jap tin Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Take a look on racingjunk.com item 621505. BBC tube chassis Z car for sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Awesome! I contacted the seller and asked for time slips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jap tin Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 Too Bad they don't have the time slips section here any more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 The seller's reply was that the car ran mid-low 9's with a 427, and is now "probably" running mid 8's with the 469 - but didn't offer hard numbers. It has Merlin cast-iron rectangular-port heads, a Powerglide and a Dana-60 rear. My personal preferences would be a lighter rear, a stick-shift and oval-port aluminum heads. With the Dana and the cast-iron heads, however, the 2200 lb weight is very impressive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 2200lb with a Dana 60??? the dana 60 weighs like 350pounds!!! at least!!! My buddy has a full width one and he dropped it on his garage floor and removed a huge chunk just dropping one end like 3 feet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_hunt Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 IMO I think that weight figure is a little light considering what it has in it. Mine is totally stripped, 9 inch, sbc with aluminum heads and about everything else and it weighs 2750. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 I wouldn’t be surprised of that weight figure is optimistic. With aluminum heads, Doug Nash 5-speed, R200, mild-steel roll cage and very liberal slicing of the unibody, I’m hoping to get my 280Z under 2600 lbs. It weighed in at 2725 with cast-iron 236 heads, full-size starter (figure 10 lbs savings), stock hood (new hood weighs 7 lbs). And about 30 lbs have been saved from gutting the doors, hood mounting area, “baggage compartment†behind the seats, etc. Anyway, my original thought was that $24K is pretty cheap for a pro-built car running in the 9’s. But then I realized that even if this car is exactly as advertised, it’s too specialized for my tastes. I’d waste $1000’s undoing what’s been done, just to get it the way I want it. Nevertheless, the next time that I’m in the D.C. area, I’ll pay a visit to see the car. Something tells me that it won’t sell anytime soon. Unfortunately for the seller, the Z community just won’t support a $24,000 car – and the sort of folks willing to drop that kind of money on a dragster would be looking at Chevelles, not Datsuns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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