches. Guy

You shold be able to get a C3 or C4 for that much. Just depends which body style he likes. Look on ebay to see what they are going for in the type of condition he wants. I would think the C3 would be a little more than the C4 since most dont care for the C4's(they are the ugliest in my opinion). Guy

Whats inexpensive to you? $500 or less? Nitrious is probably the best $/HP, but it won't help if your engine can't take it... Guy

Yeah apperently the Nissan techs over there now are averaging 60 hours a week! Too bad one of them is on the way out and Im on the way in! Hehehehe, its not my fault he can't do his paper work right and costed the dealership $17,000 in charge backs because he was too lazy to write good notes! Guy

Yeah I have a feeling once I leave that the SRT-4 guys will be getting the same kind of treatment that most dealerships are doing(like your saying). The fact is you need to find a dealership that will work with you. Best thing to do is find a dealership with a young service writer who is into cars, then get buddy buddy with him and ask him about doing warrenty work. That's how the SRT-4 guys at our dealership used to get stuff handled until my pervious service writer left for another dealership. He loved modded cars and would run anything in under warrenty. Of course it helped that I loved them too and didnt really care doing warrenty work on them just as long as I got to drive it later! Guy

I think they sell Infinitis too. Im not 100% sure though. I figure one will come in eventually. The thing with Nissan(from what I understand) is that they are more picky about covering things under warrenty. The new dealership I'm going to won't cover things once your out of warrenty just because your only a few miles out. Were as if you came into the Dodge dealership with say 40,000 miles on our car and your warrenty went out at 36,000 we would probably cover whatever was wrong with your car. Apperently Nissan says "well it's not our fault you didn't buy an extended warrenty". Which sucks for the customer but it doesn't suck for me! Warrenty pay times suck and customer pay times are good! Warrenty for instance would pay me 3.2 hours to replace an evaporator in a DR Ram 1500 were as customer pay time would be 6.5 hours. Now since I've done quite a few of those I can get it done in that 3.2 hours but if your the customer and it isn't covered under warrenty you still pay for 6.5 hours of my time! That's why when the manager goes "oh well cover that for your under warrenty" it really sucks for us because they don't tell us that their going to pay us that other 3.3 hours. As for owning the place....I think I'll just stick to wrenching. I wouldn't mind being the teamleader. I did that for a while over at dodge but then one of the older guys didn't like that I was picked over him so they gave that job to him. I was very fair about which jobs people got but the older guy still didn't like it and whined and cried about it so that he could do it! I didn't really care because it's not like I was getting paid more to do it, it was just kind of nice to know that managment trusted me to do the job and make sure everything got done on time! Now he's taking a lot more good paying jobs and passing out the crap to me and the other young guy on my team. I don't mind doing a lot of warrenty but put me back on an hourly wage then cause it's impossible to live off of warrenty work. Guy

Whooooo guys back up the boat! Im not saying that getting a lot of crap work is the main issue, its just one of them. It more of having to deal with the day to day BS. From having to work on the owners friends cars for free to just having an extremly lazy serivce writer who doesnt feel like he has to do his job for me. He seems to upsell work for everyone else but me. It probably has to do with the fact that he knows I dont like him because he's a egotistical A-hole. Hes like 40 years old and thinks that he's some young stud who can boss people around and I just don't put up with it. For one hes only been working there for like 3 months and for two he did work there a few years ago but got canned for the same thing(plus some sexual harassment stuff). I am not the only one who has a problem with this guy and the dealership is going to loose some very good technicans because the service manager has no balls and wont can his *** again! I can totally understand that the young guys have to start out with the crap work, I did that for the past 3 years. However when Im doing work faster(the old guys talk too much and dont work enough) and better(I have a very low comeback rating) than guys with 20 year experiece I feel that I've earned the right to get some "gravey" work along with my crappy warrenty work! Not only that but we have 2 younger guys below me that can do oil changes and rotates. The Dodge dealership is down sizing and people are getting fired at random. It's just not a good situation to be in. Since I have 2 people that I know over at the Nissan dealership I kind of have the hook up. The service manager over there use to be my service manager over at Dodge but he quit for pretty much the same reasons(too much drama). The other guy I know is a service writer at the Mazda dealership(same dealership but different building). I won't have to worry about some old guy pushing me around at Nissan because it will only be me and one other tech (and hes my age(23)). The other think that I'm tired of is doing oil changes, we have lower our price on oil changes from $24.95 to $16.95(one of the lowest in our area) so now we get tons of people who just come in for a cheap oil change and have no intention of fixing anything that we find wrong with their car. Half of our schedule is oil changes! When you only get 18 minutes(.3 hours) to do an oil change and you dont upsell anything it gets very frusterating. Once you figure in the time it takes to get the repair order, get the keys, find the vehicle, pull it in, rack it up, drain the oil and check all the fluids, go to parts for your oil filter, fill it up with oil, unrack in, pull it out, write your notes, fill out your 23 point inspection sheet, and turn the keys and the paper work back in......you really don't make a dime on an oil change unless you upsell something. The Nissan dealership charges $29.95 and you get 24 minutes to change oil and a much better possibley of an upsell because you know their bringing their car to the dealership because they want it checked over buy guys who know that car. Guy

