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Your gonna have real thin bologna skins wrapped around those wheels to fit them in those wheel wells. I likes!

Thanks!

BTW Notice the newly install towing hook just under the front bumper under the left turn signal....not that I hope to need it again!

Sorry guys. I was out shooting some video with the car, and we found a nice back drop for an impromptu photo shoot. BTW we got some wicked video footage of the car. Another nice day like we had, and I'll have enough footage to start working on my next z video! Coming soon to a monitor in your own home! Cheers!

Hey guys. I just came accross a set of 300zxtt injectors from a 1991. I can get the set for a super deal.... Questions is.. will they fit a VG30ET?? ie Z31? z32 tt injectors fit in a Z31 t????? Thanks!

Ya I vote for the be different. Be prepared to walk to a different beat though..its definiately a high road to take! Are you going to be the chicken or the pig? (reference to my post in non tech forum..no insult intended)

Well the weather has not been cooperating lately, but steady progress is being made. I have the drivers seat mounted (stock mounts are long gone) and I have a the 5 point harness properly installed. The windshield washer system was non-existant. So I dug up a spare washer bottle (non working motor), and picked up an aftermarket washer pump and some new hoses, and hooked up the windshield washers. All I need is the exhaust hooked up, and get at that wiring. Its the wiring that is holding me up at the moment. Sorry I still have not taken pics yet. It is sitting on jackstands and kinda looks crappy with the wheels off it etc... It is very close to being driveable now. While I'm waiting on the delivery of the harness, I'm going to start some general clean up stuff. You know the syndrome.. "while I am at it" Clean up some of the hoses and sort out more of the interior bits and get them ready to be installed. I have left the passenger seat out, so I can have some easy access under the dash so i can lay out the harness. I'll just lay on some cushions so I can lay on my back under the dash for a few days hehehe. We drained the tank of fuel, and splashed some alcohol down there, and everything seems ok. I'm not going to drop the tank unless It gives me problems. I will install a fuel filter for the FI 280's as it is larger, and appears to have a finer filter media in it. I looked at the hoses under the tank, and there is no way I'm taking those off, unless I have replacements. I'll leave that for next year maybe... Luckily the car was stored with next to no gas in it all these years, so it should be ok. There was less than 1 gallon in the tank...hopefully it didin't rust everything else... I hope not, cause I have lots of spare parts, but no 240 tank or hardware...I'll have to start looking I suppose.. who knows how long those fuel hoses will last..they look original to me. I'll keep this thread up to date for anyone who's interested.

Your absolutely right on the inadequecy of a windsheild washer pump, but to install the system, once the parts are aquired should not take longer than an afternoon.. (meaning 2 weeks in real world time hehehe) I have considered this route a few times, it seems like it is a step up from a "kludge" type fix. I think the most important step is to install a low fluid level warning in the cannister so you can cut out the hyjinxs before you actually run out of water/alcohol mix. If you use manifold pressure to pressurize the water injection system, then you could probably get away with a less expensive pump. I happen to have lots of room in my engine bay, I could rig up something pretty nice. I'm still just entertaining the idea.. maybe one year...

Did I hear somebody say "dish"? Ohhhhhyeaaaaaaaaa 8) Deeeeep dish; baby Ok i'm done.. Wicked car Brad! Enjoy it!

This is a topic that just keeps coming back around in my mind. Does anyone have any pics of a water injection system installed in a Z? I'd like to see how they plumbed the nozzle into the manifold or i/c pipe. I made my own water injection system for my 69 240 that I'm fixing up....uh except I'm building it to squirt washer fluid on my windsheild. Well regardless. It was very easy to find a washer pump, and get an aftermarket bottle, and wire and rig up the washer bottle and new hoses to the stock z washer nozzles. I don't think it took anymore than an hour or two to plan and execute the system (the 240 had no washer system in it at all..just the nozzles, and the switch on the column.) Anyways. I have often thought of going this route, and I have heard of guys doing it on all kinds of different vehicles, but I have never seen one setup. I have been to some sites that sell kits, and have seen some nice diagrams to set them up, but never a completed in car system. Anyone have some pics?

I have the motors from a 72 240 if your interested. They worked when removed from the car. email me. $50.00 usd

I've purchased, rebuilt and sold many sets. I used a cannon, then found an old nismo manifold. I just sold a setup with a nismo manifold 2 weeks ago. (in case you don't know Ed, I no longer run an l28. in my 280. I swapped in the vg30et from a 300zxt 3 years ago.) I still rebuild and tune webers for people. I also have lots of left over gaskets, seals, and misc weber parts from all the kits I have used... full rebuild kits usually have extra parts included, and I have a large coffee can full of bits and pieces that I sell off cheap to guys that only need 1 gasket etc.. as for the rods, yup its that easy, i only over bored my block, to get me to 2.9l My last engine is still running on the street. I sold it to a guy in anaheim CA a few years ago.

