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BenWhitoh of course not. Especially a car that "old" (old being a relative term). The components that are going to give you the most problems are suspension components, so you might as well swap them out now. I don't know what the market for subie parts is, but i imagine they're cheaper and more accessible than mazdaspeed parts, so I'm sure you can find a solid coilover kit in the $800 range.
a good set of coilovers are about $1600+. which is why i'll probably be waiting a while until i can afford it :/
Decided to buy an old Z car for driving around in the summer. Trying to decide between these two... a 1982 280 ZX Turbo, and a 1984 300 ZX Turbo.
VERSUS
280ZX Notes
Pros:
-Only has 25,000 km. Absolute insanity. Lowest mileage I will likely ever see on one of these.
-More of a long-term project car; a number of things I'd change, such as...
-Some idiot replaced the radio with a CD deck, but fortunately they still have the original stereo apparently so would have to put that back in and undo the wiring nonsense they did.
-Seats are velour lowbacks with leather detailing; may need to swap them for fully leather buckets down the road.
-Biggest downside is it's an auto tranny. It's possible to do a conversion to 5sp manual but it's a major undertaking. Would probably wait a couple years before taking that one on.
-I like the front end better with the 70's style headlights.
-Garage kept. No paint issues at all.
-Some issues that may need repair; AC is semi functional.
300ZX Notes
-I always wanted one of these when I was a kid.
-90,000km; still quite low but not insanity-low like the 280.
-Overall appears to need basically nothing. So, less of a project car.
-Is super duper 80's. I think that's a point in favour, but I do prefer the body of the classic 280 a bit.
-The dash is fully digital which is basically the coolest thing ever; also, again, 80's as fuck
-Electric pop-up headlights: 80's 80's 80's.
-Leather appears in good shape.
-Is a manual
-Would have to buy it remotely and have it shipped (I'm heading to the area where the dealership is in 3 weeks), then get an out of province inspection done. Which is a bit of a hassle.
-Buying it remotely involves buying it sight unseen, which means I have to trust the dealer somewhat. They are a reputable dealer, though.
Decided to buy an old Z car for driving around in the summer. Trying to decide between these two... a 1982 280 ZX Turbo, and a 1984 300 ZX Turbo.
VERSUS
280ZX Notes
Pros:
-Only has 25,000 km. Absolute insanity. Lowest mileage I will likely ever see on one of these.
-More of a long-term project car; a number of things I'd change, such as...
-Some idiot replaced the radio with a CD deck, but fortunately they still have the original stereo apparently so would have to put that back in and undo the wiring nonsense they did.
-Seats are velour lowbacks with leather detailing; may need to swap them for fully leather buckets down the road.
-Biggest downside is it's an auto tranny. It's possible to do a conversion to 5sp manual but it's a major undertaking. Would probably wait a couple years before taking that one on.
-I like the front end better with the 70's style headlights.
-Garage kept. No paint issues at all.
-Some issues that may need repair; AC is semi functional.
300ZX Notes
-I always wanted one of these when I was a kid.
-90,000km; still quite low but not insanity-low like the 280.
-Overall appears to need basically nothing. So, less of a project car.
-Is super duper 80's. I think that's a point in favour, but I do prefer the body of the classic 280 a bit.
-The dash is fully digital which is basically the coolest thing ever; also, again, 80's as fuck
-Electric pop-up headlights: 80's 80's 80's.
-Leather appears in good shape.
-Is a manual
-Would have to buy it remotely and have it shipped (I'm heading to the area where the dealership is in 3 weeks), then get an out of province inspection done. Which is a bit of a hassle.
-Buying it remotely involves buying it sight unseen, which means I have to trust the dealer somewhat. They are a reputable dealer, though.
Unless you get a z32 300zx Id get the 280z, they look sweet and are so rare, my neighbor has a 240z that he is still restoring. Both are cool ass cars!
Decided to buy an old Z car for driving around in the summer. Trying to decide between these two... a 1982 280 ZX Turbo, and a 1984 300 ZX Turbo.
VERSUS
280ZX Notes
Pros:
-Only has 25,000 km. Absolute insanity. Lowest mileage I will likely ever see on one of these.
-More of a long-term project car; a number of things I'd change, such as...
-Some idiot replaced the radio with a CD deck, but fortunately they still have the original stereo apparently so would have to put that back in and undo the wiring nonsense they did.
