Hi everyone.
Welcome to the start of what is certainly an overly ambitious project for someone with my limited skills, experience, and talent.
I’m going to try to put a screamin’ naturally aspirated V8 into my mom’s old 280Z.
Not gonna lie, I feel moderately bad for hacking up such a sweet car.
My mom bought this car in 1978 after her big block Impala was stolen, stripped, and burned. She drove it A LOT for 10 years, a bit for the next 10, then 0 miles for the last 10. The 0 from the last 10 is because my brother and I decided to try to fix the leaky head during Christmas break in 2008. We got as far as removing the timing belt, then had to go back to school.
It sat, disabled, for the 10 years.
Sorry, Mom.
For many years, my brother and I dreamt up big plans for this car, but neither of us had the space or money to do it. I caught a big break when my good friend, Nik, offered to let me store and work on the car in his super nice shop that he built on his property.
With that secured, I shipped the car down from my parent’s place in California to Nik’s in Houston.
Journey complete. Sort of. It didn’t run and was really hard to get off the trailer.
Shipping cars makes me nervous, but all good here.
With great difficulty, we pushed it into the driveway while we figured out the best way to get into the shop.
Made it.
And finally in.
I’m excited to get started, but Nik and I agree that some work on the shop organization will go a long way, so we’ll probably spend some time on that before I start on the 280.
Thanks for reading!
damen
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