Airjockie

Update: I have an event down in MD this next week-end on the 17th.... I had a lot of time to prep the car and collect some stuff. I got the old L26 carbed motor out, and dropped in an L28 with fuel injection, oversized pistons, bored, hot cam, header, fairly new autozone clutch, electric ignition, full set of tokico 5 way Illumina's, Tokico 1" drop springs, full poly bushing set (half installed) 2 new Azenis for the front, and a bunch of junk tires for the rear. I still need to get some more stuff, as in a decent race seat and a harness, or I might cut a hole in a spare seat I have here and install the harness I put into the AE86 I built, and possibly find a good cheap clutch that will grip a little better than the autozone one that I have....but hopefully it will break in on the 6 hour drive down there to the event. but I am also still a virgin to this setup..so any more hints would be very helpfull. Also...which would be better for the drift..a 4 speed or 5 speed trany?

The real scarry thing is that is how I see all posts on the internet....I recently found out that I even type in in dyslexia...so I've been dyslexic for a long time...now I know why I never did good in school. :stupid:

I believe it's a 78..... I guess I'll just strip the car completely down, store all the parts and clean them up and build it properly when I have time and room. But for now I guess I'll just swap the cam and hope the DGV's can keep up with it. But a full list for this swap would be helpful.

I know it's prolly been asked before and stuff, my searches don't come up with too much info...so I'll ask again.. I have a stock 260Z, with DGV's, and I have a 280Z with fuel injection....and I want to swap the FI motor into the 260Z. I'm aware that the fuel pump would be a deffinate swap, and I was thinking of just getting a MSD 42 GPH pump to put inline to save the time in swapping the full fuel sytem...IE...tank, pump, fuel lines...etc. I have a freind that can swap the wires over in a few hours for the ecu and the full harness...from what he says.... But what is really needed for this swap...from everyones experiance? The engine from the 280 has the oversized pistons, big cam, and electric ignition, with a header, and some head work done to it. It is a fast and powerfull engine that was keeping up nicely to a 240sx with an SR20det on the road. I'm building the car to get a little sideways in some drifting events, and to make it around the autocross course a few times a year...then it will be just a daily driver after that. The 280 also has a 5-speed tranny connected to it, but I also have one hell of a smooth shifting 4 speed in the 260...and I would also like to know which trany is prefered for drifting/autocross/dailydriving. The 280Z has to much rust and need to be sent to the junkyard in the sky

I got the kit, and I'm about to do the install in a week or so....it came with the lube... But when I did the same poly bush install on my CRX a few years ago, I had to burn out all the old bushings, and while the metal areas was still very hot, I slide the poly's in and I guess the metel was still hot enough that even without grease they slid right in and they formed right to the areas where the old bushings were like glued in....I hever had a squeek from that car...and other people with the same car uses the lube, and they always complain about the noise.... I wonder if the Z's could work the same way?

Thank's...now I need to go clean myself....=(

any and all suggestions accepted....=)

Before any runs, I'd set the idle on the DGV carbs to about 1500rpms, then use the choke to keep the idle down while in the staging area. Then the powerover drifts were easy and fun to do...but the front tires were not helping at all...even though they were Azenies, the pavement was hot and the tires I had up front were getting bald...so very little grip The rear tires were some really old tiers that this one guy had in his garage, old, dry, weathered, and they smoked a lot, on the 4th run I swaped some Watanabes up front with ES100's and had plenty of grip, but couldn't get the rear to slide around like the first run....so for the overweight car with little power, tires and a real suspension is the only way to get a decent drift..and the driver also helps...But I still had fun I was trying to do feints, and thats about all you can do with the car to get it to kick out, but the sloppy suspension just either kicked it out too far or not far enough, and my thottle control sucks...I was trying way to hard at times or not hard enough during the other times... As soon as I can find the time, the car is getting the L28 with oversized pistons, fuel injection, electric ignition, cam, full set of poly bushings, better front brakes, tokico Illuminas all the way around, Ground Control 1" lowwering springs and a few other sweet parts....but I will still be a one-tire-fire unless someone has a cheap LSD they want to sell me :nervous:

And I need to hurry and get the tire selection, suspension, engine, and LSD problems worked out.... But not bad for taking a 30 year old car, with the stock 30 year old engine, the stock one-tire-fire, the 30 year old shocks and springs, and no grip when I needed it.... And the Vids here...under OldRedZ... But I have a better engine, full suspension, bushings, and a lot of other stuff on the way...and more tires...hehe

It came with the car, when I got it...the wing that is.... I guess it's a common aftermarket wing...it was installed about 13 years ago...when who ever it was that restored the car put it on. I actually like it.... A gallery of the car when I got it. A gallery of the Drift event in NJ that I particapated in. A picture of it before the Soccer Mom backed into it :classic: and the new damage...:dead: This car still needs a lot of work, and a new hood and paint.

Howdy....my first post here...hows it going. The topic asked was, who drift's their Z.... Well, I was last year in NJ..... My Z was bone stock except a wing and some flares...it still has the 1974 HP and suspention, and no LSD......does it drift...hell yeah....did I I get noticed...I only hope so. But I retired it this year, and I am building an AE86 to beat on...the Z went full garage queen after a SUV soccer Mom back into it....