RB30X

If I lived near Brisbane I'd be all over this one: http://www.tradingpost.com.au/Automotive/Used-Cars/AdNumber=TP004552788?AdOnTop= They'll be wanted one day if not already. And this one: http://www.tradingpost.com.au/Automotive/Used-Cars/AdNumber=TP004552789?AdOnTop= In fact I'll buy both and someone keep them at your house for a bit till I move

I REALLY LIKE THIS!

I was going to say you've aged well Happy Bday old fella.

Have a look in a parts shop, they are exactly the same.

Lovely Jane. Happy birthday big fella.

Check, clean and use electra clean on all of your terminals inside your harness plugs. Your looking for that green coppery residue sitting on the pins. Make sure the 'male' pins are clean and straight and the 'females' are tight enough to get good contact on the male pins (oh dear ) Coolant sensor, TPS, AFM, Coil, Crank angle sensor, the other one on the coil??, etc All these plugs have a say in how the engine runs and if they arent communicating properly, thats when you start pulling your hair out and pay mechanics to replace items of your efi one by one at the discust of your wallet.

Do you have a print out of a dyno run Dimitri?

G'Day Bloke.

Did you make those rims bigger or are they still 16's?? I want some rota grids like that but they don't seem to be selling them anymore.

Well I've put a few more miles on the 570Z and I'm pleased as punch. The new steering rack bushes have made the driving experience much more pleasurable. My fidgity steering at high speed has gone which was obviously 'in hindsight' signs that the rack bushes were already broken but it took the good tyres on the front to wreck them completely. Thanks again Lurch. Well if you live on the eastern side of Aus the weather has been a bit brisk to say the least. I took the old girl out this morning to have a chew on some winter air. I havent driven it in cool weather as it was only registered in November. It didnt seem to make as big of a difference as driving a turbo in cold weather but it did feel good. Everytime I switch the battery isolator off the power control module (PCM) has to learn itself over again so this mornings run probably wasnt as good as it could have been as I only gave the engine (and tyres ) a couple of minutes to warm up before taking this: I'd say that would be 0-200 in 12seconds?? Not sure how that would transfer as a quarter mile time as I've only ever run a 13 flat @ 106ish mph. These arrived the other day. The thermostat is a 160'F one as apposed to the 190-195'F ones that are standard. That should help keep it cool at the track. Also some spare rocker covers that I might get some speedflow nipples welded onto for my breather set up and I might also paint them black?? I like the look of the one below. I also got a 25% underdriven balancer because it was cheap. I had one like this on my old clubby.

My first VL was a horrible thing. The air flow meter harness was dodgey and played up like you mentioned. The thing would stop and go as it pleased. If youve moved it around to replace the flow meter, that would have started the problems.

I would say it's got something to do with swapping the airflow meter. The harness on them can get brittle and you may have damaged it. Why did you swap it anyway

Is it a 2+2 at all. I've got some if it is.

What was the damage on the seats. $$ Did you fit them, do they sit nice and low with heaps of head room? I'd love to swap mine out for a pair of brides.

Sweet mate, what brakes are on there currently?

Sorry to tag on here but I bought an underdriven balancer for my LS1 for really cheap because it experienced first hand how bad the Brisbane floods were. Anyway I've sand blasted all the surface rust off it and it looks clean but what would you use on billet steel to bring it up shiney again??

Yeah I will get around to that Peter. The current bolts have a plate above them too, incase anyone thought it was just the floor supporting the weight. It would weight about 4-5kgs?? As mentioned above the passenger side mount has been somewhat removed, but I understand it would be great to secure it there as well. The tunnel strap idea would work too.

Wow good on you mate, great car. Any more photos from the cafe night? Keep an eye on that old girl and dont race any black 911's

Just throwing it out there but one of the blokes on my crew has a Toyota Soarer with a 4.0L V8 that he is trying to sell un-rwc. It isnt in bad nic but he couldnt be bothered trying to sell it rwc. If someone is in the market for the engine it wouldnt be a bad buy as everything would be there. Its an auto though.??

I bought the biggest single phase I could get and it works fine.

Thanks Peter. The Drivers side mount inside the tunnel was there but unused and the passenger side one got ground away a bit to fit the fatty boomba T56. My 'new and improved' cross member has spread the load over more of the floor and also uses the original drivers mount inside the tunnel. Plus I get more clearance for the exhaust.

Best of luck with your journey Rev, I hope you make a difference. Stay on the prowl for us and post regular Zed parts specials as you bump into them.

That sounds like the white with red stripe wire that runs through your amp meter before everything else. Yeah, maybe poor connection causing heat??

I noticed something scary after viewing the footage about how much my passenger seat was flexing around during acceleration. Watch the video below and look at how the passenger moves against the LH quarter glass. I spoke to Peter Mac about it on the phone and after he stopped laughing histerically at my dire situation, he told me they referred to it as 'oil caning' where the floor is flexing around where the gearbox is mounted due to the torque that these brilliant engine put out. The solution is to add cross bracing to the floor and modify the gearbox cross member so it distributes the load over a larger area. Here is the cross member currently Also in the mail today arrived some Nolethane steering rack bushes from a "Lurchos the Great". I dont care what you guys say about him, he is a very generous man. Thanks Locky, I owe you a few beers mate. As Peter Allen mentions on page two of this thread http://www.viczcar.com/forum/index.php/topic,1058.0.html the bushes seem to be a lot thicker than the 240Z racks and require trimming approx half the wall thickness off each side before they go in. As promised, here is a photo of my old bushes compared to the new ones.

As promised, here is a photo of my bushes compared to the new ones.