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Freezing temps this morning but I just need to drive her!! 12/70 2.6 block E88 heads Mallory DCOE40 3/2 Abarth Tokico 1-3/4 sways ext oil cooler

Thanks, I had offers after the auction, higher than my reserve which was 18.5K, but I want to wait to sell it to the right type of person, and make a decent profit so I can do another one. I really didn't want it to go for 18.5K but BAT pushes for reduced reserves, and then you just hope they get blown past. I am VERY glad I held the reserve higher than what BAT wanted, and it didn't just skim the reserve. I can wait for the right new owner that will love this car. Two types of buyers for this car: An investor that would keep it for a few years, watch the value climb, and flip it (these are the guys that stop at 15K because they need ROI). The other type of buyer, which is my target, would be someone passionate that REALLY wants a truly clean Z, but wants one they could use for family fun, turn key, hassle free. This car is like owning a new car. It will go on and on, with no issues, keeping a basic maintenance schedule. I am too much of a driving enthusiast, and heavy tinkerer to keep this car long term, I won't be able to leave it stock. Besides, all my bays are full, and I want to find/fix/build/sell more Z cars in the future. Yes the ad asks for 25,280 but you know what it cost's to buy a solid 280Z, a clean dash, original radios, brand new full interior, and have a car painted these days? Try going out and finding new OEM body parts to fix one up, find clean OEM glass, the glass trim, body seals, not to mention the rubber that surrounds these bumpers, and the time it takes to put it all together. To all the naysayers, DO THE MATH.

When you get the opportunity, take some pix of your new system when the car is up on a lift. I'm sure we'd all like to see your muffler guy's handiwork.

Doesn't even consider all the time it takes...

A bad scan of some cool cars!

Funny about Porsche's. I bought my 1st 240Z back in July 1973 brand new. It was my daily driver which I drove until it rusted to death in 1991. I then found and bought a early 1971 240Z to replace the 73 since I still loved the car. The early 71 had a little rust and I didn't like the color so it went to the body shop to have the rust cut out, new metal welded in and then a repaint to 905 red. In 2000 I had a wild hair and bought a 1977 1st series 930. WOW! That car was so fast. The 1971 240Z had a mechanical issue in 2003 so it got parked. It then started to seem like every time I took the Porsche out to play it cost $1,000. Alternator failed, wiring issues, failed rear wheel bearing and then... head studs broke on 1 bank of 3 cylinders. Man, that rebuild was expensive! At least the car appreciated enough to cover the engine rebuild when I finally sold it in 2015. I've now got the 71 240Z running again and find that I really don't miss the Porsche. Still have some work to do on the Z, but it's now able to be driven and I still love the car!

To set a dollar value on the "I need all the HP I can get" extreme, a race head set-up can run you an easy $5k with $8k not impossible to spend. We took one of the original BSR heads to our local and very good machine shop to have a duplicate made for the back-up engine. I was thinking $3k. Nope. A good tune-up is the place to start. If the HP bug bites you there are many ways to get relief it just depends on the size of your wallet.

There is a site that is dedicated to engine swaps, he has thousands of write ups about the projects, some are brilliant, some will make you winch. He just did a write up on my car, https://www.engineswapdepot.com/?p=18991 Thanks to my good buddy @Careless I picked up an orphan that needed a home... it was also free, BMW 4.0L V8 Haven't a clue what I'm going to do with it but the price was right.

I did the same thing. Had a couple of Zs in my teens then bought a 944 and got ridiculed as "a REAL Porsche" doesn't have a water pump. Ended up getting a partial wrecked '82 911SC. The guy let off the throttle in a curve and lost control, busted the driver's side Fuchs and the front spoiler. Bought it cheap and replaced the Cookie Cutters he had put on it with some more Fuchs and the spoiler. Beat the crap out of it for 10 years, sold it and got my money back. Took half a day to change the plugs and 13 quarts? of high dollar Kendall oil. Ended up with three Zs in a three car garage. My DD was left outside in the heat so I sold a 240, keeping one 240 and the 280. Change the oil in 30 minutes tops, plugs in 5. I agree with Mike above, you/I can end up with a lot of money and parts chasing more power. A good rebuilt motor and carbs, port match the intake to the head and a header with 2.5" exhaust is a nice peppy car to drive around and fun to drive. My best add on was an aluminum flywheel, revs really quick. I also put my cam sprocket on hole #3 right of the bat. Gives them a little better low end, IMHO. My $.02. Have fun but don't get bit by the horsepower bug like I did.

My direction for the weatherstripping was to simply replace it with something that could get me by for awhile as anything was better than the rock hard crumbling stuff that I pulled off. Used KIA Sportege seals are no more due to age and new ones after shipping from Korea run about $50/each. I started researching some universal options that was not too big as the pinch weld is right at 13mm tall. I found some universal bulb type weatherstripping on eBay from a seller that sold it by the foot. I wanted something that including the U-channel and I didn't want to glue it on so I ordered 35ft from the seller. At $1.50/ft + $3.00 S&H I was in it for $55.50. To my surprise when the box arrived it was from Amazon and had an entire 50ft roll in it. For anyone that is interested the seller is m.m-rubber and the item number is 141008758040. The rubber bulb is very soft and easily collapses. I won't know if its too big until I get the door back on but for now it looks miles better than before. Below are some pictures from the eBay auction that give a close up and tech specs of the weatherstripping. I really had to work the weatherstripping to make it turn at 90 degrees at the top. It seems tight but only time will tell if it will stay. While I had the door sill plate off I took some fine steel wool to remove the red over spray and give it some shine. I also located the missing screw later in the day. I had to work the sill back on as it kept getting caught on the weather stripping. Once the door is back on and closed everything should even back out along the bottom.

Merci Mark - lui et moi se connais. C'est un jeun avec beaucoup de courage et détermination pour réaliser sa rêve. ps merci pour 'la pub' :-) !

Felicitations! J'espere que vous auriez beaucoup de chance d'obtenir des pieces et morceaux que vous avoir besoin! Je ne connais pas s'il y'a beaucoup de 240Z's chez vous, mais peut'etre parler avec @Sean Dezart aussi. Il n'est pas trop loin de vous.

Here's the vinyl trim from MSA: http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/40-4493

My car Msa 6-1 2 1/2" pipe to zstory jdm muffler. IMG_9275.MOV