Bleach

thanks for the link. Very good pictures. Nice 810. The 2-door 810 is a very rare car.

Wow! That is more fender rust then I have ever seen on a Z. If I was there I would have stripped that thing down more. I see side markers and tail lights that are in good shape. Rear quarter glass... the little Z side emblem.

:lick: Yes! Please vote, it doesn't hurt a bit! :hurt:

I need to hook up my scanner. When I do that, I can scan pages and post them for people... :stupid:

Check out his image gallery. 15x7 Keystone Dyna Lite 3-piece with Toyo Proxes FZ4's

:cheeky: I have the 1982 280zx factory service manual. :bandit:

That is not the correct way to bench bleed your master cylinder. That could be the whole problem. The term bench bleed means to bleed the master cylinder out of the car, on a work bench. Usually in a vice. You have to use a rod or dowel to push the pistons in all the way. Run the lines from the side bleeder screws as you were doing. The difference is that the brake pedal does not have enough travel to push all the way to the end of the cylinder and therefore always leaves air trapped inside. Manually pressing a dowel into it will squeeze all the air out. Once that is done then you can properly bleed the rest of the brakes. Try not to let any air into the bottom when you re-attach the brake lines to the master cylinder. :cheeky:

The turbo motor can make 450hp out of 2.8L stroking it just seems unnessisary. Bore it out in the rebuild and call it good. You'd have a 3.0L Just be sure to use dished pistons. You don't want 9:1 compression, but you do want a short stroke. :devious: The light weight flywheel might all be the 225mm contact surface where as the turbo has a larger 240mm surface. As for the throttle body, I think they say that because of the intake pipe being solid instead of the rubber tube on the NA...? Anything can be adapted. I've seen turbo motors with the 240SX throttle body.

That's a scary Z! ...but a perfect donor. The compression is great and those are the blocks with flat top pistons. I was under the understanding that the R200 3.9 in that car with halfshafts will fit fine in your Z. You will need the mustashe bar as mentioned before. That ZX also has the better of the 5-speed transmissions. Lucky you!

88hp sounds about right. Barely more power than a stock L20b :cheeky:

Well, back in 1970 the 240Z's ID plate said 150hp. That is flywheel horsepower. The Fairlady Z says 120hp. (from my memory) So I would guess the L24 is about 110-120 whp and the L20 about 90-100 whp.

The 240Z did not come with a 5-speed option so any 5-speed 240Zs you find will have been a swap. (or a Fairlady Z) They also may have had the rear diff swapped too. Depending on if you use 195/70-14 or 195/75-14 tire: 3.54 rear will be about 73-75mph 3.36 rear will be about 76-77mph ...in 4th gear at 3500rpm.

10 turns of the tire gives you X driveshaft rotations DS rot. Ratio 16.9 - = - 3.36 17.5 - = - 3.54 18.5 - = - 3.7 19.5 - = - 3.9 20.x - = - 4.111 21.x - = - 4.375

Yes, there will be a good noticeable difference. In any given gear, at a certain speed with your 3.9 you'll not only be a few rpm higher but the gear ratio will be different between the back of the transmission and the ground. So its not just the added 300rpm that gives it more power but its actually changing the torque to the wheels. I've had a 280zx with the stock 3.9 and gone to a 4.11 and there was a noticeable difference between those two ratios! Go for the 3.9 you have. You would be very lucky to find a 4.11 cheap. $75 is nothing. The cheapest I've EVER seen an R200 4.11 is $150. Most go for $200-300.

You're welcome! Now if this web site has a tech section or article on brake conversions that little reference I compiled should be placed there for all to view. Then every week when someone asks this same question a link to the article can be posted. Disclaimer: All information provided was compiled from the parts database on www.importedcarparts.com Any mistakes can be blamed on that website. Any compliments can be credited to Bleach.

I get a lot of my parts from importedcarparts.com I went to the Toyota listing and found they have the same part number for the front calipers on the Toyota truck 4x4 from 1979-85. (July '85) Also the 1984 FourRunner is the same part. In 1985 they list one part for the FourRunner with solid rotors, and another part number for the ones with vented rotors. It would seem that 1985 was the changeover. In 1988 the FourRunner came out with a V6 model. The V6 that year had different calipers, but the 4-cyl FourRunner has the S12W calipers still. (bolt on the Z but need venter rotors) Just ask for 1982 or 1983 Toyota 4x4 standard cab truck calipers. Its really that simple. But if you're looking for calipers in a junk yard you'll need some of the info here to help your search. Oh, and the calipers are listed as $49 each for the solid rotor version. I ordered a $10 caliper from JCWhitney once. I got half of a caliper from some unknown vehicle. (not what I ordered) Lost my shipping cost and had to return the caliper at my own expense. I ended up losing more money on shipping than the caliper cost and it wasn't my mistake! :dead: S12-8 1979-85 4x4 truck 1984 4-Runner 1985 4-Runner with solid rotors S12W 1985 4-Runner with vented rotors 1986-91 4-cyl 4-Runner 1986-88 4-cyl 4x4 truck There was a 2wd FourRunner listed for 1990 only. It uses the S12W calipers as well.