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About 11 years ago I had a Honda Accord that I autoxed and I put in a Centerforce clutch. Made a world of difference in that car! The feel was just like the stock clutch as far as pedel action but damn that thing had grip. I could a stock clutch slip if I tried but even under the worst of conditions I could not make the Centerforce slip (keep in mind that it was only a 4cyl). Most of the time this was a good thing...but there was one time that slippage would have been better. Stupid, under the influence, young, etc...I was coming home from a club one night and almost missed my turn so I slammed on the breaks and shifted hard from 4th to 2nd at 60mph and totally blew the clutch to pieces (sadly it was only a few months old). When the shop took it apart they laughed and said that they run these in their race cars and had NEVER seen anything like this before. Just goes to show that we all do stupid things sometimes...fortunately I have grown up a lot in the past 11 years. Bottom line here, I like them a lot but have no basis of comparrison on a Z.

Try the local rental places like A-Z Rental or something like that, one of them should have one. I can't tell you if it would be a tow behind or not, but if it's not then just roll it up onto the trailer with the engine hanging on it then lower the engine onto the trailer and fasten everything down tight. Will cost a few bucks but will make life much easier. Me and one other guy unloaded my L28 onto an engine stand with something called a GenieLift. WRONG TOOL FOR THE JOB!! I will never try that again, I will just go and rent a stupid engine hoist and save myself a lot of time, agravation, and effort.

All I have to say is... ROFL ROFL ROFL

I read on the site beandip provided that the N36 only came on the 260Z. Does anyone know if this is accurate?

OK, now I feel a little stupid. I looked in MSA and VB and did not see this, that's why I posted here. :stupid: I see it now, thanx for the info.

Sorry for the delay...I have not forgotten about you guys who have replied to me. I have a 'new' dash on it's way to me and the seller originally told me that he did not have the glovebox but then just before he shipped it he found it and has included it for me. I waiting to get it so I can see what condition it is in before I make any further decisions.

I'm the new owner and haveconsidered this as an option but the real problem is unloading it as I do not have anything to attach it to nor the space to do this kind of opperation. It is going into a storage place so I really must be able to roll it. I wish that I could just do the drag-it-along option, it would be MUCH easier.

I picked up an L28 in Houston and brought it home to Austin on a small trailer (much easier to load and unload) and used a pair of 3" wide ratchet tie downs (like the ones Home Depot and Lowe's sells) to secure it. I kid you not, this thing did not move one ince in transit (ratchet them down tight). Sorry, I can't help you with loading it or unloading it.

Thanx guys!! The person clarified what their needs are. He wants to put an R180 3.36 on his '76 280Z (not sure why but hey, it's his car). So in this case he does need the R180 bar from a 240 or 260.

Someone just asked me if I had "...a mustache bar for a 240..." Now as I recall the mustache bar is specific to the diff, either an R180 or an R200 and not the model Z. Is this correct? If not then what models had the same mustache bar as the 240, that is if any others were the same?

No kidding Ernie!! Yours did not even look this bad! Looks like this guy wrapped it around a telephone pole. Hope the people that were inside are ok.

From what I recall reading all you have to do is slightly modify the area where the shift stick is (cut a little metal out) to accomodate the 5th gear. Other that that I believe that it's a drop in swap.

I'm looking for a good N42 head. I can trade a P79, maybe a P90 with 3400 miles on it since rebuild, or pay money. Maybe even trade for some other parts (let me know what you need). Please contact me if you have a GOOD N42 head you are willing to let go!

What needs to be done to make this setup work? I have read that the head needs larger valves. I'm trying to get an idea just what's involved here. Any machine work? Can the head letterally be taken off the original engine and bolted to the F54 block with no other work needed (provided there's nothing wrong with it)? Reason I'm asking is that I was going to go with a P90 head but have discovered that to make it worth doing there is some machine work needed (shaving the head) and from what I can tell you can just bolt the N42 on and have the same compression as the worked over P90. If the N42 is truely that much easier of a swap for the same gains I will change directions and seek out a good N42 head. EDIT: The block has flat-top pistons.

A tiny bit of additional info that I forgot to put in which may help. Upon discovering the very low cyl we put just a little heavy oil in the cyl through the plug hole and then tried the compression test again and it shot up to 150! The person helping said that this pointed to a bad ring.

