kiwi303

Looks alright to me, he's keeping left but isn;t that in the US where you drive on the wrong side?

At the very minimum D.o.C. could use it to dispose of their Takahe hunting evidence.

Just what metal is used for head gaskets? I know of one guy who had a gasket waterjet cut out of pure copper sheeting by a sheetmetal firm. No idea if it worked or not tho. that was for a rally car, ford sierra 2L engine.

Hmm... maybe a turbine from a Fletcher topdresser

I looked at a ferrari 308 once. damn finance company said no... too old. they wouldn't lend on a car older than the driver

If the "boat gas" went in recently enough that theres still some of the gas still in the tank.... well if it's 2 stroke, I'd drain the tank and fill again with normal fuel and use some form of engine cleaner. the North American guys on here seem to like "Sea Foam" but I haven't seen any here in NZ on the store shelves. use that to clean up an baked oil on the heads or cylinders, and generally clean it out. I've topped up the quad bike (honda TRX300 ATV) many times with chainsaw 2 stroked fuel when out of straight gas and still a day or so till a trip to town. even topped up the car to give it enough to reach the nearest fuel station. other than clogging things up and burning smoky, it doesn't generally damage things. 1:1 oil/petrol sounds strong tho, most I've ever used is 10:1 for the old chainsaw, modern oils are often 25 or 50 to one mixes.

expensive insurance over there... I've had so far: 82 Mitsubishi Sigma (ordinary sedan) 83 Laurel Medalist (luxury sedan) 88 Isuzu Bighorn (Trooper in the US, SUV) 87 Honda Prelude (Sports car coupe, 2.0L twin carb) 88 Renault 25 GTX (Executive saloon) 97 Rover MGF (sports convertible-fun and fast, more power and less weight than an Mazda MX-5 Miata) 87 Nissan Navara (Ute, light pickup truck) ?? early 80's Chevy Monte Carlo (V8 american enormous land-barge) Plus a couple more I forget the details of. ranging from an 19 year old up to my current age of 27. insurance has never been more than $76 per car per month (thats for the sports cars, the diesel SUV and the sedans have been cheaper), in NZD which trades between 61c and 80c USD per $1NZD depending on the currency and economic fluctuations. Currently I have a 1996 Serena MPV and a 1985 Toyota Hilux. I pay $52 a month for the van and the 4x4 is on the farm insurance.

by boat gas do you mean 2 stroke mix??

http://www.fordaustraliaforums.com/ check out the forums. http://www.fordmods.com/ http://www.snortperformance.com/ford_turbo_kits.htm http://www.capa.com.au/kits_ford_au_6cyl.htm (superchargers) http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/ plenty more on google.

why the smilie? the BA XR6 with Garrett turbo manages to be pretty good stock form, some fiddling would see more power. Ali head as well, so not as heavy as an iron head.

If you want unique, I doubt theres many Z's in the US with Ford 4.1 inline sixes from Australia. It'll cost mucho dinero to source and import, but the engine itself in aussie will be fairly cheap, it's shipping and sourcing parts that would be the pricey bit. But hey, look at the aussie ford website and see what sort of power you can pull from a turboed motor the typhoon has pretty nice power figures, and room to mod.

you ought to check out the classiczcars "Boobs" thread for suitable ladies

well... update is I lost out on a bid for a set of carbs... Untill I get a motor and carbs together in one place this is going to be in limbo

Seen a number of rotary engined Z's on this board, but they've all had the engine and tranny in the usual places. Hmm... well outside my budget at the moment, I need to get an engine into my ZX first. but maybe in a few years down the track I might get a toy car and have a go at an empty bay car Can you cali guys imagine the look on the smog attendants face when he opens the hood to see a couple of empty engine mounts and some loose wires? ROFLMAO that would be fun

Ok, this is a dead thread, but what happened with the OPs search? is he driving a clean bayed car now? I wish there would be "Finished" updates at the end. Has anyone fabbed in a rear transaxle gearbox and hidden a rotary tucked down into a masssaged transmission tunnel to leave an EMPTY engine bay?

sue the partner for the forging of the signature. that wil nullify the title transfer from your dads name in the first place. so the title will revert to your dad.

If you want it to go fast in a straight line, RB... more power, tim taylor type more power if you want to go fast round corners, SR, lighter and further back in the car for better weight distribution and balance. so what are you wanting to do? rip off others at the lights or the strip? or whiz round the hills like you're James Bond with a ferrari on your ass?

Does anyone here have a .DAT file of a centreline cut down a car? compatible with Xfoil? or even have a nice clean neat silhouette I can use to plot an airfoil file from? S30 vs S130 polar diagrams might be intriguing. I'm curious about plotting surface pressure, lift vs drag and other polars of the cars shape, more out of mental stimulation than anything else. But also a thought that occurred to me is if the lowest pressure point of the bonnet could be plotted then placing a few faired vents to permit the exhaust of pressurised underbonnet air, could well help downforce. mostly I suppose you can say I want something to occupy what idle hours I have playing with some new software widgets I downloaded

I know a few farmers who did something similiar. Tanks used to be out in the yard, visible from the roadside where it was easy for the minitanker to top them up, I'm talking a 1500L farm vehicle bulk storage tank. after thefts became more common when fuel topped a dollar a litre, he built another tank and stand out behind a bunch of sheds and filled the old one with treated fuel. Until word got out amongst the stupid boy racer rice crowd, there'd be a stuffed car blown up down the road about once a week to once a month... now the price is up to over $2 a litre I bet theres more theives, not tied into the grapevine of the ricer crowd, who are going to have engine probs

I figured that for the 2 vs 4, and as far as it went, for the inline multis as well, thats why I was thinking multiple bike cars rather than lots of car carbs besides a L20 has 333.33cc per cylinder up to a L30 stroker at 500cc. it's easier to find bike carbs for 750cc twins to 1200 twins etc. to handle similiar cylinder sizes than to find small enough car carbs off little wee econoboxes and link them

so what size mikuni bike carbs should I get? I take it then that the webers and mikunis fitted to the Z's as triple carb setups are double units? I was thinking of them as single units that lead into a double pipe to two cylinders. I've only ever owned two carbed cars, one was a twin carb honda prelude, and the other is the current '85 hilux. Never needed to do anything to the carbs, and other than those, everything else has been EFI. I'm a total noobie to carbs.

I did a bit of googling. and found details of 44mm and 48mm mikunis for triple carb setups on Z cars, using a bit of maths, one 44mm is slightly less than two 32mm. and looking on trademe it looks like theres plenty of Mikuni 34mm and 36mm carbs available secondhand. I think I'll have a talk to the guy and see if he can score me a set of 6 Mikuni 36mm carbs Beerman, while googling, I saw the mini apparantly used twin SU carbs for the 1100 engine, 6 mini carbs might work as well.

I know the GSXR series are 4 cyl with 4 carbs. I almost bought an 89 GSXR250R-SP which is the road legal race bike, complete with larger rear wheel and closer gears.

Great so it's workable then. I'll have to ask him to save me a set of matching carbs

Happened once in an old Laurel Medallist, disc brake, and the brake that side locked and skidded down the road. there was a shallow arc ground off the brake rotor, never noticed any difference driving with the arc gone from the rotor however.