I was looking at the catagories on this site and relized that I had never introduced myself. I've been a member of this site for over 3 years and learned just about everything I know about Z cars from here. This has been an awesome resorce for me.

My car is a total restoration, I found it in a dirt lot in Fontucky (A.K.A Fontana) missing a front tire and the driver side window. The window had been gone for over a year and in that time the dirt from the lot had moved into the car ... about an inch of it! The Body was about as straight as a 90 year old womans face. The engine had spider webs and dirt all over it, and the PO had tried to make some sort of a dragster out of it and replaced the rear springs with somthing out of a monster truck, so the back end was about 4 inches higher than stock... AND it was a salvage title. I took a good look at it and thought ... this is the car for me.

I bought it for $500 ... its a 72 240 with all of its parts.

31/2 years later I have almost all the body work done she is straight as a razor and just about ready for paint.

The engine has been rebuilt from the ground up (L28, F54, N42, schnider cam 460,270, headers, 2.5 exaust, SU's, steel head gasket 9.2:1 CR, electric Dizzy)

5 speed trans, all new urathane bushings, new weather striping, new interior, Miata seats, like new dash, all the insterments have been redone to look like new (the clock still doesn't work though:disappoin )

My end goal for my 72 Z is to have it turbo'd (I have almost all the parts) put killer AC and power door locks ... I'm hoping for a 300RWHP hybrid 240Z.

I love working on my Z its a great hobbie and I'm allways looking for Z buddies if you live in the Souther California(LA or Orange counties) area let me know.

Rock on Z people!

I live in Phillips Ranch, and that is not too far away. Hey ChinoZ, The 76 station here in the ranch has 100 octane fuel as well. It is on the Loop. That is alot closer than having to drive to the fairgrounds or Covina. Been here about 15 years now, Was a southbay boy before that.

Thanks Randy, I'll have to check it out next week.

Thats right, I remember seeing a post of yours sometime back, and you too are close by. hmmm lets see, how many is that just a lugnuts throw away from each other? 4,5 or 6?

Hey Craig, thanks for the list of engine parts. I love to know what race cars run. Thats pretty awesome RWHP for a 2.4. Why did you stay with a 2.4 instead of moving up to the 2.8? And what kind of head is E3100 is that the same as the E31? How did you get the 480 valve lift to work with stock nissan springs? I have a 460 lift cam and I had to use schnider springs... well, they said that I "should" use the schnider springs to allow for the increased lift and mainly to prevent valve float. Where is WSIR track?

Thanks for the info. Matt

Matt,

We were surprized with the results of the 2nd trip to the dyno too.

http://www.vangordonracing.com/Pages/VandBperformancedyno.html

We were actually looking for a 5800 to 6000rpm miss and had those results with the miss. Since then we have smoothed out the miss, but doubt there is much more power left it this thing. We went with the L24 since that is what the 2 motors were when we found this car and didn't have much more money to make the next step. But.... perhaps after the first of the year we will try to get a L28 together. We have been making notes and talking about it recently. No matter how fast or how much power your motor may have, there is always another faster! For me I don't have the time or money to constantly doing tear down, rebuild and maintance on a real race motor. There is 2 of us putting double time on this car, so we have to take that into mind when planning for up grades & parts for the car. I sure like Marty Rogans idea of that L28 Jasper motor he recently put in his car.

The motor notes are from an old word doc. that I was making years ago and copy & paste it to make typing easier. There are some changes that I have not yet made and need to update.

Yes, the E3100, actually the correct part # 11041-E3100 (I think) or also called the E31 head. Another 240 head is the E88 or 11041-E8803, a 280 head N42 13201-N4200 and so on.

The cam grind is the L-480 by Iskendarian, and no not stock springs... I believe they were Schnieder. Increase spring pressure helps prevent valves from floating or staying open with the higher lift, and hopefully enough to help them close before the piston has a chance to slap em at the higher rpms. If high revs is what your motor sees, then yes should be in the plans of your motor build up.

WSIR is up the 14fwy Palmdale / Lancaster, Rosamond exit west. It is about a 2 hr. drive for us from Chino, with truck/camper pulling a trailer.

http://www.willowspringsraceway.com/visitorinformation/directions.asp

I'm not a Z tech & spec type person and don't enjoy knowing all the little details about the car and it's history. Just enough to keep it running hard, looking good and to enjoy once or twice a month at the track. I do like the fact that these cars bring smiles to alot of people when they remember once owning a Z and that they are still on the road & tracks today.

Craig