Fast Fours April2006, Zbuild

[Natez]

apparantly http://www.240z.id.au/, zbuild is in the Fast fours April 2006 edition i will be checking it out tomorrow....

[Natez]

went to my local newsangency today to pick up a copy, vbut its sold out, and they got the new may edition in already.... stupid month early publications

[Huw]

I got the article a while back....

It's not brilliant, and if you have looked at the 240z.id.au site you probably won't learn much new....

by god I'd love my car to be set up like that though!!! (apart from the polishing, that'd be a nightmare!)

 

Huw

[Mr Camouflage]

It was featured in Zoom Magazine a couple of years ago. Copies pop up on ebay from time to time. I think theres one on there right now.

[Zeddophile]

Theres a yellow L28ET 240Z in the June issue of Hot4s, putting out 270kW at 17psi.... Meant to post this a few weeks ago....

[zbuild]

Howdy

Its the same car. . .

I took out Best car at the fast fours Jamboree up here a while ago and both fast fours and Hot fours approached me for a photo shoot.

 

The Hot Fours was a much better article. . . Fast Fours took the highest power figure we talked about and said that this is what I run on the street. . .not so. . .I get around with 230Kw at the rears every day.

We have seen 244 & 270Kw at the rear on the dyno and briefly on the street, but it was a bit scarey (sideways action)

 

On the dyno once, we screwed the pneumatic valve the wrong way :oops: and saw a figure in excess of 300Kw with no pinging, but Tim (my dyno man) backed off as soon as he saw what we'd done. He likes to use a bit of caution.

 

Ive since changed the rear tyres for a set of the new Yoko Advans and its now much more controllable, so I might start easing the boost up a little.

 

My website hasn't changed much over the last few years as I haven't done much to my Z. Recently I bought a set of MSD 40,000 volt coils for it but haven't put them on yet, and Ive had a bit of trouble with some of my Noletec bushes disintegrating but that's pretty much all thats changed since my original build 4 years ago.

 

Funnily enough the polishing isnt too bad, though detailing the engine bay and the underneath for shows is a pain in the a#$e

 

Cheers - Simon

[thehelix112]

Simon,

 

Great to hear. I'm hoping to be able to really lean on my GT35R after a rebuild. Should make for some interesting power figures.

 

Dave

[zbuild]

Cool!

I dont think I can aspire to the sort of numbers you'll be putting out Davd

What sort of work have you done in the rebuild?

cheers - Simon

[thehelix112]

Simon,

 

Haven't started yet as I am doing a bit of travelling about the place. With gf's family in California ATM.

 

Plans are not over the top:

 

cam (~230 deg @ 0.05) valve springs to match, balance, o-ring block, forged pistons, arp rod bolts and main & head studs, bore/hone appropriate.

 

Should be enough to let me run 25psi or so. Hope to be making somewhere over 300atw with that setup.

 

Dave

[JBWetzels]

Hi Simon,

 

 

What turbo are you running?

[zbuild]

She's an old Air Research unit I got at a swap meet. I paid $175 for 2 turbos (in pieces) in a cardboard box, 1 big and 1 not quite as big.

 

We took the exhaust housing from one (smaller) and the compressor end from the other (larger) whacked in a new shaft, bearings and seals and for another $450 had a good unit.

 

Its a T04 it starts to get interested at 2500rpm and is all over about 6200 but while its happening its quite impressive.

 

cheers - Simon

[JBWetzels]

i just checked out your site, very nice job!!

 

looks like you have not spared on any expenses