I bought my Z about a year ago with a broken timing belt. I figured I would just go though the heads to see which valves were bent. I replaced all the valves I thought were bent. (stupid) I got her running but lacked some serious power. So it sat in the garage all winter until I came across a deal I couldn't pass up.

My friends uncle had an 87 300zx with an extra transmission and turbo engine. So I drove roughly 1500miles round trip to pick up this car for parts. Its a shame it only has 98k on it.


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So later this winter I started working on removing the engine from my gray Z and started to tear it down. I then started tearing down the turbo engine to find that there was rust buildup in a few of the cylinder walls.

Anyways swapped over the internals and heads from the turbo engine to the na block. and found these from the na engine!
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Anyways swapped all the parts and replace the bearings and rings with geniune nissan parts.
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Then got around to throwing in the new engine about a month ago.

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All in and running great now!

On to some random pics.

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Since then I've swapped the glitchy digital gauges for analog gauges and reassembled the interior. I also installed new Accel 8mm spark plug wires to replace the old taylor ones.

Mods include:
-Coilovers
-Full Poly Bushings
-3" downpipe
-K&N Filter
-Spec Stage 2 clutch
-Accel 8mm Plug wires

Still breaking in the engine and clutch but will soon turn up the boost. Sorry for the long posts. I know I'm leaving out a lot but you get the picture.

 

I like it. Get a better shift **** so you can actually throw some gears lol

 

Looks promising! Now the exterior needs to be cleaned up, no offense

 

I would but this one was on my old max. It means something to me! haha

Oh I know. It looks better already Those pictures were from when it first left the garage after a year. I plan on swapping the front facia off the 87 to my 86.

 

A little update.
-I had a full 3" exhaust made from the downpipe back to a flowmaster.
-Swapped my welded differential for my open differential. Feels so great to turn and not shred up my tires!
-Bought a staggered set of 18" 350z wheels.
-Finished my in dash gauge pod to hold my boost and wideband gauges.
Slowly shes coming together.

 

I like it