Kirkster

Well the 240Z is underway. The suspension has been yanked. One of the spinel pins was original and the other was obviously replaced at some point in its life.. Probably when my buddy put in the Tokico shocks and springs. It was never on the road since then so the shocks and springs are mint, but out with the old in with the new. The spindle puller I got from jtburf was a beefy piece of kit and it did the trick with no discernible wear and tear on the tool... Thanks jtbruf... The fronts I got all stripped down with no issue. The rears stub axels on the other hand laughed in my face. My 600 foot pound battery impact was just laughed off. I went to my buddies house and the first bolt came loose with his Air Impact tool but no joy on the second one. Finally with his bench vise and 2 foot breaker bar and our 400 pounds of meat finally got the second one to come loose. Do those nuts really need to be that tight??? Then it was on to getting the spring perches off of the struts. As this was my first time grinding on metal or cutting things with an angle grinder it took a long time for the first one. The second one went much faster. So by the time I got to the fourth one it was a pice of cake. Still have not cut off the brake line tabs on the front struts yet may not do it but don't know yet. My pipe cutter finally showed up on Saturday afternoon and I got busy cutting some 2 inch pipe into 1 inch rings. Now I just have to do a bunch of measuring before I cut the strut tubes down to size. I am doing Koni 8611-1259 inserts and they are double adjustable ones with the compression adjustment on the bottoms of the inserts so I need to make allowances for this in the fronts. I have done extensive reading on hear about how to deal with the adjuster and it looks like the only thing you can do is cut the bottom and then take the two bolts at the bottom of the struts off in order to adjust them while they are still on the car. Has anyone found an easier way to make the adjustments on the compression easier than taking the knuckle arm off of the bottom of the strut? That is it for today. Will section the struts some time this week during the evenings. No rushing as it has to be right the first time...

RTz do you have the specs for the standoffs and bolts as when I got the bracket from ZCCJDM there was only the bracket in the packaging... K

The plan for the upcoming year is to get the car running with the L28 as it stands right now. Then at the end of next season I will get the motor built. I also will just run a wrap on the car this coming season and then do all the body work and such next year when I pull the motor... So I have the L28 motor most of the way to stripped down. Still have the front of the motor to do but the manifolds are off and the old wiring harness all is undone and removed I have finally decided what I am doing for the ECU. I am going to run a Megasquirt MS3-Pro. I am also looking at Rebello's Racing Harmonic Damper and accompanying trigger wheel. I have already sourced the LS-1 coils and plug wires mentioned in RTz's thread I have to figure out the hose for the heater pipe as I am going to be running a COP ignition and the bracket made by RTz requires relocating the hose in order for the ignition coils to mount under the plugs... I guess I will have to look at it again when the bracket finally gets here. I really want to run a sequential fuel and spark system but I am not sure if I can do it without a cam position sensor... Any Suggestions or thoughts???

Sent you a message for a fuel rail for the 14mm Bosch injectors with a pressure gauge.

They HAD 2 left... Now only one...

Got the engine and tranny seperated. Got a few more feet of my garage back... I read through the strut sectioning faq as this looks to be my first project once the Coilover kit show up from MSA... I also have a full weatherproofing kit coming with all the soft rubber bits. Still looking for the best bushing kit as they are all coming out of the car and being replaced when I do the various suspension work and other bits. Any suggestions???

Well I was finally able to go pick up a 73 240Z from my buddy. It was last on the road in 1984. My buddy picked it up from California in 2006 and it has been in one of his garages ever since. He referbed the interior, the suspension, and got the old L24 running but had problems with the tank being rusty and not getting clean fuel. So it went into storage... The Good... The car is absolutely rust free. It has just a tiny bit of surface rust in about an inch of the passenger floor in a seam and that is it... I went over it inside, outside, and under and it is clean clean clean... The bad... It has ding and dents on the body all over the place. The front bumper is fairly knackered. The hood has seen better days and the drivers front fender is not good (looks like someone beat on it with a bat). I was feeling a bit bad about what I am going to be doing to the car as it is soooo rust free, but with all of the dings and dents I am not feeling as bad about doing the flares with all the other body work I will be doing over the winter... I will be spending the fall/winter/early spring prepping the car for SCCA BSP autocrossing. My buddy provided a bunch of spare parts that basically replace anything with any issues, front drivers fender, gas flap with no hole, fairly pristine center console, etc... The best part is an L28 with only 40,000 miles on it that he gave me. He also gave me a Diff that he took out of his automatic Z when he turned it into a 10 second monster with a grand national engine. So I have the 3.54 diff that I needed for my build Here are some photos... The included a L28 motor. Which is what I needed for my build. With the N42 Head which I also wanted as it was the last of the 280Z cars before the 280ZX line which I can't use due to SCCA rules.. Finally, Here is the car with it garage mate... Yep... No brakes but the marginal parking brake, New brake lines are installed but not connected... I can't wait to get started, I would be working on it tomorrow but heading to the Ravens home opener...

I am one of those not so sane people that will be trying to eek everything I can out of a stock head with an .040 bored block. Those silly SCCA rules. I am going to try and campaign a 73 240z in BSP over the next few years... I am stuck with the stock cams and dished pistons... Build will be commencing in mid September.... Still searching for someone to do the bottom end work on a 77 280z motor that will be going in my car. Still trying to figure out the intakes and throttle... Will be going fuel injected with a complete Megasquirt managing the engine and E85 for fuel...

Like Phantom I drive the car... I was paying attention when the two police officers decided that they were going to pull over some hapless grandmother, and for some reason decided they had to block 4 lanes of highway to do it. I then saw my doom coming in the form of a tailgating Chevy 2500HD and a speeding white F450 who was not watching the traffic in front of him. Fortunately I saw the police stupidity evolving in font of me a 1/4 mile ahead and had slowed down enough to get about 3 car lengths of space in front of me. So while I was watching the traffic in front of me with one eye and the other eye glued to the rear view, I see the guy in the white F450 was not paying attention and is coming up FAST on the chevy. So I shift to 3rd and trounce on the throttle about the time the F450 hits the chevy. I swear that chevy missed me by inches. After the impact and my successful getaway I am heavy on the binders to avoid hitting the truck in front of me. I had no other out because of traffic on either side. Thank god for 420hp and big brakes... In a million miles of driving I have never had an accident. A couple of close calls. One due to my stupidity and a bit of lucky last moment maneuvering saved me, and a few dodging stupid people. After all that I have come to rely on myself to get me out of bad situations and I wear a seat belt and keep my head on a swivel and drive the car. No phones, No texting when I am in the left hand seat I actively drive the car and that is the only thing I am doing. A lot of that modern safety crap that they weigh cars down with now is to protect stupid people who should not be driving a car in the first place.

Wow... Nice thread, wish it had a happier ending with some dyno sheets. I was looking hard at the Extrudabody ITBs, or something like 1 Fast Z did with his silver 77 Z. I am in the process of building a 240Z with a L28 engine swap (still have to get the engine built as I am getting everything done to it that is possible under SCCA Street Prepared rules). I am going to do a Megasquirt to run the engine. I am still trying to figure out the intake as I can't change the stock head other than port matching so I have to get the most efficient intake and exhaust setup I can. Ugh...