The State of Things....

[Oiluj]

WoW that look nice Bro!

Oh yeah, you going with old style rims or New School?

I'm going w/ 15" Panasports. The wheels arrived yesterday!

They are silver, but I'm thinking of painting the spokes a medium gray metallic, but not as dark as Panasport's "gunmetal" color.

[76Datsun280z]

Wow, that's great you're getting it rebuilt!

[full house]

great! when it built! can you show some pics of it!

[WingZr0]

All right ! ! ! !

New N47 rebuilt Cylinder Head with installed stock cam arrived, off to

get Ruby towed now

~Z~

[dogma420]

full house said:

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Originally Posted by dogma420

$1000 for a clutch? is that what that said? or was that for brakes too?

$ 1000 for a clucth? where did you get that?

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Uhh, I read the post....what's your excuse?

[WingZr0]

Ruby's finally at the shop now !

Nakatsu's been extreamly busy working on at first 3, now 5 other

race cars getting them ready for the up coming race season for other

customers.

So today I got her towed into the shop and put down a deposit for a

complete engine rebuild.

Both engine and trans are coming out!

Engine Block is going into a machine shop (for lack of a better term) to get a

complete check over, decked and all the standard things associated with

that kind of work.

Estimated time to get to start work on her is around first part of April with

completion time of around 1 to 2 months depending on how bad the

damage is and upgrades I may add along the way, and of course $ .

Things on the work order list so far are

~Piston Rings

~New Piston Heads if need be

~ARP head bolts and connecting rod bolts

~Kameari high capacity oil pump

~New water pump which I may go with the MSA Electric version

~New MSA Aluminum Radiator (Maybe)

~Cap and Rotor (manditory)

~Stock timing chain

~MSA 3-2-1 header with 2 inch down pipe connected to NOS ANSA Twin

Stack with 2 inch inlet diameter

(Cat Converter will be made to swap in and out easily for smog test days)

~New Stock Cam

(depending on if the stock cam that came with the rebuilt

cylinder head is actually good are not. We will likely be taking the new

head apart and rechecking it to make sure it's all up to spec.)

~Oil preasure sender

~Raising rate fuel preasure regulator

~All new matching injectors and connectors

~Check Fuel Pump

~Check AFM and Throttle Body

~Check to see if Gas Tank need to be boiled out

~Replace any sensors that are bad along with Cold Start Valve if need be

~New stock brakes and SS lines and wheel bearings

~New polyurethane suspension bushings most likely

~Check entire suspension componets just to be safe

~Quick steering knuckles

~Painting hood Gloss Black to fix that unsightly 4 inch bondo crack on

the my hood bulge.

What is that hood bulge actually called by the way :cheeky:

and should I paint the hood only or hood, inspection lids and

cowl panel GB for that "Arrow Head" look?

OK, so other than that just your basic engine rebuild.

I know some of the things I listed are standard for a rebuild but

thought I'd list them jus the same.

Everthing will be done to still pass smog ( Thyanx Blake ~_^ ).

Also going to seriously look into that Mega Squirt set for later on after

talking more in depth about it with Nakatsu.

I believe this is the link -> http://www.bgsoflex.com/megasquirt.html

He was actuallly suprised to know they were still around and that I

knew about them.

We were even talking some about the new AEM EMS set up that came

out last year, the one were you have to mail it in to have them (AEM)

program the engine parameters you like so you can tune it later when

you get it back in the mail.

Supposedly it's cheaper than the old system they were using at around $6K.

http://www.aempower.com/

And case your wondering why I'm painting the hood Black is

because I'm not sure if the new Dupont 51013 Sparkling Burgundy Poly will

be too bright for the rest of car untill I can get it complety repainted at

a later date.

Nothing says yuck like a non matching body panel of "same" color

OH yeah, I posted this number for somebody once but the number has changed,

Nakatsu's Garrage / NS Garage

Dean Nakatsu

530-632-2761, shop # 530-674-7223

NSGarage1@yahoo.com

Wheeu, now I need a 2nd job :rambo:

~Z~

[WingZr0]

Double post, Darn PC slow down..

[sblake01]

Speeding is fun,

As long as you out run,

The cops! ! !

Maybe you should change that to:

Spending is fun,

As long as you out run,

The cops! ! !

But seriously, Ruby should run great after all of that.

[WingZr0]

Maybe you should change that to:

Quote:

Spending is fun,

As long as you out run,

The cops! ! !

But seriously, Ruby should run great after all of that.

HAHAAAA HAHAHAHA

Truer words have never.... ROFLROFLROFLROFL

Yah did warn me she would take my money,

I jus didn't know how much

~Z~

[WingZr0]

Rubys engine finally comes out this weekend !

'88 Acura daily driver choosen NOW to fall apart though.

Already in it for $500 dollors minimum in repair bills to fix, CV Axle boot busted and

lost oil, Tail Lights and Dash Lights turn off when Head Lights are

switched on now, and I just bought the thing less a month ago :eek:

Yeah they call it an Acura Legend, but I now call it

The ACURA BUCKET !

piece of junk

~z~

[WingZr0]

Engines' FINALLY OUT ! WOO HoooOOO !

The clutch flywheel and such looks good (AATCO did thier job :tapemouth)

and so far we know we need a new engine harness or at least the

needed connectors and the radiator is SHOT.

Other than that the basic routine tear down will commence with more

updates on what a Carburetor gasket on a FI Z will do :surprised.

JE pistons have been added to the list as opposed to the COSWORTHS which

I was gonna get but we all know how expensive those can be, $1,700 for a

set of six!

This months Dsport magizine has a speed shop section on pistons, how

they work and the makers of such high quality parts click on sig below

for more .

Also might get the JE's made as custom specs but more on that later but

advice is also welcomed since I'm blind to that much of it .

Well back to the shop I go, Thyanx for your support so far guys

Progress is always great!

~Z~

[FilipeA]

Congratulations!! It looks like will be a very nice work!!! Put some pictures here that we can see! I would like to see it!

all that new parts, it will be a new car!!!

Filipe