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Excellent deal for somebody! Wish I was closer.

Hanns is correct - just to reiterate - there are two ports on the BOV. One is for reference. The other is to assist opening the valve. It is not a reference and most of the installation instructions I have seen recommend leaving it open to the atmosphere. Check out some awesome pictures that illustrate what's going on: http://www.stealth316.com/2-greddy-bov-anatomy.htm

It's more like comparing scrap metal to the Golden Gate bridge. This question is inane. Worth is subjective. If you need/want what Dave has to offer, you won't find anything else close to the same price.

I just replaced my rubber hose with the MSA SS clutch line as well. The fact it bottomed out definitely made me nervous because the fitting at the end of the hose doesn't look like it matches the flare inside the slave cylinder. You guys are definitely using 280z slaves? I've been told the 240z slave used this type of flare fitting. Not sure if I want to leave it like this... PS - I also replace my slave cylinder about once a year per car.

Its supposed to be kind of funny until used panty machine - that's the punchline. Maybe used panty vending is so quotidian now that it's not that funny.

Move out if you value your right to defend your life. If I were you, I would research is what the actual penalty is for carrying concealed without a permit. In some states it is a very minor offense. Then weigh the risk and consequences of being caught and arrested against the risk and consequences of being defenseless against a murderer or robber. Easy choice for me.

I didn't put enough bold!

Glad to hear it Lewis. I probably didn't take the best pictures, but I have insulation foamrubber everywhere the radiator is being held in place. My mount on top was just sitting there for illustration - I have to borrow some countersink bits before I put it on - I will have insulation there too.

Hey guys, I installed the absolute widest Griffin aluminum radiator that will fit in a 280Z in my car today, and thought you might like to see some pictures. Here it is at Summit: http://store.summitracing.com/default.asp?Ntt=griffin+radiator&x=0&y=0&searchinresults=false&Ntk=KeywordSearch&DDS=1&N=115&target=egnsearch.asp I bought it from a member here who had it in his 280zx. Here it is out of the box: Here are the brackets we made: (Sam (Sam280Z) did the welding) Here is the mount I bent for the top: Here are the bottom brackets installed on the car from 2 angles: And here is my only real problem with this thing, my current intake piping will hit the top hose as it sits now. I was planning to redo all that piping soon anyway, so it looks like soon will be immediately. The bottom hose fits pretty easily: Here is a better shot of the installation (have to countersink the holes in the top mount before screwing it down):

Just curious, what offset are they and how much does each one weigh?

Freakin awesome! Man, I really hope that BS fits. I am looking forward to seeing them on the car!

Hey, the videos are really great and I'm looking forward to more. I have spent countless hours doing the exact same thing on my friend's rotisserie car. My biggest question is this: how much is that guy charging you an hour? Are you on some kind of sponsorship? Because although I know shipping a car over there isn't cheap, I would think you could have bought and shipped 5 or 6 more cars that really were pretty rust free for the normal price of the shop time that's been spent so far. In any case, good luck and keep them coming!

Well, Dave is supposed to be selling a linelock for the rears that is controllable with the e-brake handle sometime soon. I am waiting to hear back from him on the status. I'm going to park it in gear, though (no hills here.)

Rears done:

Hahaha, that clip is hilarious. Thanks for all the compliments guys...it's been a long operation, I'm ready for car to be rolling again.

Well, I flushed the brakelines with alcohol today and put on the stainless lines in the front...these pics are for Dave, I didn't think he'd want to use the ones with my nasty old rubber lines still visible. All I have to do now is swap on the 280zx MBC: and here is my car, all dusty from being on stands too long .

They're Ground Control camber plates.

I have camber plates in the front only. However, I think that the camber plates only give you about 3 degrees of adjustment, so on a race car you might want more.

Everything is basically done - just need to connect the brakes and swap my master cylinder...and I'm still digging through boxes for my spindle pin nuts and washers.

Yeah, they should come right out if they are new. It's the 30 years of corrosion that was killing us. You might be able to get away with not even unbolting the strut.

Thanks...although, I can't really take credit for the powdercoating. Sam and I cleaned all the stock suspension up, I cut and ground for the coilovers, and he welded on the rings. We spent a few weekends breaking everything down and cleaning out every spec of dirt and grease, then we brought it to get blasted and powdercoated here in Baton Rouge (at Baton Rouge Powdercoating.) As far as the products, I only have Dave's brakes (which are really badass!) However, I can highly recommend Dave's products and his customer service. I was just worried about the fact that Dave's control arms are mounted with rod ends, not bushings, and it seemed to me that would be a little harsh for a street car. For a race car they would be my first choice, and if I lived in CA or somewhere where the roads were nice, I'd probably try them on my street car too. Louisiana roads are pretty bad. I wanted bolt-in camber plates (after cutting) so I bought the Ground Control plates. At this point I wish I had just gotten Dave's weld-in plates, because I am so fed up with GC's customer service. We bought coilovers from them too. Their instructions are horrible, they sent us the wrong stuff at first, and they weren't very friendly on the phone. The one thing I can say for GC is that their lower spring perch is locked by a pinch bolt rather than a set screw against the thread. I prefer that design. However, several of my friends are using coilovers from Dave and Ross and they are very happy with them. The front tension compression rods I got from Gabriel Tyler of Techno Toy Tuning. (Sorry Gabe, we accidentally switched them, so the sticker is on the inside. If you want to send me some stickers, I'll put some more on.) I was originally told that the GC camber plates would give me enough caster adjustment to get my caster where I wanted it for a street car, but this turned out to be untrue. So I was going to have the local frame shop cut down my TCR's on the lathe and shim them, but then TTT started selling these. They things are probably overkill for the street, but they were the same price as having the frame shop machine my stock stuff. My only concern about them is that there is no bushing, so I hope its bearable. If not, I'll try to cut some. And of course the rear control arms and the Quaife ATB diff I got through Ross at Modern Motorsports. Thanks Ross! I probably didn't need much camber adjustment in the rear, but I like the ability to do so, and his arms have bushings on the outside. Otherwise I would have stuck with stock arms. So, after this stuff is done, my suspension and brakes will be completely finished, and I can start working on the turbo header and fitting the GT35R. It's been a long time! Thanks for the compliments, even though the credit really goes to all the people listed above. Here is the susp before powdercoating: Here are the camber plates installed: And here are the TTT rods:

I have not tried to have them adjusted yet. I am interested to see the range of adjustment. I hopefully don't need much toe adj in the rear, as it is all made through bushing deflection. Putting the pins in is easy, but getting the old ones out that took us several weekends, a 12ton press, torch. (We did do 7 of them, though.) Do you have your pins out already? If so it should be a cinch to assemble them. Btw, I'm not joking - if you want some help sometime, let me know. The LA Z Club will make a trip out there.

Rear stuff 85% installed but I got too tired to take pics. More tomorrow!

Joel, just say the word. And thanks! I got one or two small scratches in the powdercoating but overall we got it on without much mishap, thanks to my best half-japanese buddy Toups. And thanks to Dave from AZ-Z for digging up his parts list at a moments notice. Can't wait to finally try the brakes out Dave!