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Love that color...

My new 240Z could use that suspension but I have no where to put it right now.

Clive, Joe?

My wife wanted a new mattress....like $3000 I said no effing way are we going to pay that much for a mattress...a few weeks later she let's me buy a roller 240Z for more than that! Amazing the crap that a good wife will put up with. Of course there are somethings I need to compromise as well.

Where do you get your Rotella?

You got me at acrylic formed domes! I might need some new domes the three skylights on my house. They are beginning to crack from age. Do you do custom shapes/sizes? Also keep us posted on the gauge lenses. You might have a pretty good market for those if you get it right.

So far things are moving along. I hired a car moving company All Aboard Auto Movers. They are picking up the car today. BTW , Happy Veteran's Day to all you Vet's. Inside the car the PO put a spare dash in the engine bay, a roll cage in the hatch area, a four speed in the hatch, head light covers, and a spare radio panel, and spare HVAC panel. The car should be here this Friday or Saturday. Yesterday there was some drama. I called the garage where the car is located in GA to make sure that everything is on schedule. The garage owner told me that the shipping co. had called and asked if he had a fork lift. He said that the driver wanted to stick the forks through the car and pick it up by the roof to load it onto the trailer. I almost fell off my chair! Immediately I called the shipping company and gave them one hell of a piece of my mind. They are well aware that this is a roller. I told them that if they don''t know how to move a car they can send my deposit right back immediately. They were real apologetic and blamed it on the driver that had been assigned the job. He did not have a winch. I played a small violin for them. I told her that if he uses a fork lift to pick up that car, he had better bring that forklift to my house or he can figure out how to get it off the truck here in NY. I WAS PISSED. Anyhow, supposedly, it's all settled and they will roll or winch the car onto the carrier. Incompetency in the face of so called "experts" really pisses me off. Did I say, I WAS PISSED. I began the transformation of my garage. It's a one-and-a-half car bay detached but it is full of Z parts, tools, lawn equipment, and baby stuff. I went to town this morning and re arranged everything to make room for the new 240Z. I put the L28 on wooden blocks near the back of the garage where I will degrease it, paint it, and change the majority of the engine gaskets. Luckily, there is a HUGE oak tree directly behind the back window in the center of my garage. It's a perfect anchor to pull the car up the driveway and into the garage. The plan is to run the rope against the tree and pull it up the hill in the back with my dads Liberty. The rope will be guided by the tree, pass through the window, and down the driveway where it will hook to the Z. It should work. It better work. My road has no shoulders, so we need to get the car out of the road and up my steep driveway pretty quickly. Hopefully, the handbrake in the 240 works otherwise, if the rope lets go, I will go down the driveway across the road , and into a stone wall backwards. AS SHE SAT IN GA....

Yeah there are a couple of weber sets for sale right now on the interwebs. I am shopping for a smoking deal though. Even if they come buried in a pot of dirt. I can restore them. Thanks for the link. BTW That set in Philly comes with the manifold too.

Better practice on the way to the event. It's pretty hard to get right off the bat. Report what you think about it after the auto-x. Thanks. Good luck!

Thanks for the post. I am deciding what to put on my new project. Stock carb'd L28E in a 240Z.

Not mine....but I'll buy the Webers from you, if they are triples, if you buy this car. http://burlington.craigslist.org/cto/1437365372.html

Nice video. It's like playing an instrument. The instrument of speed.

Nice car to start with. Just patch any holes or weak areas you find in the floors. Quench any surface rust with chemical or coating treatments, and make sure the frame rails and suspension points are SOLID. After that, put it together, de-bug it, align it, and have fun driving/tracking it. If rust begins to come through the paint or bodywork in a few years, worry about it then. As long as it's structurally sound, you will have a good time with it. Keep it as dry as you can, by using it in nice weather and keep it garaged. That will go a LOOONG way in preserving it until you are ready for a full resto.

Never checked compression LOL. Call me stubborn. The car pushed you back in the seat pretty hard so I doubted it was compression anyhow. If I had a tester handy, it would have been the first thing I checked. I just hate to buy tools I only will need once or twice while I am on a pretty tight budget. The plugs were brand new NGK BPR8..'s. This mod, changes the way the car burns fuel. It even smells cleaner now and my AFR's are more stable. In theory, with the spark leaned over about 45 degrees, the flame front heads for the piston rather than the cylinder walls. http://performanceunlimited.com/documents/plugsidegapping.html

If I could only learn to heel and toe the left foot with the brake and clutch I would be pedal-king.

I just think it's a nice reference. There are a lot of high dollar performance cars in the 8-10 second range. I could pick up 1 or 2 seconds if I could slam shift it. I just can't justify destruction of the tranny to do it though. It is taking me about 0.9 seconds to shift. Very slow. I am not sure why, the trans is a bit notchy and does not like to shift really quickly. Has anyone else used Megalogviewer to calculate speeds in each gear?

I studied the datalogs from an MSII run on the highway today and with relatively slow shifts, first, second, and third, I pulled a 0-100mph in about 10.2 seconds. This was without a launch. I rolled on the highway at about 13 mph and punched it. I extrapolated the graph back to 0 mph to get the start time. I also extrapolated to 100mph because I let off at 85mph...public roads you know. So the data could be off. It's certainly in the 10-12 second range though. Yes a stopwatch or g-tech would work, but I discovered that you can input tire diameter, and gear ratios, into Megalogviewer to calculate speeds in different gears based on RPM. 16 pounds of boost. Stock lower end, and refreshed stock P90.

Heel and toe has been in my bag of tricks since I got my drivers license 25 years ago. I had to keep the clunker from stalling while braking, and learned H&T as a result.

Little by little I have been training my left foot to use the brake pedal. I finally feel confident enough to use it hard, if I am not going for a gear change. Today I experimented with a series of tight third gear curves on a local road. I stayed in third and "left-right" punched my way through the chained curves using the technique. It seems to be a MUCH better way to get through a tight series of curves. The benefits I see, are many. I can get the nose to turn in by trail braking a little at entry I can hold in a bit of throttle to keep the turbo spooled I can transfer from braking to acelleration MUCH quicker after the apex. I have much tighter control of the front-rear weight transfer. Driveline slop is a non issue because you can keep the driveline pre-loaded a bit. Has anyone else played with this technique? It really gets the best out of the Z. I can make the car rotate through the corner by using balance between my left and right foot pressures. It's almost like being able to use front and rear independent hand brakes on a bicycle to control the skidding of a bike.

Cool. I can deal with serial noise. I like rice krispies. I hope the black helicopter guys like them too. Thanks matt.

Here is a screenshot of the point in the datalog. The entire drive was great except for this point where a bunch of parameters went WAAAY off the charts. I felt nothing when this happened. Did I get hit with a quantum ray or something? -3046 volts -2944:1 AFR 1434% TPS now that is WOT!!!

Yes, there is a reason that there are only a handful that were ever made, and it's not because they are hard to make. It's because the need for them is not there.

It's very unique and well done but I would frame the entire perimeter with a contrasting color. Even if you cut some 1" wide strips of the same material, paint them black, and line the perimeter of the grill. In addition, I would paint the grill a darker shade of gray. I like it because it's unique.

Like it or not, the more we cut these up, wreck them, and rust them, the values of the remaining will rise. Initially, the purist forms, and lowest VIN's will go up, followed by the pure with any VIN, eventually, even the HybridZ will fetch some dough. Unfortunately, I don't think I will ever be able to retire based on the value of my Z.

I seek therapy here.