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  1. SSflyer
    Do NOT, repeat NOT, send your axles to Rock Auto. Several folks here have fallen for their 'We'll rebuild and return your axles' line. Ask me how I know. What you get back is regular 280ZX axles which are too long. In the end I got back one turbo axle and they lost my other one. My advise would be to either rebuild them yourself, or find a shop in your town that will really rebuild the axles you take in. It may be cheaper to just find another set in a junk yard or on Ebay.
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    Th taillight wiring on these cars is the cheesiest ever. Some connections are bare wire ends pinched in place by the bulb body. It only takes a little corrosion to make the bulbs not work.
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    I won't use USPS any more. I sold about a dozen items on EBAY and shipped them all via USPS and they lost 3 of them. What sucked was that one of the lost boxes was 280 stub axles that had sold for $120! None of the lost stuff ever showed up, so they won't get any more of my business...
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    I went from Phoenix to San Diego and back in one day and there were two problems. One, keeping it under 90 and two, having to wave back at every other car on the freeway and having to chat with every person at every gas station. The stock seat did get a bit hard, it was loud, and the car did get sort of warm, but I consider those thing to be part of the 'charm' of an LS1 Z-car.
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    I tried a while ago to get some pictures of the mounting brackets, but there just isn't enough room to get a camera up uder the dash and get a decent picture. I did do a write up that will give you some idea of what's involved and I'll email it to you if you PM me with your email address...
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    I put the tilt column from a 2001 Camaro into my car. It's actually not that hard of a mod to do if you're willing to fab up your own parts. The steering shafts themselves are basically just pieces of steel pipe with u-joints welded on the end. The work part comes when you want to mount a different column to the underdash bracketry.
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    Use the 81-83 280ZX-Turbo CV shafts. They are the correct length.
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    Mine took about 20 hours per side....
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    How about the nose pieces that the headlight buckets mount onto. Every front end fenderbender messes those up. Should be another real easy piece to press out.
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    I had the same idea about putting a Camaro dash in my 280Z, but it was about an inch too wide. The only thing you can do is either measure very accurately or get the candidate dash and trial fit it. Lots of work either way.
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    Wow! I thought I had guts cutting up the rear fenders on my 30 year old Z-car, and then this guy cuts up a brand new Challanger! Good guy to NOT play poker against!
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    I worried more about getting rear ended with no bumper (like the stocker would help at all!) than I did about getting a ticket, so I welded in a piece of thick wall 3x3 tubing between the frame rails as close to the rear sheet metal as possible. I haven't been stopped yet for no bumper, but AZ is alot more lax than other states.
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    Remember the crickets in the new King Kong movie? Big as Great Danes and twice as hungry!
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    Only if it's a witch.
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    That's the same place I got a pair of the Maxima rear caliper brackets for the 4-wheel disc upgrade. May be a good first stop for hard to find parts...
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    Marduke.....You aren't missing a mother-in-law are you?
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    I did my engine bay the same way. It looks so much cleaner without all the spot weld dimples and wiring hanging all over the place. One of my happiest memories of doing my car is sitting on the crossmember in the engine bay, in my underwear, in a closed garage, in Phoenix on a 110degree summer day, sweating like a field hand, sanding the bondo off the shock towers. Ahhhhhh, the memories!
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    SpeedRacer... that is one clean engine bay! GetZ......My build is all done, an LS1. I was just thinking that a 283 based car would be real popular but it doesn't seem to be that way. Maybe some day I'll get motovated to do another car and then try a different path.
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    Now THAT is a beautiful paint job! No, it's Beautiful with a capital B!! I love that color!
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    There doesn't seem to be alot of posts about 283/327 based hybrid Zs, so I'm wondering how may guys here actually have one, and what sort of performance you get. If I had it to do over I'd probably go with a built 283 versus the LS1. I'm thinking it would be alot cheaper and easier to go old school...
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    Wow! What happened to all those people who posted back then? Only a couple are still active...
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    Nice black widow web on the passenger side!
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    I think LSx engines will fit physically, but Corvette engines are fly-by-wire so you'd need the gas pedal assembly too, and that might present a whole different set of issues. As for mounts, you can fab your own. I made mine using the instructions from the jeromio.com page. Lots of guys here make a new front crossmember and then use biscuit mounts. Do a search on LS1 engines and look at some of the older posts...
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    Do you have spark?
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    Has anyone ever proposed putting together a loaner program for some of the tools we all have used in our swaps? The only one I'm aware of is the spindle pin puller thread in the Suspension forum. I have an inclinometer I'll donate, and as I clean out the garage cupboards there may be a few other smallish tools I no longer need. I'm sure there's other tools we all buy and use only once (hones, jigs, automix plungers, etc.). Any interest?
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