My Z worklog (LOTS of pictures and some vids!)

[KDMatt]

'Making some nice progress man.

I loved that someone decided to make a Pac-man face on the window!

[cremmenga]

I like it alot!!! i'm doing the same thing you are, building as fast as possible on a budget. I just got my car back from getting all new panels put in and I filled and leaded in the blinkers, gas lid, and vents. I'll put more pics on my gallery!! Keep posten those pics and vids!!! looking good!!!

[olderthanme]

hmm...I had no clue. Wonder if he saw his sticker on my windshield...I have heard about the yellow one a bunch and really liked it. really clean. so was yours dtsnlvrs... Actually I was looking in your Z at the show and the parking lights were on so I shut them off for you...hope that wasn't a problem...

pac man face??? I think you are looking at the reflection of my bike's tire in the drivers window...

I'll try to make another vid this weekend. Thanks for the comments guys!!!

[olderthanme]

today I pulled most of the wiring out of my Z...pulled everything from the seat foreward...fusebox...dash harness...all of it. I am pulling the rear harness tomorrow. Also I sepersted the ignition harness from the main bundle and got most of the alternator/power wiring seperated...it went from driving this morning to being gutted of all of the wiring...I am rewiring everything from a single plate of aluminium with one bundle of connectors. It will be professional looking too. no ghetto rigging!!! The current harness has enough of that.

I removed around 25 pounds of stuff from my Z that is never going back in...I have pulled so much weight out of this car. I must be down towards 2300 right now...

[olderthanme]

ok...here are the pics from today's carnage...

1 right after removing the dash harness

2 everything removed behind the 944t

3 the ignition wires seperated

4 the mess after ignitionis seperated

5 harness in a box...anyone want one? ready to hook up everything from your extra torque bands, blinker fluid, and brake light fluid.

:-D

[Dtsnlvrs]

hmm...I had no clue. Wonder if he saw his sticker on my windshield...I have heard about the yellow one a bunch and really liked it. really clean. so was yours dtsnlvrs... Actually I was looking in your Z at the show and the parking lights were on so I shut them off for you...hope that wasn't a problem...

No problem....I have replaced all my lights with LED's so Z it would not have hurt to leave them on as they draw almost no power, however thanks for shutting them off. Also thanks for the compliments on my car....as we speak, I am in the middle of replacing the tranny with a late 5sp, thanks to deficiencies I learned on the Dragon.

[olderthanme]

aha...I have my rear tail lights in LEDs now...everything except backup lights. Now I am redoing every ecectrical system with new wire. I bought like 500 feet of grey 14ga. wire so I am set. I also have some thick stuff too.

I have just left my lights on at work before and come out at the end of an 11 hour shift at midnight and found my car dead as a doornail...got it jump started though.

[olderthanme]

one of my favorite pics from the "Tail of the Dragon"

it is a large file for the size of the pic...sorry.

[cremmenga]

how do your adjustable A-1 springs work?? I was think about buying them or the motor sports ones!!??

[olderthanme]

it works fine and is identical to the MSA setup...just parts made by a different company...I just got the QA-1 springs from summitracing.com for like $38 each and got the threaded collars from A-1 racing...it is MUCH cheaper to buy individual pieces than to buy the MSA kit... I could build the MSA kit with real camber plates for 3/4 the cost...and that is just buying from full price retailers like summit and A1...I think you can have techno toy tuning camber plates for like $350 and the rest of teh coilover setup is like another $360...you save a hundred bucks right there. Much less if you have a contact within O'reillys or Summit to get good prices.

I just stopped using MSA when I discovered you could get the toyota calipers for like 50% of the price that MSA was selling the solid rotor brake "kit" for...it was just some calipers and brake lines...I felt so ripped off.

[olderthanme]

click the picture to see the video...

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how to build coilovers really fast...this is all that is to it!!!

here is right after getting it rolled out of the garage right before ZdayZ and I had cranked it for the first time earlier that day since January when the clutch died...

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here is a driving video while I was breaking in the clutch...

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[cremmenga]

Hey man thanks for the vids!!! they are great!! I think i will still go with the motorsports on because you have more adjustment you can do with them!!! i like the Z! looks good. Mine is getting sand blasted on thursday afternoon, can't wait!!!!! Mine will sound alittle different than yours though!!!