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Hey guys, just saw this on some TV show and thought it was way cool. I don't have enough money, nor do I even have the time (CVAR race that weekend!) to participate at all.
Basically its a go as fast as you can for 90 miles on an Arizona highway, then they take your time and average speed and place you against others in your class which go by 5mph increments from 95mph to 180mph.
http://www.silverstateclassic.com/318-hwy-event-description.htm
September 17-20, it'd be really cool to see some video of a Z doing it, and not a stock one! Hopefully someone with money and time will participate so I can be happy?
Edit that: Nevada I think
Bummer, I'll be in Spa Francorchamps attending the Old Timer 6 hours Enduro that weekend...
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1850#? 840Kg???
Show me the weight slip on that one. Even with Hydrogen in the tyres, you're not getting a 260Z that light and still have it on the street.
I second the B.S. Claim.
Especially since, like Frank said, I weighed my trailer empty, I weighed my trailer with my 260Z in it, and I weighed my trailer with Franks 79 280ZX in it, all within the span of a few days. The weight tickets are in the glovebox of my dually, but I'm thinking there was a difference in weight of less than 300# between the configurations.
And that was verified against the 'empty weight' that I did when I bought the trailer.
Maybe the guy is smoking crack, and was floating up against the roof for negative bouyancy while on the scales????
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Suggestion with the Neon:
DON'T EVER ACCEPT THE BACK SEAT RIDE!
Cardomain is down and I got to go to work, so I'll post the photo of 'why' later!
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How sad... she must have been used to that type of 'short stroke', no wonder they resorted to such experimentation.
If you're into short-strokin' everyone knows a Rodac is what you use, anyway...
Sabre Saw, what foolishness!
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Miatas and Neons have drivetrains and suspensions that are 20 years newer than most of the Z's competing. 78 vs 98. If nothing else that explains the retirements.
Really, our first outing was nothing more than stupidity. And I'll remind you it was a NEON that lost it's clutch and was sitting in the racing line when we booted him up off the track at Thunderhill. A Neon getting rear-ended by a 77 280Z at 70mph put the Neon OUT of the race. The Z was back at it in the morning. I think repairs took a whole 45 minutes...
Advantage: Z!
Z : 1 Neon: 0
At least we took out someone before we got taken out by bigger metal...
Bigger metal, BTW, that is still out there racing! That thing won't die, dammit!
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Concerned we got all the money?
I hereby revise my prior statement: Torture the hell out of the bastid first, THEN once we are convinced we've extracted the maximum pain and information from him...
Throw him to a pack of hungry pigs. Big ones.
Kill the pigs, and distribute the meat to the poor. Or to Madoff's customers. Either way, it suits me just fine.
I think incarceration is getting off way light for what he did.
WAY light. In days past there was a term: "Horse Whippin's to good fer him!"
This is one of those situations. He should suffer. REALLY suffer. And know WHY he's being subjected to it.
Only through the cleansing purification by pain may his soul be rendered clean to be judged by the almighty. "Confess, and ye shall have mercy..."
Where's my Black Hood? I'll do it.
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What is the 'Rain' you people speak of, and why does it make you take shelter inside.
This is a foreign concept to me...discuss further, please...
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The cooling bodies are designed to work as a fuel return routing path. Any pressure you put there is minimal, but it's at least 1/8" thick mazak alloy and a gasket, so they should be good to about 60 psi (my blowthrough was running 25psi on the feed, and somewhere near that lift-throttle on the return line until I got my surge tank swirl pot orifice straightened out)
The cooling bodies are run in series, usually with the back carb first. So flow from a feed rail from the pump would go Feed Carb 1, Feed Carb 2, Feed Carb 3, then to Cooling Body 3, Cooling Body 2, Cooling Body 1, Return Line to Tank.
This puts the coolest fuel in the hottest carburettor first. If you run a cool can it helps. I had one made that was a 1 gallong thermos, and it would run 2 hours before the ice was totally melted and hot to the touch (water)...but MAN did it keep the carbs cool.
