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Are you sure you are not on one of those shows where they steal your stuff and revamp it behind your back....Overhauled or something like that..... Oh sh*t I hope I didn't just blow the whole story!

Please keep us posted!!! Would love to learn more and see better photos.

google it. http://www.fwdmopar.com/sites/dennis/boostcontrolbible.html

Isn't it easier to just turn up the boost to flow more. (edit)....No disrespect to the machinist. It takes some serious ability to pull off something like that.

I think it was all staged by the government. It's not real.

Thanks for the links. BTW Vacuum metalliziing examples can be seen inside a burnt out light bulb sometimes. Have you ever seen a burnt out bulb that looked chrome inside. Under vacuum, a peice of metal is vaporized, the metal vapor condenses on nearby surfaces to form a metallic layer. In the case of the light bulb, the filament was vaporized and condensed on the inside of the bulb to make it look chrome.... Just a tidbit of info to chew on.

Maybe I will make a bracket to "relocate" the endlink mount hole on the control arm. I could move the hole in the control arm forward as much as I need with a peice of stainless angle bolted to the control arm. Of course I will need to make a different swaybar with shorter arms to fit. I will look into making myself a hollow swaybar with clamp on billet aluminum arms for the rear. What material should a hollow sway bar be made of?

Oh yeah sorry I remember doing the calculation a while back...I calculated about 900 Rpm for my car at 100mph. For some reason my mind remembered 90 instead of 900. Still, at that small of a diameter balance should not be much of an issue. I will however, dial indicate it before I final torque the bolts.

They were all dial indicated to +- 0.0005 before when they were drilled. Also I think an axle, and wheel, only spin about 100 RPM or so on the highway. Being that small diameter, and centered within five thousands of an inch after mounting, spinning only at 100 RPM, I doubt there will be any issues with vibration or wobble. I will check with my dial indicator after mounting them..good idea. I thought about making them out of aluminum but I was afraid that the threads would not hold tight in the aluminum after repeated loading. In stainless steel, they will outlast my car. I also thought about lightening them by removing material where it s not needed but I am not going into competition so I didn't bother. Now I just hope my swaybar can stay. We will see in the coming days as I tear into the drivetrain.

Hmm I wonder why this isn't talked about more. It's a pretty serious setback if you can't run a rear swaybar with the CV Shaft conversion. I will not eliminate the rear swaybar. Somehow, I'll make it work....I hope.

All you need is a grainger type boost controller to raise the stock boost. Take it to 9-10 psi without doing anything else to the car and it'll run good. Search around for info about the grainger valve. It is home made and costs under $10. Good luck with the swap and you are on the right track. Keep it stock until it runs good.

Wow nice but yeah it won't go any faster with those. I could paint mine and spend the $ on track time instead. Hmmm.

I didn't put any recess in them. I figured the four 10mm bolts should be able to handle the shear. I am using the highest grade metric bolts. Is there a fitment reason that there should be a recess or would it be for positioning and torque transfer?

I made these in between boring meetings at work. I snuck to the machine shop regularly and milled away lots of stainless chips. Sorry Ross, but I now realize how much of a value the modern-motorsports adapters are. Whew what alot of work for a rookie machinist like myself! I will insert 10mm studs to bolt these to the stub axle flange of my 76Z and then use 8mm bolts to fasten the outboard end of the 280ZX CV shafts to the other side of the adapter. You think they are strong enough!! LOL.

Has anyone been able to find a source for re-chroming the plastic tail light trim on the early body Z's? I am guessing that it was originally vacuum metalized. The chrome on mine is almost gone thanks to years of corrosive exhaust fumes.

ROFL They needed new paddles after every crossing.

It's gone for only $6500!! Someone got a good deal!

Thanks for the prints. FYI..it would be easier to make the side legs one peice instead of welding the lower part on with the two clearance holes in it. Just make each side leg one piece and drill out the holes. Alternatively, the whole thing could be bent out of a strip of 1/4" mild steel. The only welding would be the upper rib to stiffen the upper horizontal. Sorry 'bout my nit picking but I don't have a welder handy so that's how I look at things.

I am about to convert to the 280ZX Turbo CV shafts under my 76 280Z. With the 280Z swaybar mount across the front of the diff, I am guessing that the CV Shafts will not come near to the sway bar. Is this a safe assumption? I made the CV adapters myself out of Stainless Steel. It is one solid doughnut of stainless with the CV bolt pattern tapped on one side and the 280Z Stub axle bolt pattern tapped in from the other side. I will use four high grade 10mm studs on the Stub Axle side. I'll post pics when I get into it.

Somewhere out there lie my deisel Maxima parts. I had an '82 Maxima D wagon with 155K miles on it when it got stolen! It was blue, rusty, bent, and had plexiglass side windows. Why it got stolen, I'll never know. It was so fun to smoke tailgaters with that car! Literally step on the gas and it would send out a cloud of choking, black, smoke. Well, I hope at least some of the parts make it to good use in a hybrid Z sometime, somewhere.

Excellent Work!

My first car was a 1972 Alfa Romeo Berlina 2.0 Mechanical Fuel Injected. WHAT A SWEET SOUND that car made. It rotted into nothing I kept the motor for several years dissasembled in my garage and recently sold all the remaining Alfa parts on ebay. I am concentrating on the Z. ON3GO, looks like you are really getting some great experience! That stuff is not for the faint hearted! Good luck.

I work in the innovation group of a large corporation. All we do is brain fart all day long. I am used to this sort of thing. I am a Mechanical Engineer and I deal with "colorful" marketing types all the time. Many wacky ideas sometimes churn into one, really useful, undiscovered one. I enjoy searching patents at http://www.uspto.gov ....search for electric superchargers, you might even get a few hits.

I learned AutoCAD from the book, "AutoCAD for Dummies". I just went through all the excercises in the book and then used it as a reference. It's a very handy book. I learned it at home when I broke my leg from Windsurfing. I was using a Canon laptop 66mHz with about a 9" screen and 16Mb RAM on Windows 3.1 !!! Lame specs now, but it was waaay better than my IBM PC Jr. on DOS 1.0