Mikelly

Yup, I have that car, and I actually helped Chris lay out the Sub-frames on the car... Bottom line is you really need a Rotissery to do it right, but it can be done with jack stands and a wiz wheel. Key is to remove all the interior on that side of the vehicle, and get TALL stands. If you have access to a lift, that would make things even better. Pete's template drawings were PEFECT, and I've contemplated making a sub-frame kit for sale off Pete's drawings... Mike

First question that comes to mind is this: What do you plan to do with the car? Biggest bang for the buck BY far, is a pair of sub frame connectors, and if you plan it out right, your car won't be down more than a day, unless you get real elaborate and sink them into the floor pans like Pete did. Then you are looking at a weekend job minimum. Next move would be front and rear strut tower braces... The rear brace will help some with the flex in the upper unit-body. Bolt in cages aren't the best solution, but certainly help. My last bolt in cage survived a serious crash and became the foundation for my existing 18 point jungle jim. It was a 6 point unit custom made using an autopower four point bar and having a race car fabricator weld on the front halo, and that was in the days before I got back into welding... Obviously you should also look into new bushings, better struts, better springs, larger sway bars... Tons of work to be done! Good luck! Mike

I ran the 4Runner pads and 300ZX cross drilled rotor setup on a 260Z and the braking was amazing... However, after 15-20 minutes of hard driving, the pedal would get a little soft... It just depends on how hard you drive the car. The toyota setup is a compromize, but they do work well as long as you understand the limitation, which is truly the rotor diameter. Try some high tempo brake fluid like the Ford Motorsport Heavy Duty fluid or the motul stuff... High wet and dry numbers are a good thing! Mike

...After reading the book I bought last night on tweeking the 5.0 Mustang motor, I found that the heads are the Y302 Turbo Swirl heads. Jim, I'm trying to do this on the cheap, so I'll likely just keep with the 1.6 rockers... If I get too carried away I may end up selling all my Z stuff and putting all my time and money in to this thing... Mike

Check Ebay often as I have seen these uncompleted dreams go for a song over there... Mike

Guys, what is the stock Fuel Presure supposed to be on a 5.0 with 19# injectors??? I bought a BBK FP regulator and plan to install it this evening... Mike

Yup, that was it. Speaking of which, I need to speak with Art and company about a couple of things, our article being one of them... Mike

Hopefully someone with more experience will chime in here, but you can't always HEAR detonation when you are right on the ragged edge of it. Turbo had a good article on this a little over a year ago... If I can dig it up, I'll quote from it tonight. However, If it were one, you might be able to just say "Well I got a bad plug" but three??? Scottie, you've got a serious problems there and as someone else mentioned, if you don't fix it, you should start shopping for a boat because you will have the anchor... I'd also recommend you get an air/fuel meter, and make sure it is a good one, and then I'd off the boost. Mike

Tim, the seal issue came to me from racers back in the mid 90s when I was researching brake problems and the only think I can think of is the issue of repeated heat cycles breaking trhe rubber down. All I know is that racers just rebuilt them twice per year on track cars... I just took it to heart that you would have to do maintenance on them occassionally... Mike

Bottom line is cost... Wilwood/ Outlaw brakes are nice and light, do a great job, but have some minor associated maintenance with regards to seal replacement at about 6-12 month intervals, although I know some have had good results with up to 24 month intervals. Brembos are HELLEspensive. It boils down to how much you will use the car and there are a number of other factors such as rotor design, diameter, ducting, fluid type... Mike Kelly

Zero, I've actually got a garage full of bikes... I currently ride a Diamond Back XR model frame with Hayes Discs and a Manitou Carbon Fork. I ride all over Virginia. I also am a big road riding fan and have a Campy Record equiped 17# road bike... All carbon... Pete, I could VERY easily get back into the motorcycle thing... Man that was so much fun... I'll absolutely be buying a track specific bike... Mike

So Friday night I go out for a night Mountain bike ride with some of my buddies that I haven't ridden with in a while... Crossing a difficult log about 3 miles into the ride my front wheel catches a mini stump on the back side, and over the bars I go, landing on the end of my handlebar into my left rib cage... INSTANT pain and it is VERY hard to breath. So after several minutes of laying there and assessing the damage, one of my compadre's and I WALK the three miles out of the woods to pavement where I re-mount the bike and ride to the truck. I'v had busted ribs before and this feels like either a break or torn tissue... So I go home, shower, and take a huge dose of motrin with a Jack Daniels Chaser... Donna puts me to bed...all is well, as long as I don't do anything... like sleep, or breath... Saturday morning I find myself up around 0800 and I'm out in the yard slinging gravel for the garage by 0930. By 12 noon I'm beat. Saturday afternoon I load up the ZX9R Ninja onto my car trailer, and prep my gear for the track day event at Summit point. NESBA (North East Sport Bike Association) is holding a track day event and 1st timers get a free half day session for coming to check it out... SO I'm off to West Va. on Sunday morning... 04:30 Donna rolls me out of bed, dresses me, loads me into the truck and off we go. Get there by 0645 and get unloaded, past registration and tech by 0730. After a LONG drivers meeting, we get on the track for our first 20 minute session. I hadn't been on a road coarse in nearly 5 years...OH baby!!! It was awesome and awkward all at the same time. 2nd session was much better on the 1 mile short track (Jefferson Circuit as opposed to the main circuit which is 2.1 miles). I found myself dragging boots and pegs, knees, as well as hitting 110 mph down the back straight. It was AWESOME!!! I'm gonna get a beat up superbike and use it as a race only motorscooter... Drove harder yesterday than I have since getting back on a motorscooter. Nothing like wheeling onto the front straight from 2nd to 3rd... Did I mention I'm so sore today I can't hardly move my left side... bicycles will be the death of me... Mike

