DJZ's 280ZX

[skdmrx]

Stoked for you man.This thing is gonna be wild

[DJZ]

Got some new wheels, finally




Yeah, nah.

After weeks and weeks of looking and dealing with dickheads I finally have some BBS LMs. Plan at the moment is to take all the centres out and move them to the inside of the rims, put the 9" wide back wheels on the front with 20mm spacers, have the fronts machined off the 7.5" front wheels and have new outers made converting them to 3 piece and somewhere around 10" to 10.5" wide. I should end up with about 3" inches of dish I think. Turn around is 4 - 6 weeks. I'm tossing up whether to repaint the centres, I'll have to try them as is and see if I like it, I was thinking maybe a gun metal type colour or maybe just black.



I think within the next couple of weeks I'll have it tuned and by the time the wheels are finished I should be ready to roll it in for cert. The cooling system is now all hooked up and filled with water, no leaks which is good! Exhaust system is finished apart from the wastegate pipe, I can't be assed doing this myself so I'm going to get Uniweld in Sockburn to do it, they've been very helpful, cheap and fast doing other bits and pieces for me so far.

The left hand lower control arm has been modified to match the right and the suspension is all bolted in tight now, I still have to put the brakes on and finish off the radius rod for the left hand side.

The intercooler needs to have some tabs welded on to the bottom of it, after that's done it'll be ready to be bolted it. The list of things I need to get done is getting smaller and smaller.

[Dattochriswagon]

Gutted you didnt go with the first wheel. haha
Sounds like youll be having some fun summer drives

[Bartman]

I wonder if you can get pedobear wheels?

[DJZ]

Wheels showed up today so I quickly pulled two of them apart and moved the centres then tried them on the car.

They don't actually look too bad with 25mm spacers from and rear.

7.5"s on the front, 9"s on the back with spacers


Would prefer this much dish on the front


Rather than this


9"s on the front showing how much they stick out with 25mm spacers, tread is well within the guards and would be even more if I swap the 235s onto the 9"s instead of the 255s.

[skdmrx]

Gutted you arnt running the teddybears dude.Can looks badarse on bbs tho.so close now

[DJZ]

Had a bit of a play with one of the 7.5"s on the back with no spacer




That line is a piece of wire with a wheel spacer attached to act as a plumb bob, measuring between that and the mounting face on the front of the wheel is about 95mm, that's 4" of dish I can get away with. Measuring from that front mounting face to the back of the wheel is approx 180mm, so 180 + 100 = 280/25.4 = 11" wide rear wheels. And there is actually still room for about another 1/2" before the inside of the wheel hits the control arm.

[DJZ]

Sent the wheels away yesterday and Gavin got them today, he's told me that he has a set of 5" bands in stock which would make the wheels 11" wide (12" overall). These would be pretty sweet but will stick out 1" from the guards, if I move the centres back to the front of the wheel they'll stick out approx 10mm but I run the risk of the wheel hitting the control arm.

I've asked him what the price difference will be between getting the 5" ones and getting 4" ones made up. Might just end up buying both and keep the 5"s for another day.

Intercooler is pretty much mounted and the intercooler piping is done. The power steering is all hooked up and seems to be working. Suspension is 95% done, I need to drill out the holes in the control arm for the radius rod which I forgot about, might mean having to remove the arm again which is a bit of a pain.

I've been having a bit of trouble with the motor running rich and very oddly at idle, had a bit of a play with it after work today and I think some of the injectors are dodgy/leaking. If you unplug number 3 then motor revs slightly higher and sounds better than with it plugged in. I'm keeping an eye out for some better/newer injectors.

[nick_m]

if buying new id recommend injector dynamics. They are matched sets so they flow test them and give you 6 that flow within 1-2% of each other, they also supply a wee print out with injector deadtime and a few other things (which is helpful to your tuner)
They also recently had a trademe sale where you could get 725 or 1000cc for $165 each new. Seemed pretty sweet deal too me, not sure if its still running

edit: It appears so
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 137268.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[DJZ]

Thanks man, I managed to buy a set of 2nd hand Sard 720cc injectors for $450 with an RB fuel rail. I'll be putting the RX7 ones back on Trademe as is I think. If anybody here is interested in them let me know, two of them are probably dead but might come right with a clean.

Wheels are 2 - 3 weeks away from being finished, I've gone with 10" wide, the 5" bands just weren't going to work.

Mate bought a tig welder so I've been playing with that a bit, I've welded some brackets onto the intercooler for the oil cooler mount, I think I'm going to mount the power steering cooler off to one side behind the front bumper. I went to put the bumper on yesterday and found that the mounts have nearly broken off it so my mate is giving me a fibreglass repair kit and I'll put some strips of aluminium in there to try and strengthen it up a bit, running over my bumper if they broke off would make me pretty angry.

Drilled the two radius rod mount bolt holes in the control arm with a right angle drill, I'm going to get some cap screws to mount them with as the bolt heads are just a bit too big to get a socket on nicely.