utvolman99

Hey guys. I have just about everything stripped out of my Zs interior and am about to order a Brown Bread insulation kit. What did you guys do with the stock firewall insulation? Did you rip it out or leave it. I'm not sure but I think some of that area will be visible in the end and I'm not sure I want the silver Brown Bread stuff showing.

I really cant recommend anyone but I would say that you could get the parts cheaper. It really isn't complicated work so I really wouldn't worry about workmanship. I would just go with your cheapest quote and then measure the parts yourself to make sure they are right.

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This is for a 240 with a moderately built 355 I am planning on running the standard 2.5" to one 3" setup that so many others have had luck with. I have still heard that due to the length of the car it is hard to get the sound to a tollerable level. I was thinking of running a set of 2.5" Dynomax racing mufflers along each side of my transmission pan. Then I was going to cap it off with a 3" Dynomax super turbo in the stock muffler location. Do you think that this will help any with the noise? I would like to keep the car as quiet and mellow as possible without losing power.

I am in the middle of a 240 project. I'm 6'3" and with the stock seats my head was like 1/2" from the headliner. Also, it was (and still is a little) hard to get my leg between the seat and the wheel! I now have a set of leather Miata seats and they are MUCH better. They are not in right now or I would post pictures but they were very easy to adapt to the car (probably spent about an hour). I used the "Z sliders bolted directly to the Mazda seat bottom. I did have to clearance the seat bottom a bit with a cut off tool. The bolt pattern on the Mazda is also a bit narrower so I had to drill a couple new holes in the floor and my seat is about 1/4" offset towards the tunnel. I think once I have a little smaller wheel I will be able to fit just fine. Maybe I will hold on to the stock 240 wheel incase Im ever restoring a bus!

I'm 6'3" as well and I too had a lot of problems with seat height. I ended up going with Miata seats with the original Z sliders bolted directly to the Miata seat frame. It seems to set about 1.5" lower than the Datsun seat did. If I were you and I didn't trust the workmanship in the seat supports I would do something about it. If I had not solved, or at least helped, my problem with the Miata seats I was planning on cutting out the seat supports and having steal C channel welded in at a lower height. If you really like the seats you should go for it. At least on the driver side. Shouldn't run you too much to have them welded if you do all the prep work.

Wow, I never really noticed that the Taurus fan had an extra blade. I wonder if that will make a big difference. The two fans are the same diameter so I could always switch blades!

I really wouldn't bother with this design over the original. Carbon steel weighs 0.277lbs/in^3. Just eyeballing this design you would be saving about 1.5lbs. Also I feel the strength of the plates would suffer. If your interested in saving weight you should go with the alum spacers from JTR. They will be a lot lighter than sqare tubing.

I think they will work, how weel I don't know but they should do fine. With that said, in order to make them work you will have to update/upgrade your electrical system to match the headlights. Do a search and you should find some good info. I think Pete has done quite a bit of work to improve his headlights.

Do I need to try and find molded heater hoses to run from the Heatercore to the engine? I was planning on just using straight hose but was unsure if it would put the hose in a bind coming out of the firewall? Also, if you do use molded hose do you have to splice into it with straight hose in order to reach and tie into the V8? Thanks

Hey guys, I posted pictures of the rear marker in a new thread.

Okay, I dropped by Autozone and bought some of the little stick on lights that are designed to tint the color of your headlights. These fit nice behind the pillar badges on the rear. I will have to tack a small flat plate inside the badge cup for a better mounting surface.

Here is a picture of a two speed Taurus SHO fan (Left) and a two speed Tempo fan. I am sorry but I'm not sure what year the Tempo was, it was already parted out when I found the fan at my father's shop. the Tempo fan fits my rad a lot better. The only part of the rad that will be uncovered is a small area just at the filler.

I didn't realize that that was your car. Are they the same as the ones that I linked? I really like the idea of only drilling one hole! Also, was it a big deal to get them to blink with your turn signal?

Take it out of gear and hold the gas to the floor. Should blow quickly! Really though, you may want to do a search for V8 300 Z on this site and on Yahoo. The SBC 300ZX has been done before but not by that many.

auxilary, that looks like the same marker I linked above. I have been looking at cars over the last few days to see where there marker is located. I am pretty sure that I am going with an Aero II kit so I think it would look pretty good up there on the air dam. either way, I think its safe to say that at least my front marker hole will meet my mig sometime in the near future! I am kind of torn between the marker being on the air dam or behind the wheel like on the BMWs and S2000.

I think that would look really cool to add that to the fender in place of the front marker but not both the front and the back. Also, if I were going to do that with the front marker I would probably shave the original one on the piller. You dont want a bunch of little round Zs on the side of your car! Check back here over the next couple of days. I am going to go to mess around with back lighting the one on the piller just to see how it looks. My car is in primer and the whole front is off but maybe it will give us an idea. If it works I will probably just keep the Z where it is and use it for my back marker. I am looking for more of a glow than a bright light though so we will see how it goes.

I figured that most Tempo fans would be the one speed type. Thats why I was so happy to find this one. I'm not sure about the diameter but it's the same size around as my Taurus SHO fan.

Wow, that would look cool but I think would be REALLY hard! The Inner Fenders not only support the struts they are welded to frame rail, part of the crossmember support (well kinda) and weld to the firewall. Maybe, I'm just a wuss but I dont see going through all that unlessI was already replacing frame rails or something.

I have a Taurus SHO fan setup waiting to go into my car but the shroud will need some work to fit my rad. On a side note. I was at my fathers shop a few weeks ago and they were stripping down a Tempo. It had the same two speed fan as the Taurus. The shroud is a little different and I may end up using that one instead.