Jim, Car has 373 gear already and yes those are Barry's heads and no, Jim Norris didn't do ANY porting on them... He screwed Barry on the port work and all I can see is the O-ring job and some shoddy port matching...That was pretty much it. I plan to upgrade the injectors and the mass air has been upgraded to a 75mm without any chrome air tubes, and the TB is an Edelbrock unit. I just ordered a BBK FP regulator. I may get Chris to Dyno tune it, but I'm also wanting to get a Tweeker for the ECC tunning, being this is an SN95 model... Mike

...I just picked up these heads with 1.6 rockers today for $600 and they were O-ringed, and I know the history behind them...I'll be getting Jamie T. to port them for me, and this car already has the Mac shorty headers and the Hpipe, although the cats are in place. I do have to worry about emissions unfortunately... My goal is to break 325 at the wheels...Before adding power adders... Thanks for the help guys...Kevin I'll be getting that book! This is for the wife's car, but it will become my daily driver within the next year, so... I'm also looking for an ATI supercharger... Mike

OK Guys, here is what I have: 1995 5.0 with GT40 Aluminum heads, GT40 upper and lower intake, 1.6 roller rockers, K&N filtercharger, 75MM Mas Air, 70MM TB, 155LPH pump, underdrive pulleys, MSD Ignition System. What cam do I use, and what HP and torque numbers should I expect with this combo??? Mike

Mike, Actually I'm going with 12 foot walls and I've already got the trusses... Bonus rooms units for a 32X11 upstairs. I paid the engineer yesterday and picked up the rebar for the footers. I also had the rest of the gravel dumped yesterday...Turned out to be an expensive day. I'll lay that out this weekend, and finish putting down the grade stakes. Then I'll concrete next week, and maybe get the block work done the following weekend. Once that is done, I'll be moving along to the pad, and then it all should happen quickly... I'm hoping to have it all under roof by the ZF Racing/ HybridZ East Coast Bash. Mike

Jim, I know you, and have known you for many years... You are honest, and this is a bad situation. I ship A LOT of stuff, so much so that my mail and UPS folks know me by name... If the box was undamaged, the only other explanations are that he packaged them with the damage already done to the pump, or one pump hit the other insde the package and broke it within the package... If it was a fairly light weight package, then it would have been thrown around A LOT. Don't beat yourself up, take the offer he made, and be done with it. You make a decent living and you can eat this. Should you? HELL NO! But we are all bound to get burned once in a while. I just got burned on motorcycle parts that were supposed to be for my model that turned out to be for a different model all together... $200 down the tubes... Guy won't return my e-mail or phone call... Mike

The ABSOLUTE best BANG for the buck is a tire PYROMETER. The guys I'm sponsor have found some VERY usefull info while using one. Mike

Sweet looking ride... Minus the wheels and fender mounted mirrors, that is what My car will look like once it is done. I've got the G-nose, bolt on flares, and I'm going with the Cobra R knock-offs and a pair of carbon fiber stem mirrors with VERY small mounting pedistols. Question is WHAT COLOR to paint it??? I'm thinking dark metalic Silver, but I'm not sure... After seeing Pete's paint up close and personal and watching it change tones in the different lighting, man I'm now confused... His car is gorgious!!! Mike

Don't get too discouraged. Automakers do that all the time. The original 350Z concept made its way around the globe twice without a working motor in it. Common practice is to get the interior and exterior dialed in for the autoshow circuit, and if you can get a few of the powertrains together for a couple of the "Special Access" shows, then fine. In the case of the 350Z, they didn't have a working motor in it (On the show circuit) until 6 months after the first auto expos were over. I think Ford should be given high kudos for reproducing a version of the GT40. i just hope they don't screw it up in production. Mike

Mine was base coat/ Clear Coat... I loved the way it shined when clean... It had some pearl in it and laid well.. Mike

Denny, My car was painted with the two stage paints from Sherwin Williams back in 1998. I was VERY happy with the results... And the prices are VERY competitive. Mike

How about we try this on for size... I have NO IDEA why RbNISSAN posted this in 12 forums, but it took me 20 minutes to clean it up... HERE IS A CLUE.... POST ONCE! Don't know why you felt the need to post this repeatedly, but waisting my time removed the requirement for me to be PC, even as an adminsitrator of this board... Do it again and you will be banned... I'm done... Mike Kelly

....And we worked on Sunday digging, and moving more gravel.... Well first I have to say a big THANK YOU to Les Heath for coming up and giving me a hand on Sunday. We moved the last of the 40 TONS of gravel into my footers, and I still need about 8 tons more, but the footers are almost ready to pour. Game plan is to get the rest of the work done, grade stakes in, and the rebar in place by the coming weekend, and then shoot for pouring the concrete shortly there after. I can't tell you guys how much I want this part of the project to be DONE... I hurt in places a guy should hurt from... Mike

Jim, I work in DC supporting the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. However, My wife runs the NSWC Federal Credit union Credit card department on base at Dahlgren. I have supported operations at JWAC down there. My wife used to live 5 minutes frm the base until she moved in with me, 35 miles east! Mike