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yep, and super pickled if they thought their bot would get them any clicks by posting foreign gibberish on an english language board. Given the obsession with Nissan stuff here, a Nippon Bot would have been more successful. Would a Japanese spambot do it in Haiku? "Click this link for pills Make your wang grow big and strong with many herbs and roots" "Come see girls get sex we take your visa and give you many bad malware bot"

Hmm... I may have to disagree when the Melling/TVR Speed Six comes in to the picture...

you mention auto shifter. sounds to me like a problem with the torque converter, when it locks up the sound stops, when it's not locked up and there's that grinding thumping as misaligned bits hit each other. I suspect if you check the bearings in the tranny for slop there will be a buggered front bearing/seal somewhere.

I just hope that the psycho girlfriend who follows a Hybridz-ers phone doesn't read some of those translated things she might get even worse

hmm, that's with a standard Up-Left-Right-Down style crank, with a V4 twin journal Up-Down crank matched to another V4 crank rotated 90 degrees in the second block bolted up, to make an Up-Down-Left-Right pattern dual plane crank, is it possible to have even firing? Looking at your bit earlier: #1 @ TDC 1-6 5-8 7-4 3-2 Now take the Up at one end and the Down from the other, cutting the left and right journals from the middle and pasting them at the end, we end up with: 1-6 3-2 5-8 7-4 (edit, never mind, made a mistake down here so I'll cut it, gotta do some more thinking. two on the same bank will still fire sequentially, just located further apart physically on the block.)

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=16;t=001076;p=1

Thanks Rturbo, I got it now Gaijin was the one I was thinking of http://www.zclub.org.nz/viewtopic.php?t=959

KA24E, not KA24DE? ok, C/clip or P/Pin type? set of 4, STD size, Press fit piston pin type, no rings, $97.22 NZD, set rings, STD size $64.49 NZD. set of 4, STD, circlip piston pin retainer type is POA, but .50 over (MM, not half inch) is 95.40 NZ rings the same. That $102 quoted from rock auto could well be for a set. There would be a heck of a lot more demand in the US with 300 mil ppl than here in NZ with 4 mil ppl, so economies of scale + exchange rate could make those cheaper than the same thing here. Edit: buy 3 sets, split one box of 4 and sell a set of 6 on here at cost to other stroker builders, probably easier if you can afford it than persuading a retail chain to split a box of 4 in the first place.

why not go for 4 different sets with 4 different keys? they'd be a flaming headache to you changing a tyre and make no difference to the burglars at all.

I've seen a pictorial view of a rear skyline subframe swap, I think it was on zcar.org.nz, but can't quite recall where, I do remember they had some big gold skyline rims to go on it

Ah, chilli jam then One of those "Cultural" things "you call them TOM-ah-toe, I call em Tom-ART-o". I wish you americans would forgetabout Americanese and just speak English... or at least get mr Gates to label his languages as English (UK) and Americanese, (US). I like my food spicy, but I tend to stop around the 20,000 scoville mark. Jalapeno peppers sliced thinly and spread over mild cheddar cheese in a sandwich is nice. Tehy're quite mild, grown here they're about 5,000 Scovilles.

Terry Pratchett, "Thief of Time" Read it explains rule 1 in good detail

I've seen that car before, some customising company pimped a ride, thats out on a street somewhere. Those three portholes in the beaky nose are quite distinctive. IMO, ugly as sin. I wouldn't touch one with a standoff mssle, let alone a barge pole.

pepper jam? as in the little dried black balls? I must admit I like green tomato and ginger jam

no, we don't get that here, can you post a pic of a label?

here but you won't like the shipping charges I got a whole car minus the engine and tranny for $300, only a little minor rust in non-structural areas, garaged for 12 years/2 owners before I bought it, and with a V8 twin pipe exhaust already fitted ready for a V8 to go in... not bad that's about $200 USD at the time I bought it, or more like $250 US now, but if you went shopping down here, the freight charges back across the pacific would kill any savings over buying US. A little more seriously... If you're pacific NW, you're closer to Cali than the guys across the divide in the atlantic NE, when you annual leave comes up, go for a vacation at the sunny Cali beaches and take a car trailer along would be my suggestion.

swap it out for a new shaft from a weber stockist.

