Great looking project - I'm sure you will enjoy the car for many years to come! Enjoy the ride!

looks great!

Just a lil update on the car got the hood liner installed.

I'm looking for a project car and I didn't even think about putting in a air ride suspension, Thanx

Air ride is too gushy for a sports car, I believe he has Ground Control or similar adjustable coils, as do I.

Great job on the 240, just a thought, put an indicator light on those electric fans so you can tell that they are running/ getting power. Save the blown head gasket from overheating if they fail, voice of experience talking here. Just jump a red led with a resistor over the supply fuse or breaker, if the fuse blows the led will light up and let you know the cooling fans are kaput.

BTW, take it to a shop and have them strip out the old tint (which is a PITA) and re tint the windows with the right shades of black or smoked tint to keep you legal and guaranteed. It’s well worth the money to let a pro do it, and it will look sharp and classy like it does now.

Edited October 29, 201113 yr by 5thhorsemann

Just finished color sanding and buffing the car. Thought i'd share a few more picture.

After

And a few pictures of the interior:

Very very nice!!!

The car is looks good but needs a lil more power under the hood. I am strongly considering building a 350 SBC and swapping it in place of the current L24. The goal would be to have 300hp/300tq at the wheels.

The only thing holding me back is the fact that i love the sound of my current straight 6 and am not sure I’d like the sound of the SBC as much.

I'm currently debating between the high compression L28 motor or a 350 SBC.

The HC L28 would only give me around 170hp at the wheels but would sound awesome; the 350SBC would give me 300hp but would sound like a truck motor.

Logan1,

Can you tell me the manufacturer of the aluminum radiator that you used? It looks really nice.

Mike.

not all SBC are created equally.

My advice if you are serious is to build a really stout L28 (maybe 3.1 from Rebello), OR skip the 350 idea as the bore/stroke, does not lead itself to a non truck sounding V8. Instead, if you really want a SBC go with a 302 or 327 with a long rod kit. It will rev clean to 8000 rpm. Now to get really sweet. Skip the standard double pumper holley (which I love) and put a Hillborne style Fuel Injection system on it.

8 short velocity stacks, high compression, high rpm, and presto, and American ferrari. Nothing wrong with that. Of course I would rather see that in a late 60's style Trans Am Camaro or Mustang, but hey, its your Z. A V8 is a ssimple as a hammer an anvil. You can make it any flavor you want. If you want great sound, skip the truck motor and build a screamer.

LOGAN

It looks really nice. I really like the high heat hood liner. Who supplies it? I personally don't care for V8 conversions in Z cars. It seems to really over power them and the straight 6 can be plenty powerful if built properly. I hope you enjoy many years of HIGHway driving.

Logan1,

Can you tell me the manufacturer of the aluminum radiator that you used? It looks really nice.

Mike.

The radiator is a Champion 3 core off ebay.