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Any updates more on this car? Can we get a Full write up?

He blew the motor and sold all the swap parts. No more updates besides that.

Just curious. How did it blow and any indications of why?

Hmm. I would definately like more info on this. I might have to find a way to keep them bitches in place in my car because I know it is going to be bouncing off the rev limiter every run. Do these have a crank girdle?

Not really sure if these cars are pulling enough G's on acceleration to starve the oil pickup though. They WERE designed for a front sump, after all.

You always want to use copper or other soft metal, or else the springs will dig into the head and cause problems. The copper absorbs the beating this way, not the head.

It sounds like the same issue that the KAs have when drifting. You have to keep them over fill or else they starve for oil when sliding. I have witnessed two local KAs do this because people don't keep their oil at atleast the fill mark.

Also the car is completly different too , it is now widebody with a 6 point tigwelded roll cage and kouki front end, different color too. Ill be posting more pics in the days to come as im in cancun mexico now on vacation lol. Stay tuned

Well back from vacation and this is where the car sits, ill hopefully have pics of the VH up later this week.

after i took the original VH out this is what my engine bay looked like

Stitch welded the whole front end

Stripped the interoir out, cut the hump on the floor and welded mounts for a momo fixed seat

Anyway, after that i removed all the windows , and rest of stuff. Primed and painted the interior with 3 coats of Dupont Chromabase and 4 coats of dupont chroma clear in mercedes indium grey metallic. Its like a gunmetal with gold metallic.

Then i cut and re welded the front wheel houses for more clearance with the 275s up front, they shouldnt rub any more

then painted the engine bay, again dupont primer, basecoat and 4 coats of clear.

More pics to come

71' 240Z L28ET 417 rwhp
73' 240Z 7MGTE 533rwhp/553rwtq

but its tig welded so thats b*dass and strong and saves weight but i still love your car! keep it up gives me hope.

Incredibly clean

Popped of the valve cover, the old man wasnt lying about regular oil changes

Tranny is already at mazworx, should have it back by tommorow.

Hope to see some progress soon since you always work fast. Glad to see you back around here!

The motor should be running this weekend, im trying out the mazworx kit this time so everything should be plug and play.

Big props to mazworx for putting together such a nice and complete kit ,

Heres todays progress , thanks to YUCA for the help.

Getting the flywheel off

Removing the pain in the @ss auto bushing

Flywheel and clutch install

Have to cut the original starter mount off so the z32 starter can fit

Reassembled the Z32 tranny, took almost 2hrs to get the tranny on as the act clutch disc splines where tight as hell and wouldnt let the tranny slide in. Second act clutch this has happened with.

Here it is assembled waiting to go in the car. Looks hot, once its in there ill remove alot of parts for powdercoating. Havent decided what color to do the valve covers this time as wrinkle red is getting a bit played out what do you guys think.

Hopefully she will go in tommorow if hurricane gustav isnt lingering still

One of the other projects