Guest Brent Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Hi guys, I am using the Hooker engine mounts on my 73 and the trans mount too. The car seems very nose heavy and bottoms out alot. How much different are the set back plates from JTR and are they worth the effort to swap them out with my present ones?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad-ManQ45 Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Depends. What do you use the car for. If just drag racing leave it be. For a daily driver/autoX, the advantages of lower/further back translate to better weight distribution (handling/steering effort/less weight on front). Almost everyone doing a conversion on this board goes with JTR, and some have switched to it from Scarab and not looked back... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullbound Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 how's your front suspension? iron heads or aluminum on the v8? i'm switching over from the hooker setup to the jtr currently, but i never thought my car felt front-end heavy. however, when my car originally got the hooker treatment (with and iron head 350), the front springs were replaced with the stiffer rear springs, and the car got new struts and bushings. also, the '73 (same year as my car) with the hooker kit does place the v8 farther forward than the hooker kit in an earlier 240. swapping from hooker to jtr will cost a bit, as you will have to modify exhaust, switch to an electrical fuel pump if your running mechanical, plus the cost of the jtr kit and all the other while-i'm-at-it items that tend to pop up. it would be cheaper to turn your hooker engine mounts towards the rear of the car, cut the tranny tunnel bracing out (depending on the tranny you are using), and buy/make a tranny mount like the jtr kit uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brent Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 I have the Holley aluminum heads, intake and aluminum water pump. The front suspension is still stock. Transmission is a turbo 350. Does Nissan still sell rear end gears for these cars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1 Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Sounds to me like you might need some stiffer springs and new struts. Moving to the JTR position would only take 60-70# off the front end, noticable but not huge. Most people with V8 Z's are running a stiffer than stock spring/strut combo. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brent Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Thanks for the help guys. I'll look into some stiffer springs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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