JoshB 240Z

I don't know about putting the JWT chip in the ECU. I would think that you could place the JWT 300ZXT ECU in the car once the wire harness is retrofitted but I'm not positive. I do know that I am not running all of the sensors that the 300 came with so I am not sure if that would have an adverse effect when the JWT ECU was swapped in. I am not currently having any problems running the car without them. The wiring really wasn't all that difficult. I took the 280ZXT pin out and matched it with a 300ZXT pin out. There were about seven wires that had to be changed. I completely removed the AFM wires and used the MAF wires from the 300ZXT harness because they are longer and I was originally going to relocate the MAF. SleeperZ may remember exactly how many wires had to be changed. All in all, it took me a few hours to unwrap the two harnesses, swap the wires and then rewrap the completed harness. The hardest part for me was finding a 280ZXT harness in a junkyard. Josh

Ron, I believe we met at the Rio Vista and MSA shows. I have a blue 240Z turbo minus the intercooler. I took a 300ZXT harness and 280ZXT harness apart and made some wiring changes in order to run the 300 MAS and ECU. I wired the fuel pump in so that the ECU controlled it, it's safer that way. This all was pretty easy to do and made my engine run a little better than the stock 280ZXT setup. While I had the harness apart I removed a lot of the extra wires that I did not need and cleaned it up a little. My real reasons for doing the swap were that 300ZXT parts seem to be easier to find in the junkyards around the Bay Area and I like the less obstructive design of a hot wire MAF than the door type AFM. Josh

What about the clutch linkage? I know that '66 289's used an arm type linkage while the T5 uses a cable, correct? Are there special brackets that are necessary? Just curious. Josh

It was great to meet some of the Hybriders at the MSA show this weekend. I had my blue turbo 240 parked between two Ford V8 swaps. Tony-You and I had talked about the 300ZXT EFI conversion a few months back and I had the EFI in the car this weekend. Did you get a chance to take a look at the car?

I am registered and will be there as well. I am leaving the Bay Area late Friday night and am registered in the autocross and show. Josh

Waytek sells Packard/Delphi Weather-Pack connectors and all of the associated tools necessary for a nice install. You can visit their site, as well as order, @ http://www.waytekwire.com They do require minimum purchases so this may not be an option for one off type repairs. Waytek also sells many other automotive wire, connectors and relays. At the very least order their catalog....it makes for good reading. Motec also sells the Weather-Pack connectors in sets of one. The prices are a little higher but you don't have to worry about minimum orders. Josh