That's the first time I've seen an air dam that actually looked good on a z. I've always liked the looks of them without the front and rear bumpers, but yours looks great. The body work on the back looks great as well. Great job! Kinda making me wish I'd never sold mine...
Shnarkle VonBarkle Thank you! The rear took some serious planning and fab work it wasn't easy. I don't think I could ever bring myself to sell it. I'll be buried in it haha!
I think I might have ran into you at the Walgreens on Dobson and Warner a few years back. Talked to you about it and even took some photos. Very nice indeed!
Something about like this is the goal for my 280zx, I know it won't be quite the same with the fuel injection but engine wise, cam, exhaust, fuel cell, and interior yours has is about what I wanna do, gonna take me a loooong time to get there, my poor 280zx has alot of cancer in the floors and the rails, and has no fuel system as it is. But badass build man, georgous car, sexy sound, the perfect way to build a Z bro, keep it alive.
ARK842001 Haha you wouldn't believe how many bets I've one at track days and car shows everyone saying it has a chevy small block in it then I open the hood and jaws drop! And yes it is pretty quick keeps up with corvettes and porches on the track all day long
Invincible Extremes Muscle Cars Garage who are you kidding you love your junk yard dog look. Your car is bad ass in its own right besides look how much money you " don't have into your car....be proud you have a mind that doesn't have to have a museum price to have a kick as ride.Your car would be happy with a scotch bright pad and sprayed down with Rust-Oleum " reform" that's all you need for paint.
MindDezign true, but good clean body lines are nice still. just got some flares and wider wheels for mine, looking forward to fitting it all together...
Awesome. You must have nice neighbours. Mine usually comes over in her night gown when I idle mine in my drive way: "Does it not have a muffler?? I'm terrified and I think my house will collapse because of that horrendous sound" (no, she's not the kinda female attention I'm after with my Z :D )
You probably bought that battery a while ago when you started the project, but you can get a Braille battery for the same price and it's about 1/3 the weight of a Odessey
bruce leroy they're stainless steel braid wrap that slips over the stock hoses I originally put it on for protection incase the mechanical fan came apart (happened on one of my other 280z's) but now they just look good with the scheme I'm going for with the car, with protection as an added bonus 👍🏼
Adam Freitas it's a 15 gallon aluminum fuel cell I got it from a company called Broke Dick Racing shortly after I got it about 6 months or so they changed their name to Rhodes race cars they have the same one still available it's the 15 gallon sump cell
nick dietz thank you! Got the kit from silver mine motor sports I'm switching the brake set-up in the next month or so, so my front and rear brake kit is up for sale if you or anyone you know is interested only have about 1K miles on them has hawk pads in front and ebc yellow stuff pads in rear great brake upgrade kit for the Z!
How did you get the weight down so much? I thought the 280z comes out the factory at 2850-2900lbs? I'm legitimately interested because I might get a 280z instead of a 240z if thats not too much work
Michael Moore definitely get the 280 if you are planning on a lot of power and aggressive driving it's much stronger from the factory. Of course you can strengthen a 240 but then u sacrifice weight. The biggest loss of weight was the undercoating underneath and inside the car it's tedious work and time consuming but worth it I think it's about 60-70 pounds just taking all the undercoating off. Then of corse getting rid of the hideous bumpers that was about 40 right there haha it's not too hard to lose 300-400 pounds on these just depends on what you end goal is if it's going to be a dedicated track car u could get it close to 2k lbs. I wanted to keep mine street legal so I'm happy with where the weight is for now. Just watch your ounces and your pounds will take car of themselves. 👍🏼
It looks like the hood won't clear the air filter. That's a shame because I think that's a great way to upgrade the Z, I didn't know fitment was a problem.
the filter does clear the stock hood just barely, but i have a carb spacer on my intake so had to do a cowl hood back then for that, which isnt a big deal because it look awesome. i have since changed to a 4 inch carb had and piping for a cold air intake that goes in front of the core support. check out my instagram for more pics. @sly280z
nice car man can you give me some tech tips on how to tune my holley 390 cfm for my 280z . i see you have the same manifold as i do. my motor is stock an i changed the main jet to 48 should i go 46 i live in avondale arizona
izzygreenvw that all depends are you having a stutter under acceleration? Is it running rich at all? I'm over in chandler so our tuning for the air and altitude should be similar but I have nearly twice the carb on mine. I noticed a significant change for the better dropping two steps down on my power valve from 6.5 to 4.5 and I'm currently running 46 main jets. I went from and 48 to 44 and wasn't happy with it so put in 46 and the motor seems to like the change I will be going back up to 48 for ZCON in Austin this June though for the race since they are about 700 feet below us and the humidity is a lot higher.
