Surfdog’s 71 240

Rusty · 02-16-2021, 01:32 PM

Sweet Pantera. Got some 180* headers. Bet that sounds nice.

Guy I went to high school with. His older brother had one. He used to take turns trying to scare the chit out of us.

SurfDog · 02-23-2021, 09:56 AM

I love both the shops I work out of. The one out behind my house and this one (Greg’s!!)

Greg has become a bit of an expert on Zs. I’d go so far as to say he builds the singer porches of Z cars!

SurfDog · 02-23-2021, 07:39 PM

Heat shield to keep some of that exhaust manifold heat off the intake stacks.

I’ve ordered shorter velocity stacks that will fit under my 3 intake filters.

SurfDog · 03-04-2021, 10:27 AM

Those stacks are too tall to accommodate my intake filters

I’m on my third set of stacks trying to get the setup correct. (The first too tall, the second to wide and did not fit inside filter housing. My third not so beautifully curved at the tips but are the right height and width to work.)

Oh well. We have discussed above how I don’t do a great job getting it right on my first try.

Speaking of which also under redesign is my radiator fan and shroud. The original large central fan and shroud did not give sufficient clearance for my big fat harmonic dampener and pulley setup, so it’s been pulled and I’ll use a custom made shroud and 2, 8” fans to pull air through my radiator/oil heat exchanger and my A/C cooler.

A bit more fabrication work (thanks Greg!) And it will now fit up there.

SurfDog · 03-04-2021, 10:28 AM

...this setup was too thick in front of the crank pulley and ATI dampener. My new setup will involve a shroud that runs around the ATI.

It always something!

SurfDog · 03-15-2021, 02:36 PM

Hood is being fitted by body shop this week. (I want to have nice gaps and I don’t quite have the chops to make it nice)

SurfDog · 04-07-2021, 04:50 PM

Steering wheel refurb.

I didn’t realize that’s it’s a faux wood sandable stainable polymer stuff. It looks feels and sands like wood.

Next up paint and stain.

SurfDog · 04-07-2021, 05:19 PM

This is the stuff I’m coating it with.

I sandblasted the beat up paint of the center spokes and 120 then 240 hand sanded off the lacquer or whatever ugly stuff was on the wood. I think it will look a lot better with just some clear coat on the wheel?? We’ll see.

SurfDog · 04-07-2021, 05:28 PM

We custom fabbed up the fan shroud. (The old off the shelf one was too thick to clear my ATI harmonic crank balancer and pulley.

SurfDog · 04-07-2021, 05:34 PM

This is the too thick pre redesign one. I’m having a hard time making my app insert the pic of my new skinny one. You can see how there is no clearance for the harmonic damper

SurfDog · 04-08-2021, 10:06 PM

8 inch fans and over pressure one way flapper valves will be on soon. The body of the shroud down by the damper clears pretty well. I feel the shrouded fans are probably necessary for those high altitude hot summer days with the AC blowing. We’ll see how this works!

SurfDog · 04-09-2021, 06:04 PM

Back from door, hatch and hood alignment. Ready to finish up dash fabrication and a few other bits and go to paint.

Pupilbone · 04-10-2021, 12:12 PM

Great read. Car’s looking awesome.

SurfDog · 04-21-2021, 04:36 PM

Stripped off all the green metal protectant from patch panels so paint will adhere.

Messy job.

SurfDog · 05-13-2021, 10:24 AM

Intake manifold is headed to ceramic coating so we cleaned it up a bit to remove casting warts and flash.

Also (just for fun)Took a few days of 240 building to blast around in other cars

Also dashboard fab is underway!!

02-16-2021, 01:32 PM	#151 (permalink)
Rusty Ronin Samurai - Assassin Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Fayettenam,Pennsyltucky Age: 68 Posts: 35,217 Drives: 2011 Nismo GM 6M Rep Power: 2684438	Sweet Pantera. Got some 180* headers. Bet that sounds nice. Guy I went to high school with. His older brother had one. He used to take turns trying to scare the chit out of us. Hotrodz likes this. __________________ 浪人 - 殺し屋 "The Difficult Anytime, The Impossible By Appointment Only" http://www.the370z.com/members-370z-...o-journal.html

02-23-2021, 09:56 AM	#152 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	I love both the shops I work out of. The one out behind my house and this one (Greg’s!!) Greg has become a bit of an expert on Zs. I’d go so far as to say he builds the singer porches of Z cars! gbrettin, cv129, danegrey and 6 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

02-23-2021, 07:39 PM	#153 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Heat shield to keep some of that exhaust manifold heat off the intake stacks. I’ve ordered shorter velocity stacks that will fit under my 3 intake filters. gbrettin, Rusty, Hotrodz and 2 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

