Six_Shooter

There's a few members in the state of Washington, maybe find them and send them PMs to see they can help you in any way. Have you notified the border that you will be importing the car? You can't just buy a car in the states, and drive it back. The US border needs to be notified that the car will be coming through 3 days prior to it's arrival at the border, to make sure that it's not stolen and no liens against it exist. I used AA Auto transport to ship my car back to Ontario, they were the cheapest, and seemed the most interested in getting the transport done. I paid just over $1600 CDN to have the car shipped from Richland WA to Brantford ON. They dropped it right off at my doorstep (well at work, since that was better than dropping it at home), and took care of the border notification. I used the broker they recommended to keep things simple, thier rates were reasonable too. Your shipping costs will be much lower. http://aa-auto.com/

Don't go giving me ideas I don't need, I already don't have enough time to get things done as it is.

Interesting.

What controls when this runs? Is there a thermal switch or something to control it? I noticed on the '81 I just pulled apart, that it was connected to the body harness on the passenger side, and not to the ECM.

LOL, too bad the DMV is actually checking for stuff like this, especially the emisions equipment part of things anymore. I've seen people do something similar when they used exhaust that dumped under the car to keep the police off thier back, just hung a couple tips under the back bumper to make it look like the exhaust was proper.

I'd place the injectors on the outside of the radius, you'll be surprised just how long the last part of the runner going to the head will need to be, to clear the injectors and fuel, along with actually being able to service the injectors. Also the farther up the runner the injector is, the better the atomization can be, at higher RPM. Nearer the head for low RPM and idle. This also seems to efect low RPM emmisions as well. This also seems a LOT more involved than just running that single 3" tube from one side of the car to the other, behind the rad, in front of, where ever. I don't see any real benefit to this other than building some great bottom end torque with the LONG runners. If you're trying to reduce heat soak, the plenum will have less heat soak, possibly, but again, I'm still not sure it would be that much benefit.

Paint is overrated, it only adds weight to slow you down, and rust is a narural race car lightening technique. Car looks good.

I would check local laws. I know a fender exhaust like pictured in the first post, even the wastegate only exhaust would be illegal here in Ontario. The exhaust has to exit behind the rear most opening (window) in the vehicle. So on the S30, that would be just below the dogleg as the farthest forward.

Actually the GM alternator will see less RPM, using the original alternator pulley on the L-series. The GM crank pulleys, are larger than the L-series crank pulleys, this puts the alternator at a hogher RPM on the original GM application. In most cases where a GM alternator is swapped onto an L-series the alternator pulley needs to be reduced in diameter to get the stator RPM high enough to charge at idle. Mine, a 12si IIRC has a small diameter pulley (could even be a bit smaller) and still needs to be just off idle to charge. I hope that with the EFI swap I'll be able to tune a steady idle of about 850 to 900 crank RPM to keep the charge rate high enough.

Wow, good read. I'm glad my 240 aquisition went MUCH smoother than yours. I bought mine from Richland WA, back in January. Had it shipped back here to Ontario. I had wanted to do something similar to you, to drive it back, but Mike, the seller said the brakes really weren't that good, and he was right, once the car was back here, I tried to use them and they did very little.

No, it detects the location of the server and automatically blocks the send.

Is there some where that the opening cerimonies are hosted that can be watched in Canada? I only saw a few minutes of it, on TV, and would have liked to see more.

The way you wrote that sounds like the S130 (ZX) master won't fit the S30 booster. According to the FAQ (LINK) There are two different ZX masters, one produced from '79 to '81 that has a vertical mount and the other from '82 to '83, that has the horizontle mount. I just may have to keep the master from the 280ZX I just got for parts.

Check this thread for more info and a link to pictures.

Well, I picked up the car tonight. I will have pictures tomorrow. It looks to be a fully optioned car, power steering, A/C, T-tops, Power windows, cruise, etc. The body is very rough, as I would expect. At a quick glance the driver fender is shot, I didn't look closely at the passenger fender, all glass is there and looks to be in good shape. PM me with any needs, the only thing that is absolutlly off limits is the tranny. Everything else is going to be for sale. Just thought I'd update.