i have a wide band on mine and its around 12.7 air to fuel ratio when in idle and i cruise at 15.5 . i have 48 main jets an 3.5 power valve it doesn't stutter but when i come down to a full stop on a low gear ,like decelerate it reads 13.3 and a puff of smoke comes out the tail pipe.
izzygreenvw sounds like it's running rich dropping a step or two on jets should help. Do you rev-match when u shift down or just let the motor slow you down once u shift down? If you rev-match it would explain the puff of smoke but if you're just shifting down and getting the puff of smoke it tells me it's a little on the rich side.
280z racer if you don't mine me asking what kind of spark plugs are you using, an can i use them on my stock L28 with a 390cfm carb? do you think that will help my rich fuel issue ,because i dropped to 46 mains jets already
izzygreenvw regular NGK's are honestly the best spark plugs I've used and I don't think it'll do much for your rich fuel mixture. Have you tried messing with the squirters at all I found that my squirters were to big stepped down a few steps and fixed a lot of hesitation I was having. Also timing is a huge factor with initial acceleration stumble if you have a timing light try retarding the timing back a couple degrees and should help a little I know it helped me.
Cesar Valdez yes it was completely stock from the ground up paint and all minus some dated aftermarket mag wheels it had when I bought it. I did a full strip down and started from scratch. The only thing left that's original is the body and frame.
Brett Ethington Rota RB's fronts are 17x9 -13 offset and rears are 17x9.5 -19 offset they won't fit very well with stock springs in front only 3/8 inch clearance. Has a ton of clearance with my coilovers though
Diana Thompson this was years ago right after we got it running we were still working out the kinks it has since been reworked and tuned numerous times and runs great!
I really like the carb (650 double pumper) and its not a normal L series very aggressively cammed with custom size valves with a 3.2L stroker build, it responds very well to the carb.
Robert Armstrong not yet but spoke with Dave Rebello about some tuning when I got it running and told him what I had in the motor and he estimated around 325 at the crank and with parasitic drag in the drivetrain best estimate is just under 300 at the wheels and it weighs 2400 lbs with me in it. Keeps up with corvette Z06's on the track no problem and beats most of them 👍🏼
Robert Armstrong : Believe the OS GIKEN Sema Show Black One Has Pretty Much Same Strk.Set Up W/ Rebello Injection Its Saying 376 h.p.This Carb See Up May Be A Little Less,Depending on Size of Carb.
Rip that intake and carb off and get some triple webers or at least SUs it wont sound like shit anymore and your motor right now cyls 1 and 6 have a question? WTF are you thinking? Hellloooo
TRUTH4U2NO hahaha! I have modified the intake to prevent starvation of cylinder 1 and 2 and flooding of 5 and 6 and have data to support that all 6 cylinders are close to equal. I have spent countless hours porting and tuning the fuel and ignition delivery to make it a reliable powerhouse. Plus I wanted to make it my own not like every other run of the mill L series motor. Sure I could’ve done a turbo build, sure I could’ve done ITB’s, or triple carbs but where’s the fun in that? I have been to several Z car meets including ZCON and if you see very built beautiful Z with triple carbs or an ITB setup it looks like every other one out there just different shiny bits. I will assure you there’s nothing like mine out there and I did that for a reason. Also it’s not just show I do race it and beat the hell out of it on the track it now has over 5k miles of track time and nearly that on the street just had the head off last winter and all looks well with no issues at all! Rebello makes a fantastic stroker and if it all goes the way it has been I have many miles left on it. So please get your facts straight before you open your mouth.
surf403 it's been tuned actually have you ever heard a long duration high lobe cam on a stroked motor before? Listen to a 383 stroker chevy small block with a hot cam in it sounds the same it's caused from a low vacuum and high volume of fuel and cfm of air through the intake.
