fufu Posted October 20, 2008 Author Posted October 20, 2008 Hello all, Sorry I've been away for so long. Well the last few months i got really depressed with the car not working and i pretty much let it sit there at the panel beaters for the whole time. Not doing anything. After all the fair lady was giving me the attitude so i thought i'd give it some space, time away you could say. Anyways my mechanic/auto-electrician friend just came back from his trip to J-land and decided to swing by to have a look at it today. After about an hour. I'm finally glad to say that "IT'S ALIVE". I thought i'd share my findings since no one has covered this problem before. If you've been following this thread and other threads I've posted, you would understand that i had an issue with the "common fuse" continuously blowing. After explaining to my auto-electrician friend for about 15 minutes on what I've tested and what happens. He looked at the problem head on and gave me this advise... "why don't you just get rid of it". So we did, pulled the blue connecting plug from the back. Tried starting the car for about a minute. Now this part you may find a bit silly on my part.. Being away from the zed so long... i forgot about the choke. ROFL! So here i am stomping on the accelerator and thinking why it isn't starting for like a minute straight. Then realising the choke and telling every bystander that i forgot the choke. Upon activating the choke it started straight away. Basically the common fuse isn't really necessary it is mainly for the alternator and taps into every circuit in the car as a sort of backup/bypass highway. So if you ever have a problem with it. Just disconnect it. To make a safety measure, I'm going to create a fusible link to the alternator as a replacement backup for the common fuse no longer being available. Tomorrow my plan is the bring her home and start on the interior re-assembly. I'll be leaving the dash out to make the manual conversion easier for me. That's all folks. Quote
fufu Posted November 29, 2008 Author Posted November 29, 2008 Hi All, Not much of a zed update. Thought i'd give a bit of a status update. My contract and working schedule has changed once again as it is now holidays for universities so i now move to full-time working schedules. I chose to do the full-time to purchase another car. My brother ended up selling the AE86 only 9 months after he had bought it. We also sold the common runaround vehicle to purchase a Mitsubishi Evolution 8. He found that after purchasing the AE86 he wanted to have a more modern vehicle without the rattles, harsh rides and discomforts that come with an old classic. There are a lot of pics so i won't implant them into here. But i'll leave a link here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snapsterau/sets/72157610197280572/ Basically its the journey we did last wednesday to get the vehicle. Story is 2 people (including my brother) decided to buy vehicles in Sydney. So we booked our flights, went to sydney, got picked up from the airport by both sellers, did our road tests, purchased the vehicle and started our drive back to Melbourne. First and foremost i must say. YOU SYDNIANS! i feel your pain... your roads suck... there is no comparison, i believe NSW has the worst roads in all of Australia. For the price you pay for registration on your vehicles plus the roadworthy every year being over 1000 dollars and to have that pathetic standards of roads is really heartbreaking to see. However because of that... you baby your cars more then Melbournians and ultimately they sell cheaper as cars are some what less demanded in Sydney then it is in Melbourne. If i had bought a similar car in Melbourne i'd be looking at $6000+. Overall i'm very happy with the bargain purchase we made. Not just my brothers car but also my friends car. The Evo 8 is a JDM model made in 03 and had only been imported less then 9 months ago. It has only done 42 000 kms and has a set of brand new bridgestone potenza RE001R valued at 1500. The car is completely stock. The STI is an 05 MY06 model with only 42 000 kms. The previous owner bought this car for $63 000 then added at least $ 15 000 on top in modifications. His the respectable kind of car enthusiast you'd want to buy your car off. Whereby his done his research and had a very nice vision on his outcome. The car has custom full leather interior value at $5000, DEFI triple gauge stack, intake and exhaust and intercooler mods. Exterior looks completely stock but it is a beast underneath, doing 240kw at all fours. The poor bugger sold it to us for $40 000 and still had $9000 owing to finance. Not to mention