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Those don't look like very much fun to clean. You are righ though, the yare definitely in period.

No good with a touch pad.

I have 4 goals. 1)find something different that not everybody has, 2)move to 15"s so I have more tires to choose from, 3)fit some bigger tires in there, and 4)allow enough room to fit one of the 3 versions of the Toyota caliper brake mod. I believe'81 280zxt wheels will allow me to accomplish #1&2. I'm not so sure about #3&4. Yeah, I guess they are a bit heavy but I really like them. Until I find something I like better or these won't help me meet my goals, they are the ones I'm after for now. Ok, go ahead and talk me out of it.

What's up with chicken pimp?

I was trying to figure out what those were called.. Any idea if I would be able to fit either of the Toyota caliper upgrades inside the ZXT snowflakes? The more I look at them the more I like them.

One of the reasons I am considering different wheels is due to the fact that I would eventually like to upgrade the brakes and my options are somewhat limited with the 14's, as well as the fact they are only 6" wide. Anyway, I've got some other things to do in the meatime.

Thanks JK. That's great info to have. I'll keep that in mind when it comes time to mount up my build-up motor to the stand.

1) You have more wings than a bucket of chicken!!!! 2) Your paint reflects more light than a road sign!!! 3) If you have more stickers than a mid 70's Trans-Am. 4) If you have a bigger exhaust than a semi. 5) If your camber is sooo bad only part of the tire that gets wear is the sidewall. 6) When you go by people start looking for killer bees. 7) If you rev your car to the limiter every time you are at a stop light or just stopped. 8) When your exhaust is made from a company called Folgers. 9) When you think your stickers give you an extra advantage in horsepower. 10) If your next mod involves neon lights. 11) If your "cold air intake" is located in the engine bay sucking in hot air. 12) If you have damage to your body kit because of your 20" rims. 13) You own a 350z and visit the 350z section of zcar.com to get good performance parts opinions. 14) Your mom used to drive you and your siblings to school in your "performance car." 15) You can't corner over 20 mph because your rims will scrub. 16) You take out the rear seat to save weight, then add 100 lbs of stereo equipment. 17) You have a video game system in your car. 18) Your car looks like a video game. 19) You have decals on your car in a foreign language and you have noidea what they say. 20) Librarians look at your rear spoiler in envy. 21) Your muffler has twice as many cubic inches as your engine! 22) You think horsepower is more important than torque. 23) You see something at NOPI, have no idea what it is, yet you must have it, because doodah has one. 24) When you have a rollcage installed in your 17 second Civic. 25) When you lower the rear of your car with a 250 lb wing. 26) When you have 3 boost gauges installed on the A pillar for your stock 0.5 litre sewing machine motor. 27) When you slap type R badges all over your ride and think its quicker. 28) When you have a 3/4 inch exhaust with an 8 in can in the back. 29) When your car is actually higher than stock ride height because of its 22 in rims. 30) When you think your ride is faster because you have green lights under your car. 31) If your body kit has more cracks than a plumber arse crack. 32) You sell cocaine for the image. 33) Whenever a Z guy mentions the name "Datsun" you think pickup truck. 34) You think you’re an import specialist because you hang around Asians. 35) When you say to people you have a high performance sports car and then you show them your Honda Civic. 36) When your IQ is smaller than your engine size in litres. 37) You might be a ricer when you install color matching spark plug wires and hoses. 38) You drive down the street and people have to check their lawn mowers to see if there running. 39) If twenty years from now, you look at pics of the cars you have present day and ask yourself "WTF was I thinking!" 40) If you take this too seriously............ 41) Your tach is bigger than your head. 42) Your shift light can blind somebody. 43) You have a shift light on a vehicle with an automatic transmission. 44) You have more fog/driving lights than most Rally Racers 45) You have 1 Wiper because its "cool" 46) You always talk of the turbo conversion but it never seems to happen. 47) Oh and lets not forget about the type R, its badge alone increase your HP output by 10 in most ricer vehicles - Heaven forbid the actual engineering in a Type R. 48) You don't know the difference between understeer and oversteer. 49) Magazine ads for your "performance" car boast price, dependability, safety, and fuel economy, but not performance. 50) Your " performance" car is the cheapest car the manufacturer sells. 51) You have a big APC sticker on your car, anywhere on your car. And don't forget about the site www.anti-rice.com. 52) Your mods list includes stereo equipment, neon lights, and painted interior pieces but, no actual performance parts. 53) If your interior lighting glow sticks are brighter than your headlights. 54) If you have so many fog lights you have to buy another battery for them. 55) If people try to hire you to plow the snow from their driveways due to the bulldozing front air dam you added to your civic with the month's allowance. 56) If the only way you can do donuts is on a skid plate. (and it's under the rear wheels) 57) If your indiglo gauges blind the car behind you. 58) If you mount a double-deck spoiler on top of a factory spoiler. 59) If you join a car club because your base VW Jetta has a new, shiny, 5" MUFFLER! 60) Two wings are better than one 61) “I actually saw this POS tonight with one on the trunk and another on the roof Must be going for the convergent-divergent affect to create awesome downforce?” 62) a. If you take what they said on Fast & Furious as gospel.

