jmak Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 whats up guys. we are pretty new to the z scene. but we have been reading on this forums and its pretty helpful. hope you guys like our project, opinions and help are much appreciated. heres a little intro to us. we are four friends in college and we decided to buy a project car. this is Allan (from JMAK speaking) we just bought a 1983 280zx 5sp at a car impound auction last friday. LOL. BUT.. we got it for $675 booyeah! pretty clean. clean title. some minor dents and dings. some rust damage on the rear passenger side tail light. car runs smooth, only has 136,xxx miles. currently in the process of basic tune-up and maintenance to make it drivable and so it can pass smog. heres pix from the day we bought her. heres close up of the rust. rims interior engine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmak Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 this is Allan again. day one: strip the interior down to the bare metal and frame. thats me (allan) in the black overalls taking out the seat is Michael. hahaha our trunk dampers are blown so we use a wood log to hold it up. day two: tint removal me (allan) in black and michael in tan with the tint removal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmak Posted March 24, 2009 Author Share Posted March 24, 2009 day 3: seafoam and oil change. like most people who seafoamed their car, cars performance increased, revs idling and everything was smooth after. when performing the seafoam, we did the standard cleaning, 1/3 in gas tank for fuel injector clean, 1/3 in oil crank case, and the rest sucked into the intake mani via the brake booster hose. when being sucked into the vacuum line, the car died, which was normal procedure. just pour rest of teh contents down into the hose into the manifold. then connect the hose again, and restart the car. we were constant revving to get the seafoam circulating through the car's gas, oil, manifold, etc.. while holding the throttle plate tons and tons of white smoke was pouring out of the tail pipe. super carbon build up. recommend using multiple fans or a blower to blow out the smoke so neighbors dont think its a fire. then we drove it around a bit and flooring it everynow and then for WOT wide open throttle to get it out of the system. then we let it cool down before we did our oil change. old filter and new oil and filter. ugly fram. dont worry, thats just for a first oil change. we will be switching to full synthetic and a better filter after this. previous owner didnt do much oil changes we're guessing, we were running on really really low oil. day 4: engine clean and dressup so much rust and oxidation and stuff, we decided to spray the whole engine down with some engine degreaser. we covered all the electrical stuff such as distributer, alternator, and took out battery. sprayed the whole engine bay with some foamy degreaser and let it settle. then we hosed it down with a garden hose. not much difference but the grease and grime were definitely broken down. so we decided to polish the head and hoses and lines. we changed all the rusty screw clamps to stainless steel t-clamps. changed the rusty strut nuts into stainless steel ones, and polished the rest. before: after: with the fram filter polished copper line and head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluDestiny Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 updates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmak Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 updates? A lot actually just never updated it, since your interested i think ill update soon, its been daily driven lately so hopefully now i have time to post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
503Alex Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Cool project guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmak Posted June 25, 2011 Author Share Posted June 25, 2011 Updates! http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/100840-daily-s130-progress/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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