I really doubt those will fit in a Z car. If your not dead set on headers you could just use a set of "ram horn" style manifolds and turn them upside down. You would have to modify the flange though or make an adapter... Do a search for "silicon boy" he has a twin turbo set up in his Z. He might be able to help you. Guy

Yeah at the Dodge dealership I'm at now we have a few guys that make good money but thats because they are selfish when it comes to decent work. Basically there are a few guys that are making the rest of us do the crappy/low paying warranty work while they do the majority of the maintenance/customer pay stuff(pays more). Its just poor leadership by the Team leaders thats all. I'm sick of getting crap work just because I'm one of the "younger guys." The other Tech at the Nissan dealership is my age(23) so we should get along pretty good I hope. I just figure I can't worsen my situation from what I'm leaving now!

Here's the back story to this... http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=106761&highlight=mazda I have finally had enough BS from the dealership that I work at now. I have a service writer that just wont sell any work for me and a manager that is telling us that "if you can sell cars you just might save your own job". Yeah apparently when I applied for a Service Technicians job I didn't realize that I was also signing up for a sales position too! I will tell people who want to know about sales that we are having but I'm not going out of my way to sell cars, its not my job! So I'm leaving my job at a Dodge dealership and moving to a Nissan dealership. I'm obviously a little nervous about leaving a line of cars that I know very well but I'm still young and I need to leave a dealership that just isn't moving it the right direction. I am looking forward to driving the 350Z's and the new Skylines! The part that kind of sucks is that I don't get that great of a deal on parts. We only get a small discount. Were as the dealership that I'm at now I only pay 10% over cost. My new manager over at the Nissan dealership is working on changing that though, so that might not be an issue for long! While my pay is going to be the same over at the Nissan dealership, my hours booked should go up because there will only be me and one other guy over there. I'm only booking 65 hours per 2 weeks at the dealership I'm at now were as the Nissan guys are booking close to that in a 1 week period! So my pay should go up quite a bit once I learn the new line of cars! Guy

Yeah but what will a twin turbo and supercharged engine do for performance? Im betting it will eliminate any turbo lag with the supercharger! Guy

I get this too sometimes when I get out of my Dakota. Its just a static build up. Truckers sometimes drag a chain to get rid of this charge. You do something similar with a smaller chain/wire if you want to. Guy

Just one more reason to like the new Mustangs! Absolutely awesome! Guy

Yup, you should only need those two washers to keep it sealed up. Just put them on and tighten that adapter block on and you should be good to go! Guy

Are you saying that you can hook an LM1 wideband unit up to a narrow band A/F gauge? I have a narrow band a/f ratio gauge but its hooked up to the stock o2 senors. It sure would be nice if I could hook up that wideband unit to it! Any info on this would be good! Guy

Well thats pretty much what I was looking for. I was told by some SRT-4 guys that 12-12.5:1 is too lean and I thought they were crazy. I guess I can understand that for a turbo car you need some extra fuel incase of boost spikes(that my thinking anyways). I would feel pretty safe/happy with a tune for my LT1 in the 12's. Guy

Ok I posted in the fuel section but after 2 days of no replys and only 11 views, Im going to post it here hoping for some info... What I am looking for is opinions/experiece with tuning a/f ratios. I always though 12-12.5:1 was a pretty good tune. Does it matter if you are tuning for WOT or part throttle when trying to acheive these ratios or does it change when tuning from WOT to part throttle? Also does it matter if its a turbo/sc car vs a NA? Thanks, Guy

Ok so Im wondering what you guys think is a good a/f ratio to tune for from idle to redline? I have always thought most guys tune for about 12:1 to 12.5:1? Does it matter if you are tuning for WOT or just part throttle? Thanks, Guy