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Absolutely....Caught me sleeping, but caught up and passed him at finish line. The 336 rear does better than his 410 top end, and the SU’s once agIn proved they can play with the big boys!

Nice sound @moelk. Five Z crazies went to Dinwiddie for a little competition Friday nite. EA6A6DF7-C686-4CB6-BD8D-96BC0F5CA4F2.MOV

Yep.....by .250 seconds.

SU’s vs Mikunis.....Me and Eiji ran at Dinwiddie Friday night. SU’s in the green car.......Mikunis in the 280ZX. I love my SU’s. EA6A6DF7-C686-4CB6-BD8D-96BC0F5CA4F2.MOV

rem1313.....If you are using a 73 E88 head and only shaved .012 inches, you shouldn’t have any problems IMO. Those pistons are fly cut. If you use a cam with any more lift than .460, you would need to use a shorter valve seal.

Wow Zed Head, I believe that crank snout has Jeff G’s name on it 😬

Wow Zed Head....I think that front cover has my name on it

@Dolfinz When you checked the position of the tang on your distributor, are you sure you were on TDC Compression stroke? If your chain timing was off, I do believe you would probably have valve contact. IMO

The Z 32’s are the second best looking Z series IMO. Mine isn’t turbo, but it’s still a joy to drive!

Eiji ran low 14’s I ran high 14’s. I hope to crack into the 13’s in two weeks with the new Stroker motor. It feels much fadter, but you know how that goes.

Here’s a perfect example. Eiji and I race once each year in Dinwiddie. In this race, he’s running a stroker with trips, larger valves and taller cam. I’m running my usual .080 cut, Isky Stage III with a .040 over bore. It’s pretty close till top end. On May 14th we run again.....this time I’m also running a stroker still with SU’s.....we’ll see how that comes out LOL. I love my SU’s. Turn up the volume. 8971BB1F-3839-469F-859A-361D92C3B750.MOV

Not if you are going to hook em up to a stock engine IMO. Now if you add all the other performance goodies, it may be worth your money and time. But for me, SU’s are cheap, easy to tune and provide plenty of juice to put a smile on your face.......especially if you add the other mods that work with them.

Hi Steve.....Your Z gets better looking every year. Hope you and Randy are getting number 46 back in shape. BTW the number 22 car of Woody’s is probably the best looking Z race car I’ve ever seen....not so much his 85 car LOL.

.......and with other rifraff in Atlanta!

Wow....I guess the price of a Jim Arnett autograph is going up!!!! 💰

The P90 head is pretty much a P79 head without the exhaust liners. You still have to shave 2 mm and shim everything and use the early valves. They both are great heads.

What a great story.....not many original owners. I let my 70 go in 72. Love those chrome bumpers....what a nice upgrade!!!! Regards

His name is Don Anderson. I spoke with him in 2007. His wife had recently died. He also owns two 300ZX’s. He published his phone number in the article. I’ll PM it to you. Guy

Eiji said that the club is still in existence, just not active because of Covid. I will PM VaCat33 and Steve the contact’s number so he can message him for info. Guy

Hi Steve.....I just texted Eiji to answer your question......will let you know what I find out. Regards. Guy

Good advice on wearing eye protection.... I spent two weeks in NAS Jacksonville Hospital after a wire came off of a wheel they were grinding the deck of the Destroyer SS Waldron. Luckily no permanent damage to my eye, but it went in a half inch. BTW grannyknot.....really enjoy watching your project!!! Guy

Nissan solved the problem of driving out the woodruff key with their next generation of dampers for the 280’s. The damper was radiused in about 1/4 inch so you could easily slide the damper over the woodruff key before snugging up the damper onto the crank snout. I guess you could take your early damper to a machine shop and have them do that for peace of mind. I always put new 280Z dampers on my builds just for that reason.

Interesting....I figured if the factory installed it, so would I. All of the engines I’ve taken apart have had them. Wonder why it’s called an oil slinger? Here’s one those little suckers! Probably keeps oil off the seal would be my guess.

Is your oil slinger intact? If you pushed the woodruff key thru into the pan, it would probably destroy the circular metal oil slinger unless you were very lucky and the notch on the oil slinger was perfectly aligned to the key.