If they're basicly solid, I'd take them to a wheel shop and have them re-drill so they're an 8 hole style, fitting both 100 and 114 patterns, rather than make the 100 holes wonky

WTF? A running board id there to take the thump when you come down and get dented instead of the frame or sills, or at least mine always have been. I have running boards on the hilux, and they aren't pretty. I think these are aimed at city slickers and soccer moms.

not useless as such, just out of the thrust of this thread, it's reached 12 pages already on a rather closely focussed topic, flat plane 180* crank V8's and the possibilities inherant in making one to fit in a Z. It's about time that BRAAP got the mighty Mods eraser out and wiped out a few off topic posts again, it might come down to 11 pages then. It's happened a few times already, it might have been up to 18 pages or so if he hadn't occasionally done so in the past. so don't be too surprised if irrelvant posts go missing. Including I suppose this one Ktarrents post would not have been too out of place in the exotic sounding/high revving V8 thread which actually sparked this one off, through if they have a standard x-pipe setup, they would only really fulfil the high rev part of that threads topic unless they got a 8-1 or crossover exhaust.

Opps, but actually, Gollum discussed 2 honda V4 bike engines last page, with a one up/one down crank design, making a V8 from them. I think that the firing pattern they have would require a 180 pater to be an up/down/up/down design rather than an up/down/down/up crank as I believe the harmonics balance best at for fore to aft shake. The guy you're ripping strips off however, is out of order discussing a V12 from 2x V6's in a V8 specific thread.

I vote a BMW 740 if you can find one in the price range, Beemer 5, Jag S, or the Merc CLK.

A CA18DET is a RB block with 2 cylinders dropped, so the bolt pattern at the rear is supposedly the same, I think that the CA tranny is a FS5W71C which is found in anything from the pathfinder/navara 2wd through the passenger cars with various front halves to fit the different engine patterns. IIRC the FS5W71C is what the RB20DET gets. Flip side is, This is a Z car forum about the S30 and S130, the Nissan Fairlady, you're talking about the Nissan Silvia S13. The US fellas may call them the 240Z and 240SX and confuse everywhere else with similar numerical names, but the rest of the world knows them by the alphabetical names I'd advise search for a Silvia forum and ask there. It won't be as strong as a RB25 tranny, but if you aren't going to thrash the pants off it, it ought to survive for a while. Cant answer on mounts, measure from the rear of the engine forward to the mounts on the CA, and do the same on the RB and see if they are located in the same place, if they are, it's pretty much drop in and go, but if the mounts are located differently, then you'll need to move your mounts.

But then you're not "Unique" I've seen so many "I wanna be DIFFERENT" posts on here it makes me think of the goth and Emo subculures where the price of being "different" to the norm is they are so much more homogenous amongst themselves than the mainstream is to the mainstream... look at a group of goths sometime... A bunch of identical mannequins, only differeing by the arrangement of rips and tears in the black clothes, same black eyeliner, same pasty white makeup, same hairdo... Why be different? I prefer Effective to simply trying to be different for differences own sake. On the other hand, Lots seem to disagree with me.

No problem, the accessories installed are engineered to use that snout, just can't put on a different set of accessories requiring a bigger pulley etc. just the stock one. 3mm Spacer plate between the crank and F-wheel Aftermarket bellhousing, or an adapter plate, same sort of difficulty as putting a Z32 turbo box on a L series stroker. That's the sticking point. But I suppose the custom bellhousing might be able to fit a short motor gear reduction starter n the length between the flywheel and the GBox front, on the opposite side from the clutch fork opening. You'd probably need to use a small diameter racing clutch assembly to allow clearance between the inward bulge for the starter, and the clutch housing. Nothing insurmountable by any means, just fiddly (read costly) engineering. So who's gonna do it?