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What if you leave it registered in La? Change your address to a family members at the DMV so they can get the sticker for the plates for you, as you can do all the renewal stuff online. I know there's a Pagani, 2 Ferarri's, and a McLaren around here, and they are all registered in Montana so the owners can avoid taxes here. If they can do it, there must be some kind of loophole.

Good luck. If I ever do another swap on anything, its going to be the cheap and easy route. You get to start enjoying it so much sooner.

I'm interested to know too, mine is fine right now, but these things don't last forever.

Look under the carpet, especially on the passenger side footwell.

Good move. Them saying that kit is made for a Datsun is like saying a window unit is made for a Datsun. I'm sure a window unit would fit in the hatch of the Z, but doesn't mean you should attempt to do something like that. They could at least send you the autozone carpet curtain they put in the picture of their ad to cover that monstrosity up. That one is really meant for a Jeep or hot rod with a really tall flat firewall, not something as small as a Z car.Where you have to hole saw a 3" hole through the firewall, at least on a 78 using the defrost option, you then have to trim the battery tray to be able to connect the fittings. Pure garbage. Then you have to drill a 1.25" drain hole for the drain pipe, and 3 holes through the firewall to mount it. I don't think I had to drill one hole to mount my vintage air compac, and it's totally hidden, no autozone carpet curtain required. This picture is from their ad.

Do not get that ebay kit. Working on one now, vintage air was easier to install and better.

I scoured the internet for months looking for that one. I ended up settling for a POS MSA one that's garbage. If you do find it, please let me know.

The later Zs have a small hole in front of the frame horn, and the air goes through that into the vents under the dash that have the push/pull knobs to open and close. Someone told me if you leave those open, they help keep fumes coming into the car from the back, not sure if that's true though.

I had to remove mine to install the vintage air compac in my 78. It will probably be much much easier to remove the dash than to try to install it with the dash in place.

Is that the one where you have to drill a 3 inch hole through the firewall by the battery holder?

I used an air chisel and dry ice after trying a few other things. Definitely worked way better than any of the other ways. I got it at the grocery store in blocks.

That was 3 or 4 people worth of clamps. I would have used more, but that was all I could scrounge up on such short notice.

I drilled my slam panel off and there were just a couple pinholes underneath I spotted with the welder. Since the slam panel isn't really a structural piece, I used bodypanel glue with a spot weld at each end. I can push my car with it and it doesn't budge.

Maybe we should download the same free decibel meter app for our phones and do it at set distances and RPMs in and out of the car and post them up to see whats the quietest.

I have the hushpower and it is loud. My wife hates riding in the Z and wears earplugs when she does. It sounds awesome at track days and when accelerating around, but is absolutely horrible at interstate speeds for anything more than a couple minutes. I have dual 2.5" going into a single 3" just before the diff, going 3" single out the stock location. Theres no dba limit at the track here, but it probably wouldn't pass if there was.

Who thinks they have a quiet exhaust, and what are you running? I have a hushpower, which I thought it meant it would be quiet. I was watching a car show on TV and the flowmaster rep was on there saying their hushpower line makes your small block sound like a big block. Exactly opposite of what I want. Mine roars too much for my taste, and would like it quiet as possible but don't know what to replace it with.

Look into something like lizard skin, etc... not bedliner.

Does this mean an Accord motor from 91-97 will work?

The collapsible part is at the bottom of the stock one, right where they cut it.

Forward air is a trucking company that ships from airport to airport, so will have to be dropped off and picked up at an airport, but I know someone who shipped a few motorcycle frames on pallets using them.

collapsible?

I have the tank running to the vapor canister and that's it. I just want a way to purge the tank once in a while. On LS1tech, from what I can gather, GM didn't open the solenoid until the car was in closed loop, among some other factors we can't replicate on the Z easily. Apparently it would be bad (unmetered air) to run it through that valve right after startup or have it just sucking into that port at all times, as the car is still in open loop just after startup. It looks like you need to let the O2 sensors get hot to start working for the car to go into closed loop. At this point it looks like I will set the relay to wait 5 minutes after startup, then open a few seconds to purge the tank. Unless I find more information to the contrary, I'm still reading a lot on it.

Most probably you would hook the reverse wires from the transmission to the reverse wires in the trans tunnel of the Datsun. At least in a manual car you do. Don't know much about autos but should be the same thing. As far as the neutral switch, you could wire that through a relay to cut ignition power when not in neutral.

It has to be the early Q45 for the big ones.

I would like to hook my purge valve up on my LS1 to my original Datsun vapor canister. I know the GM PCM looked at a lot of things to determine when to open it to purge the canister. I was thinking to do it in a sort of old school way, having the valve open up at startup for a set amount of time. I would just hook up a timed relay to open up for X amount of seconds on start. My questions I've been searching around here for the last hour or so are: 1. Is the solenoid 12 volts (I'm assuming it is). 2. How many seconds should it open when the engine starts, to purge the canister? 3. Is there another way that people usually hook these up? I also asked this on LS1 tech.