Dan Juday

They are a 280 only aboration. One of many contributors to Nissans weight gain plans for the S30. 240 & 260 owners get along fine without them. I'm sure you could too.

Wanted to let you all know about some great guys in SoCal. On the drive down to MSA the Z was missing and down on power. It ran great the day before, guess I shouldn't have messed with the plug wires the night before. Actually, I should have changed then months ago. Well, finding a place with wires, loner tools, and a place to change them hundreds of miles from home turned out to be a challenge. But, on Saturday at the Kit Car show we ran into Jeff Donker, owner of Muscles Cars USA. They had a booth at the show and a shop in Chino. "Bring it in early Monday morning and we'll fix you up." Good to his word his guys were waiting for us when we got there. One of his men gathered the tools we would need and helped me install a beautifull new set of blue 8mm Taylor wires. Jeff wasn't even going to charge for his mans labor, just the wires, but I insisted and we struck a compromise. Thanks again Jeff, to you and your team. Dan For all you SoCal guys let me recommend them: Muscle Cars USA 12395 Mills Ave. Unit 10 Chino, CA 91710 909-627-0101 http://www.MuscleCarsUSA.com

I'll take some measurements (and maybe a pic) later and post here. If you have already ordered with 5" b.s. you can still use slip on spacers without problems. It's the other direction you can't fix, too little b.s. Before ordering mine I triple checked all my wheel, fender, coilover measurements and I came up with 4 1/2". Just to give myself a little room for error I ordered 4 5/8" b.s. Now I use 1/8" spacers.

I'm laughing till my eyes water. I just stumbled across this thread. That's me: a stupid, rich (HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!), gay (in the "stupid" usage) guy with too much time on my hands (more HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!). Hmm, I look good with the backwards hat, don't I? BTW, fo shizzy I know the bling, white boy.

Best thing you can do to keep the insurance companies honest is buy it from independant agents that sell several companies policies. Like Tim, I also have excellent rates and coverage, and it's from Farmers. But not all the time. Every few years my agent calls up and tells me to pay some bill from another company for six months. When he gets mad at Farmers for failing to pay a legitimate claim, or jacking rates on some poor scmuck without cause he cancels all there policies. He carries thousands of clients, do the math. They bend to his rant and six months later I'm back with Farmers.

Sorry, no part number. My motor came out of a '91 f-body tpi. My bet is it's the same vent valve for many GM cars of the same era. It's a white plastic deally a little bigger than a golf ball. Has a 3/8" barb fitting on the bottom and an arrow head like thing on top than snaps into a grommet on the body that it hangs on. I broke the arrow head off mine so I just mounted it on an L bracket with a half inch hole. Vent hose goes up through the hole, plugs into the valve, put a hose clamp on and it's mounted. GM mounted it above the tank so I did the same. Mine fits in between the rear stock steel fender and the fiberglass one on the right side. The bottom of fenders are open so any discharged vapors vent to the outside of the car. If I didn't have the fat glass fenders I don't know were I would mount it.

A ring is welded to the strut and the threaded tube rests on it. Some kits come with o-rings that are wedged between the the tube and the strut to keep the tube from rotating while you adjust the lower perch. I found the o-rings to be a poor solution. They would slip and let the tube rest at an angle to the strut causing the spring to wear on the tube threads. On the last set I did I wrapped duct tape around the strut untill the tube fit tight then i ran a small bead of silicone around the top of the tube. This keeps the tube parallel to the strut and secure but it can still be removed with a simple razor blade and a tug.

I have a Ron Tyler front diff mount that makes adjusting the pinion angle much easier in a V8 Z. Check his site and a search here for pics and info. Also, I can attest to the aluminum driveshaft helping as well. Mine came out of an '84 Vette and includes something like a harmonic balancer on the tranny yoke.

Don't know if this is meaningful to you guys or just adding confusion. You guys decide. When I did my EFI V8 swap I changed the fuel tank for another, added a sump and vented the tank just like GM did in the car my motor came out of. GM used a two way vent valve that lets air in but allows the tank to pressurize up to about 8 or 10 psi then releases any pressure (and fuel vapor) above that to the atmosphere. Works great, but this is in an EFI fuel system with a common steel gas tank. Don't know if it would apply to a plastic fuel cell with a carb.

