MATTY

sweet, id only asked cause if you were going to get consessional rego i could introduce you to the car club if you want or still can if your keen im not sure if you have heard of it its call T.R.I.C.K. every one and any one is welcome as long as you behave and well not act like a dick yep i was broken down that day near the hooper center alright haha

Found it right here on the forums A few months back. Come to think I've had it for 8 months or so now I think. Are you planning to run full rego on your zed or concessional??

haha i did indeed any excuse to go for a drive in another zed, i was quite impressed on how clean she was inside and out!

thanks peter i was good to meet you all. hopefully at the next meet up ill have the car back on the road and have a good chat and look at your zed too

Thanks man Just finishing a L28 swap with triples at the moment. I've got a bit of a write up here if you want to have a look. http://www.viczcar.com/forum/index.php/topic,12862.0.html Should be the right link :/

Thanks guys And yep she's a genuine type x with the optional factory type x rear pods too. It's relatively stock just a few bolt on and a gt2871 pushing out 176kw atw on 12psi so its enough for a daily. its not 100% tidy I've got a ding in my drivers side to thanks to and idiot who can't park a car and a lovely key scratch on the rear quarter a week before I brought her :/ But zed wise it seems to be a relatively solid base to work with. I'm sort still 50/50 on the wheel colour myself but I'm keen on getting some rota shakotans possibly but that's after I've got her running again. I can tell you now that Evo isn't as sedate as it looks either but the zed takes all the attention and class haha. And to think I could of had an GTR 32 parked next to the zed a few months back

Hi all after working on my L28 swap i though i would put up my build progress..... but before all that ill start from the beginning These were taken the following morning after driving her home from the gold coast, making it home with out missing a beat. not much was done to it when i brought it. -new windscreen -new door rubber kit -both doors re-skinned and reupholstered door cards -new roof lining -The XXR Mags 15" X 8" alround -280zx 5 speed manual conversion -and minimal rust just a few spots on the rear quater on the drivers side and a few spots on the floor pans all was well til later that day.... it felt a bit tight shifting down from 3rd to second and then locked up and stalled shifting back into 3rd after taking off in the middle of an intersection i wasnt able to get it in or out of gear fully so i had to limp it out the way to the side of the road. while waiting for a tilt tray i took the most of a bad opportinity and took some quick pic's after getting her tilt trayed to a mechanics upon inspection was told third gear had let go so to speak and did a little damage needing a full rebulid and 1100 bucks later but for the mean time i brought a second hand one here of the forum and it went in to get her driving again alittle export rattle can silver and she looks brand new. Unfortunetley i couldnt so SFA on the car with the gearbox at the time as this was my shed :/ but none the less it was operational again. skip ahead a few months later i had a proper shed to work out of again!! and plus my personalised plates finally arived. the following weekend i got stuck into cleaning up and respraying the engine bay and interior i resprayed the engine bay and some of the trouble spots in the interior with this stuff. worked a treat and is still holding up and is very tough and durable too but i was pretty impressed for what it was and wasnt expecting the best of finish but it came out pretty bloody good. while i was at i hit the rocker cover with some little wire brushes that fit in a drill. after having completed the engine bay and interior i cleaned up my center console and filled in the radio facia with a bit of alloy sheet perfect for fitting gauges on later down the track and my mystery switch...... which was eventually going to be used for my thermo fans but i always have people asking what its for. oh and i cant forget my alf stewart sticker (i also have one in my daily 180sx) always gets a few laughs the next few months i just enjoyed going to a few car show and showing her off one of the local shows my car club went to another meet/cruise downshift meet brisbane downshift rocklea every now and again id be lurking the forum for any engines up for sale and stumbled across the motor and gearbox package that BobsYourUncle had up for sale so i snapped that up while i could so far it turns out to be a worthy investment. also not having a GF anymore due to me spending more time on or with the zed than her and a few other things ment i had nothing or no one to stop me pushing on with and engine swap and throwing money at the old girl (too behonest i think i made the betterchoice in the long run ) the motor spent afew weeks sitting by her lonesome till i got my engine crane back. and a little bit more money for some new engine mounts and trans mount. i would have been right if i didnt splash out one some plates for the daily;) Heres the link for the ad - http://www.viczcar.com/forum/index.php/topic,12568.0.html majority of my evening was spent in the shed pulling out the motor and box with the help of a mate leaving us with this and the lovely new shed ornamnet the old L26 while the motor was out i though it can hurt to change the steering rack bushes too ( wise choice given the situation) out with the old and in with the new! it took me afew weeks to get every thing sorted but it only to us bout 4-5 hours to pullout the old motor and about the same to fit the new motor. in between the waiting for the second engine bay paint touch ups i this my mags with some plumb purple not every one likes it but its starting to grow on me. the majority of the swap was straight forward but i ran into a problem with the fan but that problem was sorted thanks to Be Zed with a different off set that sits beautifully. also having the earlier flange type 240 box ill have to change my slave cylinder for it to suit my clutch fork as the one of my 280zx box has a different shaft off the piston that just sat in a small indentation on the other clutch fork and the 240 one has a rounded nut on the end that it pivots on by memory. but once thats sorted all i need to do is fill up all the fluids and refit my radiator and tidy up some of the engine bay wiring and try to wire in my hazard light switch also. not long to go now!

