Just a crazy thought. I have plans to sell my m3 and 328i and buy a 4 door m3.
but in my mind’s ramblings, I can’t help but dwell on the fact that my dad has a '72 240z, sitting in primer with an uncracked dash, 45k original miles, that he would let me have for 1k.
original color is lime green. which I think is SO FUCKING COOL. Everyone in the datsun crowd despises this color, but I fucking love it. jams and bay are still original color, and though dirty the paint is in darn nice shape
maaaybe I could get a little project going on since I have all this free time lately.
if I were to seriously kick around this idea; I just can’t do an rb26. I don’t have the money right now. I would only have like $5k to play with after the cost of the car, and that needs to include paint, (I’d paint it myself) motor, suspension and brakes.
I’d have to decide between 2.8 turbo fi, or ls1 (or ls6. that’s the c5 vette motor, correct? what are the differences). ls1/6 have an aluminum block, correct? what is the weight of the motor? what about the manual trans (t56 it’s called, right)?
I’ve been checking prices of ls1/ls6’s on ebay to no avail. Even completed listings doesn’t really yield me any results. What do these motors go for? specs? same with the ls6 plz
again, just rambling. I still may just only do an m3 sedan. I just think a lime green 240z would be sick, and even moreso with a fucking ls1. what y’all think?
You can probably find a Gen III LS based truck motor for pretty cheap, like a 5.3. A lot of guys with that motor in their trucks do turbos and make sick amounts of power.
Thats kind of my plan as well, either go rb or build an l30 out of the spare n42 block i have laying around. Just get an n42 intake and a pallnet fuel rail and no more mess under the hood.
Putting aside that the lsx motors were built by the hands of god, if you wanted to make some descent power cheaply you could just stick with a ford 5.0 You can pick those up cheaply which would give you money to spend else where. Then when time or money allowed it, turbo that or something. lol
axisz, that is a darn good idea my friend. maybe even enough to make me go l28et.
does that setup necessitate a remote mount brake booster?
fuck. this idea is sounding better and better. I love my e36, it’s so comfy and luxurious. I would not mind at all keeping it, and having a fucking fast as hell 240z as well (when the z mag did the project they got the car well into the 11’s on an l28et, stock internals, for under 5k including cost of car).
MY DAD JUST GAVE ME THE CAR! I can’t believe it. I’ve been trying to convince him via text. and he just gave it to me. I’m in. I’m back. this is happening.
good luck with the project, let me know if you have any Q on LS1 stuff.
Ya daveP car is nice, hes had it for a few years now Ive been seeing it at newera. Nick made a sweet stainless exhaust for it this year. I remember back when it was just ported TB, a intake, and mike tuned it. It put down like 340whp something descent like that, and the car weights 2600 I think?
His buddy clive is doing a LS1 240 swap too.
if the L28 in my 280 ever gives me major problems (which at 62k miles i don’t see in the near future) i’ll probably just drop in a vortec 350 with a centrifugal s/c on it.
Putting an iron block v8 in one of these cars is stupid. The car is so light the weight of a iron block over the front end has to be detrimental to the over all handling of the car.
Dave P’s. car with the ls1 in it is absolutely amazing.
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