Texlenin

Howdy- Jerry does not do bodywork to the best of my knowledge- only parts and engine work(?) That looks alot like Mike Quan's ride (ZCOT member), but I forget what year his was... If you really want to stick it to them, you might see if that ol' boy up in Gainesville is still in business..Here, I found it. Bob Smith Coachworks: Bob Smith Coachworks, Inc. 1600 Floral Dr. Gainesville, TX 76240 bsmith@bobsmithcoachworks.com Telephone: (940) 668-8622 FAX: (940) 665-4657 I'm really sorry to see that happen- hope you get her back on the road soon and get your just due with the transport co. Hopefully this info will help some. As someone with some autobody experience (Harvard on the Hill,ftw) it doesn't appear to be more than cosmetic, other than the glass.

Thanks Randy! Couple of extra ?'s You say your zxt already had teeth on it? Mine is simply a rounded disk- something different/weird? Aren't all the damper/pulley rigs using a keyway? That was one of my worries- having the whole thing slip in time. I like to use the smallest # of parts as well- but at this point, MSnS/EDIS would STILL be less wiring and less problem than Bessie has now with stock components/wiring. I would like to be able to have her as a DD again someday.....

Moby, Matt, et all; My first posting as a noob, so be gentle. Bessie the Wonder Z has a 83 longblock as her second heart. It's crankpulley has a large flange behind the second (inner pulley). Could (or has) anyone tried to have teeth cut into this in leau of adding a separate wheel? I have no idea where this motor came from; I got it off of Jerry DeBenitto's(sic?) yard outta Fort Worth. I also don't know if it was originally T or N/A..... I did a forum search week before last using "harmonic balancer" as the keyword and found nothing related. To be honest, in all the pics I've seen here, I don't recall seeing quite the same set-up, but Bessie's like that. Thanks in advance for any help anybody can give.....

I recently had the same issue with "Bessie the WonderZ". I bought a very nice used aluminium rad from a very helpful man in Georgia via fleabay. He included silicon upper and lower hoses and a Permacool fan. On his car, it was a drop-in install. Bessie, being spawned from hell itself, had to be difficult.My upper rad hose was right in the way of the afm housing, even though I am already running a shortened afm bracket. I tried bolting the meter directly to the mount spot-welded to the fender and trimming the upper hose, but to no avail. Then I hit upon an idea that worked. First, I mounted the coil on a piece of flatstock that translated it from horizontal to vertical. A bit more room there. Then I blocked the rad on some wood, *shifting* it over to the pass side about 3cm, and marked the new mount points with a sharpie. I made sure the top of the rad was level with the upper rad brace, confirmed the positions of the new holes, and drilled. A note of warning here- the frontside of the rad support is not flat, so have some type of standoff spacers ready. I used cast-offs from equipment installs at work (phone co). Anything that deals with the bumps will work. My new rad had rubber mounting inserts, but you might use folded up inner tubes or rubber sheet to still vibration. After getting the rad mounted, I was still very short on space, so much so that the stock boot from the afm to the throttle body wouldn't work. O'rielly's came to the rescue there- aftermarket plastic tubing and silicon coupler kits. A bit ricer, I know, but they work! I actually had to cut the 90deg bends down to shorten them even further. Now the upper rad hose and the afm hoses are separated by about 1cm on parallel s- shaped curves. My afm actually is floating between the ricer tubing and the hole in the rad support where the air filter used to go, but it hasn't fallen out yet. Not pretty, but it works. Sorry to be so long winded.

Texlenin adds: Any local speed shop can do the work, provided you take them the specs to follow and any hints, tips, tricks specific to your engine. Any shop that'll still work on a chevvie stovebolt six probably wouldn't have too many problems with an L-series. Under no circumstances take it anywhere near Courtesy Nissan- they won't even let you in the door! 'Yards- there are several out Wylie/Lake Lavon- Flash's Gordon's, Tawwatter(sic?) Asian Motors,etc Just head north on 78 and keep you eyes peeled....... Used to be one here in plano over on Hedgecox, but I've never found it. Grand Prairie is the mecca- Main & Jefferson is nothing but 'yards, but it's a haul. Meets- Z club of Texas (ZCOT.com) has many during the year all over N. Dallas. Somebody runs one at coit & 190 during the summer, but I have no info on who. Andronius- I hear ya on the pentastar fever. My first was a 64 1/2 plymouth barracuda- the one with the BIG back glass. Cut my teeth on wrenchin' with that ride. Hope this helps......