McAdam

Location:	Minneapolis, MN, USA
Joined:	04/25/2008

My Styles

Builder, Restorer, Old-School, Build-It, Drive-It, Club Racer, Tuner, Custom, Old School, Café-Racer, Build-It, Ride-It

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"Frankenstein" 1980 Datsun 280Z

Introduction / Overview: This is one of my babies. ALmost ALL of my cars are Datsuns or Nissans. I picke this car up for FREE from teh original owner after it had been sitting in his driveway for 8 years after blowing a headgasket. I brough it back to life and its doing well. I call him Frankenstein because its a mix and match of nissan parts bin technology at its best. a tribute to junkyard engineering at its finest!

Drivetrain:

Its got a L28E flat top block in it with a Maxima N47 head bumping the compression to 11.5:1. I had a hot facotry cam (if there is such a thing) in it, but I am about to go with a re-grind cam and a custom intake manifold, that should make a noticable bump in power for a tide me over until I get the DOHC head completed and the turbo up and running.

I am running Megasquirt on it and I have tuned it myself. I also set-up everything on the engine myself, and it is running megasquirt N Spark Extra, so it is a total EMS.

The transmission is a nissan 240SX unit as opposed to the unit that came stock on it. The 240SX unit is a bit stronger and has better gears than the old L series trans.
Its got a 300ZXT clutch type LSD bolted into an Infiniti M30 3.9 R200 pumpkin.

Chassis:

New Motorsports sway bar kit, polyeurethane bushings, M30 rear control arms with camber-toe adjustment and CV half shafts.

Modified S14 Apex'i N1 Pro coilovers and S13 hubs with Z32 big brakes and J30 calipers.

Wheels and Tires: nothing that great right now, MSW black meshies 15x7 +12 and crappy old goodyear tires. plans call for some XXR 503s in a 17x8+35 in front and 17x9 + 35 in rear and some Z rated sticky tires sometime in the very near future.

Body & Paint: Stock paint scheme 2 tone SIlver on blue. gotta dig the 1980s. Car is lowered 2" all the way around and has a front air dam. A G-nose specifically made for the 280ZX and a set of fender mirriors will follow shortly.

Interioir: prettymuch for now, with re-covered high-back seats out of a coupe 280ZX.

Lifestyles: Builder, Old-School, Build-It, Drive-It, Club Racer, Tuner

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