zeeman1972
Well-Known Forum User
I have always loved Z's since I bought a 280ZX as my second car when I was 19. Unfortunately I then purchased a Pontiac Firebird as my third car and fell in love with brutal V8 power. In the MANY years that followed I always promised myself that I'd get a 240Z/260Z and shoehorn a V8 into it. About a year ago I dusted off the idea and decided to embellish it a little. Having got used to the niceties of modern motoring, brakes that work, sporty but stable suspension, electric everything, remote central locking, A/C, reliable, economic fuel injected engines, I decided that what I wanted to create was the style of the S30, inside and out but with modern underpinnings. So in the last 12 months I have researched, researched and researched some more. To be honest I still have way more questions than answers about how this will all work, but I feel I am at a point that I should just get on with it and sort out the details as I go!
I may later regret this!
The car I'm going to build up is a Californian 77 280Z imported earlier this year.
The car is not mint condition by any stretch of the imagination, however it is very solid even though, due to a leaky heater matrix, it does have a couple of rust holes in the floor about the size of a 5 pence piece, oh and one very large rust patch by the rad support panel on the drivers side for which there seems no sensible reason?
1st job is to install this
So this weekend I began stripping the 2.8 lump out and whilst doing so I found this
Fortunately very dead, but I wont be putting my hands into places where I first haven't put my eyes in future!
Anyway, as of tonight I have the engine pretty much ready for lifting out and a table full of bits. Was hoping to get the engine out this weekend but a rounded prop bolt and some dummy who tried to rewire the car with scotchlocks and earth cables has somewhat complicated matters.
Anyhoo hope to have the engine out by next weekend for the real fun to begin!!!!
I may later regret this!
The car I'm going to build up is a Californian 77 280Z imported earlier this year.
The car is not mint condition by any stretch of the imagination, however it is very solid even though, due to a leaky heater matrix, it does have a couple of rust holes in the floor about the size of a 5 pence piece, oh and one very large rust patch by the rad support panel on the drivers side for which there seems no sensible reason?
1st job is to install this
So this weekend I began stripping the 2.8 lump out and whilst doing so I found this
Fortunately very dead, but I wont be putting my hands into places where I first haven't put my eyes in future!
Anyway, as of tonight I have the engine pretty much ready for lifting out and a table full of bits. Was hoping to get the engine out this weekend but a rounded prop bolt and some dummy who tried to rewire the car with scotchlocks and earth cables has somewhat complicated matters.
Anyhoo hope to have the engine out by next weekend for the real fun to begin!!!!