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Hey, you cheaten' bastard!! That thing has four extra cylinders!!!!!
Ya didn't think anyone would notice???
Jeff L
ITA Miata
2010 NARRC Champion
2007 NERRC Championship, 2nd place
2008 NARRC Championship, 2nd place
2009 NARRC Championship, 2nd place
That settles it... I'm taking the motor out of my Titan and dropping into the Z! 8 cylinders for everyone!!!!!
Steve Parrish
57 ITS Nissan 300ZX
He's got that covered on this project!
The garage has been Jeff'ed up for about five weeks now. We managed to clean it a bit over the last few days and it does look better, much better. You can now walk around in there without fear of injury and Ed the Dog doesn't get trapped in nooks and crannies from which he cannot escape.
Pretty exciting project and a lot of work. I wish I had the ability to run some sort of FI, I'm jealous with these old boat anchor carbs!
Last edited by Ron Earp; 12-15-2008 at 11:25 AM.
Parrish, you know you can get a $7000 turbo kit for the Titan motor. It will make over 600 hp. That will tow that new trailer.
Jeff Roussel
Soon to be ITS Datsun 260z
... adding fuel injection to a carbed car... now that's a fascinating concept! taking advantage of the change in rules are we? nice
i wonder how many folk will do this to their cars?
hoop
Greensboro, NC
STL Newbie
Not many can -- check the Spec line, I'm one of the few cars that came with carbs and FI (Bosch L-Jetronic). 300/400 TR8s came with FI at the end of the run in 1981, plus all of them sold in California.
Still a beeyatch collecting all the necessary parts.....plenums and intakes aren't hard to find but all the other stuff (throttles and injectors, etc.) have been somewhat difficult.
NC Region
1980 ITS Triumph TR8
can i do that to my car ? might need more stuff keep up now ....looks good jeff , should be better for you . ralph
Remember the Fiat? That puppy 2 was offered with either injection or a carb. Not to mention different size head bolts for each of the heads. I'm probably off a mm or two, but I seem to remember the X1/9 came with either a 13mm or 11mm head bolts on the FI head along. that made it a real PITA if you spun a bearing or warped a head (both of which happened on my car). You had to make sure you matched up your good head to the new block or new head to the old block.... which is how I learned that the motor came with 11mm studs... I was left running the last race with a plown gasket because the head slipped!
I don't know what the Carbed car had.
Anyway, it will be nice to see your reliability improve. Is the new system Bosch or something Brit?
hoop
Greensboro, NC
STL Newbie
Looks good Jeff, I look forward to seeing it scream, well, or at least moan in anger!
Tristan Smith
1991 Nissan ITR 300zx #56
Right now the only sound it makes is the great sucking sound of extracting money from my wallet.
NC Region
1980 ITS Triumph TR8
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