JMortensen

Aux, did you know in WA there is a law that if you live with a woman who has a child WHO IS NOT YOUR CHILD and you decide to move out or leave you can be taken to court and forced to pay child support? Of course, women who live with a man who has a kid can't be forced to pay, but a man who lives with a woman who has a kid, that guy is on the hook...

An '81 ZX dizzy should have 17* mechanical advance, as stated here: http://home.att.net/~jason510/dizzy_specs.htm. Here's the other great dizzy page, since I always give them out together: http://www.jrdemers.com/280ZX/distributor/distributor.html

Ztard, you might be right on the .223 penetrating body armor, I don't really know. I haven't shot an AR-15, but I have shot a Mini-14, which is pretty similar. If I were wanting to take a long distance shot I'd prefer a standard open sight to the peep sight. The aperture on the Mini 14 that I fired was pretty big, so it was more of a "your bullet will go in this general area" sort of a thing. The point about the AR-15s is that the police got those guns in particular because they were "massively outgunned" and the news reported it the same way. If you're referring to how many bullets you can fire in 45 minutes, then both the police and the media were absolutely right. The truth is that the police only needed to fire 2 shots to end the whole thing, and a sporting weapon would have been a more appropriate choice IMO. Kinda reminds me of a trip I made to the shooting range. There were some gang members (bandanas, bunch of military type weapons, the whole bit) shooting skeet when we pulled up to the skeet area. I was shooting my 870 20 gauge with a 26" barrel, and these jackasses were shooting a Winchester 12 gauge "riot gun" with a stainless 20" barrel and black pistol grips on the front and the back. Needless to say I began shooting my skeets, then turning and shooting theirs before they hit the ground (none of them hit a single skeet out of the box of 120 white flyers they brought to the range-pathetic). When they said something I said "Just trying to help!" I bet if those cops had seen my 870 and that riot gun at that store on that day they would have taken the riot gun and left the 870 on the shelf. It all goes back to the "assault weapons" law. The law doesn't target the most powerful weapon, or the most accurate weapon, it targets the "meanest looking" weapon. After the Stockton Massacre there was an Oprah where they took a Ruger 10/22 on stage and asked if it should be banned. No was the universal answer. Then they took it back stage, put a composite folding stock on it and a 30 round banana clip in it and brought it back onstage, and everyone said they wanted to ban it. Same damn gun, and a good one at that. These laws are for people who don't know what an assault weapon is and who are scared by what they don't understand.

Doug is right. Right now you only have one cross pin and 2 pinion gears taking the load when you go around corners or do burn outs. I'm guessing its the burn outs that are taking out your diffs. Get a 4 pinion and you've got twice the cross pin area and twice as many gears taking that load. Scumdog, the LSD makes an unbelieveable difference in the handling. Yes, a clutch type will give you more push as Doug said, but you can tune around that. I've only seen one Detroit Locker R190 ever about 10 years ago, and I've never heard of or seen another one since. That was in a friend's 510, and he put it in, drove around for about a month, then sold it. He said it was brutal, and it almost killed him getting off a rain soaked offramp one evening. When he went around corners I expected to see the differential in pieces in the middle of the road because the thing was so loud. Mat73GNZ has made spacers so that you can put your 10mm ring gear on a 12mm carrier. Don't know if he still has any left, but he sold me a set.

When I see stuff like this it reminds me of ALL the "street" video clips people put up. Darius on the street racing a GSXR, people doing donuts, burnouts, racing their buddies, and there's that one Z video with a bunch of older Jap cars racing on the freeway at night. That's just asking for it IMO. Don't video your crimes guys

Because it is a 2 pinion open carrier. I'd bet you'd do a lot better with a posi (all R200 clutch type posis are 4 pinion) or a 4 pinion open if they made one.

