kiwi303

hey eddy, you on zclub.org.nz?

Ok, so from that, my '78 Fairlady 280Z (USA knows them as 280ZX, mine Jap Domestic market) should be a longnose R200 How do I confirm that from exterior details? I'd quite like to know too

I've used electrolysis to remove copper fouling from a 1940 milsurp rifle bore. ended up with a nice copper plated electrode rod and a clean bore. As to the comment in the quote above about stainless causing toxic fumes, any nickel steel will do that, not just stainless, nickel carbryl I think it forms.

Civilian setup Jet fighter, weapons points faired smooth, just something to fling around the sky... The way fuel prices are going, even a piper cherokee is going to be Bill Gates income territory as far as fuel bills go.

HGS130-003806 I have the original Certificate of Registration of Motor Vehicle, Dated in Christchurch on the 5.11.87 giving year of manufacture as 1978 first registered in Japan, model as Fairlady Z and Kms travelled as at importation as 69000km. The first NZ owner seems to have given the car to his daughter 1 year and 9532km later. several other owners are listed till 1993, and a Vehicle Inspection certificate dated 15.5.96 is stapled to registership cert. This inspection cert probably is proof of registration as presented to obtain new Black-on-white reflective numberplates to replace the old original 80's shiny-steel-on-black plates. The PO said it had been stored in a warehouse for the past 8 years, and before that was used as a weekend driver until the current owner of that times dad gave him another car. At which point it was stored till when the PO bought it off him. Rust is minimal for it's age I've pushed it into the hayshed until I can manage to get busy re-installing the interior the PO pulled out to check for rust and problems. There's advantages to buying a good condition project car the PO simply ran out of time and interest in. Everything is there bar the engine.

do you get rover MGF convertibles over there? mid engine rear drive like the toyota MR2. either a MGF or a MR2 would be my choice. I've driven both early and modern MR2 & MRS cars, and owned a MGF. The MGF handled much better, but not as fast taking off. Mind you the supercharged MGF is better than my N/A version was.

about 1 day in 3 so far I can't load Hybridz at all, and have to wait till the next time I'm on the comp.

Around here it's terribly rural... think Safari's and Hiluxes with winches and 30+ inch M/T tyres, winches, ARB bars and Old Man Emu struts. Theres a lot of old 40's, 30's and 20's classic cars drive past every so often when the top of the south Veteran and Classic car clubs have a rally. They leave Nelson and drive to the lake, passing our farm on the way.

I use the 174gr RN SP myself, in front of 38gr of Nobels rifle no 1 powder. 174 and 180 are good weights for the 1:10 twist which the enfields also use. Depending on the powder, you can seat your bullets well back in the case by using a less bulky powder. I've heard of one guy using 215gr Woodleigh .312 bullets in a 7.62x39 chambered, short barrel rifle using a 7.62x54R twist rate. their was so little space available in the magazine the lip of the case mouth had a gap between the brass and the bullet side. He was using a fast ball powder that took up little room in the case. weird, but it worked, needs a strong action tho.

I've been googling. Ok, an SR20DE has Squential injection, fit an extrudabody ITB system for individual metered injection, if you pick a post-'96 engine it should have OBDII since thats when the govt mandated all cars to have OBDII systems, the SR20DE uses MAF air flow sensors not MAP. sounds like it meets all your needs, plus it has the same block and thus mounting points as the SR20DET which has conversion mounts available for the Z cars already, no need to do a home bodge job.

Effing A man! Last things shot were a pair of hares, the .22 wasn't hitting so gave up and reckoned it must have had the scope bumped off true (cheap rings), so pulled the .303 and a magazine of 174gr Hornady RN SP rounds out of the truck. one hare was knocked 2 feet sideways, and the other had the entire contents of it's chest, plus 3" of the spine decorating the grass in front of it as it ran away from me All I had to empty was the abdomen, the chest was already done What's the most accurate pill that rifle spits? twist rate? Most .308 shooters seem to prefer 140gr or 150gr, I like to have a heavier round and accept it's going slower in consequence. Nice thing about the .303 is it will take any pill made for the 7.62x39 and 7.62x54R (.311 dia), and will manage a number of .32 special (.312 dia) pistol rounds as well. A 89gr hollow point .312 doing over 3000fps makes a mess of vermin

Butting in on the engine choice, why not look at a SR20DE. Theres plenty of SR20DET stuff and help available for the conversion, they're fairly useful engines and being aluminium they're lighter than the stock L28 and many iron block I4's. I have a SR20DE engined Serena van that does better MPG than most 2L sedans with better aerodynamics, most of those sedans are cruising at 2900 to 3100 revs at 100Km/H while my van does 2400rpm at 100Km/H. Just fit a tall diff ratio and they'll cruise at low revs quite happily.

nice gun. I use a butchered SMLE .303 made in 1940 from the indian Ishapore armoury. Groups crap, but kills the animals it's shot at.

Was KITT there? and I missed seeing the A team van there too. Honorable mention would have suited the bus from Speed.

You have my prayers for her and her family. god bless.

Did they manage to re-attach the finger? Hope he heals up well.

try takign a Kirby apart and having a engineering firm duplicate the plastic fan in aluminium, the body is already aluminum rather than the typical cleaner plastic, so not much change needed there. I don't know what the emmissions testing people would say if you drove up with a vacuum cleaner bag waving in the breeze behind you tho how much would that clean up the exhaust?

3.5 litre rover V8, ali engine, up to 4.5 in the later models, designed by buick but sold to rover when the buick suits decided small V8's wouldn't sell, just before the 70's fuel crisis hit Theres plenty of english racing mods to be done to the rover V8, and they're compact and light.

Is this SR20 mounting, a cradle that mounts into the existing mounts and then holds the SR20 in itself. Or a mount set that is welded to the chassis? If they're new mounts welded to the chassis in place of the old ones, can they be fitted without removing the L28 mounts in a 280ZX? or do the L28 mounts have to be torched off to clear the space for the SR20 mounts?

How much work would be required to marry a SR20DET engine to a 280ZX gearbox? New bellhousing? or just bolt on? Or would it be simpler fitting a SR20DET coplete with gearbox to the chassis?