imo the first one on the left...

!!!!!




Thanks, I think I may have it all figured out. I've sourced out, what I believe to be a similar blue paint, and I believe matching powder. I just need an oven large enough to fit the valve cover in there....Or get creative with some bricks.






The vacuum pump at work is currently down for maintenance until Tuesday, so I have had some time to work. Well...not on the center console mold, but anyway...


I cleaned up the front wheel wells (not that you can tell from the pictures) and actually assembled the front.



While doing so, I removed, and powder coated, the tie rod ends. Now they are ready for the alignment, when that comes.




Before:



Cleaned:



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After: (TERRIBLE PICTURE)




Both sides assembled! I love how easy the adjustment on everything is. You could play around for days dialing in the suspension tune. Yay!

Oh yeah. First new seat arrived.




Just sitting there.

Of course...I still have to fabricate some stuff to make it bolt in place, but what else is new?



No more squish between the seat and the door!



It also lowers me much more than the old *** seats. I have, I believe, at least 6 inches of clearance between my head and the roof, which is good. (I'm 6' 1")




And now the 280 gets the old seats! Cause big Pimpin'.

Going back out there now. Lets see what I can make.

Been busy, makin' dat money.

Here's a quick update bringing us up to date.

Funny how things come full circle...

I've decided that until I source out, or make, an oven large enough to powdercoat my valve cover, I will opt for the ceramic engine paint one more time.

That said, I refinished my intake manifold.....Again. Stupid manifold.

While I was at it, I took the throttle linkage apart, and did a little coating.




Then I installed my new 440cc injectors and my -6an O-ring fuel rail, replacing the stock barbed injectors and subsequent rail, which went to the 280zx.





Version 2.0

ohhhhhh


shiney

Looking sharp

Danke fellas.

Today, I installed my new seats. The following is taken from my build thread, and is kind of written as a how to, but I figure it'd still be appropriate for this thread as well.





This is what I did to make the Sparco R100 seats fit the 240z chassis.

What you'll need:

- 240z (or your particular car's) OEM seat sliders

- Drill + bits

- 8x 8mm x 1.25 bolts (roughly 3/4" in length)

- A 6 pack of your favorite beer. (you'll thank me for this)




Okay, to start....

First I removed the stock carriage bolts that mounted the sliders to the Datsun seats. A good smack with a hammer will pop them right out.



Here's another shot. With the bolts removed.



In order to mount the slider with the handle, I lightly (heh) tapped the following rail with a hammer, so it can be fully seated. The spring mechanism will make contact with this metal rail/support, if you do not.

I'm pointing at it here. The 1/8" round stock.

Once that is tapped down slightly, the OEM rail will now seat fully against the mounting points.

Next, I used the stock carriage bolt hole at the rear of the slider as my first mounting point.



Once that bolt was mock tight, I marked and drilled out the new hole to mount the front of the slider. Once again, I'm pointing at the area to drill out.



And drilled.