Not a newbie as such...but I've had my 300zx back after it has been stored at a friends garage for 3 and a half years so I'm getting back into the swing of things with it. The story goes that it was originally driven up to my friends garage as it needed welding and a respray and also because he said I could use his ramp and tools to get the engine out and turbos off for refurbishment. The engine has been out, clutch upgraded to a 5 puck ceramic new one, flywheel upgraded to a lightened new one, new exhaust manifiolds, and the turbos upgraded plus other mods that I can't remember all of off the top of my head such as the plenum water bypass.

 

The welding and respray have not been done and also the car no longer runs. It has started since the engine was put back in but would not jump start when it first got back to my drive and the PTU seems to be getting really hot (more on this in the technical section). My friend said it was too time consuming for him to be welding at mates rates and recommended it needed new sills so last week I have had it brought back to my driveway.

 

 

 

It needs quite a bit of welding around the sill area and the passenger side floor has come away from the inner sill so expect a few questions about where is the best place to get panels from.

 

Hopefully getting it running will be relatively easy.

 

Cheers,

James

Good to see you back James :thumbup1: Hope you get your Z sorted soon mate.

Welcome back James, tasty looking intercoolers too :yes:

Great to see you saving that lovely little SWB. Those Bomex mirrors should fetch you a few quid to go towards the labour costs [emoji6]

Cheers for the replies. I do have all the bits in my conservatory and a better set of wheels so providing I can get the engine running somewhere near it shouldn't be too bad - I always planned to have it remapped by Noz anyway so I'm sure he would pick up on anything that needed tweaking.

 

I never knew what the mirrors were but have always quite liked them so I think they'll be staying :wink:

 

The intercoolers look great from afar but as the bumper has been off it for the 3 years it's been at the garage the fins are getting pretty badly corroded now :( so may have to get some more when/if it gets to the point of being mapped. That said - as long as they don't leak the design of the end tanks and the size of them may put them as better than cheaper ones.

 

The fact it's a SWB is the only reason I'm even wanting to repair it to be honest. If it wasn't a SWB and the engine ran sweet as it is I would have been very tempted to either re shell it or possibly break the car.

 

Hopefully I can get it done as I have accumulated some bits that should make it quite a nice one if it ever gets complete.

Welcome back mate!!

 

Richard:thumbup: