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apart from tryin to save for a bare metal respray

i wanna put zg flares on it with some nice dished wheels

front spoiler and posible rear spoiler

 

its getting a new diff this week well better ratios

 

but interior is beautiful best one ive seen around

all i missing is the choke nob

 

peter

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Well done, good pick up. Viewed the car and test drove it before buying Steve's RB30. Went really well apart from high diff ratio's, hence why your changing the diff and cosmetics.

 

John

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so john you were goin to buy this 240z

 

i just got back from the mechanic diff is goin in on thursday

 

and when cash permits it brand new suspension

 

peter

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Congrats on the purchase. Looks clean.

So whens the 'Wildcat' headed, 5ltr Range Rover headed engine going in?  ;D

 

IIRC this car was on Ebay a few months ago?

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Hi Lurch,

You are correct, actually it was in December 07, when i viewed it, It was @$5,500 with 3-4 days to go, not sure what it reached. The guy had a reserve on it $10,000.

 

John

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picked it up for less than that thou

 

good starting point has a fair bit of power for whats in it

 

but will be something to look at when its finished

 

peter

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So whens the 'Wildcat' headed, 5ltr Range Rover headed engine going in?  Grin

 

That would be nice, but why not a 5.2?  ;D

 

Watch the body lift from the torque when he starts a burnout about halfway through.

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Yes I know about that one ;)

Bit out of the price range for most people though.

 

FWIW TVR Racing in the UK had a special run of blocks cast so they could be safely taken out to 5.8ltrs(!)

Carl Hansen uses one in his Tuscan in the Super GT series in NZ.

I've seen this car run in the flesh - positively frightening :o

http://www.powerupdates.com/clients/supergt/pages/a_standard.asp?cid=690739861&aid=493285243

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FWIW TVR Racing in the UK had a special run of blocks cast so they could be safely taken out to 5.8ltrs(!)

 

Never came across that before - a VERY special Rover block it would need to be to allow the bores to go that far without coolant streaming past the liners!

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progress shots

 

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soon to come new suspension and brakes

 

also zg flares

 

will post pics when complete

 

peter

  • 7 months later...
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suspension completed

externally adjustable koni yellows

king springs

new bushes

front and rear sway bars

 

front and rear brake upgrade complete

(front) ford calipers with unknown vented rotors

(rear) ford calipers with sigma rotors

modified handbrake cable to suit

 

my V8 has been removed and sold

and is making way for a Rb25det conversion which should be finished next week.

 

Rb25det

550cc nismo injectors

wolf 3d computer

full 3inch exhaust

front mount intercooler

rb20det gearbox

custom tailshaft

boost controller

and boost gauge

 

also upgraded the rear end to a R200

once finished the car will be up for new engineers cert and ready to drive

 

thats my update been a while but getting there

 

only thing left is a bare metal respray

 

peter

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My L24 had twice the power...

 

Good for a boat anchor.

 

Good move the RB cant wait to go for a ride in it..

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Very nice, you wont have any problems pushing 250-300rwkw with that setup.  Though on stock internals, 250 is a safe fast output.  Also, those RB20 boxes are shit, I would highly recommend getting rid of it for the RB25 box especially with those power figures.

What turbo are you going to run?

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stock turbo for the minute but will be looking into a GT3540 i think its called

 

only problem ive been hearing is that the rb25 box makes u modify the shifter because it hits the centre console and fascia when in 1st 3rd and 5th

 

but will do more research for the future

 

will be hoping to get it to atleast 200rwkw and then when im bored of it ill spend more cash to make it faster

 

v8 was good nice sounding just old technology and to get the sort or power i wanted i would of had to spend 3x as much as what this conversion is costing

 

peter

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