Old member and an old Zed to remember an even older member

[alexgv1]

What a beautiful car! Love the colour especially. 

[Lexx]

Yesterday was a milestone day. 

I'll just leave this pic here.....

 

Edited August 23, 2021 by Lexx

[Stutopia]

Amazing news. For a man who's in Hartlepool or Aberdeen, you had to go a long way to find an MOT centre that was prepared to sign it off

 

How's she drive?

[Lexx]

29 minutes ago, Stutopia said:

Amazing news. For a man who's in Hartlepool or Aberdeen, you had to go a long way to find an MOT centre that was prepared to sign it off

 

How's she drive?

😂

 

No idea yet. Pick her up tomorrow to drive home. Considering I've not driven it more than 150 meters in the past year it's going to be enlightening. 

[Olly350z]

I love this 300 so much!! Seriously good work saving her and getting her back on the road. Youve got a real gem there which I'd swap my nismo for in a heartbeat! 

[Kieran O'Quick]

6 hours ago, Lexx said:

Yesterday was a milestone day. 

I'll just leave this pic here.....

 

That place is just a couple of streets over from me... are they a decent set up? Worth using?

[Lexx]

1 minute ago, Kieran O'Quick said:

That place is just a couple of streets over from me... are they a decent set up? Worth using?

Yeah no complaints at all about Ali's work. He seems to do quite a lot on 350s, and owns one himself. 

[Kieran O'Quick]

Just now, Lexx said:

Yeah no complaints at all about Ali's work. He seems to do quite a lot on 350s, and owns one himself. 

Ta. Good to know. Didn't realise it was there. 

[Lexx]

Just now, Kieran O'Quick said:

Ta. Good to know. Didn't realise it was there. 

Search for them on FB. He posts intermittently the cars he's working on. 

[Kieran O'Quick]

1 minute ago, Lexx said:

Search for them on FB. He posts intermittently the cars he's working on. 

Will do. I thought I'd seen a few more ZX around town than any where else funnily enough. They echo nicely in the town.

[andy james]

Congratulations she looks stunning.

 My brother had a new one in red, traded it in for a Mitsubishi 3000 GTO. (bad move).

Even after owning a 370 and a M4 he still hankers after getting one again.

[rabbitstew]

Looking ace. I had to do a similar amount of cutting/welding on my Renault 5 GT Turbo the other year when I started on that. Was one of those situations where the you cut out, the more rust you found.

[Lexx]

Been a wee while since I updated this. So for anyone still following then read on. 

 

I put the Zed away for the winter and concentrated on other things. I had planned on sending it to the UK expert on Z32s for a 120k service and a few other bits. But as he's based in Bristol is was immensely impractical for me in the end. So I bit the bullet and ordered everything up myself from various US and UK suppliers. 

Planned works:

Plenum pull for plenum coolant line delete. 

New spark plugs 

Replace the felxi fuel line on the fuel rail

Replace all vacuum and fuel lines in the engine bay

120k service - usual suspects but also includes cam seals, crank sprocket, bypass hoses. 

As you'd expect there's been a degree of mission creep already. Mostly involving cleaning up of various aluminium bits. Valve covers have been sent off for powder coating. 

As of today I'm at the stage we're I'm about to remove the harmonic balancer and get on to do water pump, tensioner, idlers, belt, seals etc. 

Scattering of pics below (probably on a random order).