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I'm completely baffled by how much attention I get in this half primer, kinda rusty, diesel sounding old thing, just about every other time I drive it someone has to come up and tell a story about one and I get waves and thumbs up every time. Nobody even glances at my LS1 Rx7 or my firebird, but they're all over the Z.

Sure was, the L31 vortec was available in some trucks until 03. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortec#Generation_I_2

I got mine, but haven't had a chance to put it in yet, hopefully by the end of the week.

That doesn't help, gen 3 and gen 1 engines were available in 98.

Part numbers are on this page, scroll down until you find it. The numbers for turbo, 81-83 n/a, and 75-80 are all there. http://www.hastingsmfg.com/RingFinderMasterDetails.aspx?AppMACD=NISSCART&AppMOCD=NISSAN%20Cars%20&%20Trucks&AddText=

Even the 7064 looks pretty good. THIS is what I came up with on the match bot.

The atlantic Z club write up on them is very helpful, it's what I used when I did mine. Something that might throw you off, both control arms are the same, they can go on either side, one's just 'upside down' from the other. I spent about an hour figuring that out.

The steam/water lines don't fit with an LS1 intake either, I had to do a bunch of grinding and modifying to get them on my rx7. The LS1 had block off plates on the rear holes and a bridge between the front two, I thing some trucks and corvettes got the piece that goes to all four. Mine was from a truck.

I would set up the program to approximate a setup that has been on the dyno and adjust the VE numbers until the power and torque are about right, that should be close. Both the 6258 and 6758 look pretty good, I think the 55mm turbine is probably too small for an L.

That program is likely looking for the approximate VE in N/A form, most do. I think 80-90% peak VE is a fair range for a stockish L28. The torque curve and VE curve should fall very close to one another(the shape, not the numbers), peak torque is where peak VE happens. The Borg Warner EFR turbo's are bad ass, lookingforward to seeing how it works for you.

Use lots of the silicone grease that comes with the kit, buy more if you think you need it.

Hastings makes good rings, call a local machine shop, they should run ~$60 or so. I've posted the part number for N/A 280z rings before, but I'm not sure that's what you need. You can look up the P/N on hastings website.

I really like my poly bushings, I've had no squeaking and the ride is quite good. Noise isn't much more, if any. I'm using the stock upper isolators as well. The ride is very firm, but it's still good, better than a friends 240sx with coilovers and better than a 2500HD dodge truck. IMO The difference between the stock shocks/springs/bushings and my coilover springs/bilsteins/poly bushings is truly amazing.

Everything north of 100kpa goes off the 100kpa bins in that case. The 180kpa bins in the ignition table is setup as a safety, so any overboosting results in a serious cut in timing. I ran into some detonation(listening with det cans) around 4000, so you can see the drop in timing there. There's no way my engine would tolerate running at 17:1 at cruise, interesting.

I'll give that a shot John, but in hindsight I still wish I went with a vband.

I have a slip fit with a SS band clamp, it's a pain in the balls to take apart. Go with a V-band and nothing else. Burns makes nice stuff, but there are cheaper places.

Over the summer I ran into a ton of issues, I've the mechanical issues worked out now. I feel like I need to retune from scratch, the tune I have now is a little cobbled together. It runs alright, but I think I can do better starting again using the include afr option. One thing that I've noticed is that the L28ET seems to not like running at stoich or much leaner. I've been using the default MS2e AFR map, this has cruise at ~15.5, I set the 100+kpa bins to a blanket 12.0. It didn't really like that cruise AFR so I lowered it a bit. I'm curious what you guys have and how your motors like it. A timing table to go with the afr map might be useful too. Yes I know there is a MS map sharing FAQ, but I'd like this to be a discussion about what AFR's the L28(ET) likes during different operating conditions.

I did nearly the exact same thing as Xnke, I used a section of 3", a whole 180 and part or another. My car is turbocharged, but the summit muffler is great. Cheap and quiet, I noticed no change in the car swapping to a straight through muffler(afr, boost response, etc), the turbo muffler went back on shortly after. You can actually hear my car from a fair ways off, but it's a low growl and not an annoying raspy sound, it's the type of sound that doesn't attract much attention of the law enforcement type. The look of a (really big ) stock muffler probably helps too.

Measure the inducer/exducer of both wheels.

The way I read the ad for the new wheel, it sounded like you were saying that there may be experimental support for the L28 wheel.

Matt, I'm sure you're aware, but the L28ET wheel doesn't have a longer slot to indicate TDC, so there's no chance of ever using that with MS3 for seq or COP.

Just bought one!

Tunerstudio can detect and load the appropriate ini.

The extra code simply has more features and is really the standard as far as what most use. There are no PCB differences, just finish building it, download the extra code, and follow the directions.

Hook it up and TS should open what's in the ecu. If it asks you if you want to load the changes, click NO, it will likely try to load the difference between what's in the ecu and the last msq you opened. Make sure you have a project setup properly with the correct code version, O2, etc