My orange 260z was delivered just before Christmas. It's an early model 74 (pre August). It has an L28/N24/N24 head. Round top carbs. Early magnetic pickup distributor. Factory AC with the old compressor. 5spd swap (I think lol). I need to take the shifter cover off to make sure I actually feel 5 forward gears, and it's not just sloppy linkage lol.
Luckily the only rust I'm seeing is the drivers door. But it has a dent in the rear quarter, drivers side, around the taillight area.
The car was sold as running, but I wouldn't say that is entirely true lol. There is a fuel delivery issue that I'm trying to track down. It will run if I manually fill the bowls, but that's it. Once the holiday season slows down, I'll throw an electric pump at it and see what that does.
There are all kinds of vacuum lines broken, plugged, and dangling everywhere. So I'll need to track those down and may need some help identifying what goes where. There are also a few sensors that have broken wires coming out of them, but if the engine fires up without them, I'm assuming they aren't critical.
The interior is pretty crusty. Dashboard has more cracks than Keith Richards. Wires hanging everywhere. But hey, the seats are in decent shape, except they are in permanent Tupac-mode and recline as soon as you sit in them.
It has brand new rubber lines to all 4 brakes and the clutch. New master cylinder for brakes and clutch, and new slave for the clutch as well.
My plans are to get this thing running and driving safely. Brakes, lights, fuel delivery issue first.
Then it's gonna be tackling the interior, POR15 all over the place, etc...
Because this isn't a numbers matching car, it opens a lot of options for a powerplant in the future. I'll take the L28 as far as I can, but if I get bored, I won't feel as bad throwing an LS in here.
