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Good to get rid of the drone. My dads 98 2 dr Tahoe has custom exhaust with 2 Dynamax 40's dumping down in front of the rear axles. That sound bouncing off the pavement back in the truck is annoying. No room to run exhaust because of a 6" drop. Your making progress. Keep pushing. You can get it done in time and put the other stuff on the back burner.

Ok updates..... Got the cylinder head back Friday. Bolted it on and Test fitted the intake and exhaust manifolds by bolting them to the head with the stud kit from ZCar. They really help for on and off installation. Bolted the turbo on, hung the intercooler and tried fitting the piping. I don't have all the right pieces needed to fit everything. So measuring and ordering more piping. Will post pics later today when I have them uploaded.

Dang I hate that,,,, Last week running to get pizza (dad sent me to the wrong pizza hut-ordered from the wrong one), in my haste I accelerated faster than the person in front of me and they hit there brakes, I couldnt stop and hit them. Thank goodness I did not damage anything. Can't really hurt my dads 98 Tahoe, thing is a tank. Anyone needing any fab work Contact Znke. Does good work, knowledgeable and good communication! Lets get him some money! Hey do like others have done put up a donation request.

Looks great. Anyone needing some machine work, advice or increase your knowledge hit Jacob up.... Xnke!

Ha... just jabbing at ya. I am no way near ready for it. Plenty for me to do before it gets here! Your time is running out to get everything done.

Updates, More detailing and planning. Painted the valve cover...primed and 3 coats of black. Going to paint the lettering red and sand the paint off the outer ring for an outline look of polished aluminum. Then I will clear coat the hole thing. I was lucky my gdad had the valve cover media blasted for free... gotta love freebies. Painted the tranny mount and the alternator mount black nothing fancy. I cleaned the Z32 diff and decided to just clear coat it. Mail man delivered again..... new head studs and brake bias adjuster. Scored on a used wide band, about $60 less than new. Very good condition, O2 sensor looks like new. So other plans are to move the battery to rear hatch and put the fuel surge tank in the battery tray. Also, good news the cylinder head should be done tomorrow. I got the rest of the shim/spacers for the springs yesterday and delivered to the machine shop. Hopefully I can pick it up. I don't think I will have much time because of work, leaving for the week on Sunday. Maybe dad will jump in and help. Have to get the oil pan off to put the drain in for the turbo line. With much more to do.

Hey get my tranny done so you can have some money and time to work on your stuff.

So final update... To get this to work I used the Z32 booster as well. Had to redrill the firewall to make the mounting studs fit. When you do this the re-inforcement of the dash to the firewall will get in the way. Unless you are exaxtly perfect in drilling the new holes, evenly spacing the them around this inner stiffening bracket. I had one mounting stud that the nut interfered with this re-informenct piece. I had to do some cutting on that one side. I drilled a hole in the bracket then took an air saw and cut to the firewall, then had to bend the metal with pliers to allow the nut to screw onto the stud and snug up to the inner fire wall. This was not very difficult and took about 45 minutes of drilling, cutting and bolting this in. I think this is not a very difficult upgrade for our cars. You can find these parts at the junk yard, unbolt the four nuts from inside, take the holding pin to the pedal and remove the 2 brake lines off the BMC. You should be able to get these for less than $150.

Great,, that would save some time on my end. My car has been down for 4 weeks and I am just now seeing somewhat of end now. Always good to start putting parts back on the car. So, BMC and CMC re-installed after painting the engine compartment. I have decided to go with the 5 lug Z32 pattern for all four corners. I am going to use the Z32 wheels now. Time to let the old Sentra wheels go.. For sale!

Well updates.... Got the S15 6 speed tranny. Put it on a crate with the S30 bell housing, sent it to Xnke (fellow member). He has cut both bell housings and mated them on a custom made jig. He has also figured out how to make the S30 speedo work on this tranny. I will post pics as soon as I get them uploaded. Jacob can add to this what ever he wants. Cant wait, this will be mated to a Z32 rear dif with 4.08 rear gears. Can you say short shift! I also ordered the rear suspension setup kit from techno toy tuning for the Z32 suspension. This will allow for me to use the Z32 rear axles, and braking with the dif. Now I have to get a drive axle made and custom make a tranny mount for the S15 6 speed. I am working daily on what I can. Waiting on machine shop to finish the valve job and flycut of the cylinder head. I think I will get the tranny, cylinder head and rear suspension at the same time. I am home this week, but will be working in the upper north east of the country next week and maybe the following states I will be in are Pa, Ny, Ct, De and maybe Va.