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It sounds happy when you rev it.
That's the first time I've seen an air dam that actually looked good on a z. I've always liked the looks of them without the front and rear bumpers, but yours looks great. The body work on the back looks great as well. Great job! Kinda making me wish I'd never sold mine...
Shnarkle VonBarkle Thank you! The rear took some serious planning and fab work it wasn't easy. I don't think I could ever bring myself to sell it. I'll be buried in it haha!
I think I might have ran into you at the Walgreens on Dobson and Warner a few years back. Talked to you about it and even took some photos. Very nice indeed!
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Beautiful Singer sewing machine sound coming from under the cam cover...sounds healthy and cammy,
love the sound on this
Something about like this is the goal for my 280zx, I know it won't be quite the same with the fuel injection but engine wise, cam, exhaust, fuel cell, and interior yours has is about what I wanna do, gonna take me a loooong time to get there, my poor 280zx has alot of cancer in the floors and the rails, and has no fuel system as it is. But badass build man, georgous car, sexy sound, the perfect way to build a Z bro, keep it alive.
Kurtis Caudle good luck bro
That's a crazy cam. Sounds like a drag motor. Bet its fast!
ARK842001 Haha you wouldn't believe how many bets I've one at track days and car shows everyone saying it has a chevy small block in it then I open the hood and jaws drop! And yes it is pretty quick keeps up with corvettes and porches on the track all day long
Looking good, sounds great too!
Thank you!
Very nice straight looking body. Keep it up
showmethedammovie Thank you!
Job WELL done beautiful
music to my ears
Very nice and clean
Nice work
I have the same rebello. What exhaust are you running? Sounds sick as hell! I wants it!
nice car. great build.
wrap the exhaust pips to keep the heat off the intake manifold,, i wish z where cross flow.
Thank you! It is wrapped now this was about 6 months after I got running which was about 4 years ago the car is much different now haha inside and out
wish my z was that clean. thats one badass car
Invincible Extremes Muscle Cars Garage thank you!
Invincible Extremes Muscle Cars Garage who are you kidding you love your junk yard dog look. Your car is bad ass in its own right besides look how much money you " don't have into your car....be proud you have a mind that doesn't have to have a museum price to have a kick as ride.Your car would be happy with a scotch bright pad and sprayed down with Rust-Oleum " reform" that's all you need for paint.
MindDezign true, but good clean body lines are nice still. just got some flares and wider wheels for mine, looking forward to fitting it all together...
Sound sick
Bro plz tell me your setup to get this beautiful mean sound?! I mean it sounds just incredible !
Where did you get cook over for yours, and would they fit a 280zx??
Awesome. You must have nice neighbours. Mine usually comes over in her night gown when I idle mine in my drive way: "Does it not have a muffler?? I'm terrified and I think my house will collapse because of that horrendous sound" (no, she's not the kinda female attention I'm after with my Z :D )
Jarno Lehtinen hahaha ya the neighbors are all car people. They don’t mind at all
@@280zRacer you're lucky :D
You probably bought that battery a while ago when you started the project, but you can get a Braille battery for the same price and it's about 1/3 the weight of a Odessey
Love the build with nissan 6 stroked out
Thanks! It’s a blast to drive!
Beautifully crafted! Wt kind of wheels are those ?
Watanabe type r i think, those are a very popular choice of rims for classics like these
Awesome Z car! If this were my car, I couldn't sell it either. Who would want to live with the regret from doing something so foolish lol
heymisterderp thank you! And ya I'll have this car forever haha
where did you get such awesome radiator hoses?
bruce leroy they're stainless steel braid wrap that slips over the stock hoses I originally put it on for protection incase the mechanical fan came apart (happened on one of my other 280z's) but now they just look good with the scheme I'm going for with the car, with protection as an added bonus 👍🏼
Very nice car! Can you tell me where to find that rear adj spoiler?
Adam Freitas Thank you! It's a custom piece I made I looked everywhere for something similar and couldn't find anything so I made one 👍🏼
Very nice. I was hoping you wouldn't say that. But figured you would. Love ur car. I just picked up a 78z w/ sbc. Also what fuel cell did you use?
