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I currently have an electric fan on my L24 '73 with an aluminum crossflow radiator. I have a new 280Z fan and fan clutch that I bought for my 280Z but never used. Will it bolt up?

You know, we can't have it both ways. We can't be telling people with an indignant undertone to 'do a search' and then complain that they are replying to 7 year old threads. If you think about it, digging this up is valid since when the thread was started, using a Turbo AFM on a NA car was problematic at best. Now, with some of the programmable fuel injection available, it might be one of the hot tickets... Just sayin'...

Clarification: Keith cannot make hypojets for Mikunis and I cannot edit the title of the thread. So, we both have our limitations. 8)

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I recall reading an article about a pre-production Z sitting next to a building in Japan rusting away... There is an interesting story about a pre-production Porsche 914 that I know to be true because I know at least two of the principals involved. One did jail time over it. The car, Number 4 as it was designated by the Porsche factory somehow made it across the ocean and onto some property in the Mojave Desert. My friend was contacted by some people because he owned one of the biggest car forums on the web with over 10000 members and hundreds of members online all the time. He was asked if he was 'interested' and they could 'get it for him.' He said yes, and the car was delivered to him. Now, this car was not only pre-production it was an anomaly also in that Porsche crushes their prototypes. It had a number of hand-tooled features and it was rusted pretty badly. No one seems to know how it got out of Germany or across the ocean. My friend made no secret of having the car. He figured Porsche didn't care by that time. He wrote an article about it that was published in Excellence Magazine. That is when the plot thickens as they say... Unbeknownst to my friend, a guy had seen the article in Excellence and approached the police in San Bernardino County, CA claiming to own the car and having a DMV issued lost title replacement. His story was that he bought it at a storage facility auction when someone had quit paying on their garage. My friend also had a DMV issued lost title replacement (Don't get me started on how amazed I am at the shear number of idiots gathered in one place called the California DMV). So, the police had a stand-off. Both had title to the car. The police pondered for a moment and decided that the storage garage guy had prior title, and it still isn't illegal to be an idiot so DMV was faultless. So they started trying to recover the car. For some reason, here is where my friend seems to have lost his judgement. The police started looking for him to get the car. They went to his wife and left a card, they were going through a divorce so it is unclear if he got the message that they were looking for him. They went to his work, the trolled his website. With some detective work they determined he was living with a girlfriend and they arrested him at 3am and transported him to San Bernardino County. He spent about a week in jail while the website raised money for his bail. Ultimately, he was sentenced to time served and probation. The guy who bought the car from the storage facility has neither the time or the talent to restore the car so he has partnered with Automobile Atlanta and I am not sure what their plans are. I suspect, they will just display it in their humidity and temperature controlled showroom. (George Hussey the owner has some very tasty and valuable cars in that showroom). It came out later that the guy who approached my friend in the first place apparently went to the property in the Mojave Desert and pulled the car sideways out from where it was stored between two other cars. He then loaded it on a flatbed and towed it to my friend. Not sure how much money changed hands but my friend got royally screwed... Moral of the story: It isn't worth it...

You heard it, Keith Franck is ready to fabricate some Emulsion tubes for Mikuni carbs after getting a Mikuni to model from our friend Silverstreak. He has Silverstreak testing one set for sure but if you have A:F meter installed fess up and you could be part of this test. Here's a clue! These work amazingly on Webers! "Ready to fab some tubes but I've got one more hurdle to clear. The leadscrew on my lathe won't turn metric threads so I'll have to try using a M11x1 die for the male thread. I'm hoping to do it in a single pass without tearing up the brass threads. This is where it could go all wrong.:-( I'll need some volunteers to test these tubes. Preferably someone that has an AFM with logging capability." -Keith Franck

I wrote a how-to on this in the '90's on my now defunct website PlanetZ. You can use the turbo AFM on your NA car by removing the cover of both and swapping in your circuit board from your NA AFM. Without headers, cam, and a way to get more fuel to the engine you will have a tip-in stumble. Keep in mind though, I didn't have Megasquirt to work with in the '90's... You should be able to tune it now...

Oh Ya! That IS Mr. K's autograph on my glove box door...

Very satisfying when a project turns out this well and is completed. Just finished 'dressing' the passenger door.

It's all about individual expression Kacrow76... If that's what your son wants, that's what he should do. A friend and I are working on a sub-box that fits in the spare tire well... Fiberglass with a wood top. We will be making more than one if he's interested... It isn't that I am a concours weenie. I like the car to look substantially stock but have some really cool undertone. I think what Pete did with that speaker pod is great!

Oh I still go... I love to chat it up with the gang and see the cars. Heck, I live in Reno. Hot August Nights is NOT to be missed. Single marque events are better and I do enter the Porsche Club events. In fact, I have never failed to take home something from those. In fact, once I beat a gal who cried and said she put 14 hours into cleaning her car and I won because I had raced my car that year. Well, first of all, why enter Competition and Special Interest if you haven't competed? But, I handed her the trophy and told her 'you take this, it obviously means more to you than me.'

I do have the wiring in place. Two bullet connectors taped over in the harness back by the fuel pump. I think that requires the other harnesses and relays found in Carl's post of the Nissan document. Bottom line, the green cable isn't hot.

SteveJ, Questions about your comment. First, did Nissan use both of these sources at the same time? Isn't the solenoid only powered while the car is starting? Or is it powered all the time while it is running? My car still has the voltage regulator it came with. Well not the one it came with but stock...

He did. 'Adequate' to paraphrase. You don't have a problem if you aren't starving... I believe it was Leon who asked the question though. Maybe he could elaborate...

Here's an interesting tidbit... I just found out my Triple Webers are rare as hell! I have 42DCOE 8 triples. They apparently were commissioned by Maserati in the 1960's and were also used on Morgans and Triumph's... The reason I was researching them is I was thinking of selling them and going with 40DCOE 151's for the idle adjust-ability.

It occurs to me that Spec racing is an idea who's time has passed. "Let's make everything equal and then the best driver/team wins." Little room for innovation, and even that little bit of room gets squished by politics sometimes. I say, dial back the specs and see what they come up with. Give them room to create. Who knows? It might lead to hovercraft technology! 8)

A bit of the front end...

Another from Atlanta...

So, I bet you want to see what they look like finished right?

I quit entering car shows. It worked for me. But, I feel your pain. Arbitrary. The only 'class' I ever care about is People's Choice...

I saw the video of that 'punting' and I am not quite sure what happened. He didn't need to come down on the Deltawing. He had lots of straight to move into the line. If he wanted the inside in the next corner he would need to go around either in front by passing or behind, not through! But in the unedited version of the video I saw, that Deltawing is damn quick! One of the things I teach is critical thinking. I suppose you could say it is a form of the business adage 'thinking outside of the box'. It involves never accepting that something is as good as it can be. Accepting that the way things are done is as good as it can be, can exclude the possible along with the clearly not. The process is simply to develop a mindset that nothing is as good as it could be and then work to improve it. Once you have improved it, you start the process over. It's circular. I think racing could use a bunch of critical thinking. 8O

I also agree with Zedy, it appears prone to failure when contacted at speed... Gotta finish to take advantage of the time saved not in the pits.

Well, they brought more than one. These pictures were taken today at Petit LeMans... I do think a problem exists that the car solves. That being time in the pits for tire changes and fuel cost time on the race track. Time on the race track is what wins if you can run enough laps. This car runs about 3-4 times farther than most of the other LeMans entries on the same tires and fuel load. I find it an interesting study.