nolander001

Hey guys, the previous owners of my car cut up the rear quarters a lot to fit bigger tires under it and never finished one of the quarters and its all riveted on and just generally reeks of shade tree body work. Is there any where online that sells replacement quarter panels? I have been looking online and i see a lot of what looks like wheel arch "rust repair" replacement and they dont go up around the quarter glass, im looking for something that goes up around the quarter glass. I am just hoping that i dont have to try and find a donor car cause right now in my area its not looking to good.

I have a turbo harness.

Well when I said stock I meant that I have both the 280z and zx turbo ecus. And I'm asking will I see all the connectors on the wiring harness or will there be stuff I leave unplugged?

All stock for now just want to get it running

So I'm putting a l28et into a 280z and I'm in way over my head with doing the engine wiring. Since I'm swapping into a z will I use all the connectors on that harness or will there be connectors that are unused? Or is there anything special I need to know about this swap? Im about one week from shipping it to a shop to get finished lol but I really don't want to do that unless I absolutely have to.

All I know is it's a 4 speed I tried to find casting numbers or any numbers and I couldn't find any, might just be looking in the wrong places lol.

I got a l28et with what I'm told is a 4 speed manual and no driveshaft, I'm looking for a driveshaft but I have no idea where to start. Do I look for a 280z shaft or 280zx shaft? Or are they interchangeable?

I'm looking for a turbo engine harness and ecu for a manual car.

I'm about to start doing to final wiring on my car, it's a 280z and im putting a 82-83 l28et in it. I did not receive the engine wiring harness and the harness that is in the car right now is cut (PO put in a sbc) I plan on running a megasquirt ecu so that in the future I can upgrade the turbo and make more power. So my issue right now is I know I can buy a harness "blank" from megasquirt for around 100 I believe but where would I find all the connectors without buying another harness to cut up? I feel competent of my abilities to make the new harness, I've never done it but I have done plenty of wiring for other projects. I just don't know where to find these connectors.

Alright cool ill have to look into it, I think we still have one rad shop left in town.

Is this something I can just take to them with the engine in the car or should I just take them my engine outside of it lol?

I have a l28 thats been sitting for awhile and I took the water pump off and noticed that the coolant passages are pretty rusty. It doesn't look bad enough to block flow or anything but it will be turbocharger(stock for now) and I want it to have its max cooling potential. Anyone know how i can clean the passages without getting the block dipped?

Is saw that I put l28 in the first post it is actually an l28et.

thanks for the replies guys, next question and I've been kinda up in the air about this, will I really have the need to upgrade my ecu for ~275-300hp? I've been looking at megasquirts stuff and im not a 100% yet on everything I would need to get that system into my car. Im thinking to start and just get the car up i might just go with a stock ecu and harness so its a little more "plug and play".

Im working on swaping a l28 into my 280z and im in need of a wiring harness and ecu. I just want to get it running but im not having the best luck finding a good wiring harness around my area. So my question is is there anywhere online that sells the wiring harness/ecu i would need? Also in the future i want to start making power with this engine and im thinking i will need an aftermarket ecu (around 300 hp). should i just bite the bullet and get an aftermarket ecu? and would i be able to use the same wiring harness?

Damn, heard about this from a guy at work and now I want one for my z lol

I've bought a l28et and it came without the wiring harness or the ecu, im told it was an early 80's jdm 280zx, Its going into a 75 280. Future plans are to stick a bigger turbo on it, probably a t3/t4 kinda thing, i wanna get around 300-350 hp. Question is could I find a stock ecu for the engine or should I be looking to upgrade to a aftermarket one like megasquirt? I dont know a lot of about aftermarket ecus, so please point me in the right direction. Also where do you go to buy ecus like megasquirt? or wiring harness, since ill be needing one of those as well.

What kind of engine mounts are these designed for? About to get a 350 from a buddy and were trying to figure out what mounts to use. The car has had a sbc in it before. hope these links work, doing this with a phone not a computer.

lol I know sunny, just seeing if there were any other options out there.

Im looking to put a 5.3l in my 280 and im wondering what engine mounts everyone is using and what everyone's opinion is about them.

alright thanks for the history i have another couple of questions and figured id just ask here instead of starting a new thread,the guy i got the heads from said they had LT-4 springs in them, does this mean i can run a bigger cam? he also gave me the original springs with them so i could switch them back if i want to. And my other question is how easy would it be to get 400hp from a sbc? i hear its easy but i just want something thats going to keep up with my brothers firebird.

heres some pics if they work, hope this helps. I hope no one is making fun of me or anything im just trying to learn a little bit here, im the only person in my family that has any experience with cars so im all alone here and at school its more geared to new cars not working on stuff like this. so sorry im just trying to learn by asking questions.

well i got pics coming ill upload them sometime soon and yea im a tech college student and im very new to working on engines, just looking for advice, and my teachers dont like us asking questions like will this bolt up to that because they want us to focus more on stock stuff and newer technology like hybrids. Plus all the kids that know anything about sbcs are extreme rednecks and i dont like talking to them cause they seem to me to be very dumb.

My dash is cracked really bad, what would be the best way to repair it? or would it be cheaper to just buy a junkyard dash? also dumb question but im new to interior and bodywork but could you use bondo to repair the dash?

ill get pics as soon as i can, anything i should take a pic of specifically?