HowlerMonkey

It's true.........I had it happen to a mint RX-2 I drove for 4 years in the early 80s. Rest of the car was perfect.

Usually it's leaking battery that causes that but one thing many people ignore is rust from within. Anybody who's eaten drive-thru fries can probably remember brushing the salt from said fries onto the floor. Combine that with wet feet on a passenger and you end up with salt water.........inside the car. Car's aren't designed to combat salt water on the inside so the passenger floor rusts out first on most cars regardless of make.

1979 slicktops with roll up windows have manual racks. Not sure of the ratio.

Never had a true manual rack on the 300zx myself but the slower ratio required to make effort tolerable on a car the weight of a 300zx may diminsh the experience. If are able to fit a rack from an early Z car, it may be a fast enough ratio but you end up with again............too much effort much like in the case of a non-assisted z31 rack.

That 20 years encompasses some improved touring Z31s as well.

Can't wait to see the finished product.

I've been running without assist for 20 years and I can tell you it is hard on steering wheels and that damper that lies in the thru-tube for the firewall on the steering shaft. The effort is hard enough such that you can easily detatch the padding from the skeleton of the steering wheel. I went to a Z32 wheel and back to assist.

I'll post pics once I have the setup in the M30.

Those would look cool with the late mid to late 60s cougar taillight blinker hardware.

I looks like mazda RX-2 taillights would bolt straight into that rear fascia.

To be truly cool, the FS5R30 needs a longshifter out of a pathfinder.

You're missing the heat shield that shields the master cylinder from the turbo heat. Is your master cylinder level sensor plugged in?

I engineer engine management systems for a living and my experience in engine management systems design tells me this idea is not ready for prime time. Believe me, I know the failure rates for sensors and what engine management systems do when fed the wrong information from said sensors. Also...........the inertia of the valves and pistons moving in opposite directions at a pretty good rate is enough to bend the valves if they contact. They don't need a cam behind them to bend. Formula one is not a good example as they suffer failures directly related to the valve actuation mechanism more than any other failure in recent years.

I run a turbo on the MN47 head but it is part of the stock L24e setup. Running stock boost it does well and has been for 30k miles. Damn the port shape........I have no leaks.

"Currently.........I know of no engine that will be mechanically ruined by a bad sensor input." As an engineer for standard motor products ECU division, I can personally vouch for the fact that the most common sensor malfunction pertains to sensors that measure crank and cam angle..............regardless of manufacturer. Any unusual waveform from a failing sensor can easily net you piston meeting valve in the setup being discussed here.

Funny how that stock 944 throttle cam has become desirable again. I remember getting the linear one from Al Collins of autothority in 1986. Fitting the 944 cam was the first thing I though of when I saw the thread title but it seems someone else beat me to it.

A single bad waveform from a sensor and the engine is done.

On the turbo automatics, there is a blocking plug on the block within the diameter of the oil filter sealing surface for a relief valve. In all others, there is a bypass valve in the same place to keep pressure at the filter below what would explode from either overly thick oil in low temps or a clogged oil filter. In the turbo automatics, the bypass valve is in the housing that feeds the cooler lines. I've run without the cooler and bypass for years on my cars but you must make sure you change the oil filter before it is clogged or the pressure rises in the filter. I prefer my oil filtered all the time rather than have it bypass and not get filtered.

He'll definately need the shorter distance between shifter and where bellhousing meets engine in the z car much like you would probably have an easier time with the pathfinder FS5R30 tranny than using one out of a Z32.

I hate suggesting the sr20det because everybody has one in their S13 and S14s but it sounds like the best idea for your application. Now if you were from australia, you would have a huge selection of nissan turbo 4s.

I have yet to see an offshore racer work well with turbos for longer than a single race. Ask reggie fountain (fountain powerboats), he pioneered using turbos in research boat/engine combinations for mercury marine but all his race boats ended up using superchargers though that may have changed. I love turbos and every car I drive (except my terminator wagon) are turbocharged but there is an unbelievable amount of danger in using turbos since most every offshore racer has headers that have water jackets..........for good reason. These headers for a big block chevy go for about $2,600 to $3,000 each. When I was a service manager at an offshore type boat dealership selling fountains, I asked Reggie and he said safety is number 1 on anything that bears his name..........now that doesn't keep others from doing it but I'll bet current regulations in any offshore racing sanctioning body still say "no" to turbos. Imagine the expense in shrouding your entire exhaust system and the hot side of the turbocharger with water jacketing and you will see that losses start to crop up right away.

Tire stagger combined with a tight diff. Swap the rear tires with each other and see if it turns the other direction.........and sight down the rears and see if one is way off relative to the other to check for rear toe problems.

That depends on what year 280zx. Many pre 1981 ZX cars had a steering box type power steering though I believe some 1979 slicktops with roll up windows had a manual rack. If your car is 1981 or newer, you probably have the rack rather than a box that sits right where you would put the turbo.

Doh!!......wrong engine family.

Toyota corollas use what looks like an exhaust header for the intake.