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Hi all, Looks like I'm fast becoming a Quality Surveyor with my panel shop. The new floors are in but he has omitted to extend the two rear pan support plates (shown in the attached photo to the right). Can one of nice chaps take a close up of both sides and reply to this thread with measurements as well. Also the two pan support channels have holes in them (shown in the attched photo to the left). I have new channels on mine and he's not noted where they old ones were. Can someone also let me know how far from the TC rod bracket these are and also the diameter. Looks like M10 to me but I want to be sure. Are these holes open or are bungs installed? This is a case of a panel shop removing rusty bits and throwing them away before fitting the new ones. Grumph!!!! Cheers all.

Like the above comments, I stripped my car into zip lock bags where possible and took a zillion digital photos from far to many angles at 5 megapixels each. The idea being that if I get stuck putting it back together, I can refer back. Either fab up a rotisserie yourself or your panel shop may have one they can adapt up. Just before you put it on, drop the entire undercarriage. While the body is being dealt to, you can sort the suspension, gearbox and engine. When it's painted, get it back without the hood, guards, doors and hatch, so you can minimise scratching it while you re-assemble everything, testing each part as you go. This method could be thought of as "a little too far" by some but the amount of leaning over guards to work on the engine bay is a lot. Putting the dash and interior back together would be easier with the door off of course. I would pay some particular attention to the wiring. Make sure you label every connector. I wrote a different letter on each pair of connectors. You can easily destroy a loom if you hook it up wrong.

Don't you just have to love the internet for stuff like this. I visited the panelshop this afternoon, saw that he had replaced the entire section under the battery but the gusset hadn't been fabricated, he said get me an image with measurements and I'll sort it tomorrow. So I posted this thread 25 minutes before leaving work and it got comprehensively answered only 61 minutes later. AMAZING. Thank you Will. A dozen cyberspace beers are travelling the internet highway to you now. Legend! As a side note Will. How are you going to protect that (what looks like) sound deadening mat that you have put against the drivers foot well? Surely it will get knocked about pretty quick when you start driving it.

Can someone taek a snap and attach it to this thread of a closer image of the attached photo please. Both sides of the car thanks. Can you also measure at list out the individual dims as well. A lot I know but we can't find any measurements anywhere for this and my car needs two new units. The LHS was original and was cut out by me ages ago and lost. Gone The RHS has been removed and a patch places over it. Thanks again.

Thanks Jon. Thanks for explaining that, it makes more sense now. I got the 5 speed rebuilt last year and I'm about to pull the spare diff I have in the parts car. That car had the triples on it with L28, some suspension mods and relocated battery. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a 3.9 or 4.11 in there. I compared the head work with the E31 and N42 I have, yes, big differences all round. The valve size is huge. Now I just need my car back to put it all in.

Did you blow out the fuel return line as well? It either electrical or fuel related right. Once it has died, does the starter motor turn over? Do you have electrics. Not as simple as a stuffed battery and alternator charging circuit fault is it? Happened to me before. Battery has just enough charge to run everything for a bit then dies. Wait a while until the battery recovers then it is a OK for a short while.

Jon, The duration looks tiny to me. After visiting various AU and NZ cam profiler websites, common duration is about 260 to 290 for more torque. The engine is a overbored L24 to L2.5. His arguement is that we aren't chasing compression as I want it to run on pump gas and avoid pinging with our pathetic 95 octane fuel that we get here in NZ. He went on to add that the L24's rev better than the L28 so the setup is for higher rpm without sacrifcing low down torque. I'm not sure that he just hasn't thrown up enough fog so I can't see the reasoning. I guess I'm doubting his reasoning with this cam with the head work he has done. Maybe I'm a "Doubting Thomas", but I guess I'll just have to see what it's like and if it's not what I like, then change it. I'm also running headers with a 2.5" pipe. Standard dizzy at this stage and 3.54 diff. Any ideas on what I can expect?

The car will be used for some weekend driving and the occasional time trial events at the local track. So what I'm after is a engine that will give me pull and a bit of top end when stomping on the loud pedal.

I have had the cam that came with the car profiled and it as below. The head shop has worked the head also. So far I have. E88 head Compression is 9.5:1 Inlet valves are 44mm Exhaust valves are 35mm A bit of porting only in the chamber to match them. No unshrouding done. Cam spec is 236@50 0.465 lift. 108 degree separation and tappits are .010 That's all the info on the cam that I have. Based on info I have read, this seems like a mild cam at best. Am I right? Engine size is 2.5 running triple 44PHH's. I wonder if I am wasting my time with rebuilding the triples when the SU's would be OK. Your thoughts please.

Just stumbled across this on the local club circuit website. http://www.canterburycarclub.co.nz/lap_of_ruapuna_international_raceway.htm It's a flying lap of Ruapuna (roo-a-poo-nah) track which I used to hoon around years ago on my RGV250 and a 120mph Yamaha YZ125 methanol powered go-kart. When I have the zed finished it will "get the treatment" around here but only against the clock. Enjoy

"Minor rust" my arse. I shudder at the thought of the poor sole who removes the dogleg to do the "minor" repair. A wee bit more than minor I suspect. Since when has a vinyl roof been described as "sports package". Not sure that this cosmetic weight adding feature enhance the ability of the car to be sporty at all. Oh well, it doesn't look as bad as some we have seen on ebay over the past months, someone will have it for a price they are happy with I'm sure.

