lonerevd

Heh, thanks for getting my back Davy, yeah I didn't see the date at all, I was replying to a thread and didn't look at the date. Senile in my old age heh... Funny some of the same names still here and lots of great new projects. Accept my apology I did mean well.. Regards and well wishes, Lone

Hey BLKMGK, no reason to laugh, when I first put my v8 in the z years ago I decided to try the stock z radiator. It was a '72 automatic car and I ran several thousand miles with it and it worked fine. I was in Sacramento at the time so it does get in triple digits there. I did have to use a piece of hose to shim up the difference in the chevy sized radiator hose and the Z. But it DOES work. I was using a Taurus fan at the time. I think peer pressure and piece of mind made me change it over to the aluminum unit (which was even contriversial to the original JTR author at the time) which worked fine. Just thought I'd through that out there. Regards, Lone PS: Here in Phoenix I doubt I would try this experiment, just to hot for to long of the year to chance it.

After a long hiatus I decided to drop back and see whats going on over here. I don't have a v8 z anymore, I did about 7-8 years ago. My setup was a 72 with a mild 350 and a t56. Performance was pretty decent, very quick rolling 20-100 for sure (I mean like rolling to on the freeway in a few seconds phenomenal). My setup was less than optimized but I did get a good feel for what the car could do and having driven the car on two 1300 mile one way trips I can comment on the overdrives in the t56. Here's my gripes with the T56 and the Z car with the rear end ratio's they typically have (can't recall what they were, but think it was in the 3.90's or whatever). First gear gets to redline before you can blink. Second, Third and Fourth are your money gears, picks up lots of speed in those gears. Fifth would have been actually enough overdrive with rpm's under two thousand rpm's in fifth. Drop into 6th and your seeing 1500 rpm's and thats at like 70 if memory serves, may have been 65. Couple the redundant 6th gear overdrive with the hassle I personally had of converting a automatic 240z with clutch setup, tapping the plastic hydraulic clutch setup and it subsequently leaking a little (which I didn't even notice till I sold the car and we were checking vitals). If I were to do it again, it would have been automatic all the way for MY usage. I think the thing to look at is what are your uses, how much highway time do you use it for, how much strip time if any, and your expectations, pays your money and takes your chances and hope your right. Hey if not, change it over, its just some parts and since they were modified for a V8 Z (like the driveshaft for example probably being a difference length between automatic and stick) you'd have a quick sale to a brother here that's trying to get his V8Z on. Good luck with your project I'm sure you'll enjoy it, if circumstances would have been different I would have never sold mine. Regards, Lone