HowlerMonkey

The cigarette lighter in a car is about 2 ohms resistance and can be used with a relay who's output is in series between the starter switch and the starter soleniod. Car only starts with the lighter pushed in. I've also used a baby monitor system simply put under the seat and on a relay that is normally closed.......but opens when the car is running so you aren't broadcasting you singing to Captain and Tennille while you drive. When you hear someone in your car, it's time to bust some heads.......or get shot by the perp. If you don't relish getting shot but want them to leave your car, get another baby monitor and put the receiver under the seat so you can simply turn on your transmitter and tell the perp inside your car that the pain train is comin'.

Makes you wonder how manufacturers get away with the mass of a super long torque tube adding mass to the disc/input shaft combo that determines the amount of energy the synchros have to deal with.

I figure I will eventually be able to buy a pump for my LD28 from one of you guys when it sits in a box for 2 years.

The one you want has a rectangular bolt pattern but is sometimes found as a round flange but the bolt pattern is still rectangular as mentioned above. It has 8mm holes and is 61.58mm between the "long spaced holes" and 52.8mm on the shorter run if you simply put the points of some calipers in and spread them until they stop........or measure with a tape measure. The round flange can be found on 280zx non-turbo, and 200sx turbo R200 cars. The rectangular flange is found on earlier Z car R200s. The 280zx turbo uses a rectangular flange with but with 10mm holes and a different spacing. M30 uses a slightly longer flange than the Z31 to facilitate the abs tone wheel. This is M30 on the left and 1985 200sx turbo on the right. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8156/7609972220_3d84d536c8_b.jpg

The wedge in the first post should be a little bit more "pointy" as I have seen the blunt wedges only hold the chain from moving instead of getting down far enough to address the tensioner itself. Of course, I have also used a 3 foot long piece of wood I sawzall'd the proper taper onto.

Some Lincoln's were available with a BMW inline six turbodiesel in 1984 and 1985. Saw one at the junkyard down the street from Daytona speedway in 2004.

Tickle the wires near the ecu connector.

"Equal length" loses much much of it's advantage when you add "turbo" to the mix. Not everybody is sold in equal length when you have a turbo. 1100hp, 10 pole positions, and 3 wins in 1972. http://www.tsrfcars.com/images-72-029/72-029-2009-07-06-5.jpg Our standing mile record car doesn't have equal length exhaust headers.

If you are considering a benz motor, why not the om606? I just got another M30 and I'm still deciding between VG30T, VH45T, or LD28 (with turbo)

I simply removed the boxes, covered the original speaker holes, sealed around the openings at the edges, and bolted rectangular plywood to the top where I mounted 6x9s. I did not cut the stock carpet but simply left it folded over to expose the speakers. When I was in some sketchy places in orlando, I simply flipped the carpet back over the speakers. Looked ok but you have to fight the resonant frequency of the enclosure which is an annoying mid bass frequency. Run off a 100 buck stereo without aux. amp, it was loud enough for me to plug my guitar processor into the faceplate and enjoy endless feedback......if that's what I wanted. Those same speakers sound amazing in a m30 with a proper trunk.

Thank you. The distinctiveness and data of your posts has enhanced the collective greatly. I'm guessing they are all zinc coated inside? I have a diesel project and some say the zinc inside the tank will react with the diesel fuel and cause issues.

There is a freeze plug in the back of the block. Hopefully it's just a heater hose.

You are relatively near to where one was last spotted in 1999. It was in a green 260z and given to the owner of the business establishment linked and mapped below. They are nissan racers but P99 probably didn't mean anything to them and might have gone on unnoticed. https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&q=auto+expectations+virginia&fb=1&gl=us&hq=auto+expectations&hnear=0x884cd670bdbcb2cd:0xc04e4149b746a695,Virginia&cid=0,0,2991459704605199552&ei=KeGvUICVH5Gc9QS72IA4&ved=0CHUQ_BIwAA

It's a very smooth drive on the street but I am working with 5.9 liters which might change things vs 3.4L. It's possible that large displacement engines might not act the same as a smaller displacement concerning transition from one to two injector operation because it took a ton of tuning to smooth it out on our car. We control wheelspin using an AMS1000 controller and a custom "boost by gear" system because it seems to work better than ecu based traction control. I guess it's also possible that big stuff is behind Motec in technology.

Actually.....it's 3500rpm where the stock zxt fuel system goes into open loop. With 108 ft. pounds of torque, the dowel does nothing but properly index the gear as you install it. The cracking is from the sprocket beating back and forth on the dowel because the bolt isn't tight enough. I would simply get a used p79 head, bolt it on, and now you have a running car while you can sort out the p90 and cam options. I'm about to put a p79 back on in place of a P90 and notice no difference in the performance between the two.

People throw that stuff away so you should be able to find it cheap if you take that route.

That is exactly what is happening. I installed the factory cooling fan system from a 280zx turbo and it immediately went away......but it's ugly!! I got the timer from a Z31 300zx 84 to 86..........it was inside the B pillar near the driver's hip. Through the course of installation, I found the wiring diagram was incorrect so I corrected it such that it now works.

The L28et is more than two seconds faster in the quarter mile and the VG30 is difficult to turbo in this car without substantially more work than swapping in the L28ET. It might even fool a state emissions inspector if it blows good numbers.

I remember my RX-2 with a heavy flywheel that ran too low a gear (high numerically) and the mass of the flywheel acted similar to traction control because the engine could not accelerate the mass of the flywheel fast enough to cause it to break traction through first gear. It was pure chance (or being too cheap for a light flywheel) that allowed the car with tiny 205/60-13 yokohama A001R to run 11.5 in the quarter mile. I changed some things with a much more powerful engine and a more highway friendly gearing and it took smoking the clutch to even get near it's previous best time. There is a sweet spot concerning flywheel weight and gearing where this can be harnessed but it might not apply to most Z car configurations.

I usually swap L28s into VG30 equipped cars.

How big is a stock bore L28 with the ld28 crank?

Some of the 80s and early 90s volvos have monster horns that can wake the dead.

There used to be a place called "ernies alloys" and he had a warehouse full of BBS wheels of all types. We pieced together some crazy combinations for the rear of porsche 930s and 935s like 15x11 (345/35-15) and 16x13. Ernie died in april of this year so I am not sure what happened to his business. Here is the contact information for the business.......also remember that most of his business was porsche so I'm sure the pricing is porschetastic. 13640 NW 19th Ave Unit 9 Opa Locka, FL 33054 (305) 687-0028

Everything I mentioned is for extreme top end speed and I'm not sure the optimum settings for those speeds would be good for all around driving. I'm sure there are some here who have lived with a good trackday car they also drive on the street and could give better advise for that kind of usage.

Infiniti M30 stub axles are 2mm thicker at the splines (around 29.5mm) than the Z31 stub axles (27.5mm) and around 23.8mm thick at the threaded portion (z31 are 22mm) though it looks like they are the same thickness (30mm) where they pass through the bearing. All measurements were taken with a digital caliper simply put over the splines and threads. Sadly, they are 4 lug and use a much larger diameter companion flange which is the only one that fits that stub axle because of it's larger diameter and spline pitch. You would have to use the halfshafts, companion flange, and stub axles from the m30 all together. It might work fine for a 280zx or any other earlier Z that can accept the stub axle/flange/halfshafts conversion from a z31 but you are stuck with 4 lug wheels and having the same axle length issues when putting them into S30. I can't guarantee they are stronger even though they are thicker.