Kirby260

It's been a pretty tough few months for me....Lost my good paying job..had to take a massive pay cut and move across the country. Benefit is that I have alot more free time. It seems that it has been discussed on many forums but never achieved..that I know of. But with the help of a whole bunch of reference drawings and photos, I have started to do a reasonably accurate CAD model of the 240z. Here is a teaser of the first step:

Hey Guys, I have done some searching, and did find some mention of this but no definitve answer. What are the differences between the 240z and 260z (Australian, same as '76 280z) front hubs? I was looking through a brake cataloge and a 240z rotor has a height of 52mm, whereas a 260z rotor has a height of 43.5mm. Are the 260Z hubs thicker? or are they just a different offset? I ask this question because Ross offers aluminium front hubs (5x4.5) but they match the 240Z geometry. What is going to change on my car if I was to use these?

anyone else?

Interesting. You said you can fit 298mm discs with this setup? What year Jag are the calipers? I'd be interested in purchasing them for sure.

Hey Guys, I was wondering if anyone that had a centre-dash guage from a 280z (not clock) laying around that they could measure up for me? I want to know the diameter of the shroud of the closest to the guage face, see attached picture. When I did it last time (left the measurements at home with the car). I took the small screws off the back of the guage and the needle and face assembly came away. With vernier calipers I was able to take the dimension. Cheers.

Hey Bud, I'm currently working out Brooks way, but do make it to calgary almost every second weekend. I spent alot of time playing tuner with the V500 on our FSAE car this year. If you run into any issues I would be happy to come help you out.

are XXR and Ensure the same company? I guess I'll give them a call and see how I go.

I'm considering a 300mm rotor with twin piston floating caliper. or a 330 of the same caliper. the OD of the 300 kit is 370mm, and the 330 is 400mm. the other thing I need to know is if there is any room for a caliper past the hub face with these wheels. e.g. X-factor.

Yes please Kirby.nankivell_a_gmail.com

Hey Team, Is there anyone that has a set of these wheels that could provide me with a drawing of the inner profile of the rim? I need to know if they are going to clear my brakes. I haven't been able to contact the manufactuer. Cheers

I'll take a set if you can ship to canada!

Single Channel per Controller.

I'm waiting for Robbie to get back, I think he's away for a few days! Now that I have information from him, my *new* racing team is working towards some pretty cool stuff with the wolf hopefully. Although I'm no longer on an Australian team!

From the mouth of the wolf itself. Wideband issues fixed, all ECUs from this point will work as advertised. Ron, have you recieved a new unit?

I'm very familliar with the RS-232 signalling standard iteself. I'm looking for the packet structure that runs over the bus from the wolf. I don't think they would class it as proprietary information, we managed to get motec to send us the datasheet for thier packet structure, we just had to ask. Which by the way would be a huge pain in the ass to reverse engineer, its like a 168 byte string. I sent them an e-mail, they never got back to me.

Ron, Since you seem to have a good relationship with WolfEMS perhaps you could ask for some documentation on the data singnalling that they use over RS232 port on the ECU? I've attempted to contact them several times to no avail. Cheers

I think everyone would be appreciative if you could get a cad made up of this. If the knowledge was free for people to use it would lead the way in more vh conversions. Also, can you please verify for me. that the sliver bolts (which i assume are for attaching through the bellhousing are not directly thread into the ally. But instead have some sort of steel boss pressed in or at the very least a helicoil.

another guy: http://www.nz300zx.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1601

Hey, I'm trying to find some wheels for my Z and after thoroughly searching this website, there is information about, but it comes in bits and peices. So, I thought i'd obtain some measurements and create a calculator that people can use, so instead of people asking over and over again. "Will these wheels fit under my guards" They will have a resources to determine if they will. By putting in width, size, Offset of thier rim. Then making tyre size recommendations. With adjustement options such as flares or smaller OD struts (eg coilovers) Unfortunatley I'm at college at the moment and My Z is on the other side of the country (along with my FSM and other books), so I cant obtain measurements. So I was wondering if I could convince some people to provide me with some measurements. I would like measurements to be from stock cars (ride height mainly), If you are running something different let me know. Rears: OD of stock Spring length of strut length of widest part of strut (spring, spring seat) Angle of strut from horiz or vertical, your choice. Angle of A-Arm from horiz. Depth of wheel tub Radius of edge of wheel tub (think of wheel tub as a toroid) Radius of outer body arc. Hub surface to furthest outer body point (top of body flare) Centrepoint difference between hub centre and outer body flare. That should give me enough info to do a sketch and come back with some more requests. Your involvement would be appreciated.

for all of those after a wiring diagram for the mid 90's vh45de engine. here it is. vh45.zip

stillen supercharger kit now appears to be available. http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/index.cfm?action=MorePartInfo&PartID=316174&siteid=55&catalogid=3306

sdsefi.com have what i think you are looking for. http://www.sdsefi.com/eic.html

have you put the engine in the car already? and the transmission bolts up, with no modifications?