One other thing, theorists and such aside... The COOLER you get the underhood temperatures, the better. I'm willing to give up the THEORETICAL loss of efficiency by running a 160F thermostat in the car, as opposed to a 190. The temperature coming off the radiator and blasting through the engine bay is at LEAST 30 F cooler under the hot day scenario using the 160 as opposed to 'standard' thermostat. Keep it around, you can use it in the Winter. But for the summer, it's a 160 in there, baby!
I wonder what would happen if you hooked up a can of Radio Shack "Freez-It" or some R134 to those cooling bodies...
Man, before the drag race, a quick hoze to freese up the mazak and precool the bottom of the carburettors...
And almost to the DAY 4 years ago today...my last post on this subject in this very thread! I'm haunted, I'm sure!
I digress...
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I'm unaware of suspension failure being an issue in any LeMons retirement. I think that one is a moot point.
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I'm all for execution on the general principle of scope of the fraud to send a message.
But then again, I'm for execution for some traffic offenses as well, that's just me...
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And to think in some places people actually use the words 'Parts for my Z are impossible to find...'
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I liked the pool at the Marco Polo in Davao.
As for security risk, my wife's home town in Central Mindanao was not to bad if you ignored the artillery fire and occasional grenade tossed into a night club crowd. Kind of reminded me of the Wild West.
I was talking with this pretty young thing from Angeles City this past week... All was going fine till she mentioned she was born in 1988.
Hey, I could be....you look familiar...I might know your daddy!
Wakeup time for getting old. LOL
I'm O.K. with the atmosphere there, but ECM is about the same and they are trying hard to attract tourisim. The gubbmint is stable, corruption relatively low for the region, and Singapore is just a hop away for emergencies.
The Manila Hilton...ahhhh...decadence! LOL
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22 hours on our engine before 'engine implosion'...
The first car died due to on-track accidents (several)...
Teh second suffered from inredible cheapness and thinking that we could run a junkyard engine with over 160,000 miles on it without doing a DAMNED thing to it other than precious bodily fluid changes and a set of spark plugs...
I mean, it DID lead for the first 8 hours in Reno...then the rod went.
If we simply time shifted the engine hours to subtract the 14 hours it ran at Thunderhill (I mean, guys, it was going over 100mph into turn 1 with no pan baffles!)
I think if the Z's simply SLOWED DOWN they would take it. But the inherent nature of Z Drivers is to RUN HARD and running hard in on an unprepped junkyard engine isn't good.
Mechanically, save for the Mopar savagely ripping the front 1/4 of our car off at Thunderhill, we have had no problems.
Now the car awaits another test. Refine and tweak. The car is sorted, handles great, and over the course of two events we've dialed it in. No serious shunts last event means this car can compete again. Dig out that old accusump off the turbo engine from the junkyard...and we might just stand a chance!
It was running STRONG at Reno.
And hell, I bought SIX CARS for $600! When you start selling fenders and crap like that, the cost goes down. Especially when you have a European guy willing to pay your $400 for what you normally would toss to the scrap man. Frank raided my scrap trailer and we made out pretty god after Ad said he needed 1/4 panels and roofs... Three of each went his way, muahahaha! The rest went to scrap in Riverside!
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Now, to hold out and hope Tony Robbins offs in some spectacular way and makes it the 'Annoyance Trifecta of Morbidity' this summer!
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East Coast of Malaysia...
P.I. as well, but more security risk...
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I was trying to avoid sticking my foot in my mouth in case the impressions I had gotten were wrong. My point was that this is something above and beyond parallel twin turbos, or non-linear...
Parallell Twin Turbos are pretty much gone as well. They have a two-compressor single turbine turbo now making 45psi for high horsepower / high airflow applications, that is over a year old now that I know of! Twin turbos are not required for the compressor flow with that stetup.
