| My long time friend Ben finally decided to get a Z32, from owning 240sx to 350Z to Z31. He was moving back from Dallas to Houston and had been daily riding a Harley, and a huge dodge ram diesel. He wanted a car so in Dallas he found the 1991 5speed slicktop last year sitting with a blown motor. I had already purchased a car from the same seller, that said he may be welling to sell the car later for the right price. So Ben made the call and sealed the deal. With 230k on it, the car was pretty rough with clear coat coming up every where and blown motor. He picked it up on a U-haul trailer and dragged it back to Houston to my work. He didn't care if it was NA or TT, but at the time i just happend to have a motor from one of my parts car resealed with recent 60k, upgraded turbos t25/28s, and 555cc injectors. The motor made 410whp in the previous car, I gave him a price on the engine, with labor at the cost of food and boos, since he is one of my best friends, and he was all go. The sort term goal was pull the motor and strip down the car for prep and paint, have the car painted, perform the TT swap and then send the car back for wet sanding and buffing to finish the job. And thats just what we did with several other things along the way. Here she is fresh of the trailer with the engine donor in the background, ex member Donnie Waco300zx's car a wrecked 1992 TT.
 LOL not driven since at least 2005
 Windshield has to go.
 All the mouldings were showing wear
 clear coat and paint fade, one of hte fenders had no clear coat at all and looked spray painted flat black.
 We wasted in time and pulled the moldings, engine, taillights, gas cap, headlights, bumpers, antenna finisher and everything else out before we sent it off for paint.
Heres Ben anxious to get to work.
I start pulling moldings
 Put the car on up and found a few things to our surprise, a 1-pc DS, tokico illuminas, eibach springs, SS clutch line, and a short throw shifter.And the main rails are in really good unmolested condition.
Motor comes out in no time, less than 2 hours with dinner. lifts FTW!
 I pull out the seats to give the interior a thorough cleaning to pick up the years of mess left by pervous owners.
 Yaay! a box!
 j spec bumper, tails, smic ducts, TT and fairlady stickers, moldings, misc clips etc
Coz sent extra T top molding on accident so i kept them. for my future project car.
I took the plate frame from ben and put it on my car :-)
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Member eyagel (eric) cleaning off the crappy old TT.net quarter window sticker that was only on one side anyways.
Me taking off gas cap door for paint.
I had a good time watching eric and ben figuring out where the bolts are to the headlights. I had to get to the rear bolts for them.
Might as well modify the fog light while everythings apart.
tails out
bumper and lights out.
Wont be like that for long
 A good nights work and off to the paint shop she went.
Back from paint shop and the body re assembly and TT conversion begins.
note the orange peal because the car has not been buffed yet.
Honestly we slacked off on reassembly pictures haha.
I think SMIC piping and IC mounting is the hardest/most time consuming part of the conversion. It had been about 4 years since I did my conversion and couldn't remember the order of putting the piping in easiest.
All news front splash shields and hardware installed.
Lower interior cleaned up.
And keeping an eye on the vital signs
 I've never done so much work at one time to one car. We worked on the car, after hours at the shop I work at. The process was stretched out because we had to order in some missing links mostly for the engine. But all it all we had less than 10 total days or nights of work invested on the car. 1 night motor and body tear down, 2-3 days TT conversion, 3 nights body re assembling. 1 night replacing the steering rack, a busted front lower control arm with a bad ball joint, replaced the steering rack and bushings, and put in on the alignment machine. And about 2 nights of fixing unexpected issues,a no spark issue