new z 280zx intro

[twogees]

Wasn't sure if this is right but, i figured id put this here cause this is the only forum i come mostly. After lurking on here for a lil while let me introduce myself. My name is Ben. I currently drive a 97 240sx kouki as my daily. but this new car will become my daily once the 240 goes under the knife. Heres couple of pics first...



ehough of that, thats not why we are here. i just aquired a 79 280zx .

the goods :l28etupgraded compressor hosing and wheel stock exaust housingspearco front mount msd btmmsd coilMS1 for fuellight flywheel act clutch/pressure plateboost gauge cheapo rich/lean gaugeurethane mountstokico adjustablessuspension techniques springs(i believe)very very clean interior

the bad:rust.....yeah rust its got it but it can be fixed i feel ive got a good platform to start from ....oh and its got a bit of rust.

future upgrades:tuning ASAPwideband hopefully upgrade to msIInew fuel rail /regulator (the stock should be fine but a nice aftermarket one will clean up the engine a bit)Remove excess vaccums and clean up wiring(oh god!!)upgrade intercooler piping(its small and made of steel)and try to stiffen up the rear suspension and fix the rust obviously.

what i paid..well technically nothing but i did trade somthing. this 93 240sx straight up. very clean LE model but had blown gasket. heres a pic:



now for my z:





i have since acid etched the wheels came out awesome



heres the quarter panel i cut out of the J/Y the other day took me 5 batteries and 3 days (because of dead batt)



lil door rust



a bit of roof rust



no rust on the front(except the cowl DOH!)



Yes wiring and vaccum lines need mucho cleaning up anyone wanna giv me some help





let me know what you guys think . glad to be a part of this community finnaly
Modified by twogees at 6:06 PM 3/5/2008

[evildky]

nice, I love the two tone silver blue cars, had the matchbox car when I was a wee one, man thats got some oddball rust, never seen a fuel filler rust on an S130!? thats wierd adn the roof!? wow, better plan on haveing the windshield removed and profesionally re-installed, might be a leak around the glass causing the rot and it'll be easier to fix with the glass out

as for the fuel rail, Pallnet makes a great rail and at a bargain, and it allows you to run standard o-ring injectors, like cheapo DSM's

and I'd rebuild that rats nest of a wireharness, looks like they tried to keep it close to origional unfortunatley the stock harness routing was retarded, with a pallnet rail you can run the main harnedd throught he forewall and along the rail, really cleans things up, and if you're gonna do MS2 loose the cheapo A/F gauge and get a good wideband and you can run in open loop mode

[justin260z]

Nice cars! Those are fairly uncommon places for rust on s130's have fun fixing them.

[twogees]

^^ thanks justin ..hehe yea its not gonna be fun... im goning to fix them in sections..first the quarter i already have a new (used) one. cause i already cut my hand twice trying to open the cap . second im going to take out the windscreen and fix the roof and cowl . all new metal. thought about trying to put the roof from a ttop zx

Evil- yea actally the af gauge isnt working for some reason?? the first mod on my list is aem w/b so i can tune it better.when i change to ms2 im gonna have the whole harness re wired and be done with it....well i wont be done but you know . ill look into that rail thanks.

[nsrZ32]

Congrats on the trade! That looks like a pretty sold S130.

Beautiful kouki s14 btw

[twogees]

thanks nsr-..yea it was hard to let my s13 go i had her since 01' but it was time for change and this z is sooo fun to drive . i dont even drive my 240 anymore really. your z looks sik btw.

[NSR_s30]

Nice S130 project, will look good once it's done. Clean s14 too

[evildky]

A/F gauges hooked to narrow band O2's are notoriously bad, basically just fodder for the ricers taht want to add gauges, if you run MS2 and get a wideband you can wire it to the MS and run open loop mode, just tell it you want stoichmetricand it'll adjust pulsewidths to accomdate, or at the vary least you can datalog on megatune with the wideband to set your maps more efficiently

[twogees]

the tuner is hopefully gonna stop by today and check everything out real quick and let me know whats going on ...also he just told me today that he has a buddy selling a ms2 so, ill prob pick that up.... nice.

NSR_s30 -thanks man..your s30 is niice.