Ok final fitment of the brake booster. It is mounted. Depending on how good you are at centering the mounting holes you will have to open up the center large hole. Also, one of the studs on the brake booster sat right next to the inner firewall brace. I had to split that side and open it up with a air saw so the nut would screw on. Now I have to work on the plumbing. I am going to install a brake bias proportioning valve, waiting on delivery. With this I will run the new lines. Also installed the new clutch master cylinder. Cleaned some more parts and ordered some more parts.

Ha!!,,,,, I do have a set of 240sx rear calipers and the S30 front calipers if you want!

Ok so I am still working on getting the Z32 brake booster fitted. So here are some of the pictures of the process. First are the side by side of the 2 boosters. Just resprayed and a couple quotes of clear coats. Now onto the mounting of the booster. The Z32 bolt pattern is smaller than and narrower than the S30 booster bolt pattern. So I took the gasket that was on the Z32's booster and used it as a template. Stuck it to the firewall with some silicone centering the bolt pattern between the original stud holes. I spray painted the gasket on the firewall to get the location of the Z32 stud holes. Then used an automatic center punch to start the drill holes. This is a tight fit between the clutch master cylinder and the accelerator pivot arm. I will post the pictures of the booster mounted later. Had to stop for dinner and a night out. I removed the old clutch and flywheel. Took the old main seal out and installed another one. Re-installed the flywheel and bolted the new clutch on. Here is the old next to the new. Well thats all for today. Tomorrow I will bolt the new clutch master cylinder and the Z32 Brake booster on.

Hey raven12, I am going to take the Z32 brake booster and put in the S30 chassis. This way I can just bolt the Z32 BMC to the Z32 booster. I will be acquiring a brake bias adjuster just to help dial in the breaks.

Hey did you get another car? Couldnt stay away huh!

OK update...... Got the 6 speed. Pulled the tranny out of the 260z, removed the tail housing and getting the bell housing off. Will be sending the 6 speed and the S30 bellhousing out to a hybridz member to mate the 2 bellhousings so it will bolt to an L series block. Got the Z32 dif out of the 300zx along with the rear calipers. My plans are to also remove the 300zx break booster mount in the s30 with the 300zx BMC. As far as the rear brakes and dif install I ordered the Techno tuning rear backing plates, shortened half shafts to put the Z's cv's onto, mustache bar and strut housings prepped for coilovers. While I had some down time I removed most of the stuff off the firewall and painted it. This is with one coat. I am going for 1 more coat and 2 coats of clear to give is some protection. I am still waiting on the cam to return back from Schnieders. Was suppose to be 8 days ago. Will follow up on this tomorrow. I just got the valves, spring spacers and the rest of the valve train parts. I have a new job that entails working over nights. Still doing 1 to 2 days of work at the pawn shop though to help out. Things left to get.... MONEY!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Drive axle, some wiring, pluming (fuel lines all new), throttle cable and piping for the intake. I am routing the intake out in front of the intercooler and need additional piping for that. I got a surge tank to handle my fuel delivery issues as well. Also, got my new clutch setup looks good. Well this $800 to $1500 turbo upgrade has turned into a massive resto, custom build. Trying to get this done by May 1st! I am cutting it close. Well the next 2 weeks will be prep work for the install. I have to remove the rest of the rear suspension from the 300zx to go into the s30. Remove the booster as well. I am trying to wait till the last minute on the 300zx because it will not be a roller once I remove the rear hubs, stub axles etc. My dad says I have to strip the rest of the car of useful parts and sellable parts and get rid of the shell once that happens. Stay tuned!

Well the head is in the machine shop, waiting on valves and spring shims.Did a .080 fly cut, valve job and guides. Cam sent to Schneiders completed and in transit back to me......waiting. I opened up the hole in the radiator support on the drivers side to make room for the intercooler piping and intake piping to have the cold air intake in front of the intercooler. Have half the engine compartment degreased, cleaned scuffed and primed, working on the other half. I took everything off the inner fender wells, fire walls and will be painting it black. Decided to go forward with the tranny swap so have 6 speed coming that will be mated with an S30 bell housing. So have pulled the Z32 rear diff out of my brothers 300zx (1993, is a 4.08 LSD, he is donating any parts I want) Also have the rear half shaft cv axles that once I mount the rear diff will get new axles made by mosler. Will be making custom stub axles out of the S30 to fit the z32 cv joints. I also took the brake booster out of my brothers Z and will be adapting that to the fire wall of the S30 to take advantage of the Z32 brake master cylinder. The quick 2 week turbo swap has turned into probably a 3 month custom resto mod. My dad warned me. I have pictures of the progress but on a 3 week run of over nights 9pm to 6 am. Really messing with me, but good money. Will post when have time and energy.

True, I left the door to the house open and my mom complained. I prefer the smell of Purple Power over Simple Green. Thanks, clean and de-greased I hope so the paint sticks.

Did you install a Z32 BMC?

