~KnuckleDuster~

It did have a Rebello motor that's all I know.

I only have a few more..

Nice stance!

Some final pieces to the puzzle.. Painted the upper housing in a high temp black.

Nice come up!

The turnout was decent but not like previous years.

Just a few pictures from today's show. Anyone else feel free to post yours up.

Thanks, I like the direction your taking yours in

Yeah I need a perfectly bent pipe like yours hehe. I may just fashion up an air duct and ram some cooler air into the filter for a temporary thing. I was playing around with some longer piping like that with my previous set-up and noticed the longer the piping got the more laggy it felt. You didn't notice any lag with that long pipe?

Well it's been a long time coming but I finally have a horn now. Got the horn mechanism and spring from Borini63 and had sourced a good condition original horn pad from ebay. Feels complete in there finally...for now.

Thanks! It's posts like yours that motivate me to stay on top of it. It seems like your in almost the same situation I was in when I got this 73. Mismatched parts and poorly executed mods and or repairs. At some point you have to decide to go on trying to fix everything or just buy a different motor or car for that matter. If you do plan on fixing what you have be prepared to spend some money and do a lot of research. You will acquire a larger love for your car this way but if your impatient or lack the funds you may be better off swapping the motor. I'll keep and eye on your build thread and try to help where I can.

Well so far time has been spent mocking things up and waiting for parts to arrive. Removed the old thermostat housing in preparation for the new ZX unit. Looks like the thermostat was due for a change no? The turbo had to be clocked so that the compressor outlet wouldn't contact the intake manifold. The only downside to this is I have to buy an aftermarket wastegate now which is going to cost me around $100. The good thing is I can choose the boost level, it's set at via spring selection. I'm going to have it set at 7.35 to be on the safe side, the next one up is 11.7 and I don't want to max out my injectors right off the bat so I'm going to play it safe. I can always get a MBC later on down the road. An ongoing pain in my ass has been where to stuff the mass airflow sensor and filter. It's very tight due to the intercooler pipes both being on the left side and trying to run the air filter down low leaving it nearly scraping the ground. So I finally got my hands on a stock ZX turbo afm to turbo pipe and cut it down to fit. Had to cut approx 4 inches off. Much better than the assortment of pipe and couplers on the last turbo. .

I think it's got 78-80 non turbo written all over it Look at the casting numbers on the head & block and let us know what they are. N42, P90, ect.. zcarparts.com blackdragonauto.com ebaymotors.com

Couple of Fairladys for sale down by me, high priced of course. Not as bad as the 90 thousand dollar Peter Brock clone on ebay I guess.. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/4433242887.html http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/cto/4427922571.html

Looking good

One of these:

For some reason I was thinking the feed was lower rad hose / heater line and return was t stat. I must have somehow got them reversed. I even researched it and thought Tony D said that was the case, but I re-checked and your correct the feed should be from the t stat going through the turbo and into back into the lower rad hose. I had the sources right but my direction of flow somehow got mixed up!

Correct feed will be from heater core line. I would normally run the return into the heater core return line but I've read about the cooling issues in the back of the head and plumbing more boiling coolant back there would be counter productive. I was just looking for a quick solution since my T stat housing is non ZX and has a lack of ports to plumb into. Looks like I have a new scavenger hunt on my hands finding the T stat unit from a ZX. Thanks for your input, the last thing I want to do is rush some of these last details.

I wanted to have the coolant exiting the turbo returning into this.

Just waiting on a few odds and ends then I'll be putting everything back together. Hopefully in a week or so Ill be up and running. I'll be using this in-line radiator hose piece for my water return into the upper radiator hose. Cheaper, faster and easier than finding another thermostat housing.

3" Downpipe Old vs. New o2 housings

Here's an introduction to a video I'm making.

Removed the old exhaust. The new tips weigh 4 lbs. the old HKS muffler weighs 14 lbs. Weight reduction FTW.