240Zed

Yep some mob in Japan (Komy) did it way back around 2002: http://www.komycars.jp/ http://www.komycars.jp/drag/z/z.html There was a magazine article about it, but its all in Japanese.

How is the EVZ build going?

I've also thought about this. First obstacle is to find a motor the right shape. Most are the wrong shape, being barrel shape motors, not pancake style. If you could find an electric motor to sandwich between the petrol motor and the gearbox. You'd probably want some sort of fancy clutch arrangement so that you could drive on electricity alone, petrol alone, or both at the same time. If the pancake motor had a hollow drive shaft tube that the petrol motors drive shaft went through, and some fancy clutch that worked as described above you'd be half way there. When decelerating/braking you'd want the petrol engine clutch to disengage, and the electric motor clutch to engage automatically for regenerative braking. You wouldn't want the gas motor to charge the batteries via the electric motor, otherwise there goes your fuel savings (If you're doing it for extra acceleration, just get a turbo and save yourself a world of pain). I'd ditch the 6 and use a 4 cyl engine, like an SR20. It all sounds very complicated, and complicated = expensive. You'd also need about 10 or 12 batteries to run the electric motor. I dont think its worth the effort. I have a more practical idea. You get a car like an 86-88 Mazda 323 AWD (not sure what they were called in the USA). They are all wheel drive. Transverse mounted engine in the front, with driveshafts from the gearbox to drive the front wheels, and a prop shaft to the rear diff. You pull the awd engine/gearbox out, and swap it with a Front wheel drive engine from the lesser model. This frees up the rear diff to be driven by an electric motor, which you can mount near the front of the car in the transmission tunnel. then you just need to find somewhere to put 12 or so batteries, and make some sort of custom controller to control how the engines will work together. That gives you an electric car you can drive around on 100% electricity until you run out of power, then you can switch over to the gas motor to give you the extended range, and the ability to fuel up at a gas station.

The #153 on ebay is possibly a fake, since there is another owner of a scarab that claims his car is the original #153, and he says he has the paperwork to prove it. Here is his number #153 http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3128743 He posted on classiczcars about it: http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31483 http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=31477

What's a good forum to join for ev info? As the price of petrol continues to soar i'm getting alot more interested in it than I was a couple of years ago.

What, did a truck back into it?

Why dont you just post the solution up in the forum? That way anyone else with the same problem can read it and use it to fix their car.

Yeah they are the correct later style Fairlady Z mirrors (from about '74 onwards I believe). What style bumper you putting on it? Got a skinny 240Z/JDM Fairlady Z bumper, or one of those big USA impact bumpers?

Just tell them "Yes, it has 4 electric motors"...... ....one for the fan blower, one for the wipers, one for the wiper water squirter, and one to start the engine.

Ok, I've done a some more investigating and found out which website it is from. Its an internet z site, not a club site. Scary thing is that alot of people on this website would probably on the list. I recognise a few names of the 7500+ members details listed from here, such as [maybe I better not say names, just pretend I said your name] all with their home addresses and the cars they have. I'll be contacting them right now to have the list deleted.

I was doing a search on google for something z related and found a database listing of some other z site or club member list. I don't know what site/club it's from, and I'm not going to post a link to it for obvious reasons, but it looks like an America site or z club and probably has alot of members details of people that visit this site also. The scary part is it has members names, home addresses, email addresses, and what sort of Z car they own. So if your part of a Z club, or forum get in contact with the website administrator and make sure there are no text dumps of the database on the webserver that people could access.

Ah, so thats what happened to the lights I sold him. They were the amber and red ones, correct?

They only came with a drivers side mirror.

I've seen an S30 with an RB26DETT and 4 Wheel drive-train. Was done ages ago in Japan. Also theres a guy in Australia with an awd V8 260z.

I guess someone forgot to tell the Italians that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monza

Ah ok. question like "How much weight did the CF roof save?" ;P jokes. I'll send him a PM instead. thanks for the answers.

I've tried a few times to post in this thread http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=126662 but when I try, I get the message: 240Zed, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: 1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system? 2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation. Can an admin take a look, and fix whatever the problem is? Cheers.

ArnZ, Thanks again. I also have a set, but with no mounting hardware. Now if i could only find a set of g nose light covers....

That sketch has a very modern/concept look about it. I like it. If only the 350Z had looked more like that (but without the bonnet vents).

Its not a turbo motor. P90 heads were fitted to late model 280zx's in Australia, and as you know they were all NA, no turbo 280zx's were sold in Oz. I have a 240K Skyline with a P90/F54 carbie motor which I think is probably from a 280C or a Patrol. It wouldn't have turbo injectors.

The P90 was not a turbo only head, maybe in the USA it was, but that is not the case for other countries.

He must be confused or misinformed. H190 are live axle diffs. R190 are IRS Diffs. R190 were fitted to cars like the Z432R and the works rally 240Z cars. Which is probably why he's never heard of them. H190's were fitted to cars like the Cedric, Stanza, Silvia (200SX) etc. H190 will not fit in a Z, and if he got it from a Z guy that only raced Z's then its probably unused, unless he used to race other datsuns.

Problem might be in the starting switch on the back of the ignition key lock. My 240 would only start when the key was turned slowly to the on position. When it started cranking you stopped turning the key. of you kept turning it all the way to on, it would stop again. If you turned it fast all the way to on, it would just click, like you'd flicked the key on and off really quickly. Now that I think of it I think I had a loose/ broken solder connection on the back of the switch. I seem to remember having to resolder the red/white wire back onto the key switch.

Saw this on a z31 forum, from a tv show or movie. http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b328/scottspikey/?action=view&current=z31.flv

What's a Super GT car look like?