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Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:00 pm
by Mikewazowski
Cheers guys, I'm happy with how it has turned out
Akaroa was a blast and I'm stoked the B made it all the way down and back with no problems...more than 2000 kms over the long weekend
Cheers for the ride in your car Bart, that thing is freakin' awesome! I'm glad mine is a little more streetable though, I think I may have gone deaf if I had to drive yours from the North Island
I may have to look into getting some adjustable camber tops to get rid of some of the positive camber. I think I heard that S13 ones work?
Talked to my old man and he thinks that my car has always had a vibration at ~85 - 95 km/h so I'm thinking that it might be my driveshaft or something. I'll have to jack it up and check all the universals and whatnot I guess.
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:44 pm
by Bartman
Usually worn out UJs get worse the faster you go. Maybe have the balance checked?
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:08 pm
by Mikewazowski
In recent news I've added an additional spring to the throttle body on the Z18ET, as the throttle had a tendency to stick on and make the car idle high. It seemed to fix that so I'm happy.
I've got the 610 jacked up in the garage at the moment and it looks like I'll need to replace the idler arm bushes as they are nonexistant
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:22 pm
by Mikewazowski
The idler arm bushes finally arrived so now I'm driving this to work everyday as usual.
Wicked!
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:25 pm
by gingofthesouth
Mikewazowski wrote:The idler arm bushes finally arrived so now I'm driving this to work everyday as usual.
Wicked!
Niiice, I am very jealous!
All you bastards with nice Datsuns and turbo motors are making me not want to put the L Series back in and finish off building the Fj20et back up.
Hope you are enjoying it
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:30 pm
by Mikewazowski
gingofthesouth wrote:
Niiice, I am very jealous!
All you bastards with nice Datsuns and turbo motors are making me not want to put the L Series back in and finish off building the Fj20et back up.
Hope you are enjoying it
Turbo EFI power is pretty satisfying
However, I love the simplicity of the L series as well, which is why I'm not in any hurry to change the engine in my wagon. I reckon you should enjoy the easy trouble-shooting and empty engine bay of an L series while you can
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:41 pm
by Bartman
The L series is as complex as the bugatti Veyron engine when compared to the A series! (Aye Mr Dirty Leppa?!)
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:29 pm
by dirtyleppa
L series suck balls. bastard to change stem seals, suck balls to adjust tappets and an arsehole to remove the manifolds.
give me a pushrod engine any day
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:44 pm
by 160jsss
Re: Michael's 180B Sedan Z18ET
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:16 pm
by gingofthesouth
