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Thanks for your input Jeff. I like the way stretched tires look. I also just got a set of street slicks for the track and ordered some Azenis for the front.

I have been to lazy to finish my paintjob. I did test fit the new wheels and tires as well as the mirrors. I need bigger spacers for the rear. Right now I have 25-30mm bolt on H&R's in the rear and could probably go another 25mm or so. The fronts have a 5-10mm (1/4") spacer. The rims are all four 17x9.5 -19's. The tires are 205/40 r17's. As for the gearing issue. I was thinking the 17's would be overall bigger that the 15's I had. I was wrong. They are only like maybe 1" bigger in diameter. It still screams down the freeway. I will just have to wait for a T-5 I gues cause it looks like the gears in the automatic 73 240 are the lowest available for the r180. I may also try to pick up an r200 if I can find one with long gears. like a 3.20 or something. I did also weld on a new Jones racing muffler with a straght through design yesterday and it is probably too loud now but sounds good.

I appreciate the info but have decided to wait for more info on the Stance coilovers. I can always find tons of use s13 coilovers and just use the threaded serialnine tubes. I'm just going to wait a little bit. I picked up my rims from Kim at Cosmic a couple of hours ago. I'm going to a bday party tonight in the city. I wish we were headed back home. I really want to see what they look like with 205/40 17s on my car!

Thanks guys! I am borrowing them from my friend until I get my wheels later this week. Hahaha. To tell you neither of us know the brand. It may say on the back of the rim but neither of us even looked. I will be getting my wheels thursday and will take these ones off. I will see what I can find out about them. I am about halfway through painting the car and I think it should turn out pretty good for about a $75 roll on paint job. lol. My fender mirrors came in from the PI too so after painting it I will put them on. I hope to be done with paint and everything and have the mirrors and wheels on by this weekend so I can drive it to the 40th Aniverssary at Infineon this Sunday! Josh

I just started painting the car with the roll on paint job! lol. Its atually not looking too bad. It should be done by the end of the week. Thursday I am going to the bay to pick up my Gold Rota RBR's. I think some 205/40 r17s will look good. I also found why I didnt do so well at the track last wednesday. It looks like my distributor was loose! I replaced it with a new accel unit like three days after buying the car as the one that came in it took a crap. I only ran a 13.8 last wednesday. I just wanted to see what it could do and the guy i got it from said it ran 13.5's so he was probably right since he had 235/60s on the back when I bought it. I took them off and have 205/50s on there for the time being. I don't care. I didn't get it for drag racing anyway. I just need to figure out this gearing thing so I can be at a lower RPM on the freeway! Hopefully the new rims and tire will help with that. As for the rear end I am just going to weld up the other stock 73 auto 180 diff I already have and rock that for now.

Thanks guys! I am totally search capable and have been lurking this site for a few days now just searching kinds of stuff and questions that I needed answered. I was able to get the 5spd pedal asembly and clutch hydro line from PNP(from the Z) but as for the trans it looks like I'm S.O.L. I could only find 6cyl 5spd camaros and if I remember correctly it isn't the right one to use with my 350 v8. It looks like the 305v8/t5 combo was not all too popular. I found one out of 7 different PNP yards but someone decided to take it all apart and string it all over the ground! All of the v8 Camaros I found were autos. So for now it looks like I will just work on cleaning it up and painting it as well as start working on the suspension. I did get another stock r180 from PNP for $50 as it was %50 everything this weekend. I am going to weld it up and throw it in as mine is making some nasty noises. I really want longer gears to lower my freeway RPMs. At 65mph I am at about 3500rpm. Hopefully with the 17" wheels I am getting will be taller reducing the RPMs. We will see.

Hi Guys! My name is Josh and I am in Sacramento, CA. I just picked up this 73 Z and it already has had an older Chevy 350 v8 swapped into it. I bought it locally off of Craigslist. specs: older 350 fuely heads with SS 2.02 valves 1:6 roller rockers Some kind of cam full 3" custom exhaust Accell HEI distributor single wire 100amp alternator built th350 trans w/shift kit and 2600rpm stall converter (which will be comming out next week in favor of a 5spd manual) the rear diff is not in the best of shape as I believe it to be a 180 that the PO welded up the gears in since he drag raced it often. I will most likely be looking to you folks on this board for rear end swapping info. I found a lot of helpful info on this site already!! I have swapped a few cars to 5spd already so this part I should be able to handle on my own. I also will be replacing the floorpans and some portions or the front subframe which has some rust issues. Also plan to get full coilovers and camber plates either from an s13 or DC2 integra. Here are a couple of pictures of the car a couple of days after I got it. I had to remove the hood and rediculously massive snorkel scoop that it came on the car. Also removed the drag car weld wheels and borrowed a set of wheels from a friend. I ordered aa set of the 17x9.5 Rota RBR in black and they should be here in the next couple of days. I have already replaced the OEM headlights with aftermarket h4 conversion cheapos and will be adding 8k HID units next week and am still waiting for my fender mount mirrors to get here from Thailand. I may also be replacing the engine mount plate that was used to mount the motor in the car since it looks janky and is only welded to sheetmetal. By the way does anyone know where I can buy replacement engine plate mount bushings to use until I make actual engine mounts and get rid of the plate all together? the ones in it right now look shot.

Our cars look simular. I actually already ordered the same wheels (all four x9.5s though) which should be here in the next couple of days. hahaha you just stay in the bay and I will stay up here in Sac and we should be fine. LOL.jk Its a 73 with a 350/350 that I will be swapping to 5spd this weekend. I just bought it like a week ago from a guy here locally off of Craigslist. Has an older 350 with fuely heads, SS 2.02 valves, 1:6 roller rockers, cam, weiand intake, edelbrock carb, full 3" exhaust, homemade looking headers, built th350 with shift kit and 2600 stall converter, accel distributor. It moves but is not as fast as I think it could be. I don't know whats up but the engine plate looks janky so I have a lot of things to work on! They molded in the rear flares and failed to cut out the old metal fenders. Since the pics I lowered it a little and put 1 1/2" spacers in the rear making it a little more flush. I am going to most likley going to be doing the suspension next with s13 coilovers and T3 camber plates. I have always wanted one. Now I just need to start replacing the rusty floorboards and stuff. I think I will paint mine kind of a gold/greenish color. Here are a couple of pics of my Corona I sold to get this car. It just didn't have enough room for a v8 and parts for it were super hard to come by. Josh