Welcome. A 5 speed box should be high on your list.

Ozone, Try www.wolfcreekracing.com for the linkage.

Exhaust fumes or fuel fumes? If exhaust them as Jeff suggested. If fuel smell, then start checking all the hoses on the fuel tank especially around the expansion tank behind the right hand hatch inner guard cover.

Good luck with the sale Steven. I'm sure that the new owner will wear a wide smile for a very long time.

With respect and without prejudice (you gotta tread the threads carefully sometimes around here). "IMO" should sometimes be rewriten IMM-IO "In my mis-informed opinion" Wahoo, I'm the 4th "non US resident" person on this thread. Do I get a prize???? (Clears throat with gusto, pauses then.....) I have a sub 500 HS30 and hope that the price of them rockets just after I have finished the rebuild (not yet as I need parts). But IMO, it's a high price to pay in todays money. What the future holds is pure speculation.

Sulio, I have a SK manifold also and also looking for a good linkage setup for my 44PHH's. I'm after a cable actutated one. PM in your inbox Alan.

My longest trip is tiny when compared to yours guys, but none the less, it was a bit of a interesting journey as it was also my first drive. Auckland to Christchurch (New Zealand) is only 465 miles. However, it contains such diverity as boiling mud, snow capped active volcano's, long boring straights, a three hour ferry across Cook Strait (a nasty bit of water), vinyards, a twisty coastal highway, zed heaven hills and more boring straights. I also had just flown up to Auckland with cash in my pocket to buy a car that I had never seen nor ever driven in a zed before.....nuts? Somewhat, yes. Met the guy, drove it, bought it. Checked the oil, changed the fuel filter, purchased some radiator gluey gunge just in case it had pinholes and set off down the line. Great power, nice ride but it popped out of 5th when you put the boot up it. Got high onto the desert road and it began to snow, turned on the heater and nothing (control wires bent behind selector), turned on the wipers, what a mistake that was (wiper blades shot and the pivot rubber grommets were gone resulting in the pivots corroded to bits hence wiper speed issue). Back into fine weather and now the boring starights, pulled the hand trottle and nothing, not connected (wise previous owner). Got dark so on with the excellent H4's, fantastic vision but no dash lights. Stopped and contorted to find that the reostat fell apart when I finally got my hand to it. So the remained of the evening was spend driving with a glove on my right knee cause the vent was stuck open full, a mini maglight being used to check guages every 5 or so minutes and speed was regulated by the whine from the diff at 65mph. Magic. Finally got to Wellington and stopped in a mates place for a few cold ones, dinner and bed. Oh not before emptying the car as the hatch lock was stuffed so the car was effectively open. Not too bad I thought. Next morning frosty, no heater....hmmmm, managed to follow my mate to the ferry terminal and waited as it waited for mechanical repairs to be completed. Ferries are never on time are they. The day warmed up and curred the frosting and condensation issue. Ferry trip was flat across the islands and arrived in Picton not feeling like throwing up too much. Drag race to the closet petrol station then the last 4 hours of magestic winding road down the Kaikoura coast to Christchurch. There are a set of hills called the Hunderlee's. I went up, turned around, went down and repeated as I was now I was totally into the car. Finally got home to Christchurch with a huge smile and sore arse. Then the work started and hasn't stopped yet.

The offset doesn't look right from those photo's. Ask him what the offset is before going any further.

Don't take that as an answer from Black Dragon. That's just horse shite in my book. By storing it for a period of time doesn't make it warp or shrink does it! So they are just hiding behind a "policy". Give them heaps man, don't settle for that answer at all. If you don't get any luck then go to a bone yard and pull an old set of any S30 body you can find. The stainless will polish up like new with a bit of elbow grease. Good luck to you.

You could try and find an old handle at a wreakers yard and very carefully remove the clip and try to fit it to yours without breaking it. But for the money, I'd buy a new handle and install it. You can remove the lock latch mechanism and this will allow the whole assembly to move into the door cavity where you can get your non Japanese fingers into the area and snap on the arm. I little cursing is OK and on most occasions required. You may also need to remove the lower inner door handle rod pivot bolt to get the thing out too. It's located at the lower corner of the door closest to the dogleg. If I were you, I remove the entire assembly, clean it up with degreaser, re grease and reinstall. All this shouldn't take you more than a couple of hours and well worth the effort. No more clunky door handle noise and the door locking mechanism will be very smooth to lock and unlock with the key.

Arne, FWIW my HS30 build date 12/70 does not have the evaporation tank. Can't be sure if this is the is the same for HS30's but I suspect so for the same era delivered to different RHD markets.

Original no, but my wife calls my resto project "That F**KING car" and the rust bucket down the side of the garage she has denoted as "old banger" I call the resto project "The mighty ZED" and the parts car is "His Holeyness"

Great pics Kats. Looking at the pic of the brake and clutch masters, can you tell me why there are what looks like two ballast resistors attached to the firewall? Just curious tiz all. Hell Alan, Liz Hurley!!! I for one wouldn't kick her out of my bed and being a New Zealander, I LOVE mutton . I sopose you would prefer Fergie?:eek: