HowlerMonkey

The tripod axles always shake when in full droop because of the angles. Speaking of planes.......Czech Mate is back with some huge innovations for reno this year.

I guess it's possible that the turbo had been rebuilt at one time and the "cartridge" originally came from an american application.

If you're talking about a rear mount turbo heat shielding for the floor is definately one thing to ponder as is it's proximity to the fuel tank.

I was calibrating my joystick in preparation of delivering pepperidge in the Aces High II arenas and noticed that the raw data looks a lot like the data you find from purpose built data acquistion units. I'll guess you can get at least 2 channels of 0 to 5v from even the cheapest usb joystick and 4 from a twisty stick with throttle slider in addition to a bunch of on/off inputs.

Hmmmm......reminds me of this. From this thread. http://ozdat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=21772

FSM for L28et states 20 degrees + or - 3 degrees at 650rpm in drive. This is shown on page EF-28 in the factory service manual "turbo supplement". Since most L28et came with automatics, you will arrive at your best timing by starting there and experimenting for what works better with your manual transmission.

I mentioned the radio because many installers will simply snip the green/white wire that supplies radio illumination. These often short to ground. Your symptoms don't fully support this but, if you have exhausted everything else, might want to take a look.

The pre-obdII GM systems were advanced for thier time but were made with inferior construction and the conformal coatings sprayed on those ecu boards that leached under the chips is now swelling and pushing them right off the board. I can't even count how many GM ecus I've been sent at my rebuild facility that actually had chips rattling around the box because they got pushed clean off the board. The worst of the bunch is the "9278" ecus for the early LT1s. If you have one that is malfunctioning, then your ecu is in it's natural state. Many of the OBDII GM ecus are identical hardware between 6 or 8 cylinder engines and the tune decides which hardware is operational. Sure the LT1 ecus enjoy an almost identical signalling for crank/cam reference and the optical disc inside the duraspark "distributor" have a very similar waveform as the nissan V8 ecus, but the reliability of that ecu is very bad. Look familiar? If you're going to try GM or Jeep ecus, go with the OBDII ecus so you can easily tune them through the scan tool connector but remember that the later you go, the higher possibility that you will run into "immobilizer" or "security" issues. The jeep 4.0 ecus around year 2000 are amazing and can handle much any curveball you can throw at them but the voltage regulators inside them don't handle having Vref shorted to ground well and will cook the regulator. I probably replaced 600 of those regulators over the years..........and then had to support the customer who sends it back with the regulator burnt again because he can't grasp the cause and effect relationship of his damaged ecu. For an L28 with another brand ecu, the most difficult part is satisfying that ecu's need for crank reference.

Nice Rejracer Your quick and clear response will be added to the collective making future searches easier.

Should be M8x1.25

Sweet.....this is also a great way to see if you have too much air bypassing through worn throttle shafts on the SU carbs.

Hmmm......I'll bet there is a market for something like this. I do know that the toyota MR2 spyder was available with a "sequential manual" transmission that was identical to the corolla transmission and later the celica transmission. They had a supplemental unit that mounted on the transmission to do the shifting and an electrical clutch......and a complex shift management system. You are probably too capable for something like that. I think the best way to approach this is how the game controller manufacturers have analog clutch assigned to a paddle. I'll see what I can find because having a paddle on the left hand side of the wheel would not be intrusive and wouldn't take too long to learn. It can also be done mechanically and hydraulically by a lever that mounts to the column that I normally see used as a combination gas pedal/brake pedal. It might not be too hard to have this lever stick out a little below and behind the turn signal stalk, hinge at the column mount, and push a rod that goes to a slave cylinder mounted out of view. There is probably an existing product. Something has to be done to allow you the joy of tearing up the streets.

My go kart had a kawasaki KE 175 engine on it but no brakes or clutch when I got it so I mounted a lever on the shifter for the clutch. Worked great. I did add brakes later. The guy who owned it before me now owns palm beach harley davidson and races a top fuel harley so I guess whatever he had that caused him to drive that scary fast kart without brakes or clutch still exists within his brain. Having it on the car shifter might cause issues of you pulling it out of gear when actuating the clutch so getting it set up properly concerning shifter length and effort will make a huge difference.

I was wondering if anybody has used the narrowband output to feed the narrowband zirconia O2 input of an ecu, stock or otherwise and had it work well? I was also wondering if any manufacturer can do this for the titania sensors that nissan ecus feed a 1v reference instead of the industry standard 5v ref.

Check the impedence of your injectors just in case they were the cause of the injector driver failing.

Maybe we could add "factory and" to "other ems" to net "factory and other ems forums". As it is now, any discussion of factory ems ends up spread across the "car specific" and engine forums.

He has a 1981 280zx turbo engine, harness, cas, and a way to distribute spark. He already has what he needs to run the car and he's had it since before authoring this thread.

I got an everstart 24ms-6 marine battery from walmart at least 3 years ago and it just recently survived leaving my lights on for a few hours. With marine batteries, you get stronger plates to deal with the huge pounding boats take but care must be taken to get the proper marine battery. With Everstart marine batteries, 24ms-6 is a 24 family battery with "MS" standing for "motor start" while the neverstart batteries with "dp" mean deep cycle. Deep cycle batteries love to trickle energy out slowly over long periods but might struggle with cranking amperage. I use the extra terminals for a supplementry body to negative terminal ground and the extra positive terminal sits waiting for use to power something heavy duty. Positive terminal is on the right of this battery but I did no research as to whether it is available with the terminals swapped. It was substantially cheaper than the 24 series auto batteries on the automotive side of the display rack but that might have been a fluke or sale.

It looks like someone might have changed the indexing with that screw. I'm sure there is a spec for resistence when it is fully closed so you can probably adjust it back to stock values pretty simply. That other screw that holds the plastic gear down is a bit harder to get right. If it wasn't touched, it's a good thing. Definately mark that gear and case with a sharpie or paint pen.

Sweet!!! Did you score the turbo stuff from a "cash for clunker" car? (red paint) If so, nice score and I like the manifold. I'm working cleaning up one that will still run egr and have the M30 EMS Idle control.

I could swear he said he got a 82/83 L28et distributor at the beginning of the thread.

Was a stereo recently installed?

M30 R200 flange next to a 280zx n/a flange.

Turn the key to on and have someone listen to the fuel pump while you open the flap in the air flow meter.\ If you don't have power to the fuel pump, then the microswitch inside the plastic cover needs to be tweeked.

When we built Bob Lentz's GT2 280z out of a former 240z race car, I put the 280z taillights into it. I seem to remember lightly grinding the countour of the outside end to fit.