Adam Freitas it's a 15 gallon aluminum fuel cell I got it from a company called Broke Dick Racing shortly after I got it about 6 months or so they changed their name to Rhodes race cars they have the same one still available it's the 15 gallon sump cell
Thats awesome man where did you get your rear disc break conversion from?
nick dietz thank you! Got the kit from silver mine motor sports I'm switching the brake set-up in the next month or so, so my front and rear brake kit is up for sale if you or anyone you know is interested only have about 1K miles on them has hawk pads in front and ebc yellow stuff pads in rear great brake upgrade kit for the Z!
I have a 74 260z myself how much would you be selling them for?
I love you car. it looks amazing. What is the hp on that beauty?
I have about 325 to the rear wheels weighs just over 2500 with me in it. It's a blast!
How did you get the weight down so much? I thought the 280z comes out the factory at 2850-2900lbs? I'm legitimately interested because I might get a 280z instead of a 240z if thats not too much work
Michael Moore definitely get the 280 if you are planning on a lot of power and aggressive driving it's much stronger from the factory. Of course you can strengthen a 240 but then u sacrifice weight. The biggest loss of weight was the undercoating underneath and inside the car it's tedious work and time consuming but worth it I think it's about 60-70 pounds just taking all the undercoating off. Then of corse getting rid of the hideous bumpers that was about 40 right there haha it's not too hard to lose 300-400 pounds on these just depends on what you end goal is if it's going to be a dedicated track car u could get it close to 2k lbs. I wanted to keep mine street legal so I'm happy with where the weight is for now. Just watch your ounces and your pounds will take car of themselves. 👍🏼
No cut up fenders is a win
It looks like the hood won't clear the air filter. That's a shame because I think that's a great way to upgrade the Z, I didn't know fitment was a problem.
the filter does clear the stock hood just barely, but i have a carb spacer on my intake so had to do a cowl hood back then for that, which isnt a big deal because it look awesome. i have since changed to a 4 inch carb had and piping for a cold air intake that goes in front of the core support. check out my instagram for more pics. @sly280z
nice car man can you give me some tech tips on how to tune my holley 390 cfm for my 280z . i see you have the same manifold as i do. my motor is stock an i changed the main jet to 48 should i go 46 i live in avondale arizona
izzygreenvw that all depends are you having a stutter under acceleration? Is it running rich at all? I'm over in chandler so our tuning for the air and altitude should be similar but I have nearly twice the carb on mine. I noticed a significant change for the better dropping two steps down on my power valve from 6.5 to 4.5 and I'm currently running 46 main jets. I went from and 48 to 44 and wasn't happy with it so put in 46 and the motor seems to like the change I will be going back up to 48 for ZCON in Austin this June though for the race since they are about 700 feet below us and the humidity is a lot higher.
i have a wide band on mine and its around 12.7 air to fuel ratio when in idle and i cruise at 15.5 . i have 48 main jets an 3.5 power valve it doesn't stutter but when i come down to a full stop on a low gear ,like decelerate it reads 13.3 and a puff of smoke comes out the tail pipe.
izzygreenvw sounds like it's running rich dropping a step or two on jets should help. Do you rev-match when u shift down or just let the motor slow you down once u shift down? If you rev-match it would explain the puff of smoke but if you're just shifting down and getting the puff of smoke it tells me it's a little on the rich side.
280z racer if you don't mine me asking what kind of spark plugs are you using, an can i use them on my stock L28 with a 390cfm carb? do you think that will help my rich fuel issue ,because i dropped to 46 mains jets already
izzygreenvw regular NGK's are honestly the best spark plugs I've used and I don't think it'll do much for your rich fuel mixture. Have you tried messing with the squirters at all I found that my squirters were to big stepped down a few steps and fixed a lot of hesitation I was having. Also timing is a huge factor with initial acceleration stumble if you have a timing light try retarding the timing back a couple degrees and should help a little I know it helped me.
Where do you guys live here in Arizona?
Gilbert
Did u build it from a stock 2.8
Cesar Valdez yes it was completely stock from the ground up paint and all minus some dated aftermarket mag wheels it had when I bought it. I did a full strip down and started from scratch. The only thing left that's original is the body and frame.