I agree! I like them and I want a pair! :classic:

Since I kinda hijacked someone else's thread I am starting my own here but this is a link to the background of what I'm talking about. http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7875 I went over to another member's place to do some testing on my car and we started with a compression test. Here are the results. cyl 1 = ~120psi cyl 2 = ~120psi cyl 3 = ~120psi cyl 4 = ~40psi :surprised cyl 5 = ~120psi cyl 6 = ~120psi So it is now clear why my Z will not run well went she is cold (runs good when hot, after being driven a bit) and explains the blowby! With this info we skipped the leakdown test, which is what we originally started out to do. In stead of cleaning the plugs we just replaced them. The old ones were kind of a white-ish color. From the books I have that indicates a normal wear. The hoses we had available were not long enough to make a catch can so that did not get done but I will get some hose and take care of that. This is kind of a drag as I will not have to devote time, money, and effort to getting the L28 ready to install which will take me some time as I am just learning about them and will be attempting a rebuild on it. So that's where I'm at. I'm going to bed now...:sleepy:

There still has been no price posted. Ppppplllllleeeeaaassssseeeee.............. I just want to know how far out of my league this little gem is.

Sorry about hijacking your post, I had not expected it to take on a life of it's own. I originally only asked about just cleaning my plugs, echoing the question from the post above mine.

bambikiller240 Yes, I am just getting into this issue with the car. I have not even owned it for 4 weeks yet and find new things all the time that need attention. I will work with the plugs this weekend. Don't sweat all the questions, they had to be asked. sjcurtis The engine may well be heading that way. Doesn't bother me too much as I have an L28 in my garage that will replace it but it needs to be worked on first. I realize that these are all temporary solutions to a bigger problem. That's really all I was looking for until I can get the L28 ready and put in. I was planning on this even before I found my Z but was hoping that I would get one that ran good enough to where I would not be rushed to get the engine ready (I know nothing about this and will be learning along the way so this will go slower than what many of you can do). beandip Ok, so I just tried driving it and decided that I didn't have the time to mess with it as I really just needed to get to work. Anyhow, there was no blue smoke when it started nor while I had it running. While sitting at a and warming the engine I reved it a few times and did notice some smoke from the exhaust but by the time it got up to the driver's door where I saw it I could not tell the color (it was not very noticable). I have no clue how many miles are on the engine. It does have the appearance of having been rebuilt at some time or another (it's really pretty clean and the paint on the block is in good shape). What I can tell you is that the odometer reads 59xxx which is likely to reall be 159xxx or 259xxx or maybe even more. I think I covered it all. Thank you all for the help, I'll post after I review the plugs and compression with what I find.

Whoa, whoa, whoa....let me catch up with you... :cross-eye I have not pulled them yet, I will this weekend. I had someone come out and look at the car Tues. night and he helped me get it more in tune so now it idles without stalling. He told me that I have some blow-by and that it's probably a ring that's not seated properly. What's going on is the hose that comes off the valve cover empties into the air filter. There is some oil that has accumulated in there and due to how this is angled it messes with the rear carb. With this hose pulled off the car runs MUCH better, however then the oil just lands on other parts of the car (I'm going to get a valve cover breather, one of those little filters to help this). It doesn't seem to be real bad but I won't be out racing the car like this or anything. I have not checked compression, I will do that this weekend also. I do not have the a leak down tester, I have a compressor just not the tester so I can not do this test. I wish I could because I would really like to do one. The guy that was helping me is a mobile mechanic that my family has used for many years. He said that it is likely that the plugs are fouled due to the blow-by. This may have also been an idea that he thought about while we were test driving it as it did seem to miss on hard acceleration sometimes. Whew!! I think that I cover it all...for now at least.

Well, I have some blow by and I'm sure that it's fowling plugs and instead of replacing the constantly I was thinking that I could just clean them up every couple weeks or so. I will not be driving the car much, probably once a week or so. Then when this problem is fixed I would replace the plugs. This is what I was thinking any how, maybe this is a bad route to go. I don't know.

What, no replies? I'm sure that this is a stupid question but I just would not want to use the wrong thing and mess something up. The weekend is approaching and I would like to buy the stuff beforehand.

I guess your first statement was what got us asking... I agree! This is why everyone has been asking about parts, you advertised it as as such. You even started to part it out selling parts to other people. Would have been nice to have corrected and updated everyone instead of just ignoring us all. Oh well, thanx for getting back to us. We'll all just have to find parts elsewhere now.

Sell my keys!?!?!? Then I'd have to hot wire my own car everytime I wanted to drive it! No way!! ROFL