| (due to it being broken or down for mods) how do you comfort yourself about it? What do you do to keep yourself from giving up? I mean, I know that a modified car is going to break. I can handle that. But when I fix it only to develop new problems before I even get to enjoy it, it seems like I'll never get to drive this car again. My car developed rod knock (it happens), so I took the engine out, replaced the bearings (and a couple other things that needed replacement), slapped on my GT2530's now that I had the CHRA replaced on the bad one, eliminated the EGR and the plenum coolant lines, and put the engine back in. It started up... on 5 cylinders, but I figured that out fairly quickly (PTU connection). So now that it was running smoothly, I decided to reinsure it and start driving it again. First thing I notice on the road - it's underboosting (6psi on turbos with 12psi wastegate presets). So I have a big air leak somewhere that I need to deal with. No big deal... I know that's pretty common when the engine goes back in (I recall at least one other time that I had to find a loose intake hose that was causing the same problem). Plus is that the turbos sound like they're spooling very healthily. I take a ride over to my friend's house and hang out there for a bit. As I'm pulling out... there's a puddle of oil underneath the car. The oil pan is leaking... another thing that's my own fault for not using enough RTV on the pan, but it's still frustrating and not an easy thing to repair. I can deal with the air leak, and the fact that I still have to replace my subframe bushings, and my speedo still doesn't work despite me checking all it's wires and finding nothing wrong, but the oil pan just about pushes me over the edge. I really don't want to drop the front suspension to redo that gasket (and no, I can't afford to pay someone else to do it at this point). I'm considering the option of selling it at this point, and getting an S14 to drop an RB26 into (not because I'm an RB26 fan - I hate the idea of losing 400cc of displacement - but because I don't want a 4 cylinder and the RB26 doesn't seem to be that hard to drop into the 240SX and it's a much less complicated car). But we all know that the 240SX will never be the 300ZX. The interior is not as nice. It doesn't look as good. It doesn't have the feel of such a high quality sports car. And therein lies the dilema - I love driving the Z. Do any of you guys feel like this at any point? If so, what the hell do you do about it? As I said, I love the Z... but every time I have the GT2530s on it, something goes wrong preventing me from driving it, and I'm getting tired of it.
 
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