olderthanme

hey...If I had a rusty 2+2 first gen, a big 4x4 chassis that was built, and a big motor...I would build one...but not with a standard first gen...

haha...You have NO clue!!!! :-D it took forever for me to do it and I did it at night in my garage with a decent amount of light...the Polyurethane is just a little thicker...just a little too much.

yep...the 74-78 is what you need...Have fun putting the passenger side one on if you have the motor in... I took me 4 hours to do both by myself on my early 260...

thanks! what all do you have done to your Z? I see slotted mags...anything else cool? stuff in the works? good luck on your Z build!!!

hey zman...hold on and I will get you a video of me putting my Z through it's paces... Video Hosting - Upload Video - Video Sharing just click the picture and it will open up a new window...sorry about the windshield reflection...dash was out at the time...

just pull everything...mine sat under pine trees from 98 to 03 when I bought it...no clear left on the paint...

www.dakotadigital.com I am going to be using some of their guages and intigrate them into my aluminium dashboard. Look at the designer series...that is what I will be using. I also plan to ditch the distributor and, with my electrical engineer Dad, build a distributorless spark management system... can you say laptop time!!! I was just going to go with bigger wires but I saw 240Hoke's engine management with SDS on his 240Z with the 81 turbo motor and LOTS of mods...fgured it was time to go crazy. I don't know much about HAL sensors but I get the idea on how they work. I am still running roundtops but the ems will still be good to use when I go turbo...in the future. I think the "build the car on a buget" idea just went out the window. I will have over a grand in the dash before it is done. Plus rewiring most of the car this summer. I am getting some big plans...

I have been painting my car with this method...it works good if you have lots of time...which I don't. I have done the top half in regal red. Looks OK...I don't know...still want to get a real paint job....

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!!!

here are my pics...the one in my garage is 10 days before ZdayZ...talk about pulling it close... and that is a clutch AND flywheel on the floor... w37446329.bmp w37446309.bmp w37446269.bmp w37446252.bmp

he was there?!?!!!! I would like to have met him!!! arg... Spent too much time tearing it up on the dragon I guess...

here...attached...whatever...fixed the other one as much as I could...

there we go... one crazy Z33 this Z belongs to 240hoke on Hybridz...front end frame 100% rebuilt from the firewall forward and replaced lots of floor pan... Z32 with a 383 I got to the scene of the wreck after the guy was out of the car but before the police were there. I heard he drove the car after they pulled it out. either before or after the show...during the show they did not allow mixing of z33s and older Zs

you can just get some spring rubbers. Sort of like those metal ones except better.

so what you want for 0-60 is a 10,000 rpm motor because then you don't have to shift even if you run a high rear gear because shifting takes a lot of time.

haha...posted the same thing at the same time...

the 280zxt tranny is a Borg-Warner T-5 with a Nissan input shaft.

I think the perfect gearing is the 81-83 280zxt tranny mated to a standard 3.54 rear end. That is the way I am going as soon as I get the tranny and other stuff. It lets you cruise at 70 at like 2700rpms...

indeed...you have to get a lot of mods that will decrease your 0-60 time. I noticed a huge improvement with my 11# flywheel, coilover suspension with illuminas, and most of the interior gone a big increase in acceleration is noticed.

stock was like 10 seconds...

I am guessing mine is around 6 seconds...maybe less once I get the clutch worn in so I can slam the clutch.

right after rolling it out of the garage... it still needs a lot of work at this point. another view went and took some "beauty shots"

mustache bar bushings... side shot of the right half of the dash...needs some work the WORST area of rust...not that bad at all...that fender is trash anyway... before reassembly the paint... the old pressure plate...scorched... the old clutch disc. coilover reassembled at least the bling is hidden... right before reassembly...

hahaha...thanks!!! that is sort of my logo that my brother rendered for me. That is like $400 in those cutaway shots... I am building this car to be as fast as possible for a total of 12 grand. I am 9 grand into it now including the car. Maybe I can sell a grand of stuff off...I have those aluminium wheels for sale...

here is a video of my Z...or at least a link to it...