cygnusx1

Why didn't I think of that?

Ahhhh keep it stock!!! Don't hybrid it. It's way too rare with that 5 speed option.

My Z runs around the Northeast whenever there is no salt on the roads. Once they put down the salt, the Z goes to the shed.

Wow we have a calendar!? Can we add a z car of the month photo to the calendar?

Z06 in the sniper scope. http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=28646 Nice driving Dreco....the Z sounds great too!

How much horsepower?

That looks like this....the only way in is through the search button.

Search this site for brake upgrade info. Check your T/C rods.

Awesome! I hope they are taught their lesson due. Kudos to the Police!

There are diagrams and photos all over this site. Search Frame Rails and Reinforcment and Bad Dog. 240hoke has some nice photos on his personal website of a massive front end restructure.

When choosing cams for the street it's always best to err on the lower side. Maybe Delta is speaking from experience.

That really sucks. I have nightmares about mine being stolen sometimes. I hope it turns up soon before they get a chance to chop it. Do those engines have serial numbers on them and do you know the numbers?

Mostly Yes. Expect splicing and some rewiring.

Well that was 2003. This is 2007. J/K Sorry for the repost. I searched, I swear I did.

My friend Chris and I raced BMX together back in the early 80's. He was two years older and thus got his license first. After beating the pants off his parents Oldsmobile Omega, he bought a 4spd pistol grip 71 Firebird, then he bought a 77 Z. He drove it like he stole it wherever he went and eventually totalled both cars. Then he bought a prime gray 76 and pulled the motor to be built. In about 1985 he sent the motor out to a speed shop where they built it up blue printed and balanced with 11:1 compression, venolia pistons, headers, 510 lift 490 duration cam, triple webers....and all the goodies. His plans were to paint the primed 76 with black and deep purple striping. I helped him install the jewel of a motor with the twice pipes about when I was turning 16. We got it running OK and about that time he had gotten his license revoked and his insurance dropped him for various "creative driving" manouvers. He moved to San Diego from New York. The car sat at his parents house here in NY until my other friend Jerry bought it when we were in high school in about 1987. Jerry had bought a nice original 77 and eventually blew the engine driving stupidly. We pulled the blown stock motor out of the 77 and dropped in the built motor from Chris's primed 76. Once we got the motor in and got it tuned up, I helped Jerry setup the suspension. We had a killer high-school racer car. Traffic light racing at it's best. You know what a high compression L28E with triples and twice pipes sounds like in between the buildings of NYC at 7500rpms? I was hooked on Z's by that point and knew a lot about them from working on my friend cars. I was driving a rusty Alfa Romeo Berlina. It could no longer pass inspection due to rust and I was entering college. I saved enough money to be able to look for a good solid Z. I pulled out the New York Times, 1989, and found a Z for sale in Manhattan with 69,000 miles on it. Overnight, I dreamt that the car was Silver. The next day I went to see it and it came down on a parking garage elevator, nose out, in slow motion. My jaw dropped. It was the most perfect Z I had ever seen. Second owner, silver (psychic), 69K miles, un-marred, for $3500, from Texas, serviced at Bob Sharp in CT. My parents were completely against it because it was impractical....I bought it anyway, of course, and I promised the PO and the Parents that they could come to me 20 years later and the car would be in better shape than it was then. I kept my promise and it's almost 30 years now. It was my DD for most of college, winter and summer. The winters really got to it so when I graduated and got a real job, I bought a 90 Civic used as a DD and began working on the restoration and modification of the Z. The built motor from Chris' car, which became Jerry's, now belongs to Buzz (Mike) here at HybridZ. The motor build is about 30 years old now but only has about 10,000 miles on it!!! Buzz is restoring the rest of the car as we speak and I still dream about that motor and cant wait for Buzz to finish the car so I can hear it again! -Dave

I don't have too many pictures of my Z before it was repaired because digital cameras weren't invented yet. But to prove, (like I need to), that my Z was rusty at one point, here is a photo of some exposed iron oxide during the turbo swap.

Paranoid? I am not. I searched for that photo here at hybridz before I posted it. I didn't find any other threads with that photo...which doesn't mean it's not here somewhere. But now I get your joke. It's like a snake disappearing after it swallowed itself by the tail.

Huh? English Humor I bet...I usually get English Humor. In fact I love English humor. I don't get this though?

Uh oh, I hear keys jingling......

Oh let me state this! The OS Giken head was HOT many years ago. Today we have new technology that supercedes the need to spend $$$$$ on an OS Giken head. In summary, don't waste your money on one of these heads (or even worry about the minor horsepower gains it may provide) Instead, use the ridiculous money they would cost, to build a powerful engine instead. Having said that, I never saw it used on a TT setup before, which is the reason I posted the photo I found.

Not sure if this has been posted but it looks insane. I have no info or background on this car other than what is posted here: http://www.tamparacing.com/forums/nissan-infiniti-tech/182897-baddest-l-series.html

I would cut up some rubber sheeting and glue it down around the top of the strut mount and camber plate area. I have not seen it but I would imagine that with a pair of scissors, rubber sheet and glue, you could make up a pretty weather tight cover that would still allow adjustment.

Ideally, you would have also welded that upright to the wheel well AND the box you made on the floor. You can still add a gusset to tie the upright to the wheel well. Nice work.

check the downloads section here. There is a link to downloadable service manuals. The ECU controls timing in a linear fashion with RPM. You can set the base timing by turning the dist. There is a dial indicator on the pass. side of the timing pulley.