http://www.student.oulu.fi/~hmikkola/shootout.html If you want to hear the cops during the thing, check the above link. Only ONE guy says "Aim for the head" and that is right before it cuts off minutes into the audio. Look guys, they WERE able to hit these guys in the chest 100s of times with the 9mm pistols. 100s of times. They just weren't AIMING for the head. I don't care what the training says to do. When you and your fellow cops have unloaded 40 clips into the guys' chests and they are still walking around, CHANGE TACTICS. Aim for the head!!! If you can hit the chest 100's of times, I refuse to believe that you can't hit the head ONCE. That's all it would take. And there were 300 cops there. It doesn't really matter how many were firing, the city of LA devoted 300 cops to stopping 2 guys with automatic weapons and body armor, and COULDN'T GET THE JOB DONE FOR 45 MINUTES. That is just lame. And the thing that really gets me is that they stuck AR-15s in the damn squad cars as a fix. And again, the rifle thing. Why the hell did they go get AR-15s??? DUMB move! Like I said before, give me my .243 and I could have made that head shot from 300 yards. With a .30/06 you wouldn't even need a head shot. I could have hit a human torso at 80 yards with a .30/06. I'm sure I could, even with the adrenaline going. Look at soldiers in war. They've got the adrenaline going and they still manage to kill people who are firing at them with automatic weapons. The simple fact is that the cops were hung up on the assault weapons. If the cops had to have assault weapons too, they could have gone to the military surplus rack and grabbed a couple of M1 Garands and been done with it. I remember afterwards there were a LOT of people critical of how this was handled. Lots of competition shooters and lots of law enforcement types were very critical. Now all I can find on the web is stories of these heroes. Typical. I did find this amusing comment from Jeff Cooper (some gun guy) just now:

WTF?!?! I'd love to hear the "explanation" on that one. Do you know what the reason given for that was Heavy?

Aaawww, that makes it worse!!! I always like to think of myself as a "function over form" type of guy, but I just can't take it...

EWW!!! What were they thinking!!! What's with the front door angle not matching the rear door? Oh, man!!! I think I like the older and the current Aston Martins a little better. Damn...

Congrats!

The SWAT van was there IIRC for at least 10 minutes (maybe I'm wrong, but I lived pretty close and it was on the news 24-7 for a while). That was a situation that called for head shots, but what did the cops do? They drove down to B&B gun store and got some AR-15s and came back. If they had 1/2 a brain they either would have gotten some seriously accurate weapons, like the bull barreled Remington 700s that the SWAT guys have, or they could have gone for something powerful enough to blow through the body armor, like a .300 Winchester Mag or a 7mm Remington Mag (hell I think even a .270 or a .30/06 would go through that armor). Like you said I think it was over by the time they came back. I distinctly remember the SWAT team being there, and I kept thinking, why haven't they shot these guys in the head??? I think it was SWAT that eventually got the one guy in the ankle to take him down, then he was shot in the head. F'in retarded police. Seriously f'in stupid. Totally disregard the SWAT team for a second. You've got 300 policemen with 9mm Berettas, right? Shoot THOSE at the guys' heads. Those two took 100s of bullets to the body armor, you could see it plain as day in the video. They could have easily taken some shots to the head as well with the 9mms and it would have been over. Or the feet. But they didn't. And again, to justify outfitting patrol cars with AR-15s with that BS is just insane. I couldn't believe all the "the cops were overpowered and outgunned" BS when they were saying it then, and it still doesn't make any sense now. I know it's not PC to bitch about the cops, especially when they were under fire, but that was really really really badly handled.

Yeah, they carry them in CA because of those jackasses in No Hollywood. I still can't believe that SWAT and 300 regular officers were held at bay for so long by 2 dudes with AKs and body armor. I coulda made that head shot from 300 yards with my .243 and I am no sniper, and as far as hitting something in the background, hell, it had to be less dangerous to the public than letting those idiots spray bullets randomly for 45 minutes. That was a real travesty. I couldn't believe how inept those cops were. And then they go and give them AR 15s??? That's the last thing they needed at the time. What they needed was one of those SWAT guys to take 2 shots with the .308 Remington 700. 2 good shots and that whole thing could have been over in 5 minutes. Instead they spend our tax $$$ on friggin AR-15s for cops. LAME.

The ZX and the 510 have a very large diameter spring. You can use the smaller diameter spring from the 240 and have more room to redrill the strut top holes or slot them for camber. To do this you would have to cut off the 280ZX lower spring perch and weld on the one from the 240. On the top you need the rubber part from the 240 attached to the metal part from the 510 or the 280ZX. This is from a coming 2nd hand from a conversation I was having last night with Greg from the pic I linked to above, so you'll want verification from Anthony or Drax or someone else. The rear 240 springs will be slightly stiffer than the fronts. The 240Z and the 280ZX use the SAME EXACT strut cartridge in the front. The rear of the 510 is a semi-trailing arm setup, just like a 280ZX. Totally different than the 240/260/280, so no Z stuff will crossover into the rear of your 510. I thought and Drax seems to think that you can swap 280ZX semi trailing arms into a 510 no problem. For rear springs I know most guys are using roadster front springs, or roadster comp front springs, or comp 510 rear springs. I think the comp 510 or the stock roadster would be the best match for 240 springs. Jon

To be fair to the 911 victims, they had only history to go by, where hijackers would take a plane and try to get comrades released in exchange for passengers. I don't think we'll be seeing any other hijackings in the foreseeable future. The one I love is the home alarm system commercials on TV. "Kids, get in the bedroom!" Mom yells, then the alarm company calls and tells her it's going to be all right. Makes me want to I don't think I'll trust my safety to a home alarm and a chair wedged under the doorknob, thanks. My buddy had a T/C Contender chambered for .223. Used to freak people out when I told them I shot M16 ammo in a handgun. They never believed me when I told them .44 mag kicked a hell of a lot worse than .223 in that same gun.

