Tony D

Yeh, I used to get a lot of hatemail. Well, not a lot, but it was two or three idiots who decided to fill my email box. Back in the days of 25MB free e-mail guys could do that. But it was oviously disturbed individuals. They ended up getting banned from there and went elsewhere---where I don't know nor care. I guess calling them 'pathetic loosers' would be one way of saying it, but making a blanket statement like that probably isn't all that productive now, is it? I mean someone going anywhere just to stir up discontent should probably expect a bit of kickback. Calling people names who get offended by interlopers doesn't address the reasons for why they say what they say. There may be a reason for it, you never know! Don't know your situation on getting e-mails from there for selling pistons, did you post it in a discussion forum instead of the classifieds? That usually gets posts put up, but nothing else. The site recently hid all the e-mails in the profiles, so people can't spam personal boxes unless you reveal your e-mail. If you still go there, you may want to deselect your e-mail being visible, and make sure you don't check "e-mail replies from this topic" box! Man, I did that once, and will never do that again...:: Anyway, those Cosworth pistons are nice pieces. They make a bunch of different configurations.

He he he, the 'pathetic loosers' call him that, as well. They just are more serious about it because of the disruptive influence he has there...:bandit: I have Cosworths in one engine built some time ago, and can attest to their quality. They are used in boats a lot, the Sho' Nuf Hydrofoil used them in their 9K+ rpm engine, and they were class champions five years running. Course, they were 14.75:1 compression slugs, not some 8:1 streeters!

I've got 22 in back right now. That includes a matching set of Early 70 LHD/RHD models (FairladyZ / 240Z Series 1), a 75 Fairlady Z 2+2, and n early 78 Fairlady 280Z (X).... I've had a few more over the years, and started loving Z's while I lived in Japan. Yeah, I'm here, too. Strike TWO! Bet that grates on ya, huh?

Yeah, I'm in the same boat as HS30H, adding my RHD vehicles to the poll adds three more vehicles to my count!

I've had a Trust Dual Exhaust on my S30 since living in Japan. The set I bought in 87 was on a car for many many many years. From what I understand the Trust Exhausts were available around 75, and is more of a copy of the factory 432 exhaust system. The Nissan Sports Option piece was very similar in design, though it had the megaphones as a slip-on piece that separated at the differential crossmember, while the 432 and the Trust exhausts terminated closer to the middle of the driveshaft. They are still available in Japan, though you have to look. Many people went to the 75mm and larger Single Exhausts, while still using that original funky header flange (looks like the stock manifold gasket, only much larger). The normal sizing on the pipes is 50mm.

Matting was applied to a "body in white", that is, without any primer, straight off the spotwelding line. There was no electrostatic procedures used on the Zed bodies then, and using the "hot attachment" method in a factory works best on bare metal. If they applied it to paint, it would simply separate and lift the paint. Tar Mats were not applied over painting until electrostatic coatings were used extensively. Spending time on US production lines will show you the USA Manufacturers did the same thing. After they were on the bare metal, they were primed and painted over, effectively sealing the edges from any water in the INTERIOR of the vehicle getting under the mats near seams, and causing major problems. As for "rust free original Z" not being in existence, I know of at least one. It was ordered by a US Serviceman stationed on Okinawa in 1972. When accepting delivery from the Naha Prince Dealership, they had already applied the "tropical goop" in the panels that local market units received. Thye rotated soon afterward to the Desert Southwest, and have owned the vehicle ever since. This started to ooze out when they moved to SoCal when the high desert heat makes it runny. I have the same stuff in my 73...alas it was not put in originally, but in 81 when it was on the Island, making for some interesting things that should be rusty that aren't, and other places that shouldn't be rusty (factory tar) that are. When you see the yellow goop OVER rust, you know it was there when the car was only 7 years old.... Sad! Anyway, this yellowish thick bodied grease was not like Ziebart used here, and had some odd creeping characteristics. This guy still owns his Z, and short of pulling up the tar mats to check, I would have to say at least one "Rust Free Z" does actually exist! The stuff gets everywhere, and you can see they went in through the holes in the floor support rails and really layed the stuff in there. Apparently in a Salt Water Surrounded Tropical Island, even in 1972, they had a real good idea that there were problems with the "rustproofing" done by the factory... BTW, you guys did know that if you buy OEM panels, and have them finished with a certified topcoating system, they are warranted for life, just like a new vehicle replacement panel?

