I need to stop spending money.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2824.jpg
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http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2792.jpg

The 240z and Austin Healey 3000 are what originally got me interested in cars and I've considered one for a long time. Formerly a california car, sold to a man in Hamburg. Spent 4 months in Hamburg driven by a young girl (guy's daughter) who blew the transmission out. It was then sold to the PO who bought it with the intention of making a pro street drag car. It sat in his yard and he never worked on it though for the past 7 years. It was put away running so I'm gonna see if I can get the stock engine running to atleast tool around with it until I can put the swap together I want to do. I'm HOPING to do Paint/Interior/Suspension this winter and drive it on the stock engine with a new trans in the spring. We'll see. Overall the chassis is very clean, front frame rails are solid, inner fender wells and 1/4 panels and rockers are solid. Roof has a bit of surface rust, it needs a hatch, and like all 240's the floorboards under the pedals appear to be trash (thankfully they make weld in replacements that are of thicker steel). Anyway, yeah, I finally have gone down the Japanese car path, I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, just didnt really expect it now. I blame driving/drifting 350z all year, and then going out with the S1DC guys and Bing at Dunnville.

More pics tomorrow and this weekend. :)

That thing is rad! I don't think SR swaps are too difficult in that car. That would make for a crazy drift car!
:D

I love the color!

Andy, that's kinda the plan ;) I really wanted to go with a VQ swap but the bolt in kit for an SR is $350 and there is one already in my garage, so I may have to go that route. Should know more this weekend.

awesome!

i know a guy who dropped a ls1 in one of those and supercharged it, talk about nasty

those cars are sweet, one of the first true japanese sports cars, enjoy it mike

Boost, Darius?

Nice find Mike. I'm looking forward to another one of your "buildups"
That car has great potential and a true classic

mikes buildups start strong and never finish

BWUAHAHAHAHA. You dont realize the pcar engine is almost ready to go. Bagface.

Some new pics from today, unloaded it from the trailer, started looking at things to see what's there, what's rusty, and what not.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2826.jpg
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So I climbed under the car while pulling it off the trailer and to my pleasant surprise the frame rails are in good shape, not rusted at all just a couple dents from improper jackstand placement. The floors seem to be almost entirely intact from below might just be a bit "soft" gonna see when I pull the carpet out. Strut towers (front and rear are perfect, rockers are perfect from the side and below. Overall an incredible buy, I'm EXTREMELY happy. Can't wait to start working on it, will probably pull the spare parts out of the interior and start pulling seats/carpet today or tomorrow.

http://www.thezstore.com/store/graphics/00000001/large501563.jpg

Carbon ZG flares on the way (they will be nutcerted on with stainless hardware not flushed in). Also decided on the final color I'm going to paint it, Lamborghini Verde Ithaca Green.

http://www.akarally.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=597&stc=1&d=1195347503
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Yesssss...... that color is perfect!

cant wait to watch the progress.....great find

I want to come drifting also btw....

Ive been looking at 05 E55's on Ebay for the last hour.....not the "best" drift car....but fuck it.... shits hot
YouTube - E55 Rauchzeichen Drift

Dude! Sup fellow Buffaloan!
Healey 3000s are a favorite or mine too. We talked about this in that hotel room in INDY in '06!
CONGRATS ON THE NEW Z!!!!!!

theres one in orlando that color(lambo for short "peppermint green"). With a 900hp 2jz, th400, and ford 9" RE.

The dudes a college professor and drives it to work, fully stripped, fucking gorgeous. I love Z cars.
Are you rocking to 08 I hope?
See ya there bro. Good luck on the new build.

Nice buy!

Just drop an LS motor in it. With the release of the LS3 the prices of the LS1/2/6 have gone south.

Nick

Made two disappointing discoveries today...

#1 The car was originally bright orange and was repainted red (UHHG, had it been orange I would've just left it)
#2 I found a few rot holes in the floorboards, was kinda expected, and I'm not upset considering the deal I got, but I was holding out a small sliver of hope that the entire chassis was rot free.