throwing in all stock parts and extras including 2 extra rims. Only reason why the previous owner sold it is because he needs it gone as its taking up a garage space, why you ask?, well of course its for his R35 which is arriving in 2 weeks time. He paid $155 000 for the R35 including delivery costs for all those that are interested. But plus his also got a E65 AMG for his family car and his son whose 21 drives a EVO X, his daughter drives a golf GTI with the double clutch gearbox. :'( why can't i be that rich?. I was with subaru team on purchasing. I refused to do a test drive and was pretty much shoved into the drivers seat by the seller and the whole time i was crapping myself and i didn't want to go past 40km/hr, firstly being its not my car and secondly i'm not buying it - my friend is. So there i am totally taking it easy. While the whole time i was crapping myself the seller was telling me to floor it. He was a very cool bloke. Both cars were unbelievable bargains. Espeacially the STI as there is no way if we bought another car would it be able to have that much add ons and extras. We can literally sell 2 sets of sway bars, an extra titanium strut brace and another 2 exhaust systems, for over 2000 alone on the used market. Surprised it all fitted into the boot and rear seats. Anyways i hope you guys enjoyed my update, sorry it wasn't to zed. As for the zed I've ordered a clutch fork and bearing springs and should arrive next week for me to finish off my manual conversion. Quote
fufu Posted December 1, 2008 Author Posted December 1, 2008 no pics of the zed ya'll? I'm saving it for a full blown "complete" update. Hopefully soon. Quote
S30Mike Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Hey Fufu, you may have covered this already, but what engine will you ultimatly be running? Quote
fufu Posted February 28, 2009 Author Posted February 28, 2009 Hi S30Mike, My current plans for the engine will be to run the L28 i have stored away in the bad shed. Of course with some 45mm Tripple Webbers and Dimitri's old L series exhaust system. All of which i have possession at the moment just want to get them in at a later date. I will most likely get my mechanic friend to have a look at the L28 before popping it in. Maybe looking at a more aggressive cam as well to go with the Webbers. Quote
S30Mike Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Ahh sounds great, so your going to stay N/A? Ive been thinking about it awhile which way to go but carbs are just too awesome haha. My car is already L30 running an aggresive cam and on friday the exhaust will be finished, it goes great, only thing left to do would be the tripples for me, but not till i get another car i think. Quote
Mr240z Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Hey S30Mike, can you tell us about your "L30 build" Would be very interested to hear all about it. Must be screaming since last time we saw you. ? What do you say to a run at eastern creek down the 1/4, I,ve only got a L24. So you should go allright. Let me know. Quote
fufu Posted March 1, 2009 Author Posted March 1, 2009 Ahh sounds great, so your going to stay N/A? Ive been thinking about it awhile which way to go but carbs are just too awesome haha. My car is already L30 running an aggresive cam and on friday the exhaust will be finished, it goes great, only thing left to do would be the tripples for me, but not till i get another car i think. Yep, I'll be sticking with N/A for the time being. I'd really love to go ITBs like Dimitri and then add a twin turbo kit to that. But thats a dream with a value of $20,000+. Quote
S30Mike Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Hey S30Mike, can you tell us about your "L30 build" Would be very interested to hear all about it. Must be screaming since last time we saw you. ? What do you say to a run at eastern creek down the 1/4, I,ve only got a L24. So you should go allright. Let me know. Yeah, your L24 goes hard.I suppose the Tripples make a big difference. Ive been thinking about running the creek for awhile now, might take you up on that if i get an early finish from work one wednesday. cant wait for the exhaust. . I think ive still got fuel issues that need sorting, doesnt feel like its running 100% atm. Quote
fufu Posted March 16, 2009 Author Posted March 16, 2009 UGYAAAA! Trust me to jump at an opportunity. As you all may know I bought a L28 from Evgeny a while back. Turns out its a E30/F54. Doesn't looks so grand now. Even with Triples I don't think it would be so flash. Only recently I've started to get focused into this. Mainly because a certain man has "planted seeds" into my head to get everything done now rather then later. Quote
