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What color are the springs? That might be a clue.

These mice chewed through an aluminum foil ball. I can't see them not chewing through the car bag. In fact I had to throw out my expensive technalon car cover because they chewed huge chunks out of it.

That thought has crossed my mind. However, I don't want the mouse passing out in the duct work under the dash somewhere. Yuck, the smell and the fur that would come out of the vents! First I am going to trap as many as I can and them make sure that there are none left in the car. Then I am going to seal off the interior of the car buy putting steel screens on all the fresh air intakes and try to find any other penetrations to seal. Next I am going to seal all the joints in the shed with steel or aluminum flashing. Then I will run the car and choke them to death if there are any left. A continuing regimen of rotating peanut butter and cheese traps will keep any stragglers under control. Eventually I should be able to rest in peace for a while. I beat the carpenter ants by being persistant and I will beat the mice too. The ants didn't care about the Z, they just wanted my railroad tie retaining walls.

OK I took the Z out of the shed today and washed it inside and outsied. I found two acorn-chip dumping grounds under the seats, a nest under a floor mat and their bathroom was in the glove box. I had stuffed the fresh air vents in the inner fenders with aluminum foil and I found that they shredded up part of the aluminum foil. I left the shed vacant and wide open and moved the Z temporarily to the main garage. I decided against the poison for now because I don't want our cat to eat tainted mice. I am going to line all the seams in the shed with metal corner bead and roof flashing. The mice also live in our detached garage, so I set some peanut butter loaded traps tonight. I have been catching ONE MOUSE PER HOUR since I set the traps! Two of them were caught INSIDE the Z and three in a trap outside the Z. I have declared war and I will win.

We may, for the first time see the limits of the L28ET block! Good luck! I can't wait to see the limits.

Thanks for all the good ideas. Here are some of the issues. I have a good cat that is indoor/outdoor. She is a great hunter because she was a stray in the woods for the first part of here life. The problem is that the shed is off limits to her, so the mice hide there. I thought about the car bag but I like to take the Z out on a whim, even on sunny Winter days. The only time it's out of order is when the salt hits the road or there is snow in the yard. I might try the bucket idea, but also will approach the problem from all angles. Bucket Traps Poison Water Sealing the shed as best as possible Shovel some cedar chips under the shed I already stuffed aluminum foil balls into the fresh air intake holes in the inner fender by the radiator support. I suspect that's where they get inside the car from. I need to make a screen for those ports.

My Z has been spending more time in the shed since our boy was born and the mice are really taking advantage. They are leaving footprints, crap and urine stains all over the frame rails in the engine bay, around the rad support and down under the battery and the master cylinder. They also made a messy home in the glove box and scattered insulation from under the rugs around the floors. Who knows what else they are doing that I can't see like wires and hoses. It's really ticking me off because the car is really clean. I have used moth balls in the past, all over the shed and inside the car, with success. This year the mice don't seem to care. The shed is a pretty new structure which I tought I built with no penetrations. It is about 150 feet from the house and has no utilities. It's just an empty 10'x18' closed shed with my Z in it. The shed is elevated off the ground and sits on two 10"x10" wood beams directly under the wheels that support the load of the car. What to do? :icon5:

Are there any unique parts on the car that may show up for sale on the net and give a clue? We have lots of people on this site that are very in tune with the Z car parts markets, including in the Great White North. 1) It was either a joyride, or 2) It will be parted out and sold.

I wonder how many V8's we could fit into our Odyssey?

That looks a lot like Silent's Z. Is it?

Forget peroxide, be a man. Pour isopropyl alcohol on it! Yow that must burn...good luck.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/z32/na/

Follow up....simple gasket swap fixed the squeal.

The first sign of my head gasket leak was a squealing sound when I reved the motor in neutral. Lemme go find the video..... http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=124110&highlight=squeal

A friend of mine says he knows the guy and that the car is very nice. That's all I know. Here it is. If we didn't just buy a minivan, I might be wheeling and dealing right now. http://sccaforums.com/forums/273279/ShowThread.aspx#273279

Phil, sometimes a hotter cam just doesn't work on the street. It's a common mistake to overcam for the street. Not saying that it's not something else in your case, but it's a possibility. You might be getting more horsepower at the top but less torque and power down low which makes it feel slower on the street. My friend has a Cobb Stage Three Sti that he assembled himself. One day he had it tuned on a dyno and got more HP. However, he liked it better before it was tuned. He gained about 30HP up top after the tune but lost a bunch of torque and mid range. Very nice Z Chris, and nice video work Phil!

Corrected numbers are better for before/after comparisons though. Unless you are trying to figure out how mother nature effects the numbers.

I had to stop in and give a shout for the L28ET! Nice work and nice car. Kudos on the factory intake and routing the intercooler pipe the way people say is wrong. I beg to differ.

How did Mad Mike get him in there? Amazing! Shangri-La for Nissan fans.

brake booster?

I always see Z's in the Dog Whisperer TV series, with Cesar Milan. What the heck is he whispering to dogs for anyhow!! All the way to the bank.

Just a little background info on why street Z's like swaybars. The Z suspension geometry cannot keep the contact patch flat when the body leans. What can we do normally? -Limit body roll with springs and/or swaybars. (bolt-ons) -Run Negative Camber so the loaded (outside) tire flattens as the body rolls. (geometry mods) -To some extent caster (push the front wheels forward) will add "negative camber" in tight corners. (geometry mods) On the street, you might want a softer spring for ride quality. To keep the car from rolling, you run heavier swaybars. This gives you a somewhat smoother ride on the street. It is rougher, when only ONE wheel hits the bump and the swaybar transfers the jolt to the other wheel... I suspect from what I have read on the boards, that racers prefer the stiffer spring route with softer, or no sway bar. The reason is so that the sway bar does not "lift/unload" the inside contact patch. The drawback of course is a stiffer ride. A sway bar will try to make both sides of the car behave the same. Jack up the car. If you push a left wheel up into the wheel well, the sway bar will want to push the right wheel up into the wheel well also. This action/reaction keeps the car flat but transfers load away from the inside wheel. It's the fine balance between F/R spring, F/R sway bar, and Spring/Swaybar relationships that allow you to get your car the way you like it. Want more: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/012005/lean-less-the-inside-scoop-on-anti-roll-bars.php

F 1-1/8" R 7/8" Suspension Techniques. I feel the car pushes at low speed turn-in, so I run the front endlinks loosened a tad to help. In high speed turns it handles fine. At Limerock I was running away from most cars in the turns. The springs are unknown rate Tokico 1" drops. On the highway I feel like I need more strut over the large dips in the road. I run the Illuminas on 2 and 3 but should probably go higher for all out performance. I would like to try a smaller set of bars someday to compare.

It's like one step closer to the TRANSPORTER.

You have too much rear brake bias. It looked like about 40% of your horsepower was trying to overcome the rear brakes. IMHO