Pics!
http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2846.jpg
Some of the stuff that came with the car, the blown trans, and the center piece of the lip spoiler that needs to be repaired. Some idiot decided to just chunk away a section rather than shaving the push button for the hatch lid. Uhhg.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2851.jpg
The original Orange of the car. Wish it was still that!

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2852.jpg
Passenger's floorboard

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2858.jpg
Driver's floorboard

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2860.jpg
Man I love the interior on these... can you say Defi gauges?

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2865.jpg
Found this in the spare tire well with the other transmission parts, yep, she definitely spanked the trans.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2875.jpg

That's all for today, tonight I'll pull the undercoating off the floorboards inside and figure out the extent of the rust, it doesnt appear to be to bad. I think I mayyyy drive it around this year with the new drivetrain/suspension and the faded paint. But that's just a possibility.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2879.jpg
Engine is ready to come out, gonna pull that tomorrow night, all I need to do is disconnect the exhaust. Oddly the car still had very clean coolant in it.

Ordered new floor pans we'll weld in.
http://www.datsunzparts.com/images/Floors/Floors-%20240Z/Floors%20-%20240Z%20-%203.JPG

99% sure I'm going to put 996 GT3 Seats into the car. Carbon fiber shells with cloth.

http://www.cargraphic.de/stepone/data/images/75/12/00/PO1020_kl.jpg

Also in contact with the guys who did the cage on my 951... ;)

ha, your car used to be a ginger

that thing needs a supercharged ls1!!!!!!!!

Fuck no. I'm not Darius, I debate daily between VQ and SR20, my personal choice is VQ.

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Garden hose on the fuel tank...

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Pass floorboard

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Driver's floorboard

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Engine out, stripped the engine bay tonight after that pic was taken.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2909.jpg

wow, looks great.

Is the porsche running yet?

Nick

Uhhhh.... no.

hahaha. Waiting on my Wossner pistons to arrive.

Got to work on it a bit more today, some pics.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF2942.jpg
Bee's nests in the door jamb.

The overall goal today was to get the dash out, start to access the quality (or lack thereof as I'd later find out) of the wiring that was still in the car, and play with gauges. Started by pulling the dash out which unfortunately ended with me and a pair of diagonal cutters going to town due to some idiots in the past installing some sort of aftermarket alarm and stereo equipment. Wires EVERYWHERE, needless to say, I wasnt pleased. Wiring harness seems to be mainly intake though and I'll likely rewire sections of it rather than go for full replacement, meanwhile the gauges and engine management will be on their own harness separate from the rest of the electronics.

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Man, I have having parts of the front of the dash bolted/screwed down, makes everything a total pain, this is where the german's know what they are doing with mounting the dashes on pinch welds and having very few pieces of hardware holding them in.

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All out! What a mess!

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My blower is bigger than yours... to bad mine doesnt make BOOOOOOST!
Hahahaha.

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I was really pleased with the state of some of the rearward interior pieces and headliner today. Upon further inspection a lot of them are either in pristine original condition.

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The fuse "box" amused Mike and I greatly.

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Defi BF 60mm (IIRC) dropped in on top of a stock gauge, they fit perfectly, and they just released a tach too. Now just gotta find out about a speedo they aparently had at SEMA.

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And to my pleasant surprise I got home to my Carbon ZG Flares waiting for me. :)

great progress.

Nick

this is a great project!!!

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Interior getting slowly but surely down to stripped so I can cut the floorboards out and finish rewiring for defi's and new HVAC controls.

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Something I've been struggling with for weeks, the car has ANCIENT wheel locks on it, and I have no key. I think I'm going to end up welding nuts onto them and taking them off that way, but I figured I'd post an image and see if anyone knew what it was, or had a better idea.

