Tony D

Look to F1 and the old CART cars, they combined NASA-Grade honeycomb foil blankets and wraps along with secondary shielding at critical components, with airflow ducting. The 280ZXT had that NACA Duct, which when the car was moving directed heavy airflow down to the turbo and out under the car. When you came to a stop that grille behind the NACA Duct allowed radiant heat from a highway run to rise straight up from under the hood and out. Blankets are GREAT when you need to keep heat in, and not get nearby components hot. There are very effective blankets, the grey cloth units are used extensively on steam turbines for personnel protection. The foil stuff is even higher efficiency!

I used the universal truck over the axle kit. More than enough for two S30's with over-the-axle pieces for my 510 Wagon to boot!

Heckle? That's the kettle calling the pot black. The sarcastic "glad I never f***** up" wasn't necessary, nor appreciated. Cool? Nobody gets better if you don't realise your OWN stupidity contributing to your problem. Some people DO need that pointed out. They may not like it being pointed out... But till that point, it never was on their radar they could have had any hand in the malady at hand. As I was told: "Do it once, it's an honest mistake. Do it over and over...you're f***in' up and you BEST re-evaluate your program/plan!"

Photo at the last head party I threw...

Oh, and a Bridgeport is nowhere near 10 Tons...

If you're willing to do that for half an hour, you're going to ruin a head! Medium Sandpaper=Too Rough Pushing DRY=excess force vector down on the back of the head. FINE sandpaper, your wife's glass table, LOTS OF OIL, and FROM THE SPARK PLUG SIDE so you can grab both ends make that "Figure 8"! You will have a finish that is flat with a 15~90 degree crossing hatch pattern that is barely visible. Do it like that guy with an L6 head, and I'll warrant you can measure a height difference front to back! In lieu of Betel Nut try 16 double shot espressos on a 16 hour fasting stomach...

What you got AIN'T stock by a LONGSHOT! Someone cheaped out with generic heater hose through the firewall instead of the stock moulded rubber hoses. Hope they didn't tweak the heater control valve stuffing that straight hose in there!

(Edit) seeing that photo, the difference in the one I had stolen was at the botom end, maybe the bottom two holes up, the thing was a smidge wider--when it went past the tensioner, you felt that wider part pass and it got easier to drop in. I guess it kept inadvertent snagging of the pull wire from easily dislodging it. it would lift a bit, then get snug.,. So you're saying with one of those plastic printers we could make one of these instead of plastic TSA evading firearms? I'm THERE! "Are you sure you want to Cancel current printing job "PLSTCSTENMKIV'?" Yes... Now...

Off Base.. Go back and read the history. As Leon said, there is a pattern here. I don't know if it's contempt to do homework, or as I stated just going in with blinders on without a plan. This could have been predicted. Sadly. The rush to find someone to blame other than oneself obviously angers me somewhat... Sure, I f***ed up, and I sat back and thought LONG AND HARD about MY contribution to whatever happened. To this day I have a folded-over M8 washer hanging from monofilament on my 62 Bus to remind me that MY OWN stupidity and RUSHING things cost me A LOT MORE than had I taken a break, sat back, and THOUGHT ABOUT what I was doing. I did not go blame VW for making ports that easily in jest M8 Washers... If you haven't guessed I'm more of a "suck it up and learn" kinda guy, as opposed to a "blame it on everybody else" type of person. There are two sides to every industrial mishap. Commenting to the counterpoint is not insinuating never having been in error. On the contrary, it's pointing out from experience one's own contribution to the event which should not be overlooked if one is to learn from it! As Leon alludes, I'm betting this isn't the last we will hear on this build... The pool can start here and now: no oil pressure, valves into the pistons, knocking noise on startup, smoke, immolation? Who put what on specific "next phase" oops? Slow down. It's not a race. Take your time. Ask questions beforehand. Think about what you're doing and why. If it feels wrong, STOP! Ask some more questions and KNOW you're doing it right before proceeding! Mr. Hind, 1978 Auto I, Block IV: Engine Teardown, Analysis, & Reassembly I don't think in all these years of working, IF I'd listened and FOLLOWED his sage advice, I can say the failures mechanically I've experienced would not have happened. Haste makes waste, that seems to be the root of most of it with me! I've pretty much trained myself not to rush now. It's not a race. It's a journey, enjoy the journey.

Lathe Parting Tool Glass plate with 600 grit spray adhesived to it, and plenty of marvel mystery oil with gyrations in the lapper's traditional "Figure 8" whilst chanting "tocheaptapaya, tocheaptapaya, tocheaptapaya" ,,, best done in a thatched hut under the influence of The Betel Nut...

So I take it you are planning on the stock EFI manifold being used? Nothing wrong with putting injectors in a carb manifold and running it... Hell, Nissan was running JECS EFI in 71, and they didn't have injector cutouts... They injected up the manifold, for PERFORMANCE , not at the back of the valve head for Emissions...

