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I don't yet have it but I am on gmail now. I am ordering the diff tomorrow but I found out my pinion also has a chip out of the top of it. I will take pictures. I think it will be alright so long as I get all the materials out of there.

So I have spent a few hours reading all of the threads. I am probably going way in over my head, I understand setting the pre-load and everything on the differential. What I don't get is how you flip the gears, I know you have to turn them around. I just don't understand how, Do you just pick them up and flip them over? I am going to do it as a learning experience if nothing else. I want a limited slip as my open carrier is broken anyway. I need to get a replacement and I don't have the money to spend on a more expensive differential swap. If you guys can help at all that is great. If you totally flame my I understand. I read all the OBX threads that are pinned and the links to the ones that are in the pinned ones. Maybe I missed something. If I did and this gets sent to the shed that is fine I will keep reading. Thanks in advance for any help.

Pictures to come tomorrow. Not much work done. Window seal has been here for a while. Ordered new steering rack bushings. Going to buy an OBX on Friday and then I am going to order a washer and bolt set as soon as I have more money for that. Found out why the 280z diff was crunchy and horrid sounding. Popped the rear case off. One of the alignment dowel pins in sheared. Again, pictures tomorrow. Fenders were taken back to bare and primed. Still need to get the brake brackets made just having issues with money at the moment. I am not getting any hours at work so I am going to have to get another job it looks like. I can't be building a car and only working one day a week. Just not going to happen. Still need a fuel cell. To figure out my fuel system. Need to get the hole differential deal figured out. Need to figure out finishing up the wiring. So much work to do, not enough money to buy the stuff I need to do it. I really wanted to go EDIS as well, just not going to happen. Man, can't wait till I have to register it too, title was signed in 08, car hasn't been registered since 89. Basic idea of what I am going to be set back right now after buying stuff. 10 Gallon fuel Cell - 180 (shipped) OBX LSD - 395 (shipped) Washer and bolt set for OBX - 32 (shipped) Lines - ? Hopefully not to much Caliper Brackets - Hopefully no more than 100 Random odds and ends - ? Obviously I am going to need to make a little better of a list. Basically I need to figure out where I am at and how much it is going to take to get this thing on the road. I have wheels and tires so that is not on my budget right now, what I have works so what I have is going on. I will get some money back from crushing the rust bucket that dreams of being a car in the driveway. I need to post some stuff up for sale as well. Anybody need 280z interior parts? Cheap, don't care just need the extra money.

I was going to be making brackets for the 280zx rear disk conversion. I need to go to the machine shop still. Been a little busy with some other things. I could probably get them cheap but I would be ordering them in quantities of 100 or more to get them cheap. I just don't think I could sell enough to make that many, quite the investment to come out with tons of brackets and out hundreds in cash.

How do I check the gear in the R180 I have? Came out of a 240z, not sure if it is good to be honest, hasn't seen the road since 89.

I'm pretty sure they just look that way. I think they are factory interchangeable? Both my z's (72 and a 77) they look to be the same but just flipped.

Only stock clutch, I don't think a 6 puck unsprung is very stock. LOL

That is a 14" you will still need flares with an 8. I had an 8 inch front up there before to. It sticks out quite a bit. The contact patch is 8 but the sidewall and everything makes it a bit wider. That means crazy powered expensive cars can't hook up, gives the rest of the guys a chance. I like rules like that.

I think your gonna need some flares...

I wouldn't really think so. Air is so light in the first place. Maybe it will cause a Lighter reading because the helium kinda picks the car up a bit.

You also don't have a location. If you read the rules maybe you would know.

I love it. Spoiler is a bit much. First I went, why? Then I went, well, that doesn't look to bad. Will never sell.

? I am sorry, that's weird. I got the one off my 77 and put it strait on the 72. I feel bad now. Sorry.

The sheet metal that makes up the rear deck including the spare tire tub. I know it's a stretch but if anybody is cutting up a parts car they might overlook this. I want to make a nice tool for a custom sub box. - nothing like that here, sorry. I think the late model panels are a little different. Not sure if they are all incompatible size wise, but need to compare. I know the fake speaker holes are excluded but all the better. - ones from the 76 do not have the speaker holes. Would you like some pictures? Dunno how to test the defrost, 2am? The ohms probably vary quite a bit, might be able to actually feel each line get warm? - I know if one is broken the rest wont work.

Copy Cat!

m/t center console - Have one but it has some random holes cut/drilled for random switches and lights. Can get pictures, what are you looking to spend. Don't really need to be getting rid of it but don't mind helping out. heater controls panel - nada, if I had it I would need it =P hatch glass with working horizontal defroster vanes - May be able to find you one, let me contact a local guy, shipping may be funky as its a large part. I know he has it, don't know if they work, how could I test this during summer? all interior quarter panel trim, need crack free, color doesn't matter, I'm making a cf version of each and need a master set - Will 280z parts work? I have 2 sets, don't know if they are the same look the same or anything. I can test fit them on the 240z I have if you would like. I have ones from a 76 280z and a 77 280z. entire rear deck metal piece - Rear deck metal piece? Not sure what you are referencing.

Some how I haven't got in trouble for almost 2 months of racket and working on the car in the driveway and everything else. Make friends, that's how, help them carry stuff in. Talk to them, wave, say hi all that crap. SO FAR it has kept me out of trouble, absolutely no idea how, but now that I am posting this I see a letter coming tomorrow. LOL

I have been born and raised around oval track racing. Definitely red neck. Depends on the class but there are always the stock car (bomber and pure stocks mostly). They get in fights, try to drink in the pits and all that. Just not cool not happening. Not all of them, but quite a few. I am from the sprint car and midget crowd.

I can't really help ya much on the Z into a dirt car. I don't know how well that will work out. You can put a ford 9 inch under a z. Why not start with that? Make it light, wide 5 hubs and stuff?

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NVH? Please people, use words, some of us (ME) don't know what these things mean!

I'm pretty sure the reasoning behind not putting it inside the car is so you can actually race that car. Plus its safer that way.

It sounds like you are on top of the working on it thing. I am still not sure a shifter kart isn't a bit much. I am sure as any father would be you care for your childs safety. Just be careful! Ever thought about a quarter midget? They have roll cages. haha