-Seats are velour lowbacks with leather detailing; may need to swap them for fully leather buckets down the road.
-Biggest downside is it's an auto tranny. It's possible to do a conversion to 5sp manual but it's a major undertaking. Would probably wait a couple years before taking that one on.
-I like the front end better with the 70's style headlights.
-Garage kept. No paint issues at all.
-Some issues that may need repair; AC is semi functional.
300ZX Notes
-I always wanted one of these when I was a kid.
-90,000km; still quite low but not insanity-low like the 280.
-Overall appears to need basically nothing. So, less of a project car.
-Is super duper 80's. I think that's a point in favour, but I do prefer the body of the classic 280 a bit.
-The dash is fully digital which is basically the coolest thing ever; also, again, 80's as fuck
-Electric pop-up headlights: 80's 80's 80's.
-Leather appears in good shape.
-Is a manual
-Would have to buy it remotely and have it shipped (I'm heading to the area where the dealership is in 3 weeks), then get an out of province inspection done. Which is a bit of a hassle.
-Buying it remotely involves buying it sight unseen, which means I have to trust the dealer somewhat. They are a reputable dealer, though.
For me the deal breaker would be the transmission. I couldn't see myself enjoying the automatic at all.
BenWhitthat's awesome. congrats man, a lot of hard work went into that and that can be appreciated it. Have you thought about going turbo? obviously, the platform is somewhat tolerant to BT and with corksport rolling out a slightly-larger-than-stock bolt-on turbo replacement, it may be worth is for a little more zoom-zoom.
Right now I am going to keep it as is and just drive the engine until its pretty close to its death because it has 240k km and burning some oil. I used to drive it in the winter but this year im going to get a new winter car so that should give me a chance to work on this thing during the winter months. My current plan is to do a 2.5L block swap from a ford fusion( aka. cheap stroker kit) and then boost that. It wouldn't be anything crazy, maybe 10psi on something like the corksport turbo but would bring the the car alive and into the low/mid 200hp range which would be more than enough for that car.
For winter I'm going to import a 1998-2000 ish JDM Forrester STB which should be a lot of fun too.
anyways what I was gonna say is isn't this troys toys in Guelph Ontario? It's like 5 minutes from my mums house and I happen to be back home visitng till Monday. I could stop and take some pics if you wanted man.
Other than that, here's penny. She's the baddest 65hp peugot 107 ever
Thanks.
Interesting company and cars.
Got more specs on your car?
I really like the looks of the rear, got some nice retro style in it, not really matching the modern nose imo but really cool car though!
Total cost?
CamembertThanks.
Interesting company and cars.
Got more specs on your car?
I really like the looks of the rear, got some nice retro style in it, not really matching the modern nose imo but really cool car though!
Total cost?
I will be into mine about 20k. being that I work at a subaru performance shop helps with parts cost and labor doing it all myself. I fully built the motor, chassis, car, everything. I will be running a gt35r with a tial .63 hotside. On q16 fuel aiming for about 500whp. Tuned by myself as well. Car weighs in at 1800lbs with everything. So a pretty decent. 3.2lb/hp or so. Should light the tires up.
MoosenI will be into mine about 20k. being that I work at a subaru performance shop helps with parts cost and labor doing it all myself. I fully built the motor, chassis, car, everything. I will be running a gt35r with a tial .63 hotside. On q16 fuel aiming for about 500whp. Tuned by myself as well. Car weighs in at 1800lbs with everything. So a pretty decent. 3.2lb/hp or so. Should light the tires up.
can you elaborate more? I went to the website, it seems like a really cool business idea/model.
I'd say go with this one the manual unless you can do the manual swap on the 280 yourself or have already found a shop that will do it cause usually that sort of stuff tends to be a huge pain.
MoosenI will be into mine about 20k. being that I work at a subaru performance shop helps with parts cost and labor doing it all myself. I fully built the motor, chassis, car, everything. I will be running a gt35r with a tial .63 hotside. On q16 fuel aiming for about 500whp. Tuned by myself as well. Car weighs in at 1800lbs with everything. So a pretty decent. 3.2lb/hp or so. Should light the tires up.
