Friday, March 06, 2009
Lux suggested a 69' Camaro / Firebird fuel tank for my Z, since the price of a new one was around $260 (including the sending unit), it was 18 gallons (larger than the stock 15 gallon tank in a 240z) and it's filling neck is rearward facing (so I can mount the cap under the license plate). So, I went online and purchaced one. After I un-boxed it, I wrapped it up in a few shipping blankets and wedged it between the strut tower brace and the backs of the seats in my 350z and delivered it CrushProof.Labels: Crushproof
Monday, September 08, 2008
I dropped by CrushProof a while back to discuss solutions for my roll bar issues. Lux suggested chopping the floor mounts, which might lower the stock seats to an acceptable level. Failing that, he suggested finding a seat from another vehicle that would be even shorter than the stock seat. Lux suggested a mid-90's Corvette but, looking at the cloth seats in the one that he had parked in his garage, I was not impressed. So, I talked with Russ, who suggested seats from a Honda S2000. I found a pair on Criagslist that a guy bought for $800, and I purchased them from him for $550. The seat pad was fairly thin, and the mounting points on the rails would attach to studs welded to the floor, rather than the studs protruding from the bottom of the rail (as in the stock 240z seat). This leaves less room from the bottom of the seat to the floor of the car. So, I dropped them off and we tried it out. Still too close. We're just going to have to modify the hoop. Damn.Labels: Crushproof
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Yesterday, Cory and I pulled the Z out of the garage and took it down to Crushproof. I decide to take a beauty shot of my two Zs in the driveway, since they have never been pictured together before. I anticipated disconnecting the drive shaft, since you should not let it spin freely in the transmission (not sure why).
Once we got there, Lux looked at all the key rusty spots on my Z and seemed rather positive about it's relative health. Since my car came from California, by way of Arizona, there wasn't much rust on it in the first place. We dragged it into the parking lot in front of the shop and parked it next to a shiny GTO. We hung around for a while and talked with Lux about a few of his projects and kicked around some ideas about work on my Z. He's going to be looking at the car for a week or so to assess the body further and put together a price estimate.Once that's done, I will drag the car back to my house and disassemble it and return the rolling shell to Crushproof to start the modifications and restoration.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
I took my truck home from the storage facility yesterday and kept it overnight then drove it to work. I took off a little early and headed down to the machine shop on Burleson. I picked up my engine, mostly to get my engine stand back. I will recycle the engine, so Cory and I spent some time tearing the engine down (since the heads are aluminum and the block is iron) and collecting all the scrap metal in the house to take down to the metal recyclers. Once the bed was full of metal, we knew we wouldn't have enough time to get to Howard Lane, so we opted instead for a trip to Rising Sun to pick up my new engine.
We got it back home, cherry picked it out of the car and put it on my engine stand. Later that evening I pulled the carburators off the engine to get them cleaned up to put them up for sale in the near future.
I'm stoaked about my Z again and I think I'm going to take my car down to Crushproof tomorrow to talk with Lux Blue about the bodywork.
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We got it back home, cherry picked it out of the car and put it on my engine stand. Later that evening I pulled the carburators off the engine to get them cleaned up to put them up for sale in the near future.I'm stoaked about my Z again and I think I'm going to take my car down to Crushproof tomorrow to talk with Lux Blue about the bodywork.
Labels: Crushproof
