TrumpetRhapsody

That's my goal, to spin the tires at 70mph. Even if it's just a quick countersteer then grab up, I just want it ever so briefly. Heh, I can dream!

1957 Chevy Bel Air 4 door sedan, 283cc v8 - Work in progress... someday

ultimembers? pshhhaw Careful or you might get that as your title! It's catchy, haha.

The efficiency of the stock L28et turbo peaks at about 10psi. Above that the hp/psi goes way down, and you'll need to cool your intake charge and get more fuel to the engine to keep up with the boost.

haha! wow, sure is nice to see some people still have a sense of humor about them!

Episodes 3 & 4 are up at uatv.blip.tv

Cool! Awesome voice man, true talent. I'll have to show this to my friend. He's like, obsessed with Hawaii and stuff. The uke gave me a little chuckle in that regard. Keep it up!

Good to know, thanks for the update!

Haha yes!!!

I'm interested too. I've been considering this kit as an option at some point. Side note: Why wouldn't you keep the line lock on the front brakes? They could act as a parking brake there just as well as the back and still work for burnouts, right?

1k seems a bit much IMO for that much rust. I'm a rust weenie though, no stomach for rust myself.

Those are awesome animations. Very explanatory, and also helped me understand why it would be easier to exhaust tune. Cool stuff!

Can you post a pic of the top of the two dizzy's without the caps on?

Heh, that's just malicious.

I'm curious too. I'll readily admit that this thread reminded me to donate. I'd planned to donate right after I bought my Z, but the accompanying sudden money vacuum scared me away / made me forget to. I was glad for the reminder, and shortly was randomly assigned a custom title. That wasn't the intent of my donation, but I consider it an honor.

Any progress on this? Don't make me try to do it myself, I WILL fail miserably, haha.

Progress! I didn't get as much done as I wanted to this weekend, but I was feeling pretty crappy. The flu has been going around campus, and I think I had a brief case of it. We ended up using those bolts I bought to mate the tranny to the engine. We had to cut a little of the end of the threads, but otherwise they seemed to work perfectly. I'll research to see if they're going to be strong enough. If not I'll just replace them with all the bolts I'm eventually going to get from that Z Specialist guy down in Texas. We played around a little with some sandblasting. It seemed to remove the rust very well. Next time I'm out there I'm first going to try to pick up some primer and maybe even paint, and try to get started on that portion of the project. Also, I went ahead and drained the mostly full gas tank. I need to get some new fuel lines for it, purge the hard lines, then figure out how to hook up the lines without all that charcoal canister stuff that I'm missing. I also included a pic of the outside of the shop. It was a nice day, so it seemed like a good time to take one for those of you curious about it. For the next work weekend: -Hopefully I'll have all the bolts I need so I can get the engine accessories mounted up -Lube up and mount the carbs and manifolds, and hope they'll work without a rebuild. -Get some DOT 5 brake fluid and get the clutch system going -Get what I need to repack the wheel bearings -Figure out what I need to refresh/rebuild the brake system -Start working on hooking back up the electrical system -If starter gets hooked up, do a compression test

Looks like I got randomly endowed too. I don't get it... Lol, maybe I'm an "alternate" type personality. I step in to relieve the elites. Weird thing was that I saw no admins on the site when it happened. Must have been a sniper operation, heh.

Just out of curiosity how much space does this place take up?

Wow, takes all that to run a forum like this eh? Who would've thunk it. One of these days I'm going to snag myself one of those 160gb raptors... one of these days.

I just got pointed to this thread. That's what I get for not checking 200 times a day like I usually do. Producing my darn TV show is sucking up all my spare time, lol. Somebody on here needs to be designated "Holset Hero", I think that's a pretty catchy title. Unfortunately my holset is sitting in the closet awaiting the summer months, at which point it'll get its turn.

Haha, true. There definitely is a difference between wet roads, and flowing roads.

In their case practice seems to make broken, or totaled, mangled even.

Looks like a good way to destroy some cars, jeez.

Ahh that's right, because Japan didn't get the "280z" we had here in the States IIRC. Interesting.