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One reason I didn't go with a scraper is that I've seen them cause oil pan gasket leaks. Glad I didn't do it. I used the Moroso one shown on my 327. I used the ARP studs, but note that when you order a stud kit for a SBC, it usually comes with only 5 of the 6 studs with the threaded extension to mount to that Moroso screen. I had to order another stud and nut set for that 6th location separately. Another thing about stud kits. If found that I had to drill out the holes in the rear main cap for the studs. They were big enough to pass the stud, but the thicker shank of the stud forced the cap forward a tiny bit, mis-aligning the thrust surface of the rear main halves. A local machine shop told me this is standard practice for installing those studs.

I've emailed Dan. He's the only one that can fix it.

Sorry, I've not been on the site for a week or more. The A4s JUST fit in my car. The shoulder wing is 1/2 inch from the door panel. The VX2200 is an inch wider in that area, according to their website. So the seat would need to move over a bit to not hit the door. That ought to be possible. As far as the difference in the base dimensions, that might be more of a problem. But if you don't want to use the OE seat belt retractors, that might not matter. The other thing to consider is the height of the seat bottom cushion when you are sitting in the seat. The A4 the way I have it mounted on flat aluminum stock to adapt to the Z slider raised the me a bit in the car compared to the Z seat. If you can sit in both seats and measure your head height relative to the mounting points for the seats, that'd be a good indication of whether the VF2200 will work in that dimension. Hope that helped.

Sure you can . Personally, I'm more excited about seeing these two cars go down the strip, even if not against each other, than racing my relatively very slow Z.

aviatorx has a point that some people that might not otherwise think through what Kevin is posting about might get themselves in a heap of trouble or take even more chances thinking they could get away with even more challenges to the "jurisdiction". But maybe the back and forth have brought both sides out, and aviatorx has done well by pointing this issue out. Once again, HybridZ has been quite educational. I know I learned alot. Then again, I'll just sign the ticket, too - and take it to court like I ALWAYS have.

Jim, I was wondering when someone would mention my boyhood heart throb . I've never since seen cut off jeans look that good

Heh, due to my HORRIBLE web site design, all the pics of my Z are stashed in little cubby holes on my site. If you surf the ENTIRE screwed up, unorganized site I have, you'd see them. Even I forget what's where. As it turns out, those pics I put up on cardomain.com on Sunday came from only 3 different pages on my site. Yeah, I need to get my site straightened out. It's a real mess. Maybe this Winter?

I agree with Mike kZ. I have a ~370 hp 327, with A/C, the Camaro Rad, and a Mustang GT Fan. With the A/C on in 100 degree heat and 95% humidity, I had no overheating problems. The Griffin would be a great way to go, but if you're strapped for cash, a JY Taurus fan may be cheaper and easier. Anyway, you'll probably end up needing a better fan with the Griffin as well.

Jeremy seems to have gotten the message. He's sent me an email apologizing and promises to take the picture down.

Welcome! Actually, I'd rotisserie it first to get all the crud off the underside, and then put it on a jig or 6 or 8 jack stands so that it's resting on many of them equally before you start doing subframe connectors, etc. Even better would be to have it straightened on a chassis alignment machine in a body shop first. Check out the Chassis forum here and search for cage and subframe. Look especially for Michael and katman's posts on this topic. Sounds like a beast!

Wow, Sam, that's a heck of a story. Sounds like you'll get there soon. BTW, what cam and heads, and what else do you have in that engine now? 380 rwhp is going to be a BLAST! Tell me what forum you want to move this to and I'll be happy to oblige! Best Regards, Pete

Tim, great thinking on that PS pump trick! Dave, sweet looking place! That'd be twice as much where I live!

Kevin, great point. Michael was over at my place the other day and he gave a bit more info - he wants a stump puller. At the point, with the right compression the 256 or 262 versions of the Xtreme cams makes more sense.

Oh, here's my little page over there I just made up: http://www.cardomain.com/id/pparaska

Mike, I'm not worried about it. I'm thinking along the lines of Terry - somebody that likes my car (can't complain about that!) and wants people to think it's his. No biggie. I did make 2 guestbook entries (damn, every time I hit refresh it added a copy of my entry!). I'm now making my own profile page over there. No biggie with me guys - thanks for the heads up though.

I've been off the forum most of the week. I saw this thread and only read the first post and went and saw the pic of my car. Seriously, guys, I laughed. Too bad he got all the info on what it really has in it wrong. If it does 12.6s I'll be pleased. I see jumped in and said it wasn't his but mine. Oh well, let him dream a little. Doesn't bother me.

I am SUCH A MUSICAL HERMIT. Thanks again for listing some great artists and guitarists I'd never heard of. I was listening to some Winamp stations, and said, what the hey, I'll search for Satriani and found a station Sudo&Godo , Il mio sudore e` per voi and they were playing "traveler" by Satriani. I heard the last minute or so and really liked it. Thanks again guys!

