DJ's other 280ZX
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:58 pm
Thought I'd start a proper thread for this seeing as I'm making some progress on it.
So the 2+2 has moved on to James and I bought another 2 seater. It's an L28 auto and has an R180 diff.
It's been deregistered and has a little bit of rust in the roof and also behind the left hand front guard, it shouldn't be too hard to get back on the road.
Plans for this at the moment are first of all to get it back on the road, try fitting the RB30 computer setup I've got to it and then possibly turbo it as I've been wanting to build another turbo L series for a while now, either than or possibly triple carbs haha.
It hasn't been driven in about 10 years and the fuel pump wasn't going, it probably just gummed up. Zac helped me tow it home which was uneventful, it's towed really well, nice and quiet and the suspension and brakes feel good.
We dropped the fuel tank and drained around 30 litres of 10 year old fuel out of it. I love the L series, we changed the fuel pump to the Airtex one out of the silver car and connected it up to a fuel can, after a little hiccup with the me forgetting to remove a bolt blocking the return line it fired right up, first time in 10 years as far as I know. It was only running on about 4 and the ignition leads were arcing all over the place but at least it goes!
I've started to replace all the wear items, spark plugs, leads, thermostat, radiator cap, fuel filter. Swapped out the injector that wasn't working for an RB30 one (same size/impedance) and now it's running on 6 but is idling high, will pull off the throttle body and give that and the idle controller a good clean out tomorrow.
I popped the top off the tank and it's quite rusty inside so I'm going to have to do something about that before it goes back in the car, either get it done at a radiator shop or get an Eastwoods or POR15 kit and do it myself.
This is the roof rust
This is the rust under the left hand front guard, the black car had rust here too, it's pretty common on 280s.
The car itself it quite odd, it's basically the most budget model you can get (I think they would call this a Z-L in Japan) but for some reason it has vinyl interior, air con and power steer and had power mirrors at one stage? The budget features are no cruise control, no self check computer, manual windows, analogue clock, it looks like it didn't come with a double radio/tape deck either.
Gallop Racing, I think these are pretty uncommon wheels? The one we had off yesterday felt pretty light, even with a big balloon on it.
Bog stock L28 with 160,000ks, looked to be the original fuel filter, I changed the plugs and leads today and managed to get it going a bit better, cylinder 2 doesn't seem to be working, there is spark but the injector doesn't seem to go, it's possibly blocked. The starter seems to have an issue, it's already been fitted with a relay for the solenoid but it sounds like it doesn't throw out sometimes, the auction said it had a worn ring gear but I'm not sure if that is the case, will pull it off at some stage.
I think that blocking plate on the left is factory. It's got this crazy Z Hour alarm thing, it doesn't seem to work but I might be missing the key fob (if it had one).
So the 2+2 has moved on to James and I bought another 2 seater. It's an L28 auto and has an R180 diff.
It's been deregistered and has a little bit of rust in the roof and also behind the left hand front guard, it shouldn't be too hard to get back on the road.
Plans for this at the moment are first of all to get it back on the road, try fitting the RB30 computer setup I've got to it and then possibly turbo it as I've been wanting to build another turbo L series for a while now, either than or possibly triple carbs haha.
It hasn't been driven in about 10 years and the fuel pump wasn't going, it probably just gummed up. Zac helped me tow it home which was uneventful, it's towed really well, nice and quiet and the suspension and brakes feel good.
We dropped the fuel tank and drained around 30 litres of 10 year old fuel out of it. I love the L series, we changed the fuel pump to the Airtex one out of the silver car and connected it up to a fuel can, after a little hiccup with the me forgetting to remove a bolt blocking the return line it fired right up, first time in 10 years as far as I know. It was only running on about 4 and the ignition leads were arcing all over the place but at least it goes!
I've started to replace all the wear items, spark plugs, leads, thermostat, radiator cap, fuel filter. Swapped out the injector that wasn't working for an RB30 one (same size/impedance) and now it's running on 6 but is idling high, will pull off the throttle body and give that and the idle controller a good clean out tomorrow.
I popped the top off the tank and it's quite rusty inside so I'm going to have to do something about that before it goes back in the car, either get it done at a radiator shop or get an Eastwoods or POR15 kit and do it myself.
This is the roof rust
This is the rust under the left hand front guard, the black car had rust here too, it's pretty common on 280s.
The car itself it quite odd, it's basically the most budget model you can get (I think they would call this a Z-L in Japan) but for some reason it has vinyl interior, air con and power steer and had power mirrors at one stage? The budget features are no cruise control, no self check computer, manual windows, analogue clock, it looks like it didn't come with a double radio/tape deck either.
Gallop Racing, I think these are pretty uncommon wheels? The one we had off yesterday felt pretty light, even with a big balloon on it.
Bog stock L28 with 160,000ks, looked to be the original fuel filter, I changed the plugs and leads today and managed to get it going a bit better, cylinder 2 doesn't seem to be working, there is spark but the injector doesn't seem to go, it's possibly blocked. The starter seems to have an issue, it's already been fitted with a relay for the solenoid but it sounds like it doesn't throw out sometimes, the auction said it had a worn ring gear but I'm not sure if that is the case, will pull it off at some stage.
I think that blocking plate on the left is factory. It's got this crazy Z Hour alarm thing, it doesn't seem to work but I might be missing the key fob (if it had one).