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    My weekend project....*pics*

    in Body Kits & Paint

    Posted

    AHH!!!!! Bondo!!! Big NO NO!!

     

    The fiberglass from Bondo is ok as it's waterproof.. but the filler is not. You will have an absolute nightmare of the next 2-4 years depending on the humidity and how much it rains where you live. The bondo will absorb any moisture.. it will slowly expand, peel off from the body, caust rust behind in the crevice.. bubble your paint with water bubbles... oh it's just nasty... Sorry to be a downer here... best thing to do is seal it up REALLY well and you might get lucky.

     

    -Ed

     

    I did this last January, and the inserts started coming out by April. I'm in Seattle, lots of wetness, but it happened. I mainly wanted it to be less obvious that I was rolling around without a bumper, so it worked.

     

    Looks badass man, I hope it sticks around!

    Install Kit

    in Toyota L6 Forum

    Posted

    I see your point..but if find one that runs, then i could sell the motor, and pick up a couple of hundred right there....either way i want one real bad but i don't have the time for a swap and major resterestion....Which is the reason im considering a s13/s14 because thats really the only other "light" RWD car i like...theres the Fc rx-7 turbo II which i like, but my brother has that....Anyway sorry to thread jack....

     

    For the guys that did the swap..is there a way to mod the stock s30 mounts to work..is it feasible?

     

    That couple of hundred won't pay for the frame repairfloorboards you'll need.

     

    The way clifton is suggesting uses the stock mounts. Find a good body'd car (is that a word?) for a grand, and start from there.

    badjuju's 7MGTZ

    in S30 Series - 240z, 260z, 280z

    Posted · Edited by badjuju

    The motor:

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    The Mounts Clifton Designed, which I, shamefully, will be copying:

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    MotorMountLeft.jpg

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    I plan to cut the exhaust at the first bend and just rotate it 180*. I hope to.

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    And just for the hell of it, we dropped the motor in with a crane to see how badass this thing will really look.
    Once the motor is swapped in, we're planning on putting a small jacuzzi or spa in between the pulleys and the electric fans. Maybe a batting cage, I really have to think of my options, I don't want to let all that space go to waste.

    New server hardware?

    in Site Support

    Posted

    That's a nice setup! Nothing like data redundancy, we've been running Raid 6 everywhere, but that's really overkill. I've never build a dual quad core over 2 ghz, I bet that sucker screams!

     

    I've got a server install to do this weekend, the company purchased their server from HP about a year ago, and just brought us on as a consultant. We're installing Small Business Server for them, because all of their email runs through POP3... Not the most secure and certainly not the safest as far as data redundancy is concerned.

     

    Also, flip through the list of similar threads... lol

    Top view of an s30?

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    I'm about to start my wiring harness, and I'd like to draw a diagram on the car. I'd like to be able to draw the location of each device and have a checkbox beside each, to show whether it's been wired or not.

     

    I've googled around, and haven't found what I was looking for.

     

    Does anyone have a pic of the top of their car? as in, just showing the outline of the car from the top view?

    New server hardware?

    in Site Support

    Posted

    Just read that some upgrades were happening, just wanted to offer my services as a tech if you need a server built.

     

    If I just missed the boat, or you're not interested, it's cool, but if you'd like, I could post a short hardware resume' :D

     

    Haven't donated YET (gotta buy my 7mgte first), but I'd like to support the site in whatever way possible.

    badjuju's 7MGTZ

    in S30 Series - 240z, 260z, 280z

    Posted · Edited by badjuju

    So... After measuring all that we had to fab, we started bending:

     

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    Then we bent some more:

     

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    From another angle:

     

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    How's it fit?

     

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    A little floorboard repair while we're at it, Poik helped out here:

     

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    Building an end piece for the new frame rail:

     

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    Ripped the old frame rail out:

     

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    Welded the new wheel well in:

     

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    Fitting the new rail:

     

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    Didn't take any after pics... damnit, lol

     

    I'll take some the next time it's on a lift.

    badjuju's 7MGTZ

    in S30 Series - 240z, 260z, 280z

    Posted · Edited by badjuju

    So, After the new carb was installed, and everything was all gravy, I drove the car. Whee. That little sucker hauled ass.

    For about a week and a half.

    Now, when I buy a car, I change the oil, spark plugs, etc. I check the oil every time I drive it for a week or so, to make sure it doesn't leak. The car didn't leak oil, it didn't burn oil. The friday following the carb install, I checked the oil, perfect. I drove up to my parents' place, and parked the car. I drove my dad's pickup for the weekend (hauling dump runs and such). On a side note, here's a pic of the truck a year or so prior, after racing and beating an 11 second mustang at the track in Bremerton, Wa:

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    Note: Poik and I won the race. This happened on the way home, doing 50 mph, steadily down the freeway. This is a thread for another day, however.

