conedodger

Great bid! $100240.00

Brainerd International Raceway in the ‘70’s

Road Atlanta I think...

Road America 1989

Mid America Raceway in the rain...

Yikes!

Looks like that one was done by Griffith Coachworks. Here’s a bad top up pic...

I think Scott used Triumph TR6 tops. Scott was an Air Force guy who did the SU carbs before ZTherapy. (They bought it from him) he sold before transferring to Lakenheath in England. He did a couple tuning videos on VHS. I have one around somewhere. but most importantly to this conversation, he built convertibles out of Z cars. They were pretty good quality if he did them. He also sold it as a kit and who knows what you get if it’s a kit. I’ve seen a couple of his convertibles and they do have tops and they look good with the top up too. if you go to Carl’s site, you might find mention of him, and Mr. Beck should remember him...

I wonder if Scott Bruning had something to do with this one?

Generations!

‘81 GT3 Road Atlanta

Road Atlanta ‘74 CSPRRC

Gene Felton at Mid America Raceway...

Mid America Raceway

Enough. Move on...

Most Chevron cars are RHD. They are an English company.

Like Duffy, I will be using Haltech EFI. Mine will be the Elite 2500 while I think, his is Elite 1500? Like Duffy, I’ll be using both cam and crank sensors so I can do both sequential injection and crank fire. I’m aware that there isn’t much to gain, but I’d bet it’s better for the environment, and us car guys need to start thinking about that too.

I painted the exterior in my garage a few years back, but the new engine begs a fresh coat of paint in the engine compartment. For that, I bought a new toy from Eastwood. Here, I found the only rust on the car. Owning it, since 1980 has allowed me to control many of the factors that cause the common rust spots. My battery tray support was surface rusted. The first pic is the before, the second after 5 minutes with the new SCT from Eastwood. There will be lots of hand sanding and Dremel work, but this thing is fast!

I’m opening this thread to document the process of refreshing my 1973 240Z. I have owned the car since 1980 and built 2 engines myself, in addition to running the original for quite a few years. This time, I decided to go with a Rebello stroker. Here is the car, and the motor that will find its home up front. the engine is an N42 block, with an E31 head. The head saved me quite a bit of my Rebello budget as it was ported and polished by B.C. Gerolomy in the 1980’s. Dave just freshened it and put an appropriate cam grind in it for me. One of my inspirations has been Duffy Mahoney’s build. We differ in that he used ITB’s and I will use a factory non-webbed, non-EGR intake with a larger throttle body. I have had bad luck tuning ITB’s. When about 8” of throttle body butterflys open, the vacuum goes flat. Duffy probably has more skill in that regard, but if I were you, I’d rather have me putting you to sleep for surgery. For tuning, I bow to him.