Pete, you want an update

[SportZ2]

on the scarab vs setback article.

 

To start, the magazine has taken a lot of my time away and I'm much further behind then I expected to be. I started working hard on it at the end of April and try to put an hours worth of work a day into it. In between I upgraded the front brakes to the 300ZX vented rotor (lost time since it was the how-to in the latest issue and writing isn't my strongest point).

 

Here are some pics with discriptions of what I've done to date.

 

empty bay before blasting and stripping

 

 

same area after blasting and stripping

 

 

Brakelines rerouted, no more lines running over the tunnel. I routed the rear lines to the driver side for the least amount of line exposure in the engine bay. When the brake booster is put back on almost all lines will be hidden.

 

 

Last March while at a HybridZ tech session I saw Tims car and how he ran his pass side brakeline accross the crossmember, liked it so much, I did it on my car. Thanks Tim

 

 

engine in, view from drivers side.

 

 

Routed front wiring harness so that none of the lighting wires runs through the engine bay. With the fender on everything is well hidden. I had to grind a notch in the metal to allow the wires to run freely under the fender.

 

I won't have the car ready in time for the National convention (that was my goal). I still have to connect a few wires, put in an exhaust, have the gas tank chopped down in size so I can run a true dual exhaust through the rear bumper shock holes and put the dash back in.

 

I should have her up and running by the second week of July I will be using the car as a project car in the magazine and will go into more details about each conversion as I go along. I will not be putting an EFI engine in it so this will always be considered a basic conversion for the guy on a budget.