Well I've been hanging around here for quite some time, some of you I have met and others am still to meet.
I've known Sulio for a few years now, from the cafeteria vending machine days to be exact ( ask Sulio LOL). Anyway a few years ago he goes out and buys a Zed, hadn't seen him for a while but when I did he was raving on about this car and how I should go out and get one myself, just like that go and get one to make him happy LOL. I told him how many years ago at Carlins auctions in the city I was looking at a sky blue one that was pretty decent kinda nick with a factory fitted wind back sunroof but didn't get it coz I wanted "something newer" LOL.
Mind you before Sulio had gotten his Zed, well before, I actually owned a 240K coupe, this car was a pretty sweet ride, BMW lagoon green color, retrimmed (homestyle) velour seats, auto, 12"subwoofer in the shelf and a cheap head unit as well as a honed and basic rebuild L24 with a minor head shave. The car went pretty well for what it was and it surprised alot of people, not the quickest off the line but once it went it went well. Alas I ended up giving to my borther coz I owed him some money and he sold it to some 16 yr old kid for about $750 I think it was, kid got a bargain with how much had been spent on it, shiver happens I guess LOL.
Now fast forward to the 26th of last month, I was having a look online as I often did for something that might be worth having a look at, mind you I have had a look at a few that might have been "worth a look", dissapointed with pretty much all of them. So here I am having a look when low and behold I see a picture containing a triple carb set up with filters as red as the car itself, a bit dirty but screaming for attention. I have a look at the time and it's just gone passed 9pm, I thought I don't like calling people after 9 unless they know I am, but then I thought "if I don't someone else will".
So I jumped on the phone and got an answer, seemed like a nice enough bloke and when I asked him where the car was located it was only 25 minutes away from where I was, we set a time to meet the following evening.
Well the next day came and pretty much went and I wasn't really expecting much from the car to be honest, I almost couldn't make it out but managed to in the end, so I made my way to the place for a look. When I got their I noticed the car was nowhere to be seen and he told me it was in the shed so we hopped in his 4bi and drove out to the shed (he was on 25 acres) to have a look.
When we got to the shed I hopped out of his pickup, still not really expecting much to be honest, and he went to the shed door and pulled it back, well it kinda looked better than I thought. Anyway I thought, lets have a close up, went in started to look around it, looking for the obvious rust spotswhich were non existant, I was stunned to say the least. Well their is some rust underneath that has eaten right through but its about 5 square centimetres in size so very easy fix and the sills had been repaired at the same time it had been resprayed, not quite concourse but a good job all the same. As well their are a couple of holes in the tyre well which is easy enough to fix so wasn't too fussed, the rails are near perfect apart from a couple of minor dings and the floor is pretty good except for the bit of rust and some bashing but will soon fix that too.
The engine is an L28 which is basically stock from what I was told but the carbies are being wasted I think on this set up so the plan is to do some minor head work and throw a nice cam in. The electronic ignition was retained which was a good thing I suppose, although I'm sure you will tell me if it's not LOL, 5 speed and not sure what diff. Haven't as yet driven it really apart from onto the back of my truck to and from a couple of shops, one of which is where she'll be resting while I get her ready for a roadie and reg. Did the leads ,plugs,rotor as well as a new GT40 coil today, seems to run a little better but I think the cap is split as it seems to be grounding and I can hear atick from around the dizzy, but we'll look at that tomorrow sometime. Also a question on the distributor caps, are there any better than the others or are they pretty much all the same?? I ask as sometimes the fit isn't quite up to spec and they don't quite run right with these caps.
Went and picked up the last of the spare bits and pieces he had lying around the place this afternoon and will sort through it all tomorrow, whatever I don't need I will post here in the for sale section.
Plans are the basics I suppose, flares, big wheels, as I said some minor engine mods and tidy it up really. It's actually a lot cleaner than I expected to be honest so shouldn't take much although knowing me I will at some point strip it and rebuild the bloody thing hahaha
Don't have any pics at the moment apart from the ones from the ad so I might put them up for the time being, as well I have added a pic of what it should look like with any luck in a few weeks LOL, just need to find those wheels.
