Oddmanout84

A Challenger Appears....

Looks like someone frequents /b/....

I wish I could see his engine setup though... too dark! Awesome sound, he just needs to fix his tach!

I dunno, when I ordered my kit they weren't offering the calipers, and they specifically stated to get a set of calipers "with hangers". Since I didn't know wtf "hangers" were, I just ordered the most complete remanufactured examples I could get (no good JYs around here for pick-n-pull). They didn't come with the brackets, though by the time I got the kit and installed it I had completely forgotten about them. Just order them from Nissan at your local dealership's parts counter. Should be 44195-35F00 GUIDE-ADJU or 44196-35F00 GUIDE-ADJU. Securing bolts (one for each bracket) are 44252-01P04 BRACKET. Sorry, I can't remember which is right and which is left, I took the brackets out to inspect them at the counter and didn't remember which was which, just installed them (good thing they're marked L and R). Each bracket is around $25.

I also want to do this swap like no other, but simply just don't have the funds for it...

Nah, that car is totally a "look at me, I'm an attention wh*re!" project. He made it to impress others.

That's the best sounding video of the twice pipes thus far.... but it still doesn't do them justice compared to the awesome sound they have in person!

They also burn pretty good. What he said, be careful.

Kill it with fire.

EFI Bible, Factory Service Manual (search for xenons30). They both have methods for testing that thing, be it using a multimeter to compressing the tubing to see if the idle changes.

You need to take off the nut that holds the right hand gas strut bracket to the body. Its hard to get to, but once you get it off, you can prop the hatch up with your head and slide the bracket off. Once you do that the panel is easy to take out while you hold the hatch, then you can slip the bracket back in to hold the hatch up again. A very convoluted description, but hopefully you get my gist.

have you run checks on the Auxiliary Air Regulator? That's a possibility, as well as any other sort of area where you may have a vacuum leak. A couple weeks ago when I ran my z for a while, it was fine on startup but as time progressed and the car warmed up, it started idling really rough, and would completely shut off if I wasn't there to give it a little gas. Turns out it was a vacuum leak at the EGR. I'm not saying its the same for you, but anywhere that its possible for you to have a leak, check it. Most of your seemingly complex problems will have the stupidest simple solutions. Happens to all of us.

Nah, they look fine... But you could always go for the blackout look too!!

Are you sure you mean Air Flow Meter, or are you talking about the Auxiliary Air Regulator?

*POW!!!* -BAMM!!!- #THWOCK!!!# Naaa naaa naaa naaa naaa naaa......

When I got my first car, I had little to no knowledge of early Z's from what I can remember. Not that it would have mattered, for my first car was limited to FWD (parents wouldn't allow me to buy a RWD or a motorcycle, regardless if it was my money or not). So I ended up getting a nice deal on a 3000GT SL. Awesome car for a teenager, but looking back I wish I could have started with more of a beater, haha. That car was TOO nice for me. My first memory of the early Z was from childhood. There was a "mom and pop" gas station near our house, and there was always an old white car standing outside it, in various states of restoration every time we drove by it. I remember one time years before I could drive asking my mother what that old car was, as I had never seen one before (typical New England kid). From the age of four I was adept at identifying a car's make/model by its taillights, and I was stumped for the first time. "Oh, that looks like a Datsun" "A Datsun? Like the dog?" I replied. Suprisingly my mother knew more about cars than I did for once. It wouldn't be another several years before I saw what an S30Z should look like, at a Z car show at the Bob Sharp Nissan Dealership. The looks of the older Z's instantly replaced the Z32's looks in my mind as "optimal". Several years later, and I was in the military, stationed in SoCal, halfway through the flight portion of my training. I was a couple months away from turning 20. I needed a cheap car to drive to the squadron and out in town to cause trouble. Since I can't stand "normal" cars, I went through the current Autotrader mag and looked up all the cheap japanese sportscars. There were a few Rx7's, was kinda interested in those, but none in the price range were running. So I then came to the Z's. There was a perfect comprimise; $1600 for a well running '78 280Z, original poo-brown metallic paint, no bodywork. Stock. I bit, and it was mine. Originally intended as a beater, I quickly grew to love it even though the shocks were busted and it leaked when it rained. When I graduated and got my wings, I was slated to be stationed in Okinawa, Japan for the next 2+ years. Since I had a months leave before I shipped out, and because I had decided I couldn't part with the Z, I drove it from CA to CT to store at my parent's house until I returned. I'm now 24 years young, out of the military, and 7 months deep in my Z project. I don't regret any of it.

So true...

By the way, what's the part number for that bracket there that holds the cable? I can't find it for the life of me, so I've been trying to use my old ones (for the drums). Stupid calipers didn't come with them as they were remanufactured units from A1 Cardone.

Mine came with them. But be warned, they've been known to snap T/C rods so most people don't use them, or go for the set with the ball joint instead. Personally, I didn't have the option of using my old rubber T/C bushings because they were shot, so I drilled the urethane ones full of holes on one side.

Ahhhh.... I think that I didn't process that right. I was only going to swap the insulators, so I guess I shouldn't have anything to worry about. 1" will probably be perfect. Thanks a bunch!

I crossed my cables FOUR TIMES, and adjusted the PITA adjuster under the car, and they're still too long to actuate the ebrake. I'm in the same boat, its really obnoxious.

I'd really like to know why the rear of my 280Z seems so much higher than everyone else's. Even after installing a new suspension setup with tokico shocks and Eibach progressive lowering springs, the rear of the car is still flying up there, and to me it looks way more pronounced than any other 280's I've seen. This picture was taken after ensuring the springs were properly in their perches, the suspension torqued while loaded, and the car had been driven around a bit to make sure it was settled. I've even jumped a little on the back of the car to no effect. My Z has never sat this high on the rear end before, and back then the struts/shocks were bone stock and shot! Tires are 195/75/R14's all around. The front end of the Z looks normal, and slightly lowered, as it should. I have not done anything drastic enough to affect my F/R weight ratio. This is really killing me, and throwing me off with my ZG flare install. So much so that I can't tell if I screwed up the placement of the rear flare. I need to drop this thing, now. I doubt even the bigger set of 16" wheels+ slightly beefier tires is going to reduce this hideous gap to an acceptable level. I'm not looking for a slammed look, but at least reduce that gap by half. From what I've read before, the early strut tower insulators on the 240z are shorter, so this is my main consideration now. The only thing holding me back is a comment made in another thread stating that it would, "make the car look like it was dragging its ass". This seems like the most viable option, I'm just hoping it won't drop the car too much. $100 is a lot to spend for a pair of these from motorsport auto, I can't afford that costly a mistake at this stage. None on ebay. If someone has a pair they'd like to sell, let me know. I can't see what else could help, besides coilovers, those are out of the question for now.

Those wheels are Watanabes. Good luck with those! (hope you have $$$$ to burn!)

Is this new project partially my fault?

I don't want to imagine that...