before I can go any further I must tell how my z32 came to be. In Nov of 2012 I sold my 2004 SVT focus with the intent of buying a cheap daily driver and putting the cash towards a new home. At the time I told myself I was ready to throw in the towel on cars for awhile so I picked up prolly the most feminine car I could possibly purchase. found a 2003 mazda 626 from a coworker for the low price of 1500.
now I was cool with this for prolly 5 whole mins. prolly not even that long. really sucks when you see a car that you have been pouring sweat blood and money into pulling out of your driveway with some rich fella behind the wheel cause he was buying it for his son ( was wrecked and listed on ebay about 6 months later at less then half the price I sold it) but back to the story. go into work around the end of jan 2013 and my buddy has finally desided to sell in 90 na 2+2. now ive wanted this car for a good while but he never wanted to sell it. To make matters worse he already had someone interested as well as I had no money at the time.
Soooo I threw the 626 on craigslist for a low price of 2000 dollars (which is what he was asking for his 300zx. had an interested party by 12 noon and was selling the 626 that same afternoon at 5. held the cash in my hand long enough to walk to his office for a ride to his house to get my first 300zx.
now for 2 grand I was getting a good car but then again I was getting a bit of work. here is how the car sat when I first picked it up. paint was crappy and had sat under an oak tree. washed it 3 times and it still had black stains on it. used some good old bleach and made her white as snow.
now the car came with some nice upgrades like the fact that it had some leather seats in it. the problem was a damaged drivers side seat on the bolster. good ole pick and pull charged me 16 dollars for the top half of a black leather z32 seat. put the two together(by the way had to reuse my old center piece. not super hard to take apart and put back together but not very straight forward either. pics below.
old drivers seat
after a bit of sweat and smarts I turned it into this.
you can see in the backseat why I had to choose a 2+2 instead of 2+0.
well as far as the car went it was looking good. but I had some mech issues. all in all for 2000 dollars I got a running car(not well) as well as chrome tt wheels, one piece driveshaft(auto), exhaust, intake, ecu upgrade, maxima electric fan and leather seats. my problem thou came in the from of bad connectors and injectors, the previous owner had spent big bucks(saw receipts) on having the old style injectors replace to a new set of old style injectors at a local shop. car ran like s*** like it was on 4 cylinders which is was. almost enough fuel coming out the exhaust to light a fire while running. went to the same salvage yard a picked up all new pigtails for coils, ptu, cas, iac, as well as 6 maxima injectors. some say that maxima injectors wouldn't work but ive been running um for almost a year now without any problems. kept having issues trying to get j30 injectors out in one piece. maximas on the other had come out in about 5 mins. then picked up a set of old to new style adapter from z1 and did the install. took about 6 hours to do as I took a good lunch break. extra trips to the parts store as well as goofing. also did the water line delete.
once that was installed as well as recalibrating my tps I was able to have a smooth running 300zx at prolly 25% of the cost the previous owner shelled out.
well now that I had the car running good I began my task of changing the look to my taste. ive never been a fan of keeping something oem so again turn around now before your oem eyes are burned lol.
to be continued.