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Hilarious "playboy" decals in the 1/4 windows. There is also one for the alarm, one for the alpine head unit and one for the CA911 foundation from like 1982.

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Much better! Have to remove the stock hvac and then I'll be ready to start cutting the floors out.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3100.jpg
Engine bay almost completely stripped. Almost ready to get sandblasted (any local recommendations?)

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Overview, also test mounted the carbon flares, they look awesome, hoping to get those on the car sometime in the next week as the welting kits from Austin (240hoke) came in.

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Bought a '95 KA24DE motorset, 100k miles, uncut harness, trans, etc, etc. Picking that up Sunday and using parts from Bings.ca for KA-T.

That's all for now :)

Can this beat an M3???? LOL

:rofl:

this looks like a model car
http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3102.jpg

I was trying to hide some other stuff in the shop with the blur. But I've gotten that response from a bunch of people, I'm about to mount up the front carbon flares and finish stripping the engine bay in a minute.

you going to be gilding this bay too?

No gold leaf on this car, it's not baller enough.

Thanks guys :)

Small update for today, took some time mounting the passanger's front carbon ZG flare. Now that I've done it once I know I can do the other side a lot quicker, but that's fairly standard with this sort of thing. ;) Also ground off a bunch more brackets in the engine bay, almost have it all smoothed out to the point where the concentration will be paint removal and repainting.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3108.jpg
Drilled and marked, I had previously drilled out the ZG flare and then held the flare up while Andy (300zx) and Joe (91MR2) marked the holes for me. Thanks guys!

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I always feel REALLY strange when cutting bodywork on the car... mostly it's a "What the $@#* did you just do idiot?!?!?!" feeling, but hey it always works out. In case you missed it, I recently did this to my 951 also:
http://www.mturck.com/944/Nov07/DSCF3080.jpg
http://www.mturck.com/944/Nov07/DSCF3086.jpg
I freaked out then too. :lol:

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MSA Carbon ZG Flare, Hoke Performance ZG Flare rubber welting and hardware kit (nutserts and other assorted stainless hardware)

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3113.jpg
http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3118.jpg
That's all for today :)

Lookin good.

will you be molding/painting the flares or leaving them raw?

As they look now. :)

still going with the green?

Yes, but not this year, driving it with the faded red paint.

Not much for today, big thanks to Justin (gsx) for the help and for shooting a couple pics of me working.. I heavily photoshop'd one of them. (the profile shot). Got the passenger's side ZG flare mounted up and started working out the rears. Gonna work on them and/or the engine bay tomorrow. Pick up the KA at noon on Sunday :)

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3123.jpg
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needs to be 3 feet lower.

Nah, I was thinking of leaving it stock suspension... :rofl::rolleyes:

Went in and got a little bit of work done.
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Marked, and ready to cut

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Initial cutting done, I then cut the inner fender well back, and started to hammer it up in anticipation of tack welding it into place. I also put the nutserts into the proper holes but didnt have the tool to compress them, so hopefully I can get that taken care of Monday.

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One rear mounted up, fronts are done and trimmed. Hopefully I'll have this finished and the engine bay stripped and painted this week. Picking up the KA in the morning.

Whos shop is that? If that is your garage sick. Anyways I am looking for a place to do some side work on my wheels, bondo and spray paint them, if you can help that would be great.
-Jared

My car is at work, that's not my garage. Though the garage at the house I currently live at does have a lift ;) We dont do bodywork or wheel work for customers, just stuff we do on our own cars. We do performance parts (purchasing and install) and tuning, and occasional bits of service for a few of our Subaru customers. I'd suggest looking for somewhere local to do your wheels. I'm about to buy an oven to do mine so they wont chip.

Next up, I need a tire machine, I miss having access to one.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3192.jpg
Yes, it did, and I loved seeing it in the beat up, original, driving (assumed) condition. Just like I'll be driving my 240z around this year (exterior condition wise).