Some of the shifters were straight, some were bent. You might have a 510 shifter in your Z, or vice versa. I think they also go straight or bent based on year. Early Z's were straight, later Z's were bent IIRC. Doesn't really matter though, as long as it is in a comfy spot for you. The hardware is all the same (same bushings, shaft, retaining clip, boot) until you get to the ZX, then you get these tan plastic inserts in the shifter with a weird spring thing in there. Still haven't figured out what the big plastic thing is for, but I know I put my truck shifter in a ZX trans and it worked. Also worked in a B type 4 speed no problem. Didn't have to change anything with regards to the shifter rails either. Just plug and play.

That's not fair. He did it on purpose!

I did a 180* spin at about 115 mph. Caught it going backwards at about 80. Anyone else beat 80 mph backwards??? Oh, yeah, I caught it in the dirt too. So I've gone 80 backwards off road in my Z... beat that. As for driving forward I'm sure I'm nowhere near the record, I don't think I've broken 125, because there was always a turn at the end of the straightaway... I have a friend whose tach in her Z has got to be off by 2000 rpm. She's always telling me that I'm overrevving her motor when I drive it, I don't think I've ever had it to 7000 rpm. One possible explanation.

Anthony - you must know my very good friends Greg and Jen: http://www.510garage.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=38&pos=70 Before you make fun of the way the car looks now, let me just say that Greg started with something that probably should have gone straight to the jy, and he's got MANY hours into getting it to look this good. They have a wagon too. Handles really nice, they surprised quite a few people at the autox in Marina. Greg is usally an instructor for Dennis and Peggy when they do track days. Back to the thread though, I wonder if the MR2 rear struts would be better than the GTI stuff, just like they are in a Z. Although the Z has a lot more weight on the front. I suppose it all depends on what spring rates you're running and what engine you've got... Jon

Sounds like another reaction disk problem to me. See below: http://hybridz.org/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=34709&highlight=reaction+disk

The distance from the bushing hole to the ball on the bottom of the shifter determines the throw. The longer the shifter on the bottom, the shorter the throw. The longest shifter you can find is from a L4 engined Nissan truck. Unfortunately the shifter is about a foot long. Get one from a jy for $5, then cut it and bend it to fit, use a universal shift knob or grind the shaft down and cut threads on it, and you will have a very short throw shifter for practically $0. I also saw an article years back in Grassroots Motorsports (I think) where they cut the shifter below the pivot and welded a spacer in between the pivot and the ball to lengthen it. Seems a little weak to me. The 72 and 75 shifters will interchange, but I don't think there is any difference in the throw between the two. You could check it really easy, just hold them up next to each other.

OK, I'm smoking crack again. When putting a 240Z insert into a stock 510 strut and you have to section. If you swap to a ZX strut no sectioning required and its already much shorter than the original 510 stuff.

The stock one will be, so just get one with a better gear ratio. I think the early 80's Nissan 4x4's came with 4:11 and 4:38 R180s in the front. Grab one of those and put it in. That would work really nice.

My friends have done this swap on 5 or 6 different 510s. They all swapped in the fronts and sectioned them and used 240Z front struts. In 2 or 3 cases they used the 240Z spring perch and top hat, and were able to get the much smaller diameter springs in the front (they're stiffer than stock 510 too). Then they could slot the strut top holes and adjust camber. In the back the early disc brakes (79-81) bolt right on, and I would assume the later ones do to, but I don't personally know anyone who has used the later 82-83 setup on a 510. The crossmembers are different, and the ends of the semi-trailing arms are slightly different, but I believe that the semi-trailing arms are similar enough to swap between 510 and ZX, although I'm not sure why you'd want to (maybe to get a caliper bracket???).

The R200 is stronger, but I wouldn't switch with only 250 hp. Funny I should say that, because I have that much or a little less, but I have switched to the R200. I did it for the cheap LSD though (87-89 300ZX Turbos came with LSD, I got mine for $325). Here's why you might not want to switch: http://www.betamotorsports.com/benchracing/index.html Click on R200 Handling Issues.