Pezhead's Svg30 Time Capsule Saga

[GoldZilla]

Go, go, go Eric!

[Redline_GTR]

Looks like you are gonna be very busy Eric!

[Pezhead]

So, I suppose it is no surprise that every hose in the fuel tank ventilation and return system is borked! 40 year old hoses don't like the gasoline any more.

And of course it is every size from 1/2", 5/8", 3/4" and small 3/8" sizes!

Oh well. Now to drop the tank and replace all 'dem hoses.

[Plattsy]

get ethanol rated hoses, you know. for when it gets to aus.

[Pezhead]

Updates:

5 different size hoses obtained and working on dropping the fuel tank to change out the hoses.

Brake fluid leak is coming from the right rear brake sleeve/actuator. Ordered from AutoZone here. 40 year old car, obscure part...

...they have it and it will be here tomorrow! For $47! Oh how I miss working on cars in the U.S.

In other news, Mom found our old book stash in Dad's library. How's this for gold stash?

[Duncan]

great to see you back into it....good luck getting it running this week

[Pezhead]

So, today was a mixed bag. Went to get some parts and lunch with sister. Caught in bad traffic everywhere and lost a lot of the day.

I've just about completed the battery mounting and topped up the brakes and bled.

Tomorrow it goes on a trailer and to the muffler shop for a new zorst system. Will be at 3" or a twin 2 1/4. Unsure which until they have a look see.

[The Bogan]

Nice work Eric, air dam looks sweet, and I bloody hate America with its parts and prices, when you bring her home you should fill every inch of the container with parts, both old and new, and lots of muscle car and Harley bits, you should end up with a nice little earn.

[Yo-Yo]

Your airdam is the same design I'll get for mine with the air ducts, but I can only find fibreglass ones here.

Can you pick me up a urethane one while you're over there & bend it in your carry on luggage for me?

[Pezhead]

Haha! That's why I decided to buy it and do it. They are about $200 on ebay with free shipping to the U.S. I checked to ship to AUS was >$1k! But that was just the one vendor.

Off to the muffler shop now.

[Pezhead]

Dam! Muffler shop overbooked and couldn't get to it today. So a full day lost!

[Dale FZ1]

My mate still has that HP Books title. I used it for reference when I played with a MR30 in the 90s.

Good story to follow.

[Yo-Yo]

are you intending to get road rego for it when you eventually bring it downunder? You'll have to meet noise and emissions ADR for the engine swap/exhaust

In any case hope you get as much done as you planned. It never goes to plan all the time with these cars I'm finding heheh

[Pezhead]

Would like to road rego and will have to do so much when I do ship it. Will have to see about everything. Don't imagine it to be too loud though. These older V6's have pretty crappy exhaust manifolds that mesh all the gasses together. So it shouldn't be too loud.

Not sure what it will be like on emissions. But if it just has to meet emissions for an 84 model year like the motor then shouldn't be a problem. Motor is stock as a rock!

[Pezhead]

What a long day. Pushing a non-running car up and down a trailer is bad nuf. Helping brother push his non-running car up and down driveway and trailer = double bad! Yup, my brother's '92 300ZX found it's way from my sister's place to his place. Two brothers with non-running Z cars (Mine is just Grandpa Z at 20 years older than his).

Anyways, the shop took a lot longer than expected but I'm really stoked about the result. He managed to tuck a full 3" exhaust up nice and tidy up into the well. Remember, this car originally came with 1 1/2" or something like that! And I've only ever seen a 2 1/2" aftermarket kit.

[Pezhead]

Brothers (projects) reunited again!

[Redline_GTR]

Wow that sits nice Eric

[Yo-Yo]

That exhaust is done very well, If I didn't see the pics I wouldn't be convinced a 3" would fit so neatly, are you running the 300zx transmission?

[Pezhead]

Yup, T5 from '84 300zx. Had to have a custom drive shaft done splicing the 240z and 300zx together.

[Yo-Yo]

running stock diff or R200? I've been reading up on 280zx diff swaps.

hmmm so many ideas...expensive ideas