jtpaintballwdp's '70 240z build thread
 

I know I know, this thread is useless with out pics, hopefully this weekend I'll snap a few.

So my first car was a '82 280zx, I loved the car, and had hopes of restoring it blah blah blah, if you want details its in my build thread over on MT.net. Long story short, didn't have time/money so it rotted faster than I could work on it.

I originally wanted a 240z as my first car, but that never worked out.

Now I have my own garage, and my dad is giving me a really good deal on a '70 240z (one of about 4 he has in his garage). The car has been sitting for 10+ years, so it needs work, but before it sat, he removed all traces of rust, and its been sitting inside.

Short term goals:

Go over brakes and drive train
Get car road worthy and out of my parents garage in to mine (2hrs away)

Long term goals:

Redo entire interior
L28et swap
Mega Squirt (probably going to bug Scott on this one)
Suspension/brake upgrades
strengthen chassis
moar powah

Pics to come after the weekend. Although it wont be much, as I said its been collecting dust for 10+ years.

Such a sexy car, pics damnit.

I will get some this weekend! Ill take a few shots of the other he has too, keep in mind the one I am picking up is the best of the 4 Zs he has...

Here are a few shots of the Z. These pics make it look worse than it actually is.

Didn't have time to actually work on it this weekend. I will be going back down to my parents house on Sunday to try and get it running, hopefully just needs new gas, battery and oil (possibly a carb cleaning)

The main thing is that its 99% rust free, little surface rust, and battery tray is all there is. All the missing parts are around my parents house. More pics to come this weekend after its running!

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Retro, so the miata got put on the back burner didn't it?

I wish I could say no, but I am not going to have the money to do both. :sad2:

Yea ik what you mean, do I spy an 8track.

That's entirely possible. I want to say its just an AM/FM though. I wasn't paying too much attention to it.

Don't swap a good orig motor out of such a nice car. Squirt that one but don't swap it.

Well, the nice thing about the L28et is that its nothing more than a bored/stroked, lower compression L24 with a snail hanging off one side, and fuel injection. I'm really not worried about it being a "numbers matching" car or anything like that. I also haven't decided what i want to do yet.

A cammed L24 with nice header and exhaust with a little head work is good for about 200hp

bottom end on the L28et is good for close to 475whp.