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Those taillights look pretty big, maybe use schoolbus/semi for lower profile lenses.

While I agree on the hood comments, I think all this car really needs are wheels that fill out the body. Oooh, wait, and some non-rocketship taillights. Pretty kickass otherwise. I always love seeing a molded in 3-piece spoiler. EZ, that's a car with a ton of potential!

Needs more foglights, more carbon fiber.

Alsil's mounts were originally made for the 94/95 5.0, which is a variation of the T-Bird 5.0 HO engine. It is lower than a standard 5.0 intake by about an inch, IIRC. He also will make the crossmember with as much drop as you want. You just specify when you order.

Have you noticed diesel prices? It kind of levels the field. Everyone around me is celebrating the price drops to below $2.30, but I still pay $2.70 for diesel. Until diesel prices go back to where they were 6 years ago, it's kind of a wash. Torque -hell yes! I can pull damn near anything you dream up. As far as 6.0 vs 7.3: the 6.0 has a ton of problems, and is just as heavy and bulky as the 7.3. It also drives like the smaller motor it is - takes more revs to do the same work. I have a 2000, dad has an '05. Mine tows with ease, his tows with wheeze. But on paper he has more power. Celebrate quietly guys (sniff). You're depressing me.

What about: http://reactionresearch.com/automotivedetails.htm JDM Datsun replica parts http://www.classicdatsun.com/ Hoods and hatches http://betamotorsports.com/products/index.html If FG dashes apply: http://www.pdkfabrication.bravepages.com/index.htm You might want to see if the Mods will let you fix the thread title.

Here's something I've had bookmarked from TurboMustangs.com forever. It's a list of all the factory turbos available for swapping. Perfect for raiding the JY... http://www.turbomustangs.com/smf/index.php?topic=4365.0

Does anyone have a set of unusable California Z fenders or remnants of some? Wrecked, cracked, destroyed by act of god -whatever. The only important thing is the headlight bucket areas need to be intact. I am trying to get headlight covers made, and would rather not send out my mint ones to get busted up in shipping. I'm sure most Hybridz'ers are familiar with the Cal Z. Known to some as the Scarab or Jim Cook Racing (JCR) wide body kit. Here's some pics to jog your memory, maybe you have some behind your shed? Also, they are made for rectangular lights. A complete car with this widebody kit can be seen here: http://www.jimcookracing.com/catalog/page21.html

Okay, as promised long ago, I finally got around to taking some pics of my Jag triple SU setup. This should give some a better idea of the arrangement of three SU carbs . Remember, these are the 2"/50mm HD8 SU, so they are different than the Hitachi ones. (Side note: I'm looking to unload these soon, if anyone has an XKE or XJ that needs carbs PM me.) For some reason this topic really gets people's hackles up, and I'm not sure why. I think the potential is great. Use the often discarded factory Z SU's (far less $ than anything else, sometimes free), jet them down or use the roadster or 510 smaller bore carbs, and get similar performance with potentially better drivability and mileage. If the factory round dome SU's are intended for good stock performance on a L24, why wouldn't three be in the ballpark for a seriously modifed L28 or stroker pushing over 200 rwhp? The twin SU manifolds for the 510 could be used as a starting point to weld something up (1 carb to 2 cyl vice 1 carb to 3cyl). If you look at the second pic above you can see Jaguar's common plenum above the individual runners, eliminating any firing order/intake pulse issues. I think you would want to duplicate that, or at least run large diameter tubing linking the runners together, like a fat fuel rail. That is something I feel the guy on Classiczcars did not do adequately, it only looks like 1/2" tubing. I am very surprised no aftermarket manufacturer tooled up in the seventies to make such a manifold. How many SU's got thrown away? I think it may have something to do with the percieved "sexiness" of Webers and Mikunis, and America's love affair with the 4 barrel. I think the three SU's in a row look pretty damn cool polished up. An interesting thing I noticed about the inlet plenum/airbox can be seen in the pic below. The carb inlets are dropped off the main header, and have little flow directing vanes before the throats. I assume this is to minimize turbulence at the carb entry, which is a common issue on a ram-air box with carbs. I like it. (here you can see the linkage arrangement) The Jag guys I've spoken to feel very strongly about the performance, drivability, and ease/lack of continual tuning with the triple SU's vice Webers. A GT winning race team in the early 80's did much dyno testing and concluded they out performed Webers on the Jaguar l6. I'm sure that may not be true in every engine's case, but they followed their testing, used SU's in competition even though they had the option to use other carbs, and ending up winning a championship. I'm in no hurry to tear off my Mikuni's, but I like this idea alot. I will fart around with it in my spare time, and hopefully end up with something I can test back to back against the carbs on my car. Call it a mental engineering exercise, or a waste of time. My neighbor is an alum welding genius, I'd hate to let that go to waste...

Finally, a ZX to inspire!

If it were not for a few thousand miles, I'd be shipping a car to you tomorrow. I really like how you kept the cage tight to the body and out of the way.

Thanks Tony, awesome post! Specs are specs, but real experience and "how it felt", are something that you just don't find much. Thanks for giving us a taste of what driving the unobtainable engines would be like. I'm working through my jealousy issues...

This Vette has a turbo?!?

Hilarious!

Once this incredibly hot chick I knew thought she would "entice" me by slithering up my hood to kiss my windshield. This was in my first Z (the pretty one). I could hear the sheetmetal buckling beneath her. I think my anger showed, because she was afraid of me after that. My buddy was in the passenger seat yelling and waving her off like an airport flagger with tourettes. He had to explain to her that Datsuns are made of papier mache. I had to keep my distance for a few minutes. It really was a shame. Ali was smokin'. Why couldn't she have done it on my beater Torino? Stupid Whitesnake giving women bad ideas...

Hmm Tony D, I believe Veritech and I would both love to hear your experiences with the "other" Z engines... Maybe something of a blow-by blow comparison? I've followed your posts across the various Datsun sites, and haven't seen you mention the DOHC's or crossflow much. Please tell more.

Wow, man- that is a steal. Good job.

Wow, so is the goal to piss us all off enough to buy from you? Brilliant plan, I see you thought this out...