savageskaterkid

http://www.wtvr.com/global/story.asp?s=8093078 This is horrible, a few people had said it may have had nitrous, due to it catching fire so quickly.

hahaha, that is great.

what is this spare tire kit you speak of? We stopped using runflats, where just running some regular street tires. My parents might like to hear about the spare kit, as the thought of one of the tires blowing kinda sucks.

Mine was similar, and it had a broken intake bolt.

Toyota Sienna is awesome, just don't get the awd version. Tires are WAY to expensive and they wear pretty fast.

I wish I knew about this kit when I did my rebuild, It seems like a fair price.

hmmmm, can you make a drawing showing what your talking about, I have an idea of what it is, but I wanna make sure.

NOOOOOOOO, not FREEZE plugs

I don't mean to go against this, but how well will this actually work? The reason I say this is, the supercharger would be making boost at low RPM's and be pushing through the piping, and actually surge the turbo wouldn't it? You'd need some kind of way to regulate it where it wouldn't actually lag the turbo.

ya, thats crazy, its definitly made a bit more then I was willing to spend

A neighbor of mine does alot of business with china, and he said the reason for the cracking is the chinese grade stainless is very porous and thin and this makes it very prone to cracking. If you get something made in china, out of aluminum, then its fine, as there aluminum is near the same as ours. Its pretty much there stainless thats lacking quality.

kinda saw it coming, but it was funny.

This project is a very random, but cool one.

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=106960

Is it just me, or does the espada look very similar to a dodge challenger, except a wagon of course.

we're all here to help, but you need to make the effort to try searching. Do a quick search for holset, a bunch of stuff should come up. The 280zx turbo is a fairly decent sized one comparted to most junkyard finds, as most cars don't come turbo. Saab, volvo, volkswagon are usually the junkyard finds, and they are tiny. The holsets are a bit pricey for a used turbo, but they seem to work great on the Zs.

I think the guy ended up selling it to a museum or something.

Currently bidding on it, so please don't jack it up.

You can get a T that is 1/8 NPT and just tap the hole to 1/8 NPT, thats what I did. The oil sending unit will thread into NPT, but NPT wouldn't work to well threading into the block. So 1 minute and a NPT tap fixed that.

I have plenty of experiance at changing oil, I work at an oil change facility. Goto your local oil change place, and they'll put in an oversize plug if possible. Probably a ford plug of some sort. Its quite common. A toggle plug(butterfly) is only for a last resort. They do ok....if you have nothing else, it sure does beat replacing the oil pan. The oil change shop will charge you a few bucks for the plug, and if they pull a vaccum on the motor, you won't loose any oil. If your gonna do it yourself, just bring your plug in, and tell them you want an oversize plug that'll work. If it doesn't work, get a toggle plug.

Awhile back, one of my auto tech teachers told me to measure for current accross the wires to see if theres power. Find where the break is and put two pieces of tape parallel to the defrost line, and use clear nail polish to complete the circuit. I have never done this before, but whats the harm really, you can use nail polish remover if it doesn't work I suppose.

the stimulus package isn't suposed to go out till like may, right?

I would think its the same, how much you want for it? Kinda broke at the moment, but trying to get the Z running again.

Are these radiators interchangeable, I've owned both, but never paid much attention to them, untill mine has a crack, and theres only an S130 at the JY.

It looks very similar to Dan Juday's car IIRC, its been awhile since I've seen a pic of his car. I know this isn't his, but he comes to mind when I see this pic.