03-04-2021, 10:27 AM	#154 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Those stacks are too tall to accommodate my intake filters I’m on my third set of stacks trying to get the setup correct. (The first too tall, the second to wide and did not fit inside filter housing. My third not so beautifully curved at the tips but are the right height and width to work.) Oh well. We have discussed above how I don’t do a great job getting it right on my first try. Speaking of which also under redesign is my radiator fan and shroud. The original large central fan and shroud did not give sufficient clearance for my big fat harmonic dampener and pulley setup, so it’s been pulled and I’ll use a custom made shroud and 2, 8” fans to pull air through my radiator/oil heat exchanger and my A/C cooler. A bit more fabrication work (thanks Greg!) And it will now fit up there. Hotrodz, old guy and redondoaveb like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

03-04-2021, 10:28 AM	#155 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Surfdog’s 71 240 ...this setup was too thick in front of the crank pulley and ATI dampener. My new setup will involve a shroud that runs around the ATI. It always something! gbrettin, Hotrodz, old guy and 1 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix Last edited by SurfDog; 03-04-2021 at 10:41 AM.

03-15-2021, 02:36 PM	#156 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Hood is being fitted by body shop this week. (I want to have nice gaps and I don’t quite have the chops to make it nice) gbrettin, Rusty and Hotrodz like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

04-07-2021, 04:50 PM	#157 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Surfdog’s 71 240 Steering wheel refurb. I didn’t realize that’s it’s a faux wood sandable stainable polymer stuff. It looks feels and sands like wood. Next up paint and stain. Rusty and Hotrodz like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix Last edited by SurfDog; 04-07-2021 at 05:21 PM.

04-07-2021, 05:19 PM	#158 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Surfdog’s 71 240 This is the stuff I’m coating it with. I sandblasted the beat up paint of the center spokes and 120 then 240 hand sanded off the lacquer or whatever ugly stuff was on the wood. I think it will look a lot better with just some clear coat on the wheel?? We’ll see. gbrettin, Rusty and Hotrodz like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix Last edited by SurfDog; 04-07-2021 at 05:25 PM.

04-07-2021, 05:28 PM	#159 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	We custom fabbed up the fan shroud. (The old off the shelf one was too thick to clear my ATI harmonic crank balancer and pulley. Rusty and Hotrodz like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

04-07-2021, 05:34 PM	#160 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Surfdog’s 71 240 This is the too thick pre redesign one. I’m having a hard time making my app insert the pic of my new skinny one. You can see how there is no clearance for the harmonic damper Rusty, Hotrodz, sx moneypit and 1 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

04-08-2021, 10:06 PM	#161 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Surfdog’s 71 240 8 inch fans and over pressure one way flapper valves will be on soon. The body of the shroud down by the damper clears pretty well. I feel the shrouded fans are probably necessary for those high altitude hot summer days with the AC blowing. We’ll see how this works! gbrettin, Rusty, Hotrodz and 3 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix Last edited by SurfDog; 04-08-2021 at 10:11 PM.

04-09-2021, 06:04 PM	#162 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Back from door, hatch and hood alignment. Ready to finish up dash fabrication and a few other bits and go to paint. JARblue, Rusty, Hotrodz and 5 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

04-10-2021, 12:12 PM	#163 (permalink)
Pupilbone Base Member Join Date: Jul 2020 Location: Grimsby, Ontario Posts: 10 Drives: Camaro ZL1, 370Nismo Rep Power: 3360	Great read. Car’s looking awesome. SurfDog likes this. __________________ #SaveTheManuals

04-21-2021, 04:36 PM	#164 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Stripped off all the green metal protectant from patch panels so paint will adhere. Messy job. JARblue, Rusty, Ghostvette and 1 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix

05-13-2021, 10:24 AM	#165 (permalink)
SurfDog A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Colorado (9000 feet) Age: 56 Posts: 1,796 Drives: 09 6mt, 13 Sequoia, Rep Power: 15749	Surfdog’s 71 240 Intake manifold is headed to ceramic coating so we cleaned it up a bit to remove casting warts and flash. Also (just for fun)Took a few days of 240 building to blast around in other cars Also dashboard fab is underway!! JARblue, Hotrodz, madwi and 1 others like this. __________________ 09 6spd Berk CBE, JWT cams, ZSpeed CSC, Stillen (25 row oil, brake cooling, sways, gen3 CAI), Passport (9500ci), Quaife LSD, Z1 400 hp kit, ss lines, pads, rotors, clutch etc, Phunk's pan and fuel starve fix Last edited by SurfDog; 05-13-2021 at 10:30 AM.