Gav240z

http://www.zparts.com/ads/consigned/cp_p1.html scroll down to the bottom of the page read the description of the intake manifold that suits a Holley carb. What a load of rubbish. Just had to post it:finger:

The ol' Dutch oven I'm not game enough to try it but Carl i loved that joke.:tapemouth

I have no idea on the cost of shipping such items however if you want i could try find a set here in Australia for you and maybe your could find me a LD28 crank :cheeky: .

The monkey tells the story better.. You can get the video from this site http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=barmonkey.wmv opens in new window then just right click and save as...

Too much time on their hands. They should have at least taken it for a drive and tried to blow it up that way. Pretty dangerous how it caught fire. Reminds me of some people who took a 200B Datsun L20 motor and went paddock bashing in it. Thing caught fire 4 times they poured oil down the carbies blew the radiator and it didn't die they were at it for about 2 hours trying to kill this L20. Oh well not something i'd do in a Z that's for sure

A Penguin takes his car into a garage to see what's wrong with it. The mechanic says he'll need an hour to look at it. Anyway he goes across the street to a 7 - 11 to Kill some time and get himself an Ice Cream (Penguins love ice cream). Unfortunately for the penguin because he has no hands he gets the ice cream all over his beak. So he goes back to the mechanic , the mechanic says "it looks like you blew a seal!" The Penguin says "No that's just a little Ice Cream".

in terms of photoshop work i think it is good. But i think you'll find we are a purist group when it comes to the S30 Z. Most here are not interested in the HybridZ.org style of building a Z car. Oh and alot of the members here don't have much time for the 350z so i think that might be the other problem. As for early Z's however they are a friendly group and will help you in every way possible as long as you don't put 350z lights on your Z :tapemouth .

As you can tell I'm still learning I have found the How to modify your Nissan & Datsun OHC Engine to be a good book so far would you say that is more error free than the Z garage site? The Z garage site is quite good despite it's errors as you point out.:classic:

excellent i worked my way through the site and found the downloadable website style catalogue did some conversions pretty expensive compared with AUD but nice stuff.

The shannon's car was very nice I saw it in Melbourne , Lachlan you should have told me you were in Moorabin i live right near there. Oh well the car was nice indeed they also had a bluebird 1800 coupe i think that's right. Both had Watanabe's both nice it was then i realised how big a KPGC10 was when compared with the Z anyway . Wish i could buy it price tag said $25- $30k for a replica.

Are these engine parts easily accessable outside of Japan? I bet there really expensive though .

you mean engine run on right? I have noticed when running a bit rich it can do this but as Bill says ignition timing is another cause. Too far advanced which causes it to run hotter will cause small imperfections in the cylinder head to glow like a glow plug in a diesel and cause it to fire after the engine has stopped. If it does this drop the clutch as the motor can actually run backwards running the oil pump in reverse and well u know what. edit: you could be right about vacumm leak check the intake manifolds. Seals , gaskets aswell.

From the bablefish translations i know he is using the LD28 crank L14 Pistons, custom pulley and flywheel clutch i think is from an RB series but not 100% sure. It's been stroked and bored to 3.1ltr and the engine head is a bit of a mystery to me looks like it could be an early E88 somewhere it said 38cc or 30 odd cc something or other. I had thought P90 but I might be wrong. He said something along the lines of 300HP which is pretty sweet. A friend of mine has built a similar engine running on SU's however. Still great anyone else wanna try reading translated japanese I almost broke my brain :stupid:

I noticed he is using the harmonic balancer from somewhere in America too. His car is very nice I wish i could read Japanese or get a converter but I haven't had luck yet. His attention to detail is great. Looks like he has broken the engine more than once though. :devious: Any further information you could provide would be great ie: engine specks. Gav,

http://www.classiczcars.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=8787&password=&sort=1&thecat=500 Note the DATSUN badge along the front wing(fender). Only a 240z thing, diamond pattern vinyl interior was a 240z feature as far as I am aware with the big diamonds anyway. The dash and console are 240z items and swapping would not be an easy job as they mount differently. I would put my money on it being a 240z. And if i had to guess I'd say 72 model. PS: Bill which one is the project?

Strange I'm not really sure how you mean you had to keep the rpm's above 4000rpm. Would it stall otherwise? Are you sure it was clutch related? If you mean jerky off the line then it's probably a scored flywheel and will mean you need to re-machine the flywheel and clutch pressure plate. If you go to that extreme you may aswell replace the clutch plate, pilot bearing, throw out bearing, rear main engine seal etc.. However unless your clutch it poorly adjusted either causing it to stick or not grab enough then you may wanna check that. Are you sure you were not getting vapour lock whilst in traffic?