EvilC

After day one:

So it has been a week of gathering all my parts and getting them at one location. I am doing this swap at Dave's house (Cygnusx1) and few days ago we made some room in the garage cleaning up from his last two projects. I first had to go to Joe's house (Rags) to pick up the block and other parts that were being stored there for the last 3 yrs! I know what Joe will say Then made a list ordering a new al rad, e-fan, engine mounts, clutch, exhaust and paint! I am going to paint the engine bay while it is naked and clean up the wiring and re-tape the harness. I am looking to take a few days off from work and project this to take about three weeks to do it all right and once. I will also do the 5 speed swap at this time. I have also been finishing up the audio system for this car and finally installed the power windows. In the Spring once the car is up and running well, I will have the door panels redone and new seats added. Pictures to come soon!

Nice, I have mine right outside the tranny. Much easier than trying to work your way into the trans.

Can't wait for the first drive of this beast and with power steering! I have work to do this winter!

I was watching it thinking today - thinking of making the offer! lol

Ok, was just making sure it was you selling it

Car 4 sale? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1977-Datsun-280Z-LS1-Powered-6-speed-/251151762362?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3a79cfc3ba

http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/50-1611 Talking about this?

Get back in the garage and off HBZ! =)

Jake where in NYC are you?

NZeder, can you post a pic?

Going to take some time.....hard to find a blue Z with ZGs.....for sale

Here is where I mounted the tweeter - Door panels will be recovered down the road:

So few nights I get a call from home saying there is a large box outside! E31 head from JohnC (Betamotorsports) Here are some pictures of the final product: So with all the port work done there was an increase 18% on the intake side - 32% on the exhaust side. Custom Isky cam to be match with the new Weber 45s I was able to get for a great deal! So the plan is to mate this head to the 3L block I have that has been sitting waiting to be used. Expect a few updates in the next few weeks, winter seems to be coming early this yr in the northeast so time to get to work!

Please see this link: http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/thread34591.html Euro repops of good quality were good amount of cash and limited a few yrs ago. I got lucky, I got my NOS set that was mounted on a car for a few months for $400. 260Z/280Z euro tails were used all around the workd from 74-78 so plenty of them out there to be had hence the price difference.

Def want to see how yours come out. Since you have a three wire LED it is an easier mod to get it to work with our Datsun setup. Hope to have it done within the month here. Thanks, def doesn't look like it belongs on our cars. Ok, I think I found something that will work. I am going to use a trailer converter. I am also going to remove the diod I installed. I will let you all know how I make out.

So the other day I was toying with the idea of getting a set of Benz LED lights that are in the front bumper to see if they are the same shape as our 240z turn signals. Turns out they are very close. So I took a set of old harnesses I had sitting around and went to work. The Datsun harness has two green wires and one black. One of the green wires serves as the "running" light and the other is your "turn" signal light. The black of course is your ground wire. So just to test what I had, I spliced the two green wires together and ran the black wire to correct side of the plug for the LED unit. As I thought, the lights come on when I turn on my lights but the turn signal and hazard signal does nothing. This was expected because the bulb in the turn signal unit is a dual filament. You can see this if you take the light out, you will find two silver dots on the bottom of the light. So second test, I turned off the lights and used the hazard signal after. The hazards worked fine but back feed the lighting system and would light up the dash board. Again expected and a simple diod fixed that. If that hazards are on and then I turn the headlights on, the hazard goes "away". So where am I know? I am trying to figure out if there is a way I can have the turn/hazard signal interrupt the headlight circuit once I have the headlights on. I plan on getting this to work and replacing the Datsun units with these. They will be made to work in my front air dam.

Like I told you before, let me know when you are ready! Those panels look great!

pm Rags - he has a nice v8 260z he may part with.

Here is what I came up with - they will do for now:

Well slowly moving forward with the NA build - JohnC has been great answering many questions and I decided to go with him for my E-31 head build. Stock head: New hardware: Port work: Cleaned up chambers: Almost ready- port n polish looks great: Final flow numbers will be in soon and the head should be back to me late this week or early next. The it will be time to mate this head to the L30 block waiting for it. Getting excited!

Really do like the engine mounts too. Can't wait to see this car come together.

Good luck, on ebay the old rusty stuff go for near $200 all day long. Also be sure to get the grill that fits your car as there are 2 different JDM grills.

contact 1 tuff z.

Here is the car Rags is talking about, I listed it for a friend a few months back: http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/106556-1973-240z-nj/page__gopid__1009398#entry1009398