it's on hold right now for several reasons:
1. after doing careful inspection, that motor is mostly toast. rotors and ONE (out of 5) housings are good. It would cost too much to rebuild the motor now, so I'm opting at buying a 13b-re twin turbo cosmo motor, and swapping that 5 speed from the bad motor to the newone (since it only came in auto).
2. not sure about facility where the swap is going to occur. I live in an apt. and borrow my parents' garage to work on my Z. They're not entirely happy with my car hogging up the garage several months. I think I can use it, but I'd rather find a place with my own garage first
3. I found some unwanted rust in very unwanted places, and I'll have to fix that before anything else happens.
Actually, i'm going to check out the motor today, most likely. It's rated at 230hp stock, has smaller turbos than the fd rx7, but bigger ports. Basically, a factory street port