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I love that I can drive around for months at a time without seeing another one (I live in the rust belt) and that no one under the age of 40 knows for sure what it is. And the performance too of course :-)

In my experience with POR-15 if you dont use metal ready before you paint it will not adhere to the metal at all or provides very poor coverage. POR is a great product but you have use their methods to apply it or it doesnt work as well as it should.

very nice car with alot of cool mods, although I dont think itd be much of hit on this site . The guys at hybridz would probably love it though.....

eh, I'm not too sure about the looks of this one either, it does look less like a toad but I dont know that it looks better or more like the origionals (I still think they should have called them 350ZX's). It still needs to be lighter smaller and handle better IMO!!! Thats my 2 cents......

This may be a better question to ask at hybridz.org if you havent already, they have an unbelievable amount of info on this kind of stuff, good luck.

up to #67386 now

I would like a 300+ hp 3.1L L28 engine for my car (naturally aspirated), but since this would be unreliable as all hell, probably louder than a 747 at take off and cost too many $'s/hp in my opinion I'm going to keep researching that LS1/T-56 combination thats soooo tempting. Oh, I would also like to add a POR-15 coating to my entire car while I'm at it .

, little things like that are always such a kick in the pants when youre trying to tackle bigger, more important problems. Good luck and dont forget to post some pics of your progress!

Biggest tip I can give you here is to make sure you get car up high enough to get the bellhousing out from under the car. When I did this job I didnt have enough room and I had to jack the car up again (this becomes a pain in the arse if you only have one jack). This isnt really a hard job though and can be done by someone with decent mechanical knowledge, I highly recommend using a transmission jack though. I got the one from harbor freight too and it worked very well for me. Good Luck and have fun!

I went with the MSA kit and I've been happy so far. I havent installed all the bushings yet though, I havent had time to dissasemble the rear control arms and differential support gear yet. I replaced all the front end bushing and put in new inner and outer ball joints while I was at it and it made a huge improvement in my steering percision and feel. As coastguard said though you will need quite a bit more bushing lube than what the MSA kit gives you. Autozone usually has some of this in stock (Energy Suspension brand) or they can order it for you pretty quick. BTW, you guys I think this qualifies as thread hijacking. =)

What a POD award? I havent heard that one before.

For me it was the curves, the handling and the fact these cars to me are a hot rodders dream. Theres a ton of ways to build up the suspension and you get quite a bit of power out an L-series engine. Theres also quite a few engine conversions you can do if you want to get crazy horsepower. Also because of the area I live in they are rare here (I live in MA aka the rust belt) so the uniqueness is also key.

Ok, I completely disconnected the rear sway bar from the body this afternoon and had no sqeaks. So I lubed up the sway bar bushings, reinstalled them and now its quiet as can be :stupid: so, ya, go figure. Thanks again everyone. =)

ok, thanks guys, I'll try something with the sway bar tomorrow and report back with what I find, that does sound like a more likely source than the MB, so we'll see =)