    So, Monday morning, I get in my car (didn't check the oil this time), and got on the road. I got from Monroe to Kenmore:

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    Before I noticed a rattling sound. I immediately pulled over, checked my oil. Bone dry. I walked to shell, bought 5 quarts of oil, dropped it in the motor, and checked the oil. The motor was hot, so all the oil heated up and dropped to the pan, and the oil came up to the "okay" mark on the dipstick. I drove to work, and worked. After work, I checked my oil, it was full. The motor, was not leaking any oil. I drove home. On the way home, however, the L24 went tits up. There was no oil sitting at home on the driveway where it was parked for the weekend, and there was no burning oil smell to the exhaust. CERTAINLY NOT 5 QTS IN 20 MINUTES OF DRIVING worth of burning oil smell.

    So, at this point I have a car with no motor, and a turbocharged motor with the same mounts and all that, in a car with a 3 speed auto tranny, and inferior looks and aesthetics.

    I swapped the turbo motor into my s30. Whee! I also rewired my MS Harness. It sort of looked like this:

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    Yeah, I don't have a pic of the harness in the s30, but it didn't look any better than the original.

    Anyhow, I drove my car a lot, and it was fun.

    Next up in the list of fun stuff which has been a pain in my ass: Replacing the passenger side frame rail. Suddenly the car started veering right really hard when I hit the brakes. Turns out the subframe rail was rusted through and needed to be replaced. I replaced it with a piece from http://www.baddogparts.com/. It was an awesome piece, and I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to replace their frame rail.

    Luckily, my neighbors build cars. Their work is ******* amazing. They restore Jensen Interceptors. I'd never heard of a Jensen before I met Doug and Keri, but they seem to be really great cars. Anyhow, Doug allowed me to use his shop to replace my frame rail, and when it became apparent to him that I didn't know what the hell I was doing, he helped me out by essentially doing the whole job for me. Essentially, I'm in debt as far as work time goes. Whenever I'm at my parents place and I have a spare minute, I ask him if he needs any help. He really bailed me out, and didn't ask for anything in return.

    Anyhow, here are the pics!

    Before any work:

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    So, Doug told me to start cutting shit away. Here is that:

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    He asked me to pull this in one piece, so we could use it to fabricate other pieces:

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    badjuju's 7MGTZ

    in S30 Series - 240z, 260z, 280z

    Posted · Edited by badjuju

    This project started with this:
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    My 280zx turbo. Poik (turbobricks and ls1tech) and I drove from Edmonds, Washington, to Grant's Pass, Oregon, to get a Turbocharged 280zx with T Tops, because there were like two in Washington for sale, both of them being rust buckets.

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    Note: long. f*cking. Drive.

    Next, I purchased a fuel rail from Pallnet (Great guy, hell of a product), along with a set of 311 ccmin NA Supra Injectors. I did not do any tuning. I simply bumped my boost up.

    After deciding my car was considerably slower than before I did my "upgrade", I decided to embark on a journey towards Megasquirt. A journey which would make my family question my sanity, and eventually hold me as brilliant for "Boeing-ing out" my car, rather than pimping it out.


    Turns out the '81 l28et is the only one of the L series motors which can not simply be modified to trigger megasquirt. Believe me. It was a bitch. It has an optical crank angle sensor, which sucks. I ended up just pulling the crank pulley off, drilling three holes in it, gluing magnets into it, and running a hall effect sensor. AMAZING how simple it was to get running. It took like six months to finally just do this simple, $60 triggering system.

    Here are a couple pics of the first iteration of my megasquirt harness:

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    The men in my family are all electricians.  This wiring job was shameful.

    So, I decided a year after installing MS (and two years after buying the car), that I'd like to buy a 240z. I like the lines better, it's lighter, has about the same space in the engine bay, and the interior is WAY cooler looking. More round instead of boxy edges. From now On I'll be referring to the 240z as the S30 and the 280zx as the S130.


    And here's one which fully encapsulates the condition of the interior:

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    The dash, is frickin perfect. I saw the dash, and knew this was the car for me. I've never seen an interior in as good of shape (without restoration) as this car. I decided that was a good indicator and bought it.

    Shortly after, I realized that the Holley 4 Barrel carb on the L24 (inline 2.4 liter) was a piece of crap. It only ran nice about 4k+ rpm wise, and a buddy of mine who knows about things such as carbs (knows a 4 bbl up and down), could not help me tune it at all.

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    ^setup that came with the car


    I bought a brand new Holley 390, as well as the 4 barrel intake from http://www.arizonazcar.com. I powdercoated the manifold black:

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    I did not get a pic when it was all done (like having the carb installed), but you've seen what it looks like. Imagine the first pic without carbon buildup.

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