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77 280Z 2+2, "Zombie" build.
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I picked up a 77 280 2+2 last year from a junk yard. $350, didnt run, and it was rather rough. The idea was, "what can I build out of spare parts in my garage?" I Havent really done much up until the last 3-6 months, and even then, with both my jobs I have only had one or two days a month to work on it. Engine was a complete mess... giant paperweight. Electrical system has some good gremlins. Fuel system is completely trashed, rail, pump, and tank are all garbage. Paint was reeeeeally bad, a few dents here and there as well. Built a motor from parts in the garage: N42 Block (bottom half of my old "Black Bastard Motor") N42 Head, and a shaved Non-egr N42 intake. No money spent. Dropped in my old ZX 5speed dug out my BRE springs for the front(still need to find what I did with one of the rear ones...) Oldschool wheels Corbeau seat ^All in the garage. Working out the fuel system issues atm. I'm Still in the middle of bodywork and paint. I'm using spray on Truck Bed Liner so I'm painting each area after I'm done with the body work on a section. Still a work in progress, no real exciting plans for this one atm. This post has been edited by TexasDemonZ on Oct 27 2010, 07:51 PM
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Here's an update. Threw the build into high gear after taking almost a month break. I started on Sunday and have been busting my ass to get the car drivable this week. Unfortunately, I wont be able to finish by Saturday like I had hoped, but I will be very close. This car is what some might consider slightly Rat-Rod like, or Rat-Rice in this case. I also went back to carbs, rather than messing with EFI, in part because this car has some serious electronic problems (thanks previous owner) and also because it sorta keeps with the theme. Gas tank is completely fragged, so I had to sorta make one..... And yes, it does say "Import Racing Fuel" on the can. LOL. I havent been able to really run it for more than a few seconds here and there. With the carbs and open 3-2 headers, it sounds like a WWII plane and is WAY too loud. I'll be putting the vintage exhaust on it soon and do some test drives after it gets some idle time and carb tweaking. I suppose we'll see what happens in the next few days.
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I vote for VK56DE!
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HUGE UPDATEI am now DRIVING the Zombie! That's right. Went and got insurance, then a temporary plate on friday, which was also my 25th birthday. Did some short road tests mid afternoon on friday, and have been driving it ever since. Went to TacoBell in it last night with my roommate at 1am. We went through the drive thru, and our total came out to $6.66 Because of this, the lady taking my order refused to tell me the total or take my money, so one of the managers wound up having to do both, and apologized for the inconvenience. My roommate and I thought it was hilarious. I told him "It's alright, I've got a license plate sitting in the back that has 666 on it too." I had the classic 72 license plate "DWB 666" from my old Demon Z in the hatch. My roommate couldn't stop laughing. Back to the mechanical stuff; The timing is off, probably due to the timing chain probably having 200k miles, I have a small oil leak, and I'm running about as rich as Bill Gates. Still plenty of fine tuning to do, but I'm loving the hell out of being back in an S30 again. Sorry for the blurry picture
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QUOTE (Nomake Wan @ Today, 2:54 AM) | Bringing this thread back from the dead (get it? get it!?) to see if there've been any updates. I know that Z31 looks like a monster, and I'mma let you finish, but it's always nice to see someone dailying an S30. Just wanted to know if you worked the kinks out of her yet.
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Lol, wish I was dailying it, however, she's been sitting since November. She runs, not great because the carbs are kinda funky.
Main reason for not driving it is because I still havent gotten the bonded title. Been un-employed since November (going back to school again) so I dont have any extra money coming in. Also moving to the other end of town this month, so everything is mostly on hold.
In the mean time, I got another motor that I'm working on building to eventually be a low boost turbo motor, and I'm trying to isolate the problems in the fuel injection system(currently replacing all the injector connectors and what not.)
Hopefully I'll be back in the swing of things in the next month or two.
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So, spring break is upon us. *Sorry in advance for the huge pics, Imageshack doesn't let me resize iphone pictures the way I want* I moved to a new house (along with my previous roommates) about two weeks ago. Finally have enough shelves to put most of my assorted Z crap on. So now I have a garage I can work in again. with spring break now kicking off, I've decided I'm going to jump start the Zombie project by beginning on the turbo motor. At 3 this afternoon, I began (and nearly completed) a full tear down of two of my spare motors... I stopped around 6 when I realized I couldn't find my Drill, or my ring and bearing sets. I'm going to have to go through all my boxes in the morning to see if I can locate the bearings and rings... I also did a little work on the front end of the car to play with possible ideas for the finished product. (Crappy wire mesh grill will probably be replaced with something a little less shitty in the near future) In the mean time, here is the current Evolution of the Zombie:
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