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JDMFairladyZX

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  1. x2, im interested as well, because im about to buy my 1jz motor set next week to start my swap into my 83 280zx:mrgreen:
  2. That silver one has a nice swap but whats with all the mesh in the bay? doenst let you see all the hard fab work.
  3. Heres a few artsy pics some photographers took off my car at a local car BBQ about 6 months back, car looks way different today. PS dont mind the semi rice civic next to me, out of all the cars there it was the only ricer looking one and with my luck it was parked next to my car lol
  4. woah, the Stanley Steamer blew up in his face at about 7mins into the video:shock: pretty cool site BTW, I still cant believe just how many cars he has!
  5. Ive taken off both of my bumper on my 280zx and honestly i think it looks way better, looks more like a S30. Also with the bumpers off it reduced 65lbs off the car. Ill post pics tomorrow
  6. P.O(previous owner)had the car parked under a mango tree in his yard for about 5 years, when i got the car the roof was full of holes, and i have some on my hood and the bottom of my fenders. Currently the hood rust is coming back and now the area under the right tailight is rusting and spreading fast, and I still haven't taken out my carpet and check my floorboards yet! im thinking of getting another car but im stuck with this Z
  7. very sick, i like the attention to details such as the (TEIN?) coilovers behind the wheels:mrgreen:
  8. heres something i did at work, not my best work was just bored and started doodling using nothing but a shitty Bic pen...I wanted to make like a Z car collage and the main piece is a beat up and rusted S130 speeding on the highway:)
  9. wow so this the next stage uh? I hope you turbo it, you car looks great with the front mount! lol
  10. I have a rust free 280zx....yay Ill post pics later, but anyway my Z was my first car and my daily for a year and now I use it for autoX and drifting (yes drifting, dont like it? too bad) and am finally getting a L28ET in about a month and planning on doing a coilover conversion as soon as my buddy with a S13 lets me borrow them lol. wow your car is looking good man, looks much better with the turbo wheel than the Rewinds IMO, and how long have u had you Tokico Springs installed? i have tokico shocks/springs too and my car is no way near as low as that, but lately i noticed my front is much lower than the rear after a year of them being on. Oh and where do you get that wing? I love it!
  11. Removed rear bumper and gutted interior and pass seat for AutoX ...and at the actual event! sorry about the watermark! I didn't have paypal and couldn't pay for the pic lol
  12. alright man np, im just excited that they came out with this new size, want to see the lip, and judging from how my 002s are sitting these wheels should be flush with my fenders
  13. Did you get the wheels yet? Id love to see how they look must have a nice lip i bet
  14. Just saw the first episode, Im happy they are follwing the storyline so well but comparing to the manga...the anime seems less dramatic and not as mature. Then again i wasn't a fan of 4th stage, it killed inital D for me. The cars in WM don't look as aggressive as their manga counterparts for example the blackbird doesn't really have a wide low body and his wheel arent even flush lol. Also i thought the intro song was a bit silly and the devil Z needs to sound meaner! like in this i know it sound like im bashing but its only because i loved the manga so much and the anime seems so...lame? so far
  15. oh man, I need to go through all my old school notes, I failed math 3 times because i would constantly be drawing all over my notes. I used to draw Zs all the time usually my own car or the Devil Z lol
  16. youre in Miami FL? is your car black by any chance?
  17. Very nice cant wait to see it done! Gotta ask, what sway bars are those and those are polyurethane bushings right?
  18. ^ very nicely done! What I plan (or want) to to do is to use a full coilover setup which the shock and spring are as one assembly, not just sleeves that have to be adapted to a shock/strut. For example the TIEN line full coilovers.:The threads are integrated on the shock/strut already. should be a simple bolt in affair for the rears, then i realized that the upper mounts are 2 studs not 3 like the S130s, but then i thought instead of drilling cant you simply mount them with the 280ZX top mount? I'm gonna see if one of my buddies with a S13 has some rear coilovers lying around that i can experiment with.
  19. This is exactly what I noticed the other day when I was helping a friend put coilovers on his 240sx. The rear assembly looked exactly like a S130s! Only problem was that the rear upper mounts had only 2 studs rather than the 280zxs 3...that can be solved by simply drilling out 2 news holes and mounting it, would that be safe though? Oh and for the front simply cut down the stock strut and weld on the coilver? Thats it?!? Thats not too difficult...and even if you can't weld (me) you can simply take it to a shop to do the two welds. Anyone else have some more input on this idea of the 240sx coilvers swap? IF it is indeed possible and safe to do it would be excellent for us S130 onwers because the S13/S14 now has probably one of the best aftermarket for quality coilovers... Anything from Tein, HKS, Silkroad, Tanabe, even Megan. And the two things that bug me about my 280zx is my ride height (car is still too high and non adjustable) and my spring rates and dampening (car is still too soft handling wise, recent AutoX event proved that) so coilovers would take care of all those gripes for me:grin:
  20. Funny this thread popped up, I just made a new thread on another Z forum asking about a RB25 into a 280ZX. I just came back from my local engine importer and he has a sweet deal...$2500 for a complete RB25DET with tranny, harness, and ECU. I am now serouisly considering the swap, even if not many ppl in the US have done it into a 280ZX. Oh and just for fun I asked a local shop how much for the swap...they quoted me around 4K:shock: but that was including a new high power fuel pump, a FMIC kit and Fluidyne radiator, so ill get some aftermaket goodies too. What you guys think?
  21. I would like to know as well, i know Techno Toy Tuning has camber plates that we can use for the front but the rear is what I need as well, my rears are already looking a bit negative. I Also want to lower my car more than the 1" the Tokico springs did...oh well just gotta save up for the coilover swap.
  22. you know someone with a KGC10!?! man i need to move to Cali!
  23. ^^^Nice is that hood CF? Oh and what front air dam is that? I love it!
  24. I love to see more Zs like yours in these kind of mags, so many younger drivers are clueless to the older Zs (Im looking at you young 350z drivers:icon55:) Big congrats dude, its Zs like yours that motivate me when im feeling down about mine.
  25. I have this same problem in my 280zx, im buying a harness soon but until then im gonna try to see if i can fix them. In my other interior thread about harness mounting, naviathan gave some tips on how to fix them using some, im gonna try this today see if it works.
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