MoosenI will be into mine about 20k. being that I work at a subaru performance shop helps with parts cost and labor doing it all myself. I fully built the motor, chassis, car, everything. I will be running a gt35r with a tial .63 hotside. On q16 fuel aiming for about 500whp. Tuned by myself as well. Car weighs in at 1800lbs with everything. So a pretty decent. 3.2lb/hp or so. Should light the tires up.
I just got a '98 Grand Cherokee with a V6 engine, and surprisingly it has no visible rust on the body of the car, not to mention it has 119k original miles. I'll post pics of the car once I pick it up this weekend.
Now trying to decide if I want waste more money and get the wheels powder coated gunmetal or black.
Then once I have a few more miles on it it'll be some bolt ons and a tune.
i kinda regret not getting a little bigger offset so the wheel matches up with the fender and i was thinking about wheel spacers, but i just hear so many bad things on wear on different parts and loss of performance. are these ones suppose to be different? i've never seen them like that before.
xX*TACO-DOG*Xxi kinda regret not getting a little bigger offset so the wheel matches up with the fender and i was thinking about wheel spacers, but i just hear so many bad things on wear on different parts and loss of performance. are these ones suppose to be different? i've never seen them like that before.
5mm is generally safe and 10mm is common, but in my mind, anything beyond that is excessive and puts your car at risk.
Hell yeah. I wanna have a couple thousand miles on it just so it's nice and broken in. These cars have been making some nice gains without any bolt ons and just a tune so I'm curious to see what I can get out of it.
The perrin piece is just a shift stop to take up some of the vagueness in the shifter.
xX*TACO-DOG*Xxi kinda regret not getting a little bigger offset so the wheel matches up with the fender and i was thinking about wheel spacers, but i just hear so many bad things on wear on different parts and loss of performance. are these ones suppose to be different? i've never seen them like that before.
I'd definitely prefer not to run spacers but the stock offset really tucks the wheels in and once I install the springs it'll look even worse. These spacers use extended studs to make sure the lugs get plenty of engagement and I don't think 15mm is too aggressive. People are out there running some huge spacers.
These kind sketch me out but people seem to have no problem running these either.
CirilloHell yeah. I wanna have a couple thousand miles on it just so it's nice and broken in. These cars have been making some nice gains without any bolt ons and just a tune so I'm curious to see what I can get out of it.
The perrin piece is just a shift stop to take up some of the vagueness in the shifter.
I'd definitely prefer not to run spacers but the stock offset really tucks the wheels in and once I install the springs it'll look even worse. These spacers use extended studs to make sure the lugs get plenty of engagement and I don't think 15mm is too aggressive. People are out there running some huge spacers.
These kind sketch me out but people seem to have no problem running these either.
yeah 15mm should be safe. i ran 2 inch spacers on a lifted truck i had a while back. although i really didn't give a shit about it either haha. pretty sure they were the kind pictured too lol
you know, for future reference, that grille actually comes out and its a lot easier and less risky to paint rather than masking everything off. and you can get ALL of the chrome rather than miss spots that the spray might miss for whatever reason. not hate, giving you a heads up haha. itll chip less if you get all the way to the edge of the chrome grille bits and you can do a much more comprehensive job
mmallender.you know, for future reference, that grille actually comes out and its a lot easier and less risky to paint rather than masking everything off. and you can get ALL of the chrome rather than miss spots that the spray might miss for whatever reason. not hate, giving you a heads up haha. itll chip less if you get all the way to the edge of the chrome grille bits and you can do a much more comprehensive job
I'll probably end up having to redo it after the summer anyway from rocks hitting it, so i'll do that. Thanks!
slick_rickI'll probably end up having to redo it after the summer anyway from rocks hitting it, so i'll do that. Thanks!
yeah definitely, take it all apart, sand it, do a few coats and get it all done really well and nicely, so much cheaper than paying close to $1000 for a titanium package grille
mmallender.yeah definitely, take it all apart, sand it, do a few coats and get it all done really well and nicely, so much cheaper than paying close to $1000 for a titanium package grille
yeah for sure, dipping it is at most ten bucks and it looks fine
Fit and finish are great. I'll check in 1000 miles and see what it was able to collect
SenorVacaWould you mind posting pictures when you get these on? 15k miles and I'm still on stocks. Not sure what I want yet but definitely need a summer set.
I'll definitely post up some pictures when everything is on there. Probably during the week after 4th of July I'll have everything installed.