In my research, sequential systems switch over to batch fire at higher RPMs, not due to processor speed, but due to the amount of time available to actually provide an open valve to get all the air and fuel into the cylinder. As RPM increases, the time that the valve is open shortens proportionally, and so the injector must either deliever more fuel in a single open event or use more open events to provide that amount of fuel. Fuel being sprayed at the back of a closed valve does not by any stretch of teh imagination get "wasted". What usually happens is that the fuel that is sprayed will hit the back of the hot valve, and cause the fuel to become vapour and remain suspended in the intake port until the valve opens, to get pulled into the cylinder, at which time the injector is opening again, to provide more fuel. About the only "performance" benefit that is usually seen is the ability to control rather large injectors at idle and low RPM without over fueling. This ability to control injectors does have emmisions benefits as well, which is why most OEMs use SFI, they definatly aren't running large enough injectors to need it to keep from overfueling. One such example is the GM 60 degree V6. In the generation II set-up, uses a batch fire ECM, with 16 lbs/hr injectors, runs just fine, stable idle, no overfueling, etc. (uns better than SFI IMO) In the generation III set-up, the PCM now uses SFI for anything below about 3000 RPM, still uses 16 to 17 lbs/hr injectors depending on the year and actual displacement. SFI was implimented strictly for emmisions. I've owned or own both, and prefer the batch set-up stock for stock. My genII 3.1 would fire up quickly and reliably, my genIII 3.1 (3100) has ALWAYS been hard to start and sometimes takes a couple tries at starting. I have noticed this with other genIII SFI cars as well. On a non-emmisions controlled vehicle I would likely keep it simple and use batch fire, unless I was using some very large injectors that over fuel at low RPMs.

I'd rock that, or slide that....

Yeah I'm quite sure he's a member, I do recall reading a thread where he talked about the build up and changing a few things along with in car video. I don't recall where exactly I saw the thread though. If it was on this site, I would start y looking in the S30 forum.

That's the stock wing.

Daeron; That's cool. I will have the calipers and rotors from the 280zx if you would be interested in those. Anyway... I'm picking the car up next week, so I'll have parts available shortly after that.

It's an N/A car. I wish it was a turbo car. Daeron, I might be able to set something up to ship those parts that you are interested in. I have a friend that lives in FL, I don't remember exactly where, but I could ship it there and maybe even use his shipping account to do so. Thanks for the heads up on the parts that will lilkely be good to keep.

Well, the guy that has this car, called me today with an offer I really can't pass up. So what should I keep from this car? What parts are you guys looking for? I'll likely pull the entire rear suspension, because I'm told it should have an R200, with proper axles to bolt into an S30, ECU/Harness, engine, rear brakes. I don't know the condition of the body yet, I still haven't gone to look at it. The main part that will not be sold is the 5-speed tranny, but pretty much everything else can be sold, so what is wanted by anyone?

The only wires that should be connected to the coil when using an MSD ignition box is the orange and black wires from the ignition box. The capicitive discharge voltage is high, and will effect other parts in the vehicle if there is anything connected there. The white wire is a "points trigger", that would be used when using a stock ignition box for a trigger or an older points style dizzy. Whne using a magnetic trigger dizzy and no other ignition module or interface (ECM, GM ignition module, etc), use the purple and green magnetic input. Try checking the items I suggeted in my PMs, diconnect the alternator, starter, etc, untill the current draw drops to an acceptable level. To check to see if the charging system is work is very simple. Set the DMM to voltage, connect each lead to the positive and negitive terminal posts at the battery, note the voltage. start the engine and if it rises to more than 13.6V you're charging. If it rises to less than 13.6V you are still charging but just barely, and the charging system needs repair. If there is no rise or the voltage drops you are not charging at all, and the charging system needs immediate attention.

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FMU is also known as "RRFPR". It simply raises fuel pressure in a ratio to boost pressure. It's an ok way to make due, but never truely replaces a fully and properly tuned ECM.