By host on
6/10/2008 10:11:48 PM
While in Atlanta for the National Tour Carter Thompson brought me a gift. He had a lightened flywheel from his 240Z that he had been telling me about for the past two years. At the National Tour he brought me the flywheel. I must admit, at the time I carried it from his truck to the SPS Van I kept thinking, this sure doesn't feel light.
Tonight though I was moving things around in the garage and came across both the stock and lightened fly wheels, the new wheel is definitely lighter than the stock wheel!
Now, I just need to make some time to get the motor together so I can bring the car home sometime soon!
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By host on
5/25/2008 10:01:30 PM
So I'm stopped in Manchester Tennessee tonight on my way home and to Lynchburg tomorrow. I went out to check on the car out in the parking lot and saw a 240Z parked out there in tow behind a frontier. The car looks cherry, orange, straight and without a single spot of rust from what I can tell. I took a photo, once all my Atlanta National Tour photos finish uploading I will post the photo I took with my cell phone.
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By host on
4/29/2008 1:55:17 PM
Alright, here's my goal, and I'm stating it here so I can hopefully hold myself accountable.
I want to bring the Datsun home from storage in May. In order to do that I need to make room in the garage, which means finding a place for the following
16 tires/wheels (headed to the basement)
Complete Datsun Suspension (disassemble and then take to basement)
Dispose of an automatic transmission for the Datsun
Dispose of a 5 Speed for the Datsun (someone is supposed to be picking it up tonight)
After making room I need to finish putting the motor together, which I should be able to do in a couple hours worth of work this week and coming weekend.
I'll post later this week with how I'm progressing.
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By host on
3/30/2008 6:38:03 PM
Last week Dad and I worked on the motor a bit, then I got sick and work pretty much halted. Today I started on what I had hoped to do last Sunday, cleaning up and reassembling motor bits.
Here's a list of the things I did today, or attempted to do :)
Painted the oil pan. Last week dad and I took the Oil pan from the L28ET motor to the car washed and tried to clean it up, it had a lot of left over motor parts in it from the destruction, and I also noticed that the pan itself had taken a beating during the desctruction, though it only put a few dents in the bottom, no punctures.I cleaned up some of the inside of the pan today and then painted the bottom with some 1200 degree flat black. After painting it I cleaned up and installed a new gasket and attached the pan to the block. I did figure out that I had to change the oil pickup from the L28ET to the L28E, so that the turbo pan would attach properly. Not a big deal but I hadn't expected that so I spent some time ...
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By host on
3/22/2008 6:40:45 PM
So my parents are in town for a few days. Dad and I spent some time working on the motor for the 240Z today. I'll try to take some pictures tomorrow.
We pulled the valve cover off, as well as the oil pan, to look things over on the motor. So far things look good, though we could see quite a bit of crap sitting above the valves, mostly dead bugs and such. I tried to get them out with a combination of the air compressor and a shop vac, tomorrow I'll know if it worked. We also removed the oil pan and made sure things down there were alright. We'll check the torque on bolts tomorrow and then put the oil pan from the Turbo motor back on.
One thing I noticed, the 78 L28E has round exhaust ports while the 83 L28ET that died had square, so I'll have to do some research and see if the intake/exhaust manifolds should work on that 78 head or not. My plan was to take the turbo/exhaust setup from the 83 and put it onto the 78, hopefully tomorrow.
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By host on
3/16/2008 10:11:09 PM
So I took some time this evening to put parts up on Ebay. You can see them all by looking at my items for sale page!
The current parts include
- 1978 Datsun 280Z L28E Distributor and Wires
- 1978 Datsun 280Z L28E Exhaust Manifold
- 1978 Datsun 280Z L28E Intake Manifold
- 1978 Datsun 280Z 2+2 Interior Parts
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By host on
3/11/2008 3:58:20 PM
I get some of the most random emails from this website.
"Nice to see you working on your ride in that qeek shirt LOL
They suck. Submitted By: NA"
Who are you? What fricking shirt are you talking about?
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By host on
3/9/2008 11:53:36 PM
So Nick came over this morning and helped me get the motor off the ground and onto the engine stand so I could begin tearing it apart. After breaking a bolt off in the head trying to get one of the mounts setup for the cherry picker we managed to get the motor up and off the ground, though it took a couple of tries because we tried to get by with "the wrong" parts, meaning bolts in the chain that were too small for what we were doing.
Lesson learned, again, use the right damn tools, instead of trying to make the wrong tools work. You'll save time rather than trying to take short cuts.
Once we had the motor up on the stand he headed home to work on this car and I started trying to get the motor cleaned up a bit. Here are two before shots, of the front of the motor just caked in dirt and crap.
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By host on
3/8/2008 6:52:43 PM
Today Nick and I ran around town, getting some metal for his 240Z, then around to find a few other supplies that he needed.
When I got home I was half motivated to work on the car! So I went out to the garage, after sitting on the couch for 30 minutes, and got to working. It's still cold here in St. Louis so I had the garage door closed and decided to plug the space heater in to warm it up a little bit.
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By host on
1/17/2008 11:36:57 AM
What? Another 240Z may become part of www.project240z.com? More information next week.....
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