Why hood pins? the question is not meant to be taken in offense in anyway.
_ChuCk

 

My hood fit like **** and its just the eazy way around the problem ASLO the end of my hood hit the front clip when opened i really just didnt want to cut it ..YOU CAN SEE A WHITE MARK When you look at the last pic

 

Does the hood still open towards the front of the car? If not, can you show us a pic of the hood opened?

 

Its ether hood off or hood on that's all you get ......... My stupiedness made for a leaky RATE .now MSA is going to think iam great .......after i send them $200 out of hate

 

Nice job Red! Your car just keeps looking better and better! By the way, I just bought another dizzy on e-bay. I asked the guy to test the vaccum advance, he got back to me, and said it worked fine. So I went over to my e-bay page, and bought it for $19.95 plus shipping! I can't wait in less than a month I will have my Z on the road! Yes! YES! yES!

Anyway is that black hood stock? Was your Z 2-tone like that? Or did you make it like that? I love 2-tone, it is a great scheme on a Z! My interior is almost finished, just waiting for my e-bay original black dashboard! Can't wait man!

 

On my car the front of the hood came down solid onto the top of the air dam. It looks like yours just rubbed in the center. Good work on the install.

Yes people, if you buy that air dam your hood will not open! You have to modify it. They don't tell you this on the phone or online. I suggest trimming the lip on the airdam back. The front will still look the same if you choose that method.

Red's hood is from an '83 and he did paint it black. Looks pretty good.

 

YES MY HOOD DIDNT COME WITH MY CAR .. ...that hood was so beat down it took 22 hours to sand beat the dents out paint and bondo it

 

Yeah, I don't think I would have drilled holes in the hood I just spent 22 hours working on. Why didn't you just take a half inch off the back lip of the airdam?

Oh well, I actually welded the front lip of a 260Z hood onto my 280ZX hood to extend the front lip and close the gap between the hood and the stock bumper.

Now I don't need the crappy little rubber strip that runs the width of the hood and closes the gap between it and the bumper.

Came out great and follows the line of the headlight buckets perfectly!

Unfortunately, I decided to weld it on AFTER I had already painted the hood! Had to grind it down to bare metal, weld on the new lip, grind the weld smooth, re-primer and re-paint. Oh yeah, stripped the entire hood down to bare metal in the process.

Oh well, yours looks like it's coming along nicely.

 

Hey RED I got a favor to ask of you... Can you take a pic of the inside of the MSA front bumper for me.. Between the rad support and the front where the air dam.. I need to see how much space I will have to put my intercooler and where.. thx in advance

 

I had ever cut something like that and if you have seen some of the things i have cut you would understand I like the hood pins it gives it a racy stlye look also working on it seems alot eazyer with the hood off it seems to get more light it to thoughs unlit places ...but its kinda sucks when all i want to do is check the oil. I dove around all day yesturday with it off , got alot of people craning there necks to get a look see...The cop didnt even look my way ......my Temp dam my temp stayed so nice no running above the F always below


s/c i will take a that pic for you i just have to wait intell the tibby gets her the cam is in it you will have alot of space the dam will not come past the bummper

 

Hey red, if your hood was lighter, like say CF, it would be alot easier to take that sucker on and off. Wouldn't you say (read: shameless plug)

 

lifting it on and off ...makes me frist #1 on the list for a CF hood wouldnt you say

S/C HERE ARE YOU GO MAN

I FINSHED THE FRONT UP I REPAINTED THE HOOD...........NOW WHEN I WALK OUT SIDE AND LOOK AT HER ..DAM IT MAKES ME WANT TO TEAR UP ....SO PRETTY

 

wow, you could fit another engine in front of the radiator!
Looks nice in black. Even though I put many layers of spray paint on mine, it chips up pretty easily.

 

ya i found that out today the hard way just a little nick but

 

Wow verry nice Red, I am astonished man! Your car is looking primo dude, keep up the good work man!

 

ya iam stoked but as i took the hood off this moring it bummed the front a little but i guess that what stickers are for

 

Dude... You really need to fix that rear wing! I think it's actually creating lift at that angle!

 

hahah yes it looks weird...looks like a mustang wing...other than that good stuff man...
i just finished sanding mine and bough a gallon of primer so im gonna prime it probably this weekend...ill take some pics too...

 

There will be wale tail there at some point i just have other stuff to do befor i spend
more money on side skirts and wing....... like spraying all the body some sick red color with metel flake and fixing a bit of rust in the back.......... springs and struts are also on the to do list along with putting in the rear bushing set S/C sent me and front bushing set that i need to order soon.i am going to the Pick and Pull this week end and pulling the ecu from the cars that are there i seem to be haveing a bit of a ECU problem and iam hoping one of these ECU'S will work better then mine . dam i still have a long way to go and alot of work ahead

do the years for ECU make a diff???? these to cars are 1980 stlye cars
It should just plug right in shouldnt IT...at that point i will have three ECU'S
IS THERE A WAY TO MOD ONE ..mabe i should take one apart to see what makes them tick

 

There were significant changes from '79 to '80 and '81 to '82/83.

You should definitely try to get one from your year.

There is no way to upgrade the stock ECU. Remember, you're talking about 1970's computer technology here. 8 bit computers running at sub 1 Mhz!

The only computer that is upgradeable is the '83 Turbo but it is very limited. Everyone recommends you upgrade to a 1st gen 300zx ECU which is more programmable, but if you're going to go to that much effort, I would opt for a standalone ECU like MSnS...

 

I HAD some fun tonight .. mabe a little to much ...i race a doge neon ..he was fast it a had a few mods coldair ..ex and such it took three trys but on the the last one i kick his *** .... i didnt think to power brake and thats how he was beating the frist two times...... so i tryed it and dam i got a good start and pulled right away it was some fun stuff... after that we rallied to a safeway and did some car talk ...he chiped the **** out of my front dam when he pasted in front of me at 120mph...just paint chiping no maring .. but pulled it and painted up and it should be dry by moring...like i said a litte to much fun ..but fun none the less

 

Or a fat intercooler!