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Like it was made the be there. Looks like a beautiful car, especially the interior. Good luck selling it, I am sure it is a blast. I wouldn't have any doubts about reliability.

Thanks!! The car is pretty basic but I have gone through pretty much everything to make it a good street car. Engine is a rebuilt 2-bolt hi-nickel 350 with forged pistons, cam, hi-tension valve springs, roller rockers, Holley 650dp carb. Standard heads, coated block huggers, MSD 6AL with 6krpm rev limiter. It makes a very modest 251 rear wheel hp and 309 lb-ft of torque. Exhaust is a true dual 2.5" with an X-pipe and MAC mufflers. Tranny is a T-5 running back to a 300ZX 3.7 R200 LSD. Fuel system consists of a 16gallon fuel cell in a box replacing the spare tire well, Holley blue fuel pump, and full aviation braided line and AN fittings from the fuel cell to the float bowls. Rebuilt the suspension with Eibach coilovers on shortened strut bodies, Koni 5-way struts, front and rear swaybars, rear strut brace, full polyurethane bushings. It has 15" 300ZX wheels under a stock body with the exception of a front air dam. Full interior with new carpets, dash cap, Prelude seats, full Autometer Phantom gauge package in stock locations... More pics of the car and a full list of details can be seen at my Cardomain site (link in sig). I bought this car when I was 16 (22 now) and built it up during high school and the time after I dropped out of college and before I joined the military. The V8 swap has less than a thousand miles on it. I bought the car for $1900 in stock form from a very nice woman, it was a one-family car bought new by her father in 1970 and passed on first to her brother, who did a basic restoration in '85, then on to her. She was really sad to let it go, and I regret that I haven't had a chance to show her how radically I've changed her 'little red Z'. I'm not sure if she'd have a fit with what I've done to it or be happy that the car is still very much loved and taken care of! I did all of the work myself. My dad helped. I'll treasure those memories and the few photos we took of ourselves working on it forever. Most of the time I was too stubborn to let him really help, so he mostly gave moral support. I wanted to do everything myself. The only thing I didn't personally do was the fabrication of the exhaust and a session of dyno tuning.

SRGunz, I know I am bringing this thread back from waaaaay beyond death but - that is exactly how I built my diff mount, and a good application of torque actually bent the angle iron! Your 6banger shouldn't kill it but I need something more robust. This is FYI for everyone.

That sounds beefy! This makes me wonder what a V8 crafted out of two S2000 engines would sound like... maybe with a flat-plane crank to keep the 9k redline... yum!

I haven't posted here in years, but I owe more than I can ever express to this site. When I joined the US Coast Guard in early '04, I put my '71 V8Z under a cover. A wise move, because I ended up getting stationed in Alaska. My dad was kind enough to drive the car for me every couple of weeks to run fresh fuel through it and get the oil hot. When I came home in summer '05 on my way to A-school, I drove the car every day, and it was a total blast. Ran like I'd never left it behind - once I'd aired up the flat left tire, of course. However, only a month into my A-school class, my dad died. He was killed in an accident in his experimental aircraft that he'd been flying for longer than I've been alive. When I came home for his funeral, I drove the car again, but it's been well over a year. I was too distraught to really take care of the car when I was at home, and much to my regret, I didn't get a chance to put fuel stabilizer in it, drain the carburetor, or unhook the battery. It's been in storage for a year, under a cover, and needs some LOVIN'! San Diego HybridZ owners - I'm callin' you out! This holiday season QWKDTSN is coming back out of hiding to prowl the streets again. If there's anyone out there that would be generous enough to come by and give me a hand getting the car out of storage, up and running properly, and back on the road again with a clean carb, fresh gas and clean oil, I'll be buying the beers. Going for drives is always better when you've got another Zcar with you I've been away from home for a long time and would honestly love to meet up with other HybridZ owners in the San Diego area to check out one another's cars and get out on the road. My car still needs some shakedown time!

WOW, I assume this is from a wrecked GTO? SIX miles on the clock?

I think I'm gonna have to give this one a try, looks like the best solution for my car!

Go ahead and get one from NAPA or Kragen, they are just fine, plenty of meat to tap and no problems.

Sorry, that's what I mean..

Yes, that is correct. The engine should be tilted towards the driver's side. This provides clearance for the steering shaft and, more importantly, compensates for the driver's weight. What headers are you trying to use?

Yeah! I feel the same way about my car! Night and day difference! HAVE FUN!

Ouch!!

