damn you kev! i wanted that ECU/Inj/Maf package Ep was selling lol

 

You wouldnt have been doing too good, cause apparently I messaged chris about it after kevin already got it, so you were probably 3rd in line hahaha.


Sean, I told you to take the bumper off days ago, see what happens when you dont listen to me ?

 

I might a similar problem? When i turn on the A/C the car doesn't ramp up the RPMs to compensate for the extra load. What do you think about that?

 

lol, sorry man. You already stole my clutch fan and shroud, but you can be my car twin now so you should be happy!

 

That's interesting. It could just be that the IACV-AAC is maxed and the the FICD isn't working. Or it could be the AC signal not getting to the ECU. Probably the latter. It's not just the extra idle valve that idles the car up; the ECU actually targets a higher idle rshared_pm when it sees the AC input signal.

Redline! It's my first car with a color (non white/gray) since my 02 WRX. I'm liking it.

It has 42k on it, so the tires are pretty beat. I think once I put stock sized Star Specs on it, it'll be as sticky as the S14 was. I'll have twice as much power as last year, so I bet we set a pretty quick pace. It's my brother that we'll have to worry about.

 

Haha I'd be worried about him too. I'm probably going to be running 235' NT05's all the way around so I'm not sure how much thats going to affect the car up there. I think the off camber turns that fall away towards the drop offs are going to scare me even more. Other than that the camber of the road should help with the rest.

 

Balance will be more important that outright grip. You can always drive slower, but if you're fighting the car in every turn you'll wind up filling your pants or crashing (or both).

 

Thats what I'm working on. I figure if the Z runs smaller tires I should be able to get away with it too especially since the car is atleast 300lbs lighter and will only be making like 250-260hp. I just dont think I'll have that safety net that the 255's gave me, but it wont be too bad.

 

I was thinking about my old S14 245/245 setup, weight, and what the Z runs (225/245). This Z is 400 lbs heavier than my old S14 was. Between the 2 cars, the rear suspensions are similar, with multi-link geometry and a nice camber curve. The fronts are the difference. The 240sx's strut suspension has almost zero camber gain at the heights that we run, so every degree of body roll is a degree subtracted from tire-to-road angle. That's why people run such high camber on the front for track S-chassis cars (Patrick L once told me 4* gave even tire temps up front!). The Z has a double wish-bone(ish) front suspension that adds camber pretty aggressively. So with that, the Z wouldn't need to run as much front tire because it'll be making better use of it. But still, if you call 225-on-a-Z equivalent to 245-on-a-S14, that doesn't address the 200 lbs of extra mass at each end on the Z, giving the upper hand to the S14.

 

Not to pry but did this happen near a olive garden? I took the GF out to dinner and couldnt help but notice a S13 sitting on jackstands, I figured you got a flat or something.