drunkenmaster

dropped you an email, keen to get more info thanks

nah, hoon is not a ricer....but could be. think more dangerous and stupid public driving in more often then not a V8 or car pretending to be a V8.

OK, you asked for it: http://www.uteman.com.au/gallery/gallerybrowse.asp?displayRows=3&displayCols=4&StartRec=0 http://www.utemuster.info/gallery.htm

Bad luck... ARe you doing anything fancy with the car like extending and thickening the fram rails or any such thing? Are the floors going to be custom made or are you going to get a floor pan kit

hehehe, hows your saga going anyway?

wire wheel and angle grinder. check my website in my signature for more info and pictures

Sounds interesting. DO you have a digital camera or some photos you could post? I just need to do some research into stock VS. custom manifolds over the next day or two and see where it leads me. Other input is also appreciated.

Where are you located? Prices and photos :classic:

Well technically I am still in the body work phase myself, but I cant help but keep getting a head of myself. Had to refrain from buying engine management this week when i barely have the funds to complete what I am doing now. One thing I wish I had done is get in under the flat shelf on top of the tail lights and also inside the "rocker" panels...I am so sick of the tedious grinding off undercoat/deadener that dreaming about more productive things like doing the motor and EFI keeps me going. I would definately put an L28 in over the L26 unless your a matching numbers man, its no more effort and more displacement/power, seems crazy not to. There are a few P90 heads floating around and I have been told the F54 blocks are not THAT hard to find (but i havent seen any) or you can just keep an eye on the trading post. About a month ago there was a L28ET for sale in there for around $900 but again minus the turbo.

Well, I call it an L28ET, I dont know if everyone else will :cheeky: I had a discussion on here a while ago about a parts car I was going to buy, you can check it out on my website or search in here somewhere. It was advertised with a 2.8 EFI motor and when I checked it out he told me he got the motor from a import wreckers and I had a look at it and sure enough it was a P90/F54 L28, the US turbo combination. Sure it doesnt have a turbo on it yet, but thats nothing a custom manifold and turbo wont fix. I dont think you need the turbo motor to have a successful setup, but call me finicky, I only wants a P90/F54. I have been in an comprehensively built N42 L28 turbo before with around 180rwkw and it was very quick also...

They look to be of similar size in the photo I posted above, can have a look tomorrow in the flesh. How did you implement it? OEM low pressure pump -> surge tank -> High pressure EFI Pump

Is it of any real value? The simpler my EFI plumbing attempt the better :cheeky:

What does this feature do exactly? Any fellow Australian's know if we are suppose to have this too? Thanks BambiKiller240, your always right there with my many questions

Rottnest Island is an isalnd in South Western Australia, closest city i think is Fremantle or maybe just Perth

Was browsing through my workshop manual (sadly I do this quite regularly) and I noticed the fuel line diagram shows 3 lines running the length of the car. A send, return and the third goes to a ventilation chamber of some sort above the tank. Now this is my car: http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/hiper/260Zdiffremoval_oldtranstunnel.html and I only have the send and return lines, (the top one pictured being the rear brake line) so I am wondering was this a later model change or am I missing something. Thanks

http://www.fullboost.com.au/cars/readerscars/sinisha240z.html http://www.geocities.com/spized1969/ The L28 is a bolt in fit, the RB series will require custom engine mounts, gearbox mounts, tail shaft to name a few. I bought my Z with the intention of an RB swap but I currently have an L28ET waiting to go in, it came minus the manifolds and turbo but I will have a new manifold made up locally. The RB swap was a bit beyond my expertise (ie. none) and i priced the swap at around $8000-$10000 not including motor. The L28 swap I will be doing myself. You should use the search function on these forums and hybridz.org forums to get other information and other peoples points of view. quickfitmotorsport.com.au have done this swap in NSW and they quoted around $4k for the swap alone but not including anything to get it engineered

wow, that site looks like jack's handy work. http://www.geocities.com/spized1969/

whats the difuser? I have the duct in a box somewhere. I mean, does it look like I have the bulk of a complete fan/heater and whatever the dash hides setup?

while searching for zworkx, i saw Datsun Z Car Specialists HEADING: Auto Parts Recyclers ADDRESS St Andrews VIC, 3761 Australia Anyone had any experience with them before? I have never heard of them

Z Workx Australia 6A Beach Ave Mordialloc VIC 3195 ph: (03) 9587 5500 Auto Parts Recyclers didnt know they had email ?

not more trims :stupid:

11 pages...wow :classic: My name is James, I'm 23 and live in Melbourne, Australia. I graduated last year in electronic enigneering but am having trouble finding work so if you know of any send it my way Admittedly I have only really been interested in the Z's for just over a year now and in this time I have owned 3, 2 of which I still own. I was on the lookout for a light weight rear wheel drive car with a minimum of 6 cylinders but a turbo 4 would have scraped in. I was looking to buy a nissan s14 when I visited a friend who was working on a stripped out old rust heap i could barely make out. I couldnt understand why he would spend so much time and money on a technologically out dated junk heap but he proceeded to email pictures of a bunch of fine zeds and my eyes were opened. I always planned to fit some modern power plant in the zed be it nissan or lexus v8 or rb25det but as I have worked on the car it has become more personal and I would like to build as much as I could myself and I felt such a big swap was too muchf or a first timer. I have found myself a L28ET minus the turbo and will take it from there... I also just finished re writing my website if anyone is interested to see my cars and what I'm up to. www.angelfire.com/hi3/hiper/260Z.html

Ahh, so its nothing too fancy then. So if you knock on the roof of a Z car you will be getting a metallic knock on the actual roof skin? No padding etc? I really wish I took more notice of the complete car I used to have, but why would you bother when the car is already complete. It only when you are building from a shell you realise what you took for granted :stupid: What about the edging? I think the rear would be concealed with a plastic trim with the interior light but what about the front and sides? Thanks

Hmmmm.....I'm seeing things that I havent seen before and thats not a good thing :cross-eye Aside from the obvious dash skin and instrumentation which I plan to replace anyway, can any of you experienced dash people spot what of value/importance I may be missing here:

I am after some pointers on how the roof lining is fixed, what it consists of and how it holds its shape etc. Is it something you would make new or search a junkyard for? Thanks