I just want to say, I love my diff!! Haha! Got it all buttoned up this morning and the freakin' thing is awesome. First thing I did was take it into the parking lot next door to my house and do the figure 8's as is recommended, to get the lube into the clutches so they won't burn up. At first I heard some squeakings, clunkings, and various noises coming from 'back there' but after about 5 figure 8s it quieted down. I did around 20 total and then went for a drive.. First time I punched it taking a corner from a stop sign I almost lost it because of how fast the rear end snapped around! U-turns sure are fun now! Oh, yeah... I got pulled over already Cop just gave me a fix-it ticket for no front license plate because I admitted to doing wrong Thanks! Anyway, I'm amazed at how well the car grips now going through sweeping corners. It's just out of this world! I can keep giving it more gas and it just digs in harder and keeps pulling through! Confidence inspiring to say the least. I'm about to upload a few photos of the install, if anyone's interested.

Yup, I have seen his solution.... Very well-thought out and well-executed! My idea was inspired by the one shown on http://www.kaynor.net/v8-240z/index.html (not the LSD brace... the front mount limiter).. basically I welded several bolts to the front of the diff mount and bolted on a piece of angle iron that goes down and underneath the crossmember with a gap of about 3/8". The rubber mount can isolate vibrations but if it gets torqued too much it will hit the limiter and stop, so it can't stretch enough to break.

I just filled up my new LSD with Mobil 1 synthetic 75-90 weight oil (I used about 1.70 quarts or so with the finned cover... as my research showed a standard R200 to use 1.5) and a tube of the posi additive that Kragen had. Don't remember the brand but I'm sure pretty much whatever the local place has is fine. Good luck with the install, mine has spanned about four days so far as I decided to spare the fins on the cover (couldn't see a way to make the suspension brace fit, even if I removed them!) so I've been working on fabbing up a brace. I also spent quite a bit of time dreaming up and fabbing a limiter to keep my front diff mount from breaking while I was at it. I can't wait for the traction as well, as well as lower revs as I've been running a 3.90..

"Something fugly"... Lots of love went into that... Just not my style. Good to see your image hosting site is doing well.

Not that I'm contributing anything, but I'd imagine that using that tranny on an RB as you're planning, the spacing will be different than if you were using it on the V8 it was built for... I'm assuming that's why you're asking the question... if so, I'd say it's hard to tell without getting the tranny hooked up to the motor and sliding it in.

Most 'other car' seats you install will raise the seat height significantly. I know that hopping out of a friend's Z with stock seats and directly into my Z with prelude seats, it feels a LOT taller! But it's actually nice, I can see out, I can rest my arm on the window, it feels normal. I had my Prelude seats mounted to the stock rails but it turned out I had it adjusted so that the studs were directly in line with the stock holes anyhow, so yesterday I took the rails out and thereby dropped the seat about an inch. That helped some, feels a bit lower.

Never seen it before! Classic!

Got 'er started, re-set the float level and all is well! Thanks very much for the fast responses and the accurate help, guys! Learn something new every day!

I did try tapping it before and didn't have any luck... Well, killed the battery and bungled the float measurement (got the screw and nut mixed up... as always) but I'm sure I'll get it going tomorrow morning. All I really needed to know was that the float/float needle were messed up as the symptoms were very strange and didn't correlate with anything I could think of. Well, this explanation works so I'm sure I'll get it sorted out. Thanks, everyone, for the advice

Front barrels are primaries, rear barrels are secondaries. Thanks for the tips, as soon as my dad gets home I'll go through the needles etc. with him... I have a good filter but it's probably a good idea to check it around this point I think.

Checked the float level, it is perfect, tried lowering the fuel pressure from 5.5psi to around 4, same problem occured. Blew through both tubes sticking up (emulsion tubes? not clear on this) and they were both clear, spat fuel into the barrels. Something possibly blocked up somewhere else? What do you guys think?

My car's been parked for just a couple of days, had no problems before parking it. Went and started it up today and have been having some weird problems... Essentially what's happening right now is this - engine is warm and should start up right away, but it takes a while to crank over. Cranking, cranking... eventually starts to catch... sputters into life. Then, idles normally for about 20 seconds or so. Fuel pressure normal, everything sounds fine... Then, I see a bit of gas leaking out from somewhere on the carburetor. It leaks out, then starts pouring, increasing in strength, across the front float bowl from either the gasket or from 'somewhere' underneath the lip the air cleaner is supposed to sit on. As this happens, the car begins to stumble - more gas leaking - running worse and worse - until it stalls with a FOOF of white smoke puffing up from the main carb barrels. It seems that WAY too much gas is pouring into the main barrels for some reason? The carb is a 4150 dp, brand new, never given me any problems... the car was recently dyno tuned and has been running like a champ. Haven't made any timing adjustments and the MSD, ignition et. al. seem fine. WTF is up with the carb? Way too much gas, sudden weird leaking that almost looks like an emergency overflow is opening underneath the air cleaner lip? Could this be caused by a blown power valve, or float level too high? Sticky float? Help me, fast!

The important thing is how far some of them got? 7.4 miles out of 200+ isn't very good... and that's the BEST that any of them did!