you can count on that and you gotta watch out for those Toyota boys too! but come to think we did see some rich guy drive by in his Aston Martin but didn't hang around, must have felt threatened by the large Zed presence if was to shave and loose my beanie i don't look so rough around the edges but lol

Indeed it is!!!

HAHA i didnt even notice the photo being taken, it sorta looks like somethings going down but

i own a red 260 coupe with MYS30 plates, it gets around to a few car events being on club rego Thats her you might have seen it?

Same here was a good day for me with scoring a fan ( which fits like a glove thanks to aub? i think im a shocker when it comes to remembering names sorry :/) and leads on a new bumper thanks to greg. a bit of zed talk and some very tasty snags, i'd only wished that my old girl was drivable but it shouldnt be long (fingers crossed) It was good to meet you all and hope to catch up at a few more meets and events!

its all good now guys thanks. i had one of the fellow members who came up to toowoomba on sunday gave me oneand seems to fit like a glove, ill see how it goes but i might still buy the thermo fan off you scoota depending on how she runs cheers

haha same here guys hence the swap lol, plus mine was a forum too

yeah mate you got any pictures of it by any chance?

what sorta coin would you be looking at for it mate??

too easy, thanks Peter

Now after putting in my L28 ive noticed the extra fan i have off my L26 doesnt fit and hits the extra pulley for the A/C or power steering and i wanted to know if any one had a fan that cleared the pulley that they wanted to get rid of? i do have a set of twin thermo fans ( off an EL-EF falcon) i was going to use but im still undecisive on using them it or not but if i cant source a fan i guess ill know what ill be doing lol. Cheers Matty

what time would you guys be arriving tomorrow? id be keen to catch up and see a few of the zeds that are heading down.

YAY!! Another Toowoomba member

it took me around 4-5 years to find a decent platform, my problem was talking my self out of buying ones that needed some well... lets say TLC and being blinded by thoughts like hey i can do that its only a little bit of rust (one was actually a missing segment of front passenger side chassis rail :/) and thinking i can fab up a new piece and weld it in being a boily and all. (and the fact that i owned and worked on 300zx - Z32 my self i though i could do any thing!!! haha) but eventually i found a my one (as gay as that sounds) without settling for close enough. yeah sure its not 100% but more like 80% im more realistic with what i can and cant do with the old girl and buying her off some one who was up front with her flaws and seemed reluctant to sell (and also having a pretty impressive T22 celica with a sr20 swap) i was confident that i wasnt buying a lemon.

Cheers Wayne that would be great

if it was closer to QLD i'd be all over it myself :/

i had seen them before but i cant bare to rattle can a flash new one thats why i was on the hunt for a 2nd hand one i can 'play' with Cheers

Any one got a 260z front bumper they want to part with would prefer something in QLD area if possible as long as its reasonably good condition and few ish imperfections and what not i can live with. (I'm not expecting mint top shelf item) as mine is a bit bent up :'( it might be worth fixing but ill see how i can go finding a replacement first. Cheers Matty