Caen Fred

It’s been a long time since Europe was a virgin territory! Thanks to Mike, I discovered that this web page, still unexplored as today, give me the opportunity to be the first somewhere! A new feeling for me. I will use this to promote our club and it’s latest accomplishment. Last week-end we had our French meeting, it was in Argenton le Chateau and a lot of friends came from all Europe. We tried to entertain everybody the best we could. The welcome Picnic on Friday night must have been good, if we judge it by the ratio whine/people ! The Z drivers sure use a lot more fuel than their car. Saturday morning was, well it was! And By 11h00 we where all paddling on the Green Venice, our local bayous. Again a nice picnic under the shade of the trees, with non alcoholic beverage!!!! Then a really nice 1h30 convoy back to the camp site and free time for all. We had diner in a real farm, where they produce their own “Foi Gras, that’s Duck liver paté for you) and lot of wonderful food that we enjoyed a lot, this time Rosé and red whine where with us again. On Sunday morning, we all met on a Karting race track, a very nice one, 1,2 km! They are holding the French run for the European kart championship. A one hour race gave to all the chance to “let it go” and a close competition saw a Brit/French team on the first place, followed by a Dutch team and I came in Third with one of my Pal, in all 10 team where on the track. In the afternoon we headed to cool down in a Japanese garden a few miles away, relaxing in a real Jap fashion was all we needed, I had to go back home then but I know that lots of peoples stayed a day more, I leave them the chance to tell you the end of our French Meeting. Hope it’s not too boring, it’s just to let you know how it was, and to let you know that you are all welcome for the next one. And Bravo for all the Z that came from a long way, thank you again. Fred

Like always, the best for me isn't the best for ya ! How do you judge a car ? With a technological point of view I think Honda is giving the most tech for the buck and close BMW. Honda is always looking for new paths and BMW is refining known one beyond perfection. BUT they are plain boring car to use !!!! I had Civic and Accord, my In-law a 730D I have done a lot of Km in them and NOTHING, it's like taking a train... (except that they don't go on strike, and for a French it's priceless ROFL ). But I want more, I want emotions and feelings and I must say that, with more work and sweat, my Alfa 33 was kicker than my brother's Golf and my Banana smile a lot bigger than his, and my 164 was a joy at every moment, it was music and not sound... Today's car have too much GOOD things in them to make them fun, but they are better TOOLS to go from A to B. And by the way, in a racing point of view, and if you think that rallying is the most challenging racing today... Peugeot or Citroën are the best ...

I think that the best car I had was an Alfa 164 V6...

I you shave the head, taking away material, then the total height of your engine will be shorter, right? your camshaft will be lower and your timing chain will slack more putting your timing out of sync... In order to put back your camshaft to the original height, you will need longer cam tower, hard to do ! or you could just put a shim under the cam tower from the same size you took of the head... restoring the right length for the timing chain, voilà ! If only I could speak English...

May I use the stock oil pan from my L28 (F54) on my 240z swap? Will it clear the cross-member or should I use it to fries my freedom potatoes? :stupid: :stupid: Fred

Eric, send it to me, slice it first in say, 25 pieces. This is what I want, can you give me the ref of the mufler, better ref and picts? Salut Fred

I am thinking about the earth quake... If we have any Algerian members I feel the same for them but I don't think they are any!

My sympathy to all our Japaneses friends, hope that you are all well and in good health. Fred

this site is my MAIN site... I often go to the UK Z/ZX club one...

We will have to wait for Alan return from the rising sun country ! But here's what I think, it may come from the orginal "Prince" (read Mercedes) design of the engine, it was a licenced 6 in line Merc design minus 2 cylinders at first, then they added the 2 missing cylinders for the L6! So I guess it was tooling cost at first that created this odity. In the other hand, we have proved to the world that the design, maybe far from perfect, could kick the strongest arse around :love: :love:

What kind of speed, one can expect with all the gear box around? Is there a spread sheet of all the mix Box/diff ? I plan on running the shortest gearing with a 2.8 and a 5 speed euro/box ? I don't need to go over 200 km/h but I am looking for hill-climb power !

Ben, you need to go to Billing! There you could see all the european Z dealer : MJP, Dave Jarman, Foorways... MSA have a web site but you really need to know what you want first... www.zcarparts.com but your on your own...

Salut Ben, For your cartridge, you could ask Nordauto for Koni, they have them in stock, and considering the shipping cost would be at about the same price, they even have some that you can dial (as the tokis...) Bon courage, Fred