How do u build the stoker L
what are the name of the rims and what size are yours I like them
Brett Ethington Rota RB's fronts are 17x9 -13 offset and rears are 17x9.5 -19 offset they won't fit very well with stock springs in front only 3/8 inch clearance. Has a ton of clearance with my coilovers though
Very nice v8
Take another look brother! 😂
What’s the wheel and tire setup???
Rota RBX 17x9 -13 offset 265/70r17 in front and 17x9.5 -19 offset 275/70r17 in rear
17x9 rkr's?
17x9 front and 17x9.5 rear Rota RB's
Has a off idle dead spot,, no biggie on a fun country road. Might not be able to tune it out with that much cam
Diana Thompson this was years ago right after we got it running we were still working out the kinks it has since been reworked and tuned numerous times and runs great!
nice car! but that holley is the worst carb for the l series. I did a azc/390 holley on my l28 and I went back to the su carbs
I really like the carb (650 double pumper) and its not a normal L series very aggressively cammed with custom size valves with a 3.2L stroker build, it responds very well to the carb.
do you not have the hesitation problem in corners?
Brian Chilldres once the float bowls and power valve were set properly I haven't had any issues. Very happy with the set up
I can't understand how someone would spend all that money and not put triples on it; 4 into 6 doesn't go!
How muuuuuch
Have you dyno'd the setup?
Robert Armstrong not yet but spoke with Dave Rebello about some tuning when I got it running and told him what I had in the motor and he estimated around 325 at the crank and with parasitic drag in the drivetrain best estimate is just under 300 at the wheels and it weighs 2400 lbs with me in it. Keeps up with corvette Z06's on the track no problem and beats most of them 👍🏼
Robert Armstrong : Believe the OS GIKEN Sema Show Black One Has Pretty Much Same Strk.Set Up W/ Rebello Injection Its Saying 376 h.p.This Carb See Up May Be A Little Less,Depending on Size of Carb.
@@edcain3676 learn to write capital letter freak.
@@tavspop: Stick It,Think Ur the Writting Sgt.of Arms??
@@edcain3676 it's just a stupid s*** I've seen. Get a clue d******
Nice z... it needs some boost.
couldn't show us the car driving
Randy White check out my other videos of it on the track plenty of of driving videos 👍🏼
NOOOO You didn't RIPPP IT!!!
not sure what you mean by RIPPP IT?
Must mean a burn out.
Why aren't we getting to hear it under load? Is it because you hate us?
leloodallasmultipass Check out my other videos it's under plenty of load at the track haha
mucho ruido pocas nueces
Rip that intake and carb off and get some triple webers or at least SUs it wont sound like shit anymore and your motor right now cyls 1 and 6 have a question? WTF are you thinking? Hellloooo
TRUTH4U2NO hahaha! I have modified the intake to prevent starvation of cylinder 1 and 2 and flooding of 5 and 6 and have data to support that all 6 cylinders are close to equal. I have spent countless hours porting and tuning the fuel and ignition delivery to make it a reliable powerhouse. Plus I wanted to make it my own not like every other run of the mill L series motor. Sure I could’ve done a turbo build, sure I could’ve done ITB’s, or triple carbs but where’s the fun in that? I have been to several Z car meets including ZCON and if you see very built beautiful Z with triple carbs or an ITB setup it looks like every other one out there just different shiny bits. I will assure you there’s nothing like mine out there and I did that for a reason. Also it’s not just show I do race it and beat the hell out of it on the track it now has over 5k miles of track time and nearly that on the street just had the head off last winter and all looks well with no issues at all! Rebello makes a fantastic stroker and if it all goes the way it has been I have many miles left on it. So please get your facts straight before you open your mouth.
sounds like its about to explode. Say it with me tune up.
surf403 it's been tuned actually have you ever heard a long duration high lobe cam on a stroked motor before? Listen to a 383 stroker chevy small block with a hot cam in it sounds the same it's caused from a low vacuum and high volume of fuel and cfm of air through the intake.
280zRacer No he hasnt.....lol .Your shit sounds great!
It sounds awesome, just like a stroker with a big cam should. Great car man, I'd love to have that beast in my Z.
Can we all say HATER.It's cammed.Owned built 2.8. Sounds beautiful.
Dumbass