City Hunter Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Yeah, basically a wangan buildup sorta hehe. The car is a 1972 240z. It was converted ti a early 280z fuel injection setpu in 1982. It has a n42 l28, some nice looking 3 into 1x2 heades dumping into a divorced twin exhaust without a h pipe. 2 cherry bomb looking resonators, and thats it. The header was deburred according to the pile of receitps and notes I have. The car has steel braided lines all around, poly urethane steering shaft coupler. There is a fire extinguisher mounted behind the passenger side seat o_O autox car possibly? The car also has a allison electronic ignition, platic covers for the headlights, upgraded halogen lights of some sort from back in the day. Bilstien shocks, which probably are shot by now, Ronal super rare and light racing wheels in 14x6 with one spare and 2 wheel caps. It also came with a ton of misc spare dasun poarts, like original oem datsun radiator lines etc.. 280z seats, stock radio, ugly white interior yada yada. It's been repainted once, but the same datsun orange color, and it looks like it was taken down to bare metal for the most part. So far, rust isnt horribly bad, actrually I still think it's quite good compared to most I have looked at. Cant beat it for 500 bucks. Goals are zg flares wats, either a oem or bre rear spoiler, and the non vented front air dam, which I already have. So here is my progress so far. When I got it. Yesterdays proress. The few hours I worked on it today. mm look at them speed holes in the passenger side floor board lol. So far im real happy with the rust though. I gotta get these god damn wheel locks off though. There is no freaken rust on my hatch at all, I just cant figure out how to get the rubber molding off. Too bad it had louvers originally so there are holes drilled in the damn hatch. Quote Link to comment
lynchfourtwenty Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 I'll think about it, I will be running a z31 ecu, so im mainly just interested in the engine, 200k sounds like it needs a rebuild, because I dont drive cars lightly... yea if your plans are to terrorize the engine i would say yes rebuild it, but if your going to drive it normal an play on ocasion i'd say it's fine, an goin the z31 ecu route is by far a great idea!.. im thinkin about puttin it in my truck if you dont want it.. its tempting.. but i think it maybe to big of a project for me :( Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 yeah I'll think about it. Maybe I can sell off this l28 I have if it runs good. I should try and get this sucker started tomorrow. That means putting the fi manifold back on for the second time again -_- Quote Link to comment
lynchfourtwenty Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 in one of the pics it looked like it was dual carbed?? am i trippin?? Quote Link to comment
lynchfourtwenty Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 ya http://forum.ratsun.net/showthread.php?t=5878 3rd pic down.. those are dual carbs?? did you switch to efi? Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 they are twin early 44mm su's and someone before me through they could get the car running with them. They dont know much as the car was converted to a l28 fuel injection setup in 1982, and it has a fuel injected pump. They said they couldnt get it running right. Ibviously the fuel pressure is the reason, but the car is setup with 75/76 fuel injection. If you look closely you will see the fi harness up front. Quote Link to comment
lynchfourtwenty Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 i see i see, did he include the fi manifold an all the stuff when you got the car? Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 yeah, but the damn injector lines are shit, so I gotta cut them and buy some more hoseclamps and some new fi line for the injectors. Quote Link to comment
lynchfourtwenty Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 that sux.. Quote Link to comment
nismopu Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Guess who has brand new turbo injectors? :) Quote Link to comment
Bleach Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 for your wheels, if 16x8 is wide enough for you check out Rota RB-R wheels. They look like Watanabes but are 1/3 the cost. They come in +04 offset. or you can go for the larger wheels for a little more. There is a group buy on Hybridz.org 17x8.5 and 17x9 with negative offset. Defenitely needs flares Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 im going with some pretty negative wheels in back for the fzg flares. Probably 15x10.5 or so in the neg somewhere. I'm pretty set on the wheels I want. I saw those wheels on hybridz though, they looked damn nice. If they were 5 lug and had a bit more offset for the rears I;d toss them on a starion. Key, hehe, yeah but I need a turbo setup to use those bad boys. Quote Link to comment
521Lvr Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 I got a set of centerline look alikes. 9.5 in the rear and 8.5 in front. Swastica center caps. they will fill the ZG's. pm me if you want some pics. Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 shoot some pics to my email. airbats801@hotmail.com Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Little update. I scored some classicdatsuns zg flares today. Hopefully they will hbe here next week :) Quote Link to comment
lynchfourtwenty Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 hey, we got another guy interested in the engine, adam240, told him he had to talk to you Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 if he wants it, he can have it, right now im just trying to get the body fixed and painted. The rest isnt very important. Quote Link to comment
bonvo Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 i have been thinking about this project of yours what are your power plant plans? i was thinking it wont be an exact replica of the devil z (which would be cool but hard to tune) but it would definatly be a devil how about throwing a rb26dett in it ? it would more of a devil then the actual wangan car Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 not a fan of those overpriced rb's :) If I was to do a newr inline 6 it would be a 1jz. I havent posted thepics of my new Speed holes in my passenger quarter lol. http://www.nwstarquest.com/44su-01.jpg http://www.nwstarquest.com/44su-02.jpg Quote Link to comment
bonvo Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 btu the rb will allow you to keep it all nissan im kinda parcial to keeping a car in its own blood lines but it would still be sick an rb shouldnt be that expencive ive seen them on ebay for like 2k Quote Link to comment
philip1 Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 on my 240 the true duals sounded awful but when I put an H pipe in the sound went from a pair of GEO metro's fighting to the dulcet note of a Ferrari V12 I was in heaven. Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted August 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 the exhaust is pretty crappy, looks to be older than jesus lol. As for keeping it in the family, frankly I dont really care. f I like a engine I will put it in a car I like. I just dont want to get involved in another engine swap right now, so if anything it will most likely remain a l series Quote Link to comment
Bleach Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Geo Metro engines get great milage. :) Quote Link to comment
City Hunter Posted September 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 so does a honda civic hx :D Anyhow, a little update. I snagged a turbo manifold and some injectors today. I also have a line on a z31 ecu and harness. Quote Link to comment
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