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Well my buddies and I went down to the garage to see if we can get this beast fired up after sitting for a couple years. We drained the old gas and put some fresh 93 in it. It took some time but we were able to get it running. The carbs were so out of sync. Once we were able to get them close it ran beautifully. We took the valve cover off and it is true the motor is new. It is really clean on the inside. Here are a few pics.

Well some of you might know that last year I bought a 72 240z to start a project. Below is the link to my previous thread on that car. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=144109 Well when i really started tearing into the rust problems I realized that I was not going to get a car on the road until quite some time. With a 2 year old and another one due in June my project would pretty much not see any time. So a buddy of mine told me he knew of a 260Z that was for sale and was willing to part from it for relatively short money. So I went to look at it and decided to buy it for $2500. Not bad considering i paid $1000 which had a lot of rust problems. I sold the 240Z to a kid that will be doing an electric car conversion. I was able to get $1100 without the motor or carbs. I did throw in a set of zed findings floor pans. It has a new rebuilt 2.8 motor with an n47 head with new stainless valves and seals. The carbs are SU's from a E-type jaguar. Has 4 wheel discs conversion and a ATK 5 speed transmission. He gave me a set of bumbers from a 240Z that are in real good condition. I will not be installing the rear though. Some downfalls that I will be fixing before i register and that is that it has a full roll cage and race buckets. I will be removing the door bars (they get in the way of the door handles) and I will be replacing the seats with 2000 Celica leather seats that I already have. I need to do some work to the front strut towers because it is sitting about an inch higher in the front. They were previously hacked up for some coilovers. The 260z definitely needs paint but there isn't a lot of problem areas. My idea for the car would be the same for the 240z, new front valence, fender flares and rota wheels from the group buy. Here are the pictures the day i got it. Here is a picture where it sat for the past year buried in a garage.

^ i think the one of the points was to get rid of a lot of ineficient vehicles off the road, so getting rid of the engine is the most important part. Not the body.

oh that grand national wasn't just a normal grand national it was allegedly a GNX which are super rare.

Well guys I bought a better car that needs less work so i need to sells this car a soon as possible. I have another baby on the way and I just don't forseemy self getting this car done any time soon. Check out the for sale thread below http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=157797 I eneded up buying a 260z with a brande new 280z motor with jaguar su carbs. I will be posting up pics in the future. Good thing about this car is i can drive it while i tinker with it.

Daht-sun...but then again I am from Massachusetts so anything I say always sounds like that...

It has been a while since I made an update. I have been able to get some more time in the car and now I am reay to start tackling the body work. A little more rust... And a little anger management on a 3 series Bimmer we are stripping!!

I got a few good hours of dismantling in today...I was able to get the nose and fenders off. I cleaned out the interior of all the PO's junk out. Here are the pics...

Well Friday night I was hoping to get the motor running so I can start the tear down but I found out I have a bad coil. I did copression test it and all the cylinder are running between 155-185 psi except cylinder #1 which is at 90 psi. I am hoping that it is justy a stuck valve after stting for 10 years that will free up after a little marvel mystery oil. I will be going down tonight to put in the new coil. I might even starttaking off the nosse or the interior. I will def. have pictures for you later.

by the way if anyone wants to do the build date on the tag is 12/71

I am relly interested in your floor pans and rails. PM me with a price please. Thanks everyone for the replies. I just get a little overwhelmed with things like this. You should have seen me when I remodeled my kitch and bath last year while my wife was 6 months pregnant. (not fun) I know I have the capabilites to do this. The car is currently in a garage in Sutton where there are all the tools I need to get it done. I will be getting the motor running this weekend. Once it runs and has good compression I will be pulling the motor to get started on the rust repair. My friend who has owned 2 240z/260z ahas two sets of NOS fenders soI will be getting a set from him. I know he has a 5 speed for me also. Sad thing is he started selling off his parts last year and he sold a series 1 dash with no cracks for $350. That would have been nice to replace my cracked dash. Oh well. The car hss Cali tags that expired in 1988. I am assuming he car has been here since then but only in a garage for the last 10 years. I already know that I have to replace ever last piece of rubber in the chassis and I will be repalcing the suspension with Tokico (maybe). I will keep you updated with pictures when I get them.

I bought this car 2 weeks ago in Sutton, MA from a craigslist ad stating it was a California car that has been sitting in his garage for the last ten years. Well upon arrival and a few minutes of investigating that claim was bull$hit. It was originally a Cali car 20 years ago but 20 years of New England changes that easily. The good news about this car is that is complete and a matching numbers car. My buddy and I went to the garage last night to do a little work on the Z. I changed the oil and filter. We were able to remove the AC compressor pulley from the front of the crank with the socket that John (my buddy) machined down at work. Once the pulley was off we could see if the engine was seized. The engine turned over with ease!!!! I decided to get the front of the car in the air so we could inspect the years of hacking and boy did we find a lot of ♥♥♥♥ I never expected. What I saw was a piece of nifty angle iron bolted with 10 3/8” nuts and bolts along the rail. This occurs on both sides. I have no clue why they are there but for some reason I failed to see them when I bought the car. You can also see in this picture the severely rotted and poorly fixed floor pan. This is the one of the areas that is bad that I did know ahead of time. This will be replaced with a new floor pan. Now to the most disappointing thing that I didn’t know was wrong because I was blinded with excitement from owning a 240z (that I have wanted for sometime) . You can see here someone tried to do some sort of disgusting repair to this support. All my hopes of driving this car around this summer went immediately out the window when I realized how much work is going to be involved. I still believe that I paid too much for this car. If I left my excitement at the door I am sure that I could have walked away with this car for $500 if I called the PO's bluff. I didn’t because I wanted the car so bad. Our Plan 1. Get engine running. Figure if it is still good. 2. If the motor is still good, pull engine and put it on a stand and clean and paint. If the motor is bad then use is it as an anchor and track down a SBF 302. 3. Pull the nose off, doors, hatch, and cowl. 4. Remove the interior. 5. Start body work including floor pan, front structural supports, both dog legs and rear quarter lips. Sand the entire car. 6. Clean engine bay and paint. 7. Paint car with 2003 350Z Lemons Sunset. (paint it ourselves) 8. TBD…… I will keep this updated with pics to show you my progress.