PZG302 Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 Don't worry too much, just start looking for an N42 head to go with it. They are out there, I picked one up complete a few weeks ago for $40 of e-bay. Getting a seperate head will give you the advantage of building it to suit the webbers with some match porting for inlet and exhaust, plus new valves and heavier duty valve springs which for a road motor with the occaisional track day will last you for years. Once all that is done whip the old E30 head off and replace with the N42 for an immediate smile P90 would be nice, but unless you will be putting a snail on it you need to shave too much off the head for good compression. The N42 built right will flow just as well. I found that on my L29 the P90 I was using flowed less than the N42 I put on because of the P90 being designed to run the puffer. The N42 flowed better for the same amount of work. I run injection on mine, standard turbo log manifold, throttle body is around 62mm diameter and log is square, not tapered like the NPAS manifold or standard L28 manifold. Quote
Administrators gav240z Posted March 16, 2009 Administrators Posted March 16, 2009 Don't worry too much, just start looking for an N42 head to go with it. They are out there, I picked one up complete a few weeks ago for $40 of e-bay. Getting a seperate head will give you the advantage of building it to suit the webbers with some match porting for inlet and exhaust, plus new valves and heavier duty valve springs which for a road motor with the occaisional track day will last you for years. Once all that is done whip the old E30 head off and replace with the N42 for an immediate smile P90 would be nice, but unless you will be putting a snail on it you need to shave too much off the head for good compression. The N42 built right will flow just as well. I found that on my L29 the P90 I was using flowed less than the N42 I put on because of the P90 being designed to run the puffer. The N42 flowed better for the same amount of work. I run injection on mine, standard turbo log manifold, throttle body is around 62mm diameter and log is square, not tapered like the NPAS manifold or standard L28 manifold. Great advice I totally agree N42 for non turbo app. While on the topic apparently the MN42 found on the US Nissan Maxima is a great engine head. Think they are only in the US market though. So next best thing is the N42. Quote
fufu Posted March 16, 2009 Author Posted March 16, 2009 Great info guys. Definitely searching for a N42 head now. Might get the ports matched for the triple webbers and the extractors I have stored here just in advance. Quote
PZG302 Posted March 17, 2009 Posted March 17, 2009 Great info guys. Definitely searching for a N42 head now. Might get the ports matched for the triple webbers and the extractors I have stored here just in advance. I reckon the way to go, whoever you get to do the porting can take their time to get it right, plus the N42 only really needs a clean up to flow well. Not sure on carbies, but I haven't bothered with polishing the inlets as I want some turbulence in the flow for the air/fuel mix. Injection sprays the fuel in a much more atomised fashion than carbies will, plus only when needed in comparison to the fuel delivery of a carbie. Quote
fufu Posted March 20, 2009 Author Posted March 20, 2009 I've just handed my car off to Stef who will be helping me finish her off in Geelong. I previously thought it was going to be a simple few tasks which quickly built to a list of over 50 items which is out of scope in most regards what i had advertised it to be in the business section of this forum. I have to apologise to those which i had contacted previously in regards to finishing the Zed off, i didn't mean to fool around and that i didn't want to hand the car over and forward you a list of 50 items. It was very much out of scope on my part. So my humblest apologies to Dimitri and Ben. I'm looking ahead now for the project. I've sourced a N42 head from a fellow member. Which I'll be picking up soon. Many of you will know him if you are south of the border(garage filled with zed parts and a few zeds). His name corresponds to his street name (I found that so ironic and quite a good notion to have a chuckle about). I'll have pics up shortly. Quote
ZD44TT Posted March 20, 2009 Posted March 20, 2009 take ur time man.........just do it right to cope a beating ; ) Quote