If you lift your throttle, the BOV should direct overboard the excess boost in proportion that your throttle plate is restricting... In effect, 1-2psi is high, and is slowing the compressor wheel as its flow-loading is higher than turbine input power at that point. You see this on a turbo tachometer. This is why manifold waste gate control is so nice---you lift throttle, that vacuum applies to the diaphragm and slams that waste gate closed NOW! Keeping maximum flow through the turbine. In extreme cases you can see on the TT the wheel speed spike upwards on drop throttle. "Bad Control" but good for on-throttle response! If boost is coming on slow, outside of leaks (the BOV should have manifold boost plus spring pressure on it, preventing leaks) the waste gate is he culprit. A BOV leaking limited boost during initial onset may not be a bad thing... Generally boost is exponential, as rpms rise Oostende is produced far easier off the compressor wheel... IF the waste gate is properly fully closed until set point is reached. (Another reason for manifold referencing of the waste gate signal! )

Thay DIY Inmobiliser is very similar in function to the "Counterpoint" I bought in the 90's. it passively armed with a timer chip though...instead of the button. Thats a nice circuit.

Some people get aluminium M6x1.0's for fastening the wings! (JDM Group 4 kit comes like that!) Still others replicate them in Ti, gun drill them, and spotface the heads with a ball-end mill so the fastener doesn't add any more weight to the vehicle than its function necessitates!

So do you run 32 psi to the regulator that yhen supplies 3psi to the carbs deadheaded? or run the regulator downstream of the carbs with the regulator maintaining 3 psi backpressure on the carbs? I've been running mine the latter since 1985. When I run into pump issues I'll let you know so you will have plenty of advance warning... Sending it deadheaded to the carbs you limit flow to the orifice size of the regulator, run more amps on the pump, and give you no longevity over the pump being used in EFI service as the load isn't changed. Running a backpressure regulator, the lower amp loading of the pump makes a difference on a short-alternator capacity 240!

Directed the bypass liine (8mm) around the front like on two barrel carbed L-Series engines.

Making your own alcohol fuel isn't as easy as ot sounds... Take it from someone who did it! Unless you got a place or hogs to eat your beer leftovers... You got a stankin' mess... Roughly 5-6000 gallons for every 500 gallons of anhydrous Ethanol you produce... Baked down to drums of sludge which apparently hogs love. And if you don't wring out all of it in the cooking process... You get drunk livestock. Drunk pigs, honestly, are entertaining until they get upset and belligerent. Keep your legs out of the pen before they get to that point!

I'm with Leon, this guy hasn't done anything right from day one and has continually tried to cheap the job... I have to ask what kind of worn-out sh*t socket you were using that strips an ARP NUT!!! Comedy of errors is when its funny. This process has just been sad from day one... I might agree ARP might put a stamped part number on an instruction sheet, but common sense tells you these are METRIC and 7/16" is 11mm.... NOT 10! (3/8") RIGHT THERE YOU STOP AND MAKE A PHONE CALL. I've been doing this crap since 1979 and thats what I would have dine then, and its what I would do now. It may be their fault for not putting the right sheet in one of the thousands of boxes of parts they ship every day... But it's YOUR fault for going about engine assembly with blinders on to obvious things. My old instructor would say "you go to work brain-dead, don't expect good results." Its not rocket science, but you can't go about it unplugged or stoned, either!

Yes very common. I have four, at least. There is a guy posting on Facebook now with one as well. N42 was "EFI" only in the USA in 75-79. Everywhere else in the world they had a two barrel!

The one I had stolen would be physically impossible to "pop sideways" unless the head and front cover were off... And then if it did: SO WHAT?

Vincent Foreign Auto

Corporations are not run by whiz kids and brain trusts, they are populated with mind-numbed grist from the university system that teaches you to give prof what he wants, follow the lines, and get your kibble at the end of the day. Bureaucrats push the papers within a system that has been setup for the 75%. The last 25%? You could litigate and lose every one for reasonable actual losses and court costs and still make an obscene profit. You're in a subset of the 25%, such a small subset they could pay 2X what you got and thats only the premium of four under 25 single white males with no tickets and above a 3.0 GPA in the same car! And when THEY wreck it chances are they only have PLPD and just get a bashed hulk at the end of the day. YOU would think, Ray. THEM? They're not paid to think, son... They're paid to push papers and say no until you get discouraged and go away. Most do...

Renegade Hybrids used to have a whole stable of those at Pomona every month! I lived walking distance from their showroom near Beach & Whittier, always had something they were stuffing a 383 SBC into, usually a 914...

There is a list of VIN that identifies the ZXR's manufactured by Nissan. If the VIN is not on the list, it's a replica. My repro is Fibreglass (FRP) - the original was urethane like the Turbo Chin Spoilers in JDM & Europe. My repro was for SCCA racing, the entire reason the original 1000 or so ZXR's were produced: to homologate the spoiler for competition. The spoiler resided on the back of the PLN/BSR 280ZXT #33 Car... Thanks to Zya, it becometh mine, and resideth it does verily in a prominent position of honour within mine abode!

In fact, that year my mom did a pen-and-ink sketch named "The Individual" and soon it will hang on my wall... Bears a striking resemblance to someone, but sketched 20 years too early given the date.