Guys, I've not logged into Hybrid since this past Sunday - didn't see this til now. Thanks for thinking of me, Scottie. Jimi is my favorite guitar player. Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughn, ROBIN TROWER, BB, Albert Collins, others follow. I like Jimi's style of blues the best, and of course what many then called rock. I really do think the music world would be alot better today if Jimi had survived, sold records, and showed the promoters that fingers smoking on the fret board, not lighting fire to the guitar with a torch, is what SELLS. Who knows, we may have all been spared of DISCO! I played guitar a bit 20+ years ago in a high school aged rock band. All we did was copy other bands, only TRIED to play maybe one Hendrix song. I was never a very good guitar player, but played enough to be in awe of the true masters. Knowing how to play really lets you appreciate a great musician. If you just spectate, you never really can appreciate music fully. I saw Stevie and Albert Collins a few times - awesome! Robin Trower once too. I really like his style kind of a modernized Hendrix. To me he's kind of an unsung guitar hero. I really need to get a DVD player and start collecting some DVDs and get some more music CDs. I don't actively listen to much more than the radio in the garage and the car. That needs to change. A guy at work had 4000+ MP3 files on the server and sends out updates to the playlist so I've been expanding my horizons lately with everything from Classical, to hip hop, and everything in between, etc. Some I like, some I don't. I've unfortunately lived my last 20 years listening mostly to "classic Rock" stations and not expanding my musical horizons enough. Sorry to ramble. Z content: The inner valve springs are going in slowly, the tranny is back in after it's second removal to fix a leak, and I hope to be smoking the tires Saturday morning. Been working hard at work and wrenching in the night, so not on the Internet much.

I agree with Mike. I had the 270S small block cam in my 327, and it was quite mild. Go with at least the 282S on that beast, if not the 294S! You might want to just call Comp Cam's hotline and talk to them. The Magnum lobes have a relatively slow ramp, compared to the Xtreme lobes. You can get a custom cam with a selection of the existing lobe profiles for a bit more money. What would be interesting is an custom Xtreme flat solid cam, with the intake lobe off of the 282 degree (244@.050) 11-678-5 (BB XS282-10) cam and exhaust lobe off of the 11-677-4 (BB XS274S-10) cam (exhaust: 280, 244@.050). Or for a more radical (but probably still very streetable in a 454, with 10.5 or 11:1 compression) use the 11-679-5 intake lobe and the 11-678-5 exhaust lobe. That cam would have 290/288 (252/252 @.050) with .352/.352 lobe lift. I think that'd be more in tune with the rest of you beast, and probably still streetable. But call Comp Cams. Heck, call Crane as well. The Xtreme mechanical flat tappet cams can be found at: http://compcams.com/information/whatsnew/NewsDetails.asp?ListHistoryID=-1371474547 These cams have faster ramps than the Magnum series, and that means better idle vacuum for the same .050 duration figures. The practical side of this is that you can run more .050" duration with the same seat timing (and therefore the same dynamic compression ratio and idel vacuum) as a more radical Magnum (or other slower ramp) cam. But the valve spring requirements are larger for the same "advertised" duration with the Xtreme series, because the valve action is quicker and the lift is usually higher for the same advertised duration.

Well, the Tremec shifts more like a truck transmission than a car. It's not horrible, but nothing like a T5. Notchy, but not horrible. Jim Biondo had a built T5 in his 570 hp V8 260Z. In several thousand miles of street, road course, and drag strip combined driving, it never gave up the ghost. But I've seen others with V8Z's go through them. I'd give Bob Hanlon at http://www.hanlonmotorsports.com a call and talk to him - he's a pro at the Tremec and T5s and has both for sale with upgrades. His GM'd tremec TKO is about the same price as Darkhorse's GM'd Tremec 3550 (weaker than the TKO). I'd be talking to Bob Hanlon about a Tremec, these days. But see what he says about a built up T5 - I'd prefer that trans for many reasons if it could handl the abuse.

Good idea. I'm hoping I WON'T need that going/coming to the Southeast Z Shootout. Maybe if someone with the right skill set writes the code/page, we can get SuperDan to link to it or host it?

Dan, 660Z, the cardboard model showed promise. I was away at grad school, living in the basement of an old house in Blacksburg VA, and the idea of using an automatic in my then-only-a-pipe-dream-V8Z (had the same Z though!) intrigued me. But it had to have an H-pattern shifter . I was just sitting around not wanting to study anymore and came up with an idea of how to make an H-pattern shifter that moved a cable linkage in a linear fashion so that 1st, 2nd, 3rd were in the top left, bottom left, and top right of an H, an overdrive would be at the bottom right where 4th is on a manual trans. I think I got it so that anywhere else put it in neutral, and I think reverse and park would have mapped into thecorrect linear cable position as well. Man, that brings back memories. That was 15 years ago!

I have one out of a JY (an early 70 Chrysler) where the battery used to be.

My prognostication: Ain't gonna happen. When I was a young lad, I used to listen to "The Grease Man's" radio show on a local rock station I listened to alot. He got canned for some insensitive remark the first time (can't remember what it was), then years later he was back on another station and said something racist and was sent packing again. I'm older now and listen to news radio and a classic rock station with mostly music and little chatter.

Yeah, I remember hearing about a "Clutch TH400" 20 years ago. Sounds cool. Clutch, manual valve body, and an H-pattern shifter would be cool! (I designed one on paper years ago and made a working model out of cardboard.) I was reading a Jegs lately and ran across an ad for a Circle Track automatic manual valve body. Something about hooking a pedal up to a valve in the valve body to raise and lower pump pressure to the clutches to get On/Off action inside the automatic. I guess with a direct drive or a "welded" converter shell, you'd have a "Clutch Automatic". Intriguing. I bet it's not very streetable. Anybody familiar with these?