fufu Posted March 30, 2009 Author Posted March 30, 2009 Little bit of an update. The people over at Engine Action have just picked up my engine. I dropped off the N42 head there this morning. Did a small smack test on it, to find out if it was any good, whilst I was there, and it scored 135 which apparently is quite good. They also stated that an RB30 head would be getting around 137. Ash you sold me an excellent head. So basically what they'll do for the moment is do an overall check. They'll do mostly head work this time as I don't really want to work on the bottom end any time soon. Things they'll do: - Port and Polish - Port matched to extractors and intake manifold - New Valves - New Retainers Won't do new springs as I'll wait and consider what cams I wish to put in. - Cleanup - Overall pressure test - Internal Engine Check Hope that's enough to get me sorted for now. Some other things I've been doing: - Started researching about Webers. - Followed Ash's advice and blasted the webers with some carby cleaner, freed up a lot of the parts. - Had a crack at dismantling one. Found it quite easy, I believe dismantling a laptop is harder and I do that on a daily basis. Also found out the jets are clogged. - Decided I should get my hands on a ultrasonic cleaner and rebuild kits, to proceed further. *Note I will document the rebuild. Then we'll have covered Mikuni's (Mikuni's rebuild covered by Luvemfast) and webers for our knowledge documents. Quote
fufu Posted April 6, 2009 Author Posted April 6, 2009 Just got back from Engine Action. They've finally cracked my engine open and had a play around. Some bad news. They have a slight feeling the bottom-end has had some overheating. The water pump only has 1 fin intact. Other things they've made to my attention is the E30 will yield a higher compression ratio and could be bored out to that of the N42 inlet and outlet. So I've instructed them to stick with the E30. Reason for the higher compression is that the compression chamber is more flush/flat compared to the N42 which is a dish type. So if I could get the same inlet and outlet size as the N42, it would be a wicked head. They've also instructed me to look into cams as they can start doing the springs and all that now. Any recommendations? I'm thinking a 74 degree. Also is it worth spending the money to get a high volume oil pump? *edit* spoke with the guys at stewart wilkins and they reckon standard is fine. I'm very noob at this. Your guidance is much appreciated. Turns out its going be quite costly in the end. Quote
PZG302 Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 I wouldn't worry too much about the bottom end, just make sure the bearings are all good and don't muck around with the crankshaft. Most L series crank failures I've seen have been when the cranks have been balanced or knife edged. My motors have always just used standard cranks and rods with no problems. Though I only rev my motors to about 7200. New water pump would be a good idea , but may also be worth looking at one of the new electronically controlled water pumps to control flow. For what you want a 74 degree cam would work, but could still be a little peaky. I have susccessfully used a 65-25 grind on a 4 cylinder L series and produced gtood power from about 3500 through to 6500, a pretty good range for a road motor. If anything I would be leaning to a motor with a wide torque band rather than an all out screamer that becomes too peaky to drive on the road. Quote
fufu Posted April 6, 2009 Author Posted April 6, 2009 Just got off the phone with the engine builder. It doesn't look good, the bottom end is definitely overheated and warped. It will need to be bored. new pistons as well. God dammit... its going to cost me a fortune. I guess its time to start considering boring options. I've also been recommended a 72 degree cam just for more street-able use which it will be eventually used for. As for the water pump, I bought one at the same time I bought my car as the seller, of the vehicle, said the water pump was gone, but it clearly wasn't. So I've had a spare since the start. A good time to throw it in. An electrical one would definitely be awesome but I think its overkill for my application. Quote
zr240 Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 HI Fu rebore and pistons shouldn't cost to much ($200 for flatops and $150 for rebore) They are a tough old motor and I would go up a size on the piston and rebore even if it wasnt warped Yer the std oil pump is fine. I got a 74 deg in my race motor and it is very lumpy. not really a daily driver type cam Ash Quote
fufu Posted April 6, 2009 Author Posted April 6, 2009 I'm getting evil thoughts Ash. Maybe the devil has possessed me. how about a 3mm overbore = 2950cc = 3.0L power? lol Quote
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