GTR-240Z
Well-Known Forum User
After 3 months of parts collecting I thought it was time to start a thread on my updates for 2012 since I'm only 2 weeks away from starting to actually fit stuff and I thought it might be of interest to some of you.
To give you a background on the car I spent 5 years restoring and modifying the car starting way back in 2003 and there was always areas I felt uphappy with as I had to compromise due to time and money. I've been slowly making improvements to the car to address these areas and decided after a great 2011 going to shows, track days, and the drag challenge I thought it was time to address the remaining areas in one big hit.
So my upgrades for 2012 are:
Modern Motorsport Custom 300ZX TT CV's
Diff still a work in progress on kitchen floor. Pipes where for original oil cooler.
Very shinny clutch shame they've gone to all that trouble making it look so nice as your never see it once fitted.
Modern Motorsport 39 spline billet stub axle.
Modern Motorsport mounting brackets
Lots of various boxes in spare room like this, it's stuff like this that you fail to budget for and actually costs a small fortune. £140 for gearbox, diff, brake fluid, and somewhere power steering fluid!.
Work in progress on front loom really early progress which I need to start working on again.
Freshly painted crossmember in my kitchen. Hard to see Terry's modifications in this picture but the paint is still drying.The smell is drifting into the living room and making me light headed .
Will keep you posted as I start fitting this stuff.
To give you a background on the car I spent 5 years restoring and modifying the car starting way back in 2003 and there was always areas I felt uphappy with as I had to compromise due to time and money. I've been slowly making improvements to the car to address these areas and decided after a great 2011 going to shows, track days, and the drag challenge I thought it was time to address the remaining areas in one big hit.
So my upgrades for 2012 are:
- Fit power steering, going to use the Subaru STI rack with a Citroen Saxo electrohydralic pump. Terry (Tel240z) will be doing this conversion for me as he has come up with a nice little package for me.
- Redo brake lines so they run on inside of wing to give a cleaner engine bay, also going to fit a line lock (two can play at that one Tel ). Also going to replace the dreadfull brake pads Arizonia Z Car supplied with my wilwoods as they create huge amounts of brake dust and squeal like a banshee.
- Remake the gearbox mount as the current one is horrible and requires me to upbolt the mount from inside the car if dropping the box which really annoys me.
- Replace worn Exedy single plate clutch which has terrible judder at slow speeds with a Nismo Super Coppermix twin plate clutch which is apparently a nice streetable clutch, doesn't have the usual twin plate jingle, and can handle 660bhp so more than enough for me. Also going to replace the clutch master and slave cylinder as I'm getting contamination of the fluid from one of the seals.
- Fit 300ZX TT R230 LSD using the Modern Motorsports mounting brackets, Modern Motorsports custom 300ZX TT CV shafts, and Modern Motorsport billet 39 spline stub axles and matching companion flanges. Suppose to be used regularly on 10 seconds zeds so hopefully no more broken drive shafts also hoping the R230 is nice and smooth with none of the backlash I seem to suffer with the current R200.
- Aluminium fuel tank to replace current one which will have some decent baffles and internal collector so it can run an internal fuel pump and do away with the surge tank setup. Hopefully with a simplier system I will have a more reliable and robust fuel system. Still need to decide on a fuel pump will run either twin walbro or Bosch 044, or prehaps a single Toyota Supra IV or Automotive Stealth 340 need to make my mind up soon before tank arrives.
- Fit prop hoop for added safety
- Rewire whole car, will just tidy rear harness as its actually in good condition just needs better ground wires, repair interior light wiring, the fuel pump wiring is already beefed up. Going to use a US front harness as my one is in poor condition but will replace headlight, and parking light wires, and will add fan, and power steering pump wires in will also strip out all the wiring for the ye olde coil, ballast resistor and all vintage engine stuff . Dash harness will be completly redone as its had 40 years of messing about done to it and I think it can be simplified and tidied up also going to fit a more modern fuse box.
- Redo oil cooler pipework, replace worn tyres at rear, replace heater valve, replace leaking rear oil seal, get those damn heater controls to work, replace turbo elbows with correct R33 ones so I can re-enable my o2 sensors.
- Reupholster transmission tunnel, sills, and behind seats I'm not a big fan of that diamond stitch vinyl and I hate the carpet replacement I current have. Will leave this as a surprise to the end.
- Rewire engine harness, fit Injector Dynamics ID1000 injectors, replace air flow meters with RB25 ones which flow better, and a retune.
- Fit slightly stiffer rear springs and some adjustable camber mounts to rear so I can run a little negative camber.
Modern Motorsport Custom 300ZX TT CV's
Diff still a work in progress on kitchen floor. Pipes where for original oil cooler.
Very shinny clutch shame they've gone to all that trouble making it look so nice as your never see it once fitted.
Modern Motorsport 39 spline billet stub axle.
Modern Motorsport mounting brackets
Lots of various boxes in spare room like this, it's stuff like this that you fail to budget for and actually costs a small fortune. £140 for gearbox, diff, brake fluid, and somewhere power steering fluid!.
Work in progress on front loom really early progress which I need to start working on again.
Freshly painted crossmember in my kitchen. Hard to see Terry's modifications in this picture but the paint is still drying.The smell is drifting into the living room and making me light headed .
Will keep you posted as I start fitting this stuff.