It's taking the example of the old Eliott SSA (?) where there were three turbine stages (axial flow) on a single long shaft driven by a single driver. Great if you could get one running and leave it on...terrible once it shut down and that shaft started to sag, waiting for restart...
Garrett also has compound units in one housing last time I walked through the R&D section. Large and small compound series plumbed turbochargers, with all the casings common and with a single exhaust manifold connection.
Now the Caterpillar energy recovery turbine (the fluid coupled turbine in the exhaust flow linked to put waste energy from the exhaust back into the PTO drive of the engine...) I've read about and seen photos of, but not actually witnessed in operation...
As to this:
"See, to ME the Ultimate Datsun Pickup would be a 4x4 83.5-86 720 King Cab with a turbocharged LD28 in it.... and that is what I have ALWAYS wanted this engine for. "
The Di 3.0 or 2.7 that was in that same model in 99/2000 and 2005 would work for me. I'd not want that anemic LD28 in there when even the 2.7 kicks it's butt hands-down, and the 3.0 is a dream! The new Common Rail Isuzu and Toyota small pickups with the 2.5 Turbodiesels are great to drive around. Very nice!
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The HP turbo takes that X PSI and charges it up to Y PSI, which is usually something ridiculous like 40 or 50 PSI.
That would be quite low for compound turbocharging. I watched single stage turbos on the test stand at Garrett running surge drills and thermal cycling 0psi-45psi-choke, stall, open flow -psi 45psi- choke, stall, open flow.... over an over and over... till it broke.
Compounds are not required for 45 or 50 psi, a single wheel can accomplish a 3 and in some cases a 4:1 Comrpession Ratio.
Now, running a 3:1 and a 2:1...now you're talking. It's more on the likes of 70 to 100 psi they are running on two stages.
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The LD28T is available in Europe, as well as through marine and industrial outlets. They were in Forklifts, etc.
There is a dedicated "T" pump.
I'm surprised at the .63 A/R housing performance on the turbo. The stock LD28T used a .43 A/R and comes on far harder than you are describing. The intercooling helps keep that EGT down with the leaner mixes quite a bit.
Where / how did you port your N/A fuel pump to accept the pressure under boost? maybe a photo?
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The one side is early 240.
The other side with the integral driveshaft installs the same way, with a bolt in the centre, but it came from a later car, like a 260Z.
Later Fairlady Z's came with that style of axle. They interchange, find another flange or axle and the differential will have two of the same. Just unbolt one, and bolt the other style in, done it a few times myself!
Oh, it's an R180...
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QUICK! Pull the exhaust manifold and port the manifold to match the turbo turbine inlet configuration!
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Depends on the location, KBR in Qatar has nicer facilities than most of the other large contractors there, but I was there in a civilian capacity, not military related. Much of the military stuff is farming guys getting out of the military looking to do the same job for more money...and it is. Then again, I'm in the 'Supervising of TCN' end of things at this point. My time in Qatar was spent on the weekend getting invited over to the KBR compound for the big BBQ and pool they had!
Working for a couple of months at Dyncorp in Saudi back in the late 80's cured me of working for the benefit of foreign gubbmints military forces. I turned privateer bigtime after that little experience. Didn't go back for 20 years. "Never say Never"
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I feel bad now for 'giving' my spare 240 sets away to people for $25 so they could have the proper patina on their period 240Z.
I knew I should have hoarded them. I gave six pair away at that price. Had I held on to them (instead of only the last 4 sets I had---yeah I came with 10 sets...) even at half that price, I could buy a couple of containers and properly store my hoard securely!
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Who gets his nose putty? I hear it works miracles when applied to bodywork.
Turns a Fiat into a Diablo...
WooHooo!(feelmyself!)
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The Pre Ban F1 Turbo Cars were making 1500 to 1785hp (that anybody knew) from 1.5 Liters.
Which was Benneton F1 back in the early 80's? BMW? You know the lead engineer for that team is a member here...right?
Muahahahahaha!
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Rodac, I'm telling you Rodac....
Or a Leyner Drill....