Finished taking the outer motor parts off today. Alternator, oil pump, radiator and front engine cover. They were nasty will be nice to have them clean. I unbolted everything from the inner wheel wells to clean and get ready for paint. I am going to paint glossy black. Here are before and after. Only one spray down with purple power and a little hand power. Will hit it again tomorrow, then some break clean and a final rinse with a spray of water. Then I will scuff the areas spray with primer. Once dry wipe down with some denatured alcohol.

Ok as the wheel turns. I pulled the motor down to do the turbo install and decided to tackle the Brake Master Cylinder install (BMC). At my first look I thought that I would be able to bolt directly to the S30 brake booster. The adapter does not bolt to the Z32 BMC , for one thing the stud mounts would make the Z32 BMC rotated 90 degrees or sideways. Plus on top of that they do not line up. Next if you try to bolt the z32 BMC directly to the S30 booster the other studs are in the way. Here are some pics. As you can see the pics. So........................... Option 1 is remove the 2 S30 studs , top and bottom ones. Then bolt the z32 BMC to the other outer studs. Option 2 is remove the booster and put the Z32 booster in the car. I think with the additional volume of the Z32 and if it will fit between the clutch master cylinder and the accelerator bracket would be the best bet. This week I will get the booster out of the Z32 and see how it will fit, or at least measure for fitment. I watched my dad go through this with his Tahoe. BMC did not have enough pressure so he got one from the next model design that fixed the spongy break feel. He had to drill new holes in the fire wall to mount but it worked out. So stay tuned.............................................

Cleaned engine bay. Removing all items attached so I can paint the engine compartment.

Got the party started today. Step one dis-assembly! Put the car on stands. Going to pull the tranny this weekend. Intake/exhaust manifolds removed. Cylinder head removed. A/C compressor and lines removed. New that I had some cylinder head issues with one missing stud no bolt. The same cylinder had the other nut loose. Also the head gasket shows issues. Broke one head stud.... grrrrrrrr. Recruited my dad for the know how. He drilled the stud out. Did it with 4 different bits smaller to bigger. Then he was able to use a pair of needle nose vise grips to grab the thread and unscrew the threads of the bolts. Things left to do. Remove the front motor cover. Have to put the turbo pump drive gear in to match the distributor drive gear. Possibly remove the block to clean thoroughly. I know there will be haters about not going the extra mile to disassemble motor completely etc. But going real low budget to get back on the road. Also, remove the radiator, A/C dryer. Cut the drivers side access for the intake piping, plan on running the cold air intake in front of the intercooler behind the lower front grill. Fed ex and UPS were busy today. Got my clutch master cylinder, slave cylinder, steel braided line, blow off valve flange from Blitz (got a free Blitz 38mm blow off but was cut off the piping with nothing to weld back on with) and clutch and pressure plate. Things still coming valves, spring spacers, cam from schneiders (sent there to be reground) and lash caps. Also going to clean the engine compartment, take everything off the wheel wells and paint the engine compartment black. Will post more pics as I continue. Have to work tomorrow. Maybe do some work on Sunday.

Thanks Xnke! I will pm you when I have that in my hand, so we can talk more shop. Had the 6 speed tranny in my stolen s14. Put 305 hp down on the chassis dyno with that setup. Running stock S15 turbo motor with cam upgrade Nistune, engine management, Tomei cams and 17 pounds of boost. Did not do drag race starts, and used so so sticky tires. Did not bang gears and loved the gear set backed with a J30 rear dif 3.90 r&p. I had a 2 piece drive shaft behind my 6 speed. Will have to plan out the drive axle when I go that way. Want to get the motor turbo install set before I tackle that.

Well D-Day is here. I am starting tear down this evening when I get home from work.....(Pawn shop and its just like what you see on TV!) P90 head returning from machine shop. Shaved .080, Shims from Derek, valves and spring spacers from Motorsport auto. Cam reground from Scheiders. I will have lots of questions so any help along the way will be helpful. Reason for starting now is the clutch slave cylinder is leaking and has lost pressure. I will be removing the tranny to put a new clutch in to handle the additional power being applied ( it slips now ) , which could be the lack of a working hydraulic clutch. I am also going to tackle putting in the Z32 brake master cylinder. Z32 rear brake adaptation will have to be another time when I put the rear diff in. While I have the motor down I plan on freshening up the engine compartment. Car was originally green and had a repaint 31 years ago to red. I eventually want to paint the car black so I am going to paint the engine compartment black. P.S. I have located an S15 6 speed tranny for a real good price. I may jump on this and work out the adaptation to the S30 chassis and L series block. I know tall order but I want a 6 speed. Issues I know so far are its longer! No speed sensor. Clutch type may be an issue. Pictures to follow, will see how it goes. Tear down is always easier.