1995 Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPr4mNJU_U
(My Z running an 11.02 ET)

New personal best. Yes yes, I will still finish posting pics of my build at some point.

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Right, so here is the 11.02 time slip from Calgary. Man, sure wish I made this pass in Edmonton. For obvious reasons...


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http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...t121p88mph.jpg

Also here is an 11.04 pass:



Edit, I can't figure out why the IMG tag doesn't work. Click the link for the damn slip. Stupid Internet.

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I bought an RPS Clutch, RPS Segmented Flywheel and a 6-puck disc to use with my 5 speed. So it was all new - and I still have it all new and unused, never installed it. Decided to go a different route with the transmission. But here is that RPS stuff anyhow! (Well, the flywheel and disc)

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Right, so I had one of the very early style Greg Dupree split down pipes on the Z that I bought many years ago. Decided that now would be an obvious and good time to upgrade to the newer style super splits. So, those went on the car as well.

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So more build stuff. Painted the three timing belt covers, and here the timing belt is on, and starting to put on the covers. T-stat is in, and so is the water pump.



Covers are all on, crank angle sensor (CAS) installed, put on the coolant pipes and now it's ready to have the exhaust manifolds, turbos, downpipes put on.

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These are the Mike Smith manifolds that were on the car. They were actually already on the car from previous build, but I didn't post pictures of them. So here are the original pictures I took when they were new.

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Passenger side exhaust manifold, turbo, and downpipe all attached.
Rinse and repeat for the other side.

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In went a manually shifted automatic TH400 transmission. (Very fun!)



Here's the tranny being assembled. You have to use an adapter plate, and a TT auto bellhousing - which you've got to put together - and also you need to install speed sensor.



Here is the speed sensor getting installed.



I kept my 5 speed manual transmission. It is in perfect working order, and some day I might want to revert back. Though now that I've got this in and have driven it, I doubt that will ever ever ever happen.

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So I made some small changes, but now I'm back to a canned 100 octane tune. I need to get the Z tuned properly, and hopefully that will be the trick to getting the Z in to the damn 10's.



First pass on August 19th, 2011.

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Second pass (and last 1/4 mile pass) on August 19th, 2011.

Cut a nearly perfect light on this pass, and had a good hard launch. Car went pretty good.

I won't bother going back to the track until it is tuned properly for the fuel I want to run.