Hi Guys. this is a thread on my long and expensive journey which started a few years back. The car belonged to a good friend of mine and after doing so paint work on the car I fell in love with car but just could not swing the kind of money it was going for. Anyway he sold it to another friend of mine who then paid a very well know tuner to forge the motor (Arias pistons, eagle rods ACL bearings etc) at a cost of ZAR40.000. A couple of months later the head gasket blew and he opened the motor and guess what? no forged motor parts inside...all stock.
This is where I enter the scene.....my friend at that time was gutted and sold it to me for a price I could afford, I traded my S13 and some cash and there I had my first 300zx TT.
As my friend live about 5 houses up the road my first drive in the car was powered by 2 people pushing me home in my engineless car.
It came with a set of 17" 3 piece veiside mags, veilside side skirts, rear wing and an ugly front spoiler.
Oh look.....an automatic gearbox. That will have to go.
After a few moths or so of hunting for a manual gear box, pedals etc for a manual conversion I found this.
It was an import unregistered car and I had a great time removing and fitting all the best parts from the silver one onto my black one, this ofcourse included the manual conversion.
This to me was a rare and pretty sight, owner of 2 300zx's.
OK so that was history and this is after 3 years is where I am at the moment. It is fitted with a rebuilt stock motor by myself with port matched heads and manifolds, rebuilt turbos and running on 1 bar boost fitted with a NOZ (noel) performance chip. It is fitted with 19" alloys fitted with 175x30x19 rears and 235x35x19 fronts.
Hi Guys. this is a thread on my long and expensive journey which started a few years back. The car belonged to a good friend of mine and after doing so paint work on the car I fell in love with car but just could not swing the kind of money it was going for. Anyway he sold it to another friend of mine who then paid a very well know tuner to forge the motor (Arias pistons, eagle rods ACL bearings etc) at a cost of ZAR40.000. A couple of months later the head gasket blew and he opened the motor and guess what? no forged motor parts inside...all stock.
This is where I enter the scene.....my friend at that time was gutted and sold it to me for a price I could afford, I traded my S13 and some cash and there I had my first 300zx TT.
As my friend live about 5 houses up the road my first drive in the car was powered by 2 people pushing me home in my engineless car.
It came with a set of 17" 3 piece veiside mags, veilside side skirts, rear wing and an ugly front spoiler.
Oh look.....an automatic gearbox. That will have to go.
After a few moths or so of hunting for a manual gear box, pedals etc for a manual conversion I found this.
It was an import unregistered car and I had a great time removing and fitting all the best parts from the silver one onto my black one, this ofcourse included the manual conversion.
This to me was a rare and pretty sight, owner of 2 300zx's.
OK so that was history and this is after 3 years is where I am at the moment. It is fitted with a rebuilt stock motor by myself with port matched heads and manifolds, rebuilt turbos and running on 1 bar boost fitted with a NOZ (noel) performance chip. It is fitted with 19" alloys fitted with 175x30x19 rears and 235x35x19 fronts.