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3201.jpg
This is about where I almost died when visibility got worse, as did road conditions, and there were no salt trucks or plows out, and a guy going 20mph less than me decided to pull out in front of me at the last minute. Going past 18 wheeler sideways half on the shoulder with 5 series touring loaded with parts = shit your pants scary.

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Oh yeah, and I picked up a '95 KA24DE with uncut harness, all accessories, ecu, maf, trans, etc, etc.

anything new?

Haven't worked on it much because "MPD is a bag". Got working on stripping the engine bay though. Ordered a clutch, floors, subframe connectors/frame rail reinforcements, and the front subframe for the KA.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3214.jpg
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Starting to clean up, paint scraper and steel wool. I also discovered a small hole in the frame rail which you can see in the bottom right of that photo. It's about an inch and a half long, by maybe 1/3 of an inch wide. Wont be a hard repair at all.

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Progress coming along, I'd say I have the bay 60% stripped. I still have a lot of little holes that were drilled to fill and spot welds for old brackets to drill out. A significant amount of paint has been removed though. Currently my big debate is if I should remove the stock battery tray or not since the battery is being moved to one of the rear cubby holes.

I was looking to do a RB25 swap into a 240Z (HybridZ.com)before I got my audi and I would have to say take out that tray in order to clean it up. You could also shove something back there if you wanted to.

Turbo's go on the driver's side of most all of the japanese motors minus Subaru, so it doesnt help me at all. Purely an aesthetics dealio.

what about a nice meth jug? or maybe coke?

pull it.

Are you going to paint the engine bay all glossy and nice, or durable?

Nick

Satin black. Might pull the engine back out and redo it body color when I really do body work, but not for a year or two. Engine harness with be pretty tidy, and the body harness is being tucked.

yeah, black will look sweet.

Nick

not much in terms of visual progress.

Spent a ton of time drilling out every bracket on the firewall, frame rails, and remaining bits of the engine bay. Ground most of them down flat, removed the battery tray, finish chemically stripping the engine bay, etc. I now need to go back over the engine bay with a wire wheel to get the remaining crap. The rubber steering bushing is being sent out to have an aluminum version made, the old one was quite hard and brittle. Basically need to go back and weld up all the holes and divots from drilling the brackets off, and tack in the crossmember with the engine test fit. That's my scatterbrained order of things right now. Hopefully I'll have everything collected to be welded this week and I can get that tacked in with Christian's help and it can go over to PMP to have the finish work on the welds done.

One photo for today with the engine bay mostly torn down.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3240.JPG

That thing is really coming along. The fender flares look hot.

Nick

Thanks Nick, I'm trying to stay constant in working on it for 2 - 3 hours per night after work so it'll get done. I have most of the parts I need for it, just a matter of putting it together. Once the welding is done most of the "hard" stuff will be out of the way.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3255.jpg
Another one of those moments where you just say to yourself.... "WHAT THE %#$ing @!*& have I done!"

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3254.jpg

Working on cutting out floor/rust/stock seat brackets, the very tip of the frame rail, etc, etc. Floors are obviously here, and the crossmember shows up tomorrow for the KA24DE. Hoping to get the passenger's floor fitted over the next day or so, and tacked in maybe this weekend.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF3252.jpg
Started working on fitment, need to do a bit of trimming/bending but it's coming alonge

Nice! It's now 1GP

Chris

wow that sheet metal is beefy enough to support the seat? or is there some kind of bracing I'm not seeing

No Dan, there is a frame rail that goes there which I am replacing with a beefier part that will run the full length of the unibody. I'm using a thicker material for the floors and the rails, adding a large under chassis X brace that we're building, and connecting the new frame rails to the rear subframe, which they didnt do stock.

word, keep up the good work

I really wish I had the time and especially the know-how to take on a project like this.


It looks like a ton of fun.

Awesome work.