Dcoe 40's 500 ft above sea leve. I had a lot of success with 34mm chokes and 36mm chokes. 17 initial advance. 38 degrees full 495 lift 290 duration msa cam Nismo 1 3/4" runner tunes header. with a 2.5" exhaust and supertrapp. 10.5:1 compression with flat tops. 240 rods 280 crank and lightened flywheel. N42 head and lots of P and P work. 3.9 r200 open diff. late model 5 spd. I ran a 145 main jet. F16 emulsion tubes 195 air correctors 60 accelerator pump jets 55f9 idles 36mm chokes 225 fuel inlet valve 7mm closed 15mm full open for the float settings. 3.5psi of fuel pressure using 1/4" id fuel lines with no return line No air horns, but used a custom aluminum air box with fresh air k&n filter.

Hehehe you guys will get a laugh from this... I know I was..hehe I was getting concerned about the clutch, I have been unable as of yet to get it to move. Fluid looked good, fittings looked good etc.. it had a new clutch installed 2 years ago, and it was driven onto the flatbed two years ago when the car when from the shop back to storage. Well we tried to bleed the system today to try and determine if the slave or the m/c needed to be replaced. we tried and tried.. no pedal feel, and only a couple of drops from the slave bleeder valve. Just as I was about to give up and start saving $ for a slave and m/c, I peek under the dash... well.. sure enough i see this bolt just barely hanging on to the clutch pedal.... the nut had come off, and the bolt that was holding the clutch pedal to the rod was no longer connected!! When i touched it, it fell in my hands!! Clutch is now working just fine with a new bolt. it must have been a real temp fix or something, because the bolt that was holding it, was 4" long and a grade 8 hex head!.. talk about overkill! Another lucky break!

Well heres my experience. When I ran bfg comp ta's all around on my 280... 245/45/16 rear and 225/50/16 front, and a welded 3.9 ratio rearend, and very cut springs and upgraded tokico's, I ran at a fairly tight 12 turn 1.3k road course in the pouring rain. It rained hard enough, my wipers were on the middle setting. Our club had rented the track, and because it was paid for, we decided to run anyways, even though we were all pretty nervous. I was amazed how fast we could run in the rain. Milder 240's simply could not keep up with my 280 though. We had to be smoother with the gas pedal, but were were going full tilt, and on the brakes hard. It was extremely fun, and a learning experience that I was very grateful for. Last year when i was running 265/45/16 victoracer 700's with bfg kdw's 225/50/16 out front, it was down right scary in the wet on the highway. Cars would be slowing to 80k while I was slowing to 40-50Kph and still felt the rear sliding from time to time.. (I could not see my tracks in the water in my rear view mirror.) This year with my 315/35/17's out back, I"m back to pushing the car much harder in the rain. I'm incredibly impressed with the wet handling characteristics of the Yokohama avs sports. I'm not nervous about the handling at in the rain.. though I'd be very wary of standing water, but then so should everyone else. I think tires are the biggest key, that and a smooth right foot.

Hey Richard. Would that be Sue?.. used to hang out at zcar.com?

The tuning manuals are very contradictory at times. I know of the graphs/tables you mention to figure what size venturis you need for our z's. My calcs also told me 45mm chokes (approx) Yet the carb kits mentioned for the 240 call for 28mm chokes. I think my car would have been a dog with chokes that large.. though at 8500rpm it would have screamed! In GT2 (at least here in Canada up until 5-7 years ago) you could run 45mm carbs, but you were limited to 34mm chokes, so it made no difference which carb body you used. If you drive this car on the street, and do any kind of tight track road courses, or autoX's, then you need that low end kick, and large carbs with large venturis are not going to work for you. You will end up with a broader hp curve with the smaller carbs. 45mm ++ are for full tilt cars. I ran 45's for two years on the street, and it actually hurt my 0-60 times.. my 50-90 times improved though..hehehe Some of my Z club buddies running 3.0 or 3.1's are using 31-33mm chokes, and are getting wicked bottom end power. on the tight tracks they could pull me, on the longer straights, ( 5000 rpm+ My car pulled much harder than theirs.. and this was their words, not mine.) My same engine (which was now 5 years old) when dropped in a 1970 240 with an lsd and 215/60/14 good year eagle tires, ran a jaw dropping 13.9 1/4 mile the first day of tuning after my motor was installed in this guys car. He ran a 0-60 in 5.3 sec. So yes I think that 40's can do the job for ya down the road as well. The carbs are pretty much the same as the 40's, and the jets etc, all fit, just the chokes are different. Like I said do a calc on the cfm of a set of dcoe's.. you'll be very surprised. Webers do like to breathe to work well though. They also like lots of initial advance as well, and the vac advance is useless on them. Mechanical balancing is very critical to getting them to run smoothly, so take your time setting up the linkages. 1mm difference is a big difference. Float settings are also critical, accuracy counts. the same size main jets flow very differently with different float level settings.

