rturbo 930

You could maybe do it with a tremendous amount of time and money, basically what you want is a brand new car that looks old. You want your car to be something it's not. And you're clearly limited by budget, so the solution here is for you to find a newer car, and deal with the fact that it doesn't look like a Z. In order to achieve what you want, I think you're basically looking at cutting out the entire bottom of the chassis and swapping another car (or tube frame) in underneath it, and to be honest I find builds like that to be pointless. If you want something with suspension from X car, just buy that car and be done with it. Only makes sense if you really, really like building things - and know what you're doing.

I put in quite a bit of effort trying to figure out what color it was, and I'm fairly certain it's Aston Martin Cobalt Blue.

That's V3, not SN005. Jeffer is referring to the guy with the red Z above.

What build thread?

Looks nice! Looks like you put poly bushings on your TC rods, might want to rethink that. Do some research and you'll see that people have had the TC rod snap with poly bushings installed there.

Why not just buy a radiator that will fit?

280zforce is long gone.

I believe that spoiler is the sparrow tail spoiler that was offered by ZCCJDM.

Looks like a nice car. I'm with you on the color, I'd keep it.

Sounds great! Yeah, it does sound like an L series still somehow, that was my first thought as well. Cool that it's in a car that's a driver and not a garage queen too.

He put it in his dash, but I wouldn't say it looks integrated. Looks terrible, honestly.

If this is going to be a street car, you may want to rethink a full cage, there's a number of posts on here on why a full cage in a street car is dangerous. 74_5.0L_Z built a cage without a pillar/roof bars when he rebuilt his Z with a tube frame, and would be a good example of how to stiffen and reinforce the car without the issues of a full cage.

I don't see a "donating member" tag under your name. Check to see that your donation hasn't expired, and if there's an issue, maybe take it up with SuperDan.

Awesome! Good to know it's doable. I think that may be the solution I end up with.

There is lead filler at the joint between the roof and the rear quarter, as well as at the bottom of the A pillar. Because the car is fairly flexible, both places have been known to develop cracks in the lead filler. That's what you're seeing.

Wonder how hard that would be to adapt? I'm thinking maintaining the stock offset might be an issue. Good to see it available though.

Is that Adam Carolla's? If so I'm surprised he's selling it. If not, I bet it will be his soon.

Might want to verify your rear end ratio before you go changing things. Stock 240Z rear end is 3.36, going to a 4:11 is only going to make the problem worse. If you do indeed have the stock 3.36 rear end, I would look at changing the transmission, since a taller gear isn't going to be easy to find. Sort of a common problem for 24V swaps into E30s as well, since the stock rear end usually ends up being geared too low.

Saw this thing on YouTube, Pretty sick looking. Super low and super wide.

If I'm not mistaken, option #2 was actually developed to address driveline angles in V8 swapped cars, so if you use that option, you'll be changing your driveline angles slightly. You should do further research to confirm that that is true.

I think you said you were going to cage the car? If this is going to be a street car, I think you need to rethink that idea, unless you were referring to a half cage with A pillar or roof bars. Zs are small cars, and a cage is not a good idea in anything but a track car. There's a lot you can do to stiffen the chassis without a full cage.

I understand the weight issue, which is why I suggested the M54 and N54. M54 you would have to turbo yourself, N54 is already boosted from the factory (which I think would help the chances of a reliable swap), since both are aluminum block, and not too heavy as far as straight sixes go. If I were going to swap in a 4cyl, I think it would be a Honda K24. It wouldn't be a torque monster, but they're great motors. With the N54, you could convert to single turbo to drop some weight. S54 is a heavy motor, which is why I didn't bring it up.

I saw in your other post you don't like the L28 turbo. Why not? Sounds like it'll do everything you want it to, and it'll be the easiest swap out of any of those. Aside from that, what about a turbo BMW motor? An M52, M54, or if you want a challenge, N54. Should be easy to find any of those motors where you are.

May have to do with the length of the exhaust tip. Extend it out a bit and see if it improves.