Knocked out a few hours on the car tonight, there is about 25 pounds of metal/rust and sound deadening under the car. :lol: Spent a ton of time with a mask, gloves, scraper and propane torch working on removing the interior tar, but I had to use a heat gun in some slightly tighter/more sensitive areas for safety's sake. (I know, me using caution, hard to believe.)

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF6203.jpg
Working around the pedal set on the trans tunnel.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF6210.jpg
Some floor rust on the driver's side which has separated the floor from the rear frame rail extension. I've gone under and looked above and the frame rail extension under the floor board is in mint shape despite the passenger's side one being all banged up (not that it matters as I'm putting bad dog replacement/subframe connectors in).

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF6216.jpg
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Progress.

If all goes well I'll be at PT's house first weekend in december so he can weld in the floors, subframe connectors and the small flush bits on the firewall and the rear 1/4 panel/liners. Then some POR15 work and the interior goes back together while I start on wiring :)

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF6222.jpg
Trimming away more of that fat.... err rust and sound deadening. That's about 2/3's of what I removed today. Weighs somewhere around 25lbs.

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Where I left it tonight, back was killing me from being hunched inside the car for a few hours. Trimmed the passenger's side all the way down, no more rust over there. The driver's side under floorboard support was in great shape, so it stayed (though slightly cut off at the rearward section. I also left the seat support in, although it wont be there I needed a bit of structure left in the car for moving it. I have a bit more to do on the driver's side and the entire firewall and inner rockers needs to be stripped still. I have the trans tunnel mostly done though it still needs a chemical bath.

And I'm just in taking a break for lunch right now. Working on sanding the entire cabin down to bare metal.

Tell me there will be some alcantara in there???

Probably ;)

Spent most of the day in the garage, lots of progress however it doesn't look like it, heh. Most of the firewall and trans tunnel have been taken down to bare metal (or close to it) with sand paper or a wire wheel. All of the insulation is gone. Most of the areas that will need to be clean for welding the floors in have been prepped as well. I've got a few more hours to spend on it, especially behind the pedals but it's coming along nicely.

http://www.mturck.com/240z/DSCF6242.jpg

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Worked on the spare tire area and hatch are a bunch. Cleaned up some rust and removed a few bits of destroyed sound proofing. Primed the well and then used rubberized undercoating on it. It had a bit of rot just in the 1/4" or so around the drain grommet. Sorry I forgot to take in progress pics, it's still drying in the last photo.

Also rolled the car up onto my scales, weights as follows:

LF: 271 RF: 271
LR: 404 RR: 392

Total: 1338
F/R: 40.5%/59.5%

This is with no engine, no floors, no transmission, no driveshaft, no interior, w/fuel tank, full suspension, steering, brakes, metal rear bumper, all lights, ZG Flares, IMSA 3 Piece wing, full glass, all metal bodywork. I believe my shell is extremely clean and contains no bondo except for on the hatch (if you care about how much bondo weighs)

you have too much spare time

excellent progress tho... what's the plan, blown ls1?

Nah, another Nissan motor. I put a deposit on something new, but dont want to say what it is until it's in my possession.

Nice! Always loved the 240Zs... incidentally, one of the first times I talked to Nick (some 10 years ago) was about 240Zs and how I wanted to buy one and drop a V8 in it. It was our first "car talk"... haha!

Out of curiosity, how do you treat the bare metal to prevent it from rusting? Or do you just let a little bit of rust build up and then shave it down again just before painting?

- Som

Som, it's not going to be bare for more than a couple weeks, which honestly isn't long enough for it to accumulate any real rust (surface or otherwise). Any areas I was concerned about I tossed a bit of primer on. I'll have to hit it with a wire wheel to re-clean most of the stuff for welding anyway.

Looking good.

Nick

I did the floorpans in it on sunday and had to brand it. haha.



http://www.blowneuroz.com/ptgallery/Datsun/datsun01.jpg

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Oh wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww this is cool.

Nice work PT.

Nick

sick