Most people with street Z's are way over jetted, and many who use the 45's complain of poor gas mileage, and some sort of bog somewhere in the power band. That is just poor tuning. Webers are adjustable enough, and when you understand the relationship of the different circuts and how and if they affect eachother, you can take this into account. I never had a bog anywhere in any rpm or gear. Just calculate the CFM of a set of webers, and it will tell you right away the flow capabilities. If my memory serves me correct, I did this calc with my 36 or 38mm chokes, and i found that I had 1100cfm worth of carboration on my 2.9L engine. WAY more than enough. Again most people just tune them around whatever chokes came with their webers, and many dcoe 40's came off small 6cyl engines from the 60 and 70's with low redlines and are therfore choked right down.. even 28mm chokes! I know some of the tuning books say 28mm chokes for a Z... well they are wrong for any kind of performance. changing choke sizes is like changing cams.. it just moves your power up and down the rpm range. (generally speaking) 45's and 50's are best left to the race tracks, for 9000rpm redlines. In GT2 racing, Z's would be limited to 40mm dcoe's and 34mm chokes, and they routinely hit 140mph and 8000rpm in top gears.

Doesn't sound crazy to me.. but then I'm crazy.. 40 dcoe's are the way to go. 45's are too big for a street machine.. I have extensively rebuilt, tuned, jetted and modded 40's and 45's for many years on my Z. I ran close to 300hp (flywheel) from a 2.9L with 40dcoes with 36mm chokes. (not impressive?..well with 10.5:1 compression and 200psi across the board, and a 8000rpm redline, I hit 147mph @7400rpm in 5th gear with a 2880lb 280Z.) I didn't gain very much from switching to the 45's, and I found I lost more in the bottom end than I cared for. too much sacrifice for top end for my street car. I did extensive experiments with venturi and jet combos for differrent driving styles, weather conditions, and engine mods. with the 40's and 45mm dcoe's. I simply removed my stock fi fuel pump and put in a holly blue in its place (fits perfect) and used the stock fuel electrics, and fuel lines. Dcoe's are the no holds barred of performance carbs. they will outperform the z's stock fi (except for cold start up) They are not as fine tuneable as a quality aftermarket fi control system, but they sure get the job done. The GeeWiz factor let alone the incredible sound of those carbs under the hood are like pure perfection, should be enough to entice you. oh and i was getting 20-22 mpg with that set up as well.

Owning a Z is like breakfast. The chicken contributes to the breakfast, but the pig makes a real commitment. Are you going to be the chicken or the pig?

Well for a running record of seats for our Z's I'll add something as well. I am running Fiero seats (the seats with the speakers in the headrest) They don't allow for a lot of rear movement, but they fit me just fine at 5ft8" and 170lbs. I used my stock seat rails and used some 1/8X2" flatbar to center the seat on the stock rails. I don't think they would work well for anyone over 6ft tall though. stock 280zx highback buckets work well too. again not good for people on the plus side of 6ft. (both of these seats place you 1/2" higher in your seat approx.)

I have a Z tat with my ZR8ED nicname/licence plate under it. Spotfitz has a steel coloured Z.. similar to the sport z magazines. There are only a handful of Z tats I have ever heard of. This year at the MSA show, we got three of us together for a Z tat pic! Make sure its something you REALLY want. It would really suck down the road if you switched from chevy to ford power, or sold the car altogether and bought a Tiburan!

It's ALIVE The car was started today! Fresh fuel in the tank (old gas drained) and fuel was run through the old filter and all the old fuel purged from the lines. The car fired up and idles nicely. No smoke, no oil leaks etc.. a bit noisy with only headers though..hehehe Sounds like perfection! This project is wrapping up nicely. I just got to get the wiring fixed up, seat reinstalled, and seat belts put in, and then its time for a test drive!

Yup that would be me. And yes they are Simmons 3 piece wheels. 17x11 in the back with 315/35/17 yokohama avs sports on them. Nobody makes a deep dish 4 lug RWD offset wheel...at least off the shelf. These guys did a beautiful job on my wheels, and I have been extremely impressed by the fit and quality. There were no problems whatsoever with ordering them, and they constantly kept me up to date as to where my rims were and how they were coming along. AND they bolt to a stock Z suspension!! All flare baby 8)

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