The official post whore thread..
Well I was messing with my S30 today. Looking it over and what not a bit more closely, I'm actually a bit more pleased than I was. The floor pan kinda bothered me, and I took a picture of the underside that looked like it had a hole in the floor that I hadn't noticed.
Anyway the floor had gotten wet and so the carpet was pulled up and the drain plug was pulled. The floor isn't in perfect condition, but it's actually in fairly decent shape. It looked worse from a combination of the brown dried out/wet carpet, surface rust, and the bronze body color. Anyway I took a small screw driver around and was stabbing at various spots all over the floor and nothing punctured! So that's a good sign! I started sanding away and was getting to shiny metal. It is surprising at how thin the metal is that was used on these cars. Anyway I sanded then painted a portion of it with Rust Bullet. Next day or so I'm going to go work on it more.
Anyway the floor had gotten wet and so the carpet was pulled up and the drain plug was pulled. The floor isn't in perfect condition, but it's actually in fairly decent shape. It looked worse from a combination of the brown dried out/wet carpet, surface rust, and the bronze body color. Anyway I took a small screw driver around and was stabbing at various spots all over the floor and nothing punctured! So that's a good sign! I started sanding away and was getting to shiny metal. It is surprising at how thin the metal is that was used on these cars. Anyway I sanded then painted a portion of it with Rust Bullet. Next day or so I'm going to go work on it more.
how much is a 280z with an engine that doesnt run, rusted out floor pannels and flaking paint worth?
again thats...
-280z
-l28 engine that does not run
-rusted floor pannels
-flaking paint
-partial black interior
and i dont know if it has a title.. or do i need a title if its so old?
i really want an s30....
again thats...
-280z
-l28 engine that does not run
-rusted floor pannels
-flaking paint
-partial black interior
and i dont know if it has a title.. or do i need a title if its so old?
i really want an s30....
yeah thats it... did i mention the guy lives right down the road from me? yeah i could basicly push them home if the tires werent dry rotted
Last edited by 280zx2by2; Feb 10, 2009 at 05:43 PM.
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She's a Hoss. got out side. started tuning the Z. swaped my oil filled coil for the Z31 solid state. and DAMN. for the first time. the car made it over 4K RPM's. i took it to 6K before i shifted. and alot more power in the lower RPM's as well.
i need a FMIC some springs a tuning source (perferably DSM link) finish this tranny swap and yeah.... thats really it. i need i need i need!!!!
oh also i blew a 1 inch long gap in one of the heater hoses between the block and heater core. that sucked. all those coolant hoses are soft and old, should just replace them all today, did the upper already since it had a trickle because of how large it expanded over the years, should probably do the lower and the other various hoses, and plug the recirc back up this atmospheric BOV setup i got going on isnt 1G friendly. confuses the MAF between shifts pretty bad. also, i got it as atmospheric dump not my choice, will be though once i get DSM link and a 2G MAF or GM MAF upgrade
oh also i blew a 1 inch long gap in one of the heater hoses between the block and heater core. that sucked. all those coolant hoses are soft and old, should just replace them all today, did the upper already since it had a trickle because of how large it expanded over the years, should probably do the lower and the other various hoses, and plug the recirc back up this atmospheric BOV setup i got going on isnt 1G friendly. confuses the MAF between shifts pretty bad. also, i got it as atmospheric dump not my choice, will be though once i get DSM link and a 2G MAF or GM MAF upgrade



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