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Yeah i'm glad I got away with no lasting effects. But if I hadn't pulled myself forward off of the seat then I would have had no bumps or strains. About the underwear umm yeah I try to change it alteast everytime I do an oil change or get a new car. This was my first true at fault accident I've ever had. I say true because my mr2 caught fire about 4yrs ago. Other than that one person did a hit and run on me and someone backed into my parked car. I guess i've been halfway lucky. Damn I just counted up all my cars and i've had 14 cars in 9yrs of driving. Thats not including cars I've bought and sold for a profit. Sheesh yeah i'm an addict and my name's Ted... Hi! Ted Well I think I will be more happy with the z06 so thats what I will get. I found one within my price range and in color I want Blue (I wanted blue or black) The only downside is its in Cali and will take 20 days to transfer to Houston. Damn did I mention i'm impatient. Oh well I guess it won't hurt (too much) to drive the slowmobile (protege) around for 3 more weeks. As soon as I remember to grab my camera from friends house i'll post pics of my 350z.

LOL I haven't heard that before. But it soo fits. Most people either love it or hate it. I love it. The bmw does have style and comfort over the z06 but the z06 has it beat in the performance category.

Well about 3 weeks ago I was in an accident. I hydroplaned and hit a congrete drain going backwards. It happened doing the speed limit (I had a witness ) 45mph on a rainy day. I was being passed by lots of cars including my witness when all of sudden the back end kicked out. I tried to steer into but it still continued to swing around so I put my brakes on and went for a ride. I'm lucky because I missed hiting the beginning of a guard rail (which would have lifted my car up and most likely fliped it) and slide down into a water gulley on the side of the road. I went into it backwards and hit a 3'x3'x2' concrete drain cover. After I hit it I skidded across the concrete doing underbody damage (which I think caused the car to be totaled). They got up to 18k damage before they stopped adding up. Every crossmember on the bottom had been bent etc... Pics of car will posted when I got home from work. One thing I can say I did wrong was I knew my car had bald rear tires (sez's fault:mrgreen:) and it had hydroplaned two times earlier but it never kicked out just wobbled alittle(thus why I was doing the speed limit) . The ironic thing is I had ordered two new tires 2hrs earlier from tiredirect:fmad:. In the end the car was totaled, I had a small bump on my head and slight reverse whiplash(both gone two days later), I found out my license was suspended because of a ticket I got in Louisanna going to SEZ 6 I didn't take care of(taken care of now), had to argue alittle with insurance company to get the amount I wanted, and now i'm driving a 96' Mazda Protege (auto, 1.5l, one of the slowest cars in the world) So now that has been taken care of what car should I get next. I've narrowed it down to three but leaning towards one. The first car would be another 03'-04' 350z less mileage but the same car, next would be a BMW M Coupe (I personally love the way this car looks), and last but not least an 02' Corvette Z06. All would be black and manual. They are all within my budget the 350z is least expensive and z06 is the most. I'm leaning towards the z06 because of how good it is stock but i've never been a fan of gm quality (import guy here) and the interior is not what I expect from a 50k car (espeically the radio). What are your thoughts on these vehicles? Mikelly any pointers on the z06?

Didn't feel like reading your second post so I'll answer your first. The injectors will have two 12v's going in and when they want to be fired the ecu will ground it. So connect a test light to 12v source and one of the connectors. If you can a ground(aka light on) then you have a good signal and its a bad injector. If so try to tap it or apply battery voltage for a split second to it. Battery voltage is way too high but it can sometimes undo a stuck injector. Also sometimes when you mount an injector crooked or the holder is off then it will bind internally try testing the injector loose. Good luck.

Yes but it's usually my fault when they do Glad you are ok.

Umm where might that be... Wait I contributed *doh*

Just to let you know the people on this website trully dispise people who lie or exaggerate. So if you are just to trying get attention/be an ass like I believe I would stop if you plan to not have admins bring their wrath upon you.(just my opinion) But if you indeed have a fast z then sweet. Let me know what you are running. BTW my 280zx ghetto beast ran a 12.4@110 with a 22yr old stock suspension. And i'm pretty sure i'm not the fastest though so good luck

Sounds like a bad tps. You should see atleast low 4's to high 4's to get a good accurate throttle position. Also as you know no deadspots.

Much better. I like the last the fourth and third to last pics the most.

Nice find. The rear end gets that high when you have no weight back there. My ghetto beast when stripped had 3 full inches of wheel gap in the rear. There is not suppose to be a hole there. Probably someone drilled it for an aftermarket antena of sorts. Your brake lights are probably staying on because of the switch under the dash on the brake pedal. Check to make sure its there and working correctly.

Hmm interesting. One thing I just thought of is that my se-r it idled at 1000-1100rpms because of cams so the water pump was moving alot faster than say a v8 (or a stock car) that idles at 600 rpms. Also the radiator was 10yrs old and the oem thin one at that. Btw "83 HKS L28ET" interesting place you live. My my friend at one time Mike moved to miami. He drove a light blue 280z with a l28 turbo. Hey if you meet him say wuz up for me.

I have had two cars that I ran with no thermostat once because I didn't know different and second because I had to drive the car to the parts store. As soon as I got the car moving the car would run to cold but once I sat at a redlight it would creep up. I was running 2 12" hayden fans on a stock radiator on my se-r. I think that if you were not running an aluminum radiator with some monster fans or if you never sat for a few minutes after the car was warmed up then any car without a thermostat will overheat. But it would still run too cold once you started to move. Also running at 160-170 degrees is too cold but I have found with a 160-170 thermostat I run 180 degrees what I think is perfect. But then again thats my preference.

I think that the cybershot has a nighttime setting that can over develope the picture alittle. If not photoshop or even mspaint can help.

There is a switch under the e-brake lever that gets grounded when the lever is lifted. Check to see if you have a short to ground. Also on 280zx's and newer z's check your brake fluid level. If it is too low that can be it.

Yes you are correct without the thermostat water will flow too quickly through the radiator so it won't have time to cool off. It will be must noticeable at idle and low speeds. Then at high speeds the water will cool too much and the car will run too cold and you will not get optimal lubrication and combustion due to the efi compensating. If you are running an aftermarket efi then I would run a 160 - 170 thermostat. If you plan to run factory efi then I would run 170-180.

Two words and phrase and a comment... Drag Radials, Turn up the boost, If you aren't afraid of the car breaking then it isn't at its full potential:-D

To idle and drive it does not need the tps but I personally do not like the map accel never got it to work as smoothly as the tps accel. Moby you ever get the map accel to work correctly?

So is that going into your Celica or Talon? Vids please.

Good find! Now sell it to me!!! I will be happy to donate to the cam and forged piston fundraiser:lol:

Paint, And yes i'm Z crazy. 2001 z06 or 2003 350z track?

Miata= more reliable=better gas mileage= better brakeing = better handling etc... z31= maybe faster in straight line = more masculine(if not pink)

You need a 14mm and a 17mm. Also its .010 and .012 cold. And .080 and .010 hot. You want to do it hot.

I think the key part of this question is street driven. Can and does drive to and from track under its own power. Only one in the 8's or 9's that does that to my knowledge is z-gad. Whiteboy is a street legal vehicle but never driven on the street only raced.

Please replace that fuel pump before motor goes boom. And get a WB.