Dunno, that's why I asked. I would re-use the bolts I have in my engine now, and they're "used".

Pull it! I'll be doing the same thing as soon as I'm done with the suspension and brakes. I'm going the F54/P79 or modified N42 route. Still deciding on the head.

Why would you want to use Z head bolts for an engine stand? Why not just go to your local hardware store and leave the Z bolts for someone who might need them? Am I missing something?

Yeah, I'm kinda looking for something different. I always thought gold looked good with brown. The Panasports sure look nice but like you said, there are lots of them around. You'll be the first to know if I decide to part with them rather then polishing them. They were already on there when I bought the car. The P.O. did a poor job mounting them. The driver's side is moved rearward and the passenger side was moved forward. I haven't tried to figure out why this was done but I can say that I hate the fact that new holes were made.... Ok, I'l bite. You don't really think I have all three and changed them out for the picture do you? This was a simple Photochop job. Thanks guys.

Seems a bit pricey if you ask me. I'd expect a header to come with it for that price.

I have a 1 owner '73 that's pretty much all original and I don't have one of those.

Why in the world would you mount the oil filters in the wheel well. Not only does it look like crap but an errant rock, screw or nail could easily do you in.

I'm just looking ahead trying to decide which direction I want to go with regard to wheel choice. Which do you prefer? Personally I sorta like the retro 280ZXT look but man those Panasports are sweet! Stock - this is what I have now. Panasport Formula Gold 280ZXT

As stated in numerous threads in the past, the primary reason to go to these other motors(L26, L28) is to get more power. Period. Aside from that, I can think of no good reason to change out the L24. One of the main reasons these later engines were perceived as having less power was due to the later cars being heavier and therefore slower. Not so. Check the numbers. The motors continued to get bigger(more displacement and more HP) to make up for the a loss of performance for two reasons: (1) design changes were made to the combustion chambers to lower compression ratios and help meet increasingly strict emission requirements, (2) to compensate for the increasing weight of the cars.

The kind of man who leaves that kind of stuff behind is a dead man. Quite the find. Good luck in your search. Man, I'd love to have that Vette. That was always my favorite bosy style.

Never even heard of or seen one of these until now. Pretty cool.

My two favorite things in this world......cars and beer. but not at the same time.

Ouch! So funny it's probably based on a near truth.

Wow thanks! Thats a great resource. Welcome to the board.

Hmm....I found an F54/P79 combo in a junkyard, and the guy swears it's from a Maxima. He also swore up and down that the only Z motor he ever had was from an early 240Z. However, I managed to find 10 L6 engines. A few were definitely from Maximas but I also found one early L24 with SUs, 2 L26s w/Flat Tops, as well as a couple L28s w/F54 blocks and various heads.

I think only us Yanks and Knucks drink that stuff. Dunno.

Unfortunately, the car is in a junk yard and the starter is missing. That's why I was cranking it by hand. Since I was planning on rebuilding it I guess the high miles don't matter much. The block and head both look solid and it's not frozen. Any idea what a typical rebuild with a mild cam and a rebuilt head would cost if I did the assembly after honing, tanking and anything else that should be done? $1000, $2000..more..less? So that hissing sound is normal eh Montoya? Wierd. I would think on a fresh rebuild you shouldn't be leaking any pressure from the cylinders in any direction unless something was wrong. Could it simply be the pressure changin in the crankcase due to th movement of the pistons, and the hissing sound is actually coming from the crankcase breather?