Welcome to Hybrid John. Give the search engine here a try. Many of us have coilovers and there is lots of information in the archives on where to buy and how to install coilovers and all the pros, cons, and variations. After some reading if you have some specific questions that are not answered from your search please post them. Dan

Please, don't compare cats to rats. That's an insult... to RATS!!

I have 15x8" wheels with coilovers on the front of my car. I run 4 1/2" backspacing. I do have the SubtleZ front fenders though which give me about 1 1/2" more space. If you try and run 5" of backspacing with 15" rims you'll likely be rubbing your springs.

Ah, running boards, cow catchers, and the way-cool grill-protruding oil cooler lines! Do you think our American hod rods look silly to the Japanese?

Bingo. Mash the throttle from idle to full song and the pressure drops quickly in the fuel rail. With the regulator right there on the rail and lots of high pressure fuel behind it it can quickly catch up and supply the needed volume. However, put the regulator back at the tank and it has to wait untill the pressure drop travels the whole length of the fuel line before it can react. The likely results would be an extremely lean condition leading to stalling before the regulator could catch up. The Ford one line system works because electrical impulses from the rail mounted sensor to the ECM, and then to the fuel pump, travel at the speed of light as opposed to the relative snails pace of a pressure drop in a liquid line.

I want! I want real bad!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6188&item=4539190643&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Well, I don't know much about the car. Most of it I've allready shared. I saw it three or four years ago at the Kit Car Club show in San Leandro, CA. The gentleman who drove it there did not enter it in the show, just parked it outside the ropes. The nose was busted up pretty good and there was some issue about insurance (or lack there of) so he was looking for a cost effective way of repairing it properly. The work was beyond his abilities and the shops he had talked to told him it would be cheaper and better to get a new nose. He couldn't find a new Alpha nose and was frustrated. He had never heard of John Washington's VR. He left me his e-mail address and when I got home I sent him the web address and Johns e-mail. I also dropped a note to John about the car. Later I heard back from John that they had struck a deal and that he was coming to California to get the car. An e-mail to John could give you a lot more info on the car than I can. john@reactionresearch.com If my memory serves me I believe the California owner had owned the car for many years. I think there was something about breaking a couple rearends too but that part is a little fuzzy. Either way sounds like you're one lucky bloke.

Is the car red?

Don't diss OEM. The best seats come from the big car makers. Remember, these guys have the bucks to do the proper product development. You can get an excellent design and then have a good upholsterer recover/repad them to your custom specs, often for less money than new after market seats. My seats came out of a Mitsu Starion. They are very comfortable and supportive. Adjustable lumbar, side bolsters, thigh support, headrest, as well as the standard rake and reach. And they are a great fit in the S30. I've put a leather covered pair of these in Steve Camerons Tomahawk as well and he loves them as well. The down side is that these seats are heavy. Even without any motors for power adjustments they are a pig. Also, there is a guy here on the board that blames them on a back injury he had in an accident. That's a call you have to make. I don't know if he had them in an S30 at the time. In my car I figure in an accident there are a lot of other things in my car that are going to hurt me before the seats do.

I have the JTR radiator, Taurus two speed fan, and an adjustable two speed thermostatic fan controller that I have set at about 170* (controller sensor in the radiator fins). My Datsun gauge reads right in the middle when it warms up and stays there regardless of load.

Do you know the history of this car? A few years ago I spoke to a gentleman out here in California with an Alpha much as you describe except the nose (original Alpha) had been crunched. He was having a difficult time deciding what to do with it. I suggested the VR front clip to him as a solution. The car was sold to John Washington in AZ who replaced the nose and then it was sold again. I lost track of it from there. When I saw the car it was red.

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"I'll have a Miller, please" I dug this out of the archives in case somebody might be interrested. I bought my daughter a car last week with a blown engine. The plan is she rebuilds it (with my supervision) and gets an education and her first car all in the same deal. Local shop had a nice looking Mazda Millenia buried in the repo lot. '95, leather, sunroof, all the options. $400, SOLD. Get it home and find out it has one of these cool Miller-cycle mills in it. 2.3L V6, four cams, and wierd supercharger. It started right up! But it blows blue clouds of Valvoline. We'll be pulling the motor out next week. If anyone is interrested we'll give updates with pics.