yeah, the L14 was always a desirable rod to use for strokers, but what is the fascination with the L20A rod? The L20B (four cylinder) rod is a TOTALLY different animal than the L20A (Six Cylinder). The L20B rod is used in non-stroked L28 builds for better rod angle with custom pistons. But why do you want the L20A rod? I have been trying to gather some L20B rods, and since they only came in four cylinders, that means some badly mismatched rod weights and a lot fo grinding to make the scale happy!

Ahhh, alas, the "American Attitude".... :Rolls Eyes:

No, that's bashing. And it's why your cohort was removed. There is a namecalling point that some peopel cross when they have no real argument to present. Apparently you reach that point quickly. But to do it at a place where I do not frequent, that is doing it behind someone's back, and is poor form. It is indicative of your character. It is a sad statement of your class and upbringing. As a matter of fact, it's just sad... I'm all in, I actually have a job in the morning, this, and Leno is boring, so that's it for me. Believe what you will. I could trot out a Nissan Resto car and turn 15's and you would call it "not stock" yet still have no single stick of reasoning behind it other than your "expert contention" that it simply is impossible for a stock car to do that kind of time.

I weigh 330#. What am I allowed to remove from the car to make it "stock?" I believe my car weighed 2965 or 2695# on the track scales the day I was running. If you seriously think I did anything "special" to the car, you make me laugh. It really is a rolling POS. I can't even open the doors now because the damned latch arms snapped off and I haven't had time to fix them. My contention all along was nothing special was done to my car, and that a STOCK car will run near that time without much effort at all. My 260Z which is arguably stock runs low 16's. It runs faster than the "modified" 280Z coupes that were running 16.45's. And that was with my 330# in the driver's seat. Were I to tweak on that 260, I am sure it would easily break into the 15's. BONE STOCK. If you want to say changing to a crush bent replacement exhaust system that is quieter than stock as some great performance adder, then I have this bridge in Brooklyn I have for sale... You might be interested...

"What was your mph in the 1/4? If it is over 84mph you cannot claim it as stock." I don't have the time slips, but my recollection was I was deep in third gear at close to 90mph (maybe 89?). The times are in the archives there. Look them up. Say what you want, there ARE cars out there that you will not explain. Because it seems fast to you, does not mean ANYTHING was done to it AT ALL! You ARE bashing me, because this is no more than anyone said of bubbles, and you claim this same sort of disagreement is bashing... I may be a "delusional fool", (that's not bashing at all) but I know there are vehicles that self-proclaimed experts can not explain. The contention was that a 15.XX car is something "fast" and it is WELL WITHIN the statistical variation of a STOCK vehicle. That has been my contention all along. It is not delusional, it is fact. Like I said, because you can't fathom it is your problem, not mine.

And again, 15.4 was BEFORE adding ANYTHING to it. That was withthe Nissan 50mm T/B and a stock pleated air filter. So your contention is that I took 1.6 seconds off by using a 2.25 or 2.5" exhaust that follows stock routing... Recalling all along that the stock system in a 75 2/2 is at least 2", and may be 2.25". So increasing the exhaust system pipe diameter (maybe) by .250" is worth somewhere between 1 and 1.6 seconds. I don't see it. With the damage on the last bend by the diffy, I doubt it flows any better than stock.

on yeah, and the AFM is STOCK from a 1976 280Z, a straight take-off from a vehicle you may have seen someplace else. Like Bonneville. The AFM is NOT a turbo unit. It is a STOCK 76 AFM... I just read the "60mm AFM" comment, and figure I should also clarify that while at it...

Why a 15.4 and not a 15.3, which was my best time. Remember 15.4 was WITH ALL THE OTHER STUFF TAKEN OFF THE CAR AS A BASELINE. The T/B, and filter only gave me .1 second maybe. So it's your contention that adding a two-muffler 2.5" crush bent exhaust that is 1/4 collapsed from bottoming under the rear end is worth a full second. Maybe I should sell it on E-Bay as a one-second modification.

oh, and be correct in your quoting of my contention: I said my car was "basically stock" There is NOTHING on the car that is a "Real" performance item. It is all basic maintenance replacment items. 15 second 1/4 mile times are not fast, they are nothing to be bragging about, and I never did. Everybody else seems fixated that my times are "something special" and I still to this day con not figure out why. The donor vehicle was a whole $125... And I have since measured the camshaft. It is BONE STOCK, identical to the other N42 blocks I have... So much for the swearing guy in Texas' contention that I "had to have a cam in it".... People who loose get aggravated for some reason, especially when they poured buttloads of money into making it shiny and putting all the "go fast" stuff on there. Only to get spanked by a guy towing a trailer behind his 2/2 with a home made Class-3 Style Receiver Hitch on it...

yeah, the track equipment was wrong. For all 26 passes. Even though it was right in line with the G-Tech that I'd done almost a year before. I kept getting told my G-Tech times were wrong, also, until everybody at the Convention witnessed my car do it, and then inspected the car and confirmed it is nothing special. Which was my contention all along. The guys there in the 280 coupes running 16.45's cursed me, too. One guy swore at me because his 75 280Z Coupe with headers, and Big Throat T/B, and a REAL cold air kit and cone K&N Filter (not a K&N Stock Replacement filter in a stock filter housing running the full silencer snorkel) and some nice shiny silver paint was consistently 1 full second plus slower than me EVERY TIME WE LINED UP. After 8 runs, he gave up, and started swearing at me. My car isn't pretty, but it's consistent. Like I said, there is bashing of me that goes on---this is a good example. I know what my car does, and has done. Because some people can not conceive it in their mind is their problem, not mine.

A good example of a Fairlady Z in ZCCA Judging would be Trey's 1976 car at the SanAntoino convention. I was envious of all the neat little decals he somehow procured, that are missing on my car. Some very nice detailing. To the casual observer, a very nice and clean car. But to someone who knows Fairlady Z's, the center console opening the wrong direction was a killer for me. I also drew solace in the fact that his fusible link holder was in the same condition as mine, and solving that issue will not be easy! Did I say anything? No. Except to my son, who looked for a good ten minutes before realizing "the latch is on the wrong side, dad!" Judge in training, I suppose!

BTW, the track at Cal Speedway is 1/4 mile NHRA Sanctioned. The track at Irwindale is 1/8 mile. I do not know what the Banning Drag City facility has for distance...

"From the many posts he has made about it I have gathered that it had: K&N filter, 60mm AFM, 60mm TB, ported exhaust manifold, 2.5in exhaust, and drag radials." It has a K&N filter in a stock Housing. It has a 60mm TB, which does not add horsepower, only better tip-in. The Exhaust manifold is STOCK, I have never said it was ported, EVER. I do not own Drag Radials. I run on the same Dunlop Sport A2's I have always run. They are a whole $43 a piece, mounted. They are a 40K mile rated tire. The exhaust is a CRUSH BENT 2.5 (I think, it may be a 2.25") that the P.O. installed. I ADDED another muffler to the system because it was too loud,IMO. The Engine came from an 81ZX 2+2 with 186,000 miles on it. You don't "see" the bashing because you wern't around for it. Spud, you are still bashing my performance. My 1/4 miles times did not change more than 0.1 second with the T/B and the K&N filter. I guess that makes my car a 15.4 second car, and not a 15.3 second car. My 260 runs 16's. With Flat Tops. Sorry Don't mis-state the facts regarding my vehicles. Talk about bashing. To do it to one's face is one thing. To do it behind their back... welllll.... I suppose Richard will be happy to see I have arrived here. He's been bugging me to come and post here for a while. Richard from Empire Z, you out there?