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Thanks guys I finally got the motor in my garage and im going to start ripping into it tomorrow!
@copperdatsun76: Yup Tigard, I wish I would have checked this sooner, did you by any chance go to Canby this last weekend? Meeting up would be pretty cool.
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Well eff it I bought a 83 L28et with around 100k on it runs great, gonna start swapping it into this car within about two weeks
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Ya that car got scrapped too, but I didnt have a trailer to tow it off, so I sold it to a guy for 20 bucks if he came and got it.
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I will play haha
I wish I had taken more pictures of the rust this car had now!
Not as bad as yours but bad enough, frame rails were pretty gone too same with battery tray and fire wall
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well I finally started working on this car again after getting a little into the 4x4 seen. Pulled the dent out as best we could reinstalled all the factory marker lights. Also found a pretty straight 82 280zx hood in way better shape then mine, and it was a matching black!
Drove it to seaside a little while back This was taken at camp 18
Slightly see the dent looks better in this pick but gonna have to use a little filler sadly enough
New hood
Playing with the heep a little
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Ya he came inside the house and told me what had happened, so hes gonna help me pull it out on any random weekend we can. I just started body work on my hood, to re-fresh myself to tackle thing dent.. It could have been a lot worst it was an F150 that hit it..
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Heres the picture of the damage done. Went and bought a stud welder today to hopefully "attempt" and pull the damage out as much as I can. I would like to use very little bondo here, but I know metal working is quiet difficult and I have no experience with it. I do have some experience with bondo however. Any advice on how to start with this would be great! :)Time to start taking care of all the body damage now..
It did quiet a number on the lower side and bulged a little on the lower left corner, and of course it got the body line.
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Thanks for compliment!
Well, some bad news. I was parked in front of a buddies house last night, and somebody went to leave and backed right into my drivers side rear quarter panel. Destroyed the marker light and left a damn good sized dent..
I will try and upload a photo tomorrow
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You've got one good looking S130!
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Just a little update:
Suspension all finished, and man does it drive like a sports car now.
debating on selling though...
Thought Id add to show a pic of my dads 68 camaro convertable. And of course my exhaust and only bad spot of rust
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Just get the car on the road!
We shoulda saved the R200 out of the parts car....
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When my car ran on no fuel pump it tuned out to be the ECU, the injectors were held open and as long as there was enough gas in the tank it would just syphion it out as long as i primed it with the pump first....Try and find a friend or someone with an extra ECU
-And it ran horribly, which im assuming yours is too and mine would eventually cover the plugs in so much gas then wouldny spark
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where did you order your suspensions parts from?
I ordered them from an ebay seller, JDMwerks13 they came to my door roughly 4 days after buying them. Great seller.
Thanks for the compliments guys. Just waiting on the bushings still cant wait to put the suspension together.
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header
First time ever at a drag strip racing, at PIR
Finishing up the exhaust
First time using the new H4 conversion, Bosch headlight reflectors
Adjusting the beams
Now my Tokicos finally came in and cannot wait to put them on just waiting to get new bushings.
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Good job man!! did you repaint it ?
No but I think im going to try an d start on the body work to get it repainted next spring because the body is fairly straight with a dent in the hood and pass fender, and of course scratches all over its really quite frustrating how good it can look from 15 ft away and know its flaws
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Finally got my exhaust all done! 2.5in from the header back!(ps my welds are terrible but hey learning experience)
I finally go the email confirming that my new 60mm throttle body spacer is on the way, and just got my Bosch H4 headlight conversion all done, running super cheap no name bulbs at the moment but it is twice the improvement from what it was I love em, I now need to just switch out the thermostat, people at car quest are retarded. so Baxters a.k.a Bastards supplied me with an excellent one that I am hoping it will actually work. Just need to save money and order the Tocikos and front bushings and get the swastikas finished and put on. Will get pictures of progress posted soon! -
So exhaust manifold stud 6 has been broken for a loonggggg time, and well the header finally started to massivally leak. So car has been off the road for a month or so...good thing I had a 6 to 1 header sitting in the garage with a 60 mm TB
..Finally after 2 long days intake and header are on the car and barely got it ready for the 2010 canby meet!
Heres some random car pics. Oh and picked up a parts car with some great tires on turbo swazizs
Some cleaning
Header install
Porting the non egr intake for the 60 mm TB
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Sounds to me like the wire that connects to your starter solinoid has lost its contact I have had two zs do this an 80 na and an 83 turbo just wiggle the wire or actually fix the connection.
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Hi I would like update my suspension soon and would like to lower the car a tad bit..Ive been looking around a lil bit and just curious as to how well the tokico strut and spring combo preform on the s130, Iv read they have can cause problems on the s30 and just wanted to know if they were decent and if they are fairly priced.
Thanks Andrew
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Well figured I would finally post something here, well I bought this car in April of 2009 and when I got it, it was kinda a sad site my girlfriend and mom both laughed at me and said I wasted 300$ dollars, well heres what it looked like the day I brought it home..
Since then I have replaced so many things on the car thinking that this and that was the problem...too bad nothing I changed or replaced did anything, so the car sat around my house for about 3 months as my project car just tinkering here and there getting it to start and run(still to this day it makes no sense how it ran) until one day at a 50% off sale at u-pull-it I bought a bunch of random parts including a computer I ended up putting the computer in and the car fired right up and has ran fantastic ever since...and considering all the things that are new under the hood it should run fantastic. But im only 18 and im still learning lots about these cars.
heres what it looks like now
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I just sold a running driving 83 zxt for 1200
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Well doesnt your car have offsize tires than stock?
My z naturally already reads faster than what im going any about one mile per hour for every ten miles an hour of speed
10 means im going 9
20 means im going 18
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70 means im going 63
And at 4k in 5th gear my z reads over the 85mph mark, dang 85mph speedos
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well the cheapest fuel pump I could find was like 129 and I bought the car for 400 so I figured if theres rust in the tank it would burn it up relativly fast, so I went to u-pull it and got a pump out of an 81 turbo that had recently been replaced, and it only costed 8 dollars, so I figured it would be a good trial run.
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Ya I have a buddy that went through 3 of them becaus f rust in the tank. im gonna try to find a new fuel pump without hopefully having to spend 160 dollars on it. I couldnt believe how expensive they are.
I finally go the email confirming that my new 60mm throttle body spacer is on the way, and just got my Bosch H4 headlight conversion all done, running super cheap no name bulbs at the moment but it is twice the improvement from what it was I love em, I now need to just switch out the thermostat, people at car quest are retarded. so Baxters a.k.a Bastards supplied me with an excellent one that I am hoping it will actually work. Just need to save money and order the Tocikos and front bushings and get the swastikas finished and put on. Will get pictures of progress posted soon!
1980 10th ann project
in S130 Series - 280ZX
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Well worked on the car finally now im just working on pulling the harness out!
my ever delightful girlfriend helping
Shes having fun!
NO motor
After all new gaskets and water pump. Also basic cleaning of intake ports and ported the manifold for a 60mm throttle body. along with cleaning the block itself up..hopefully a few days of degreaser and a pressure washer can help..