280zwitha383

Can't believe you didn't like the 440. It's just awesome. I hate the hood though.

Depends, you could definitely do it in a week if you had everything lined up. However, it's not probable. You've already had 5 posts, it's time you stopped talking about it and do it!! haha

thanks, I don't really like drawing attention but you wouldn't believe the faces I get

All that to hold your switches in place with some wood screws?!

Well with the single 2 1/2" I ran an 8.1 @ 88 mph 1/8 mile. My goal is to simply get it in the sevens and above 90 mph which I probably did with the exhaust because I can really tell a difference. I'm still running 195 walmart tires so there's plenty more left at the track I think.

This is the beginning. I bought the car for $300 with a good drivetrain but no body parts. I thought I would strip it down and make a go cart of sorts out of it. Little did I know... A guy in a nearby city told me that he was putting a 327 in his 240z. I traded him a junk Z for parts for my ZX, and thought all the while of putting a 350 in the car. I probably drove it for about a year when the clutch went out. Consequently so did the rest of the drive train. I had a 350 laying around so I started buying stuff and before you know it the oil pan was the only thing left from a complete engine. A semi-hot 383 resulted. I never liked chevy orange and this blue was about the only thing that struck me at the parts store. It's a lot darker in person. I bought a Victor Jr. with the 1" higher plenum. I was pretty sure it would never clear the hood but it didn't matter. I wanted one of the scoops with butterflies but this one was about $200 cheaper. Dumped the exhaust after running a single 2 1/2" pipe. Who knows how that'll pass inspection. Gotta watch the speed bumps. I took the rear bumper out and trimmed the cover. Probably not the best thing to do since the gas tank is right there. Oh well, I've never given it a second thought... until now... And this is the car as it is currently. Boy does it get the looks. Even with the single 2 1/2 I got some pretty good stares but now it really gets peoples attention. I wish it didn't but I like the car the way it is. Possibly a black paint job in the future after I sand some of that bondo. I hope you enjoyed!

hmm, maybe you should educate us and tell us why it shouldn't take more power...

This is true, for the ZX mounts JTR recommends using v6 mounts from blazers and s10's.

Funny, I just dumped my exhaust behind the front tires, I wish I could get some pictures on here. Does anyone know if sidepipes are illegal in TX?

Who would have thought of putting GM and Nissan together?!.. oh wait.

If it's already in the car and you have driven it why do you ask? Seems you should be able to have plenty of fun with that setup... for a while

Wow, there is ONE first generation Z here and a kid drives it around. I always give him a hard time asking him when he's going to do an engine swap. I think his daddy is buying him another car now though.

put the engine in a ZX

When can you really swap VIN numbers? At what point is one car legally no longer that car but another since you swapped so many parts off of it?

I dismissed the search function on this site a long time ago. If I ever want to search for something I try and match words in the title. I've never been able to find something in the body of a post. It would be nice though.

I don't think they pull down the mpg like they should (for the trouble) but I like the idea although I would hate for it to ever malfunction. Probably they just have too much vehicle weight and then they're lugging around the other 4 cylinders so it's kind of surprising that it would ever work really well. I have wondered before if one could use megasquirt to do their own custom setup like that, seems it would be pretty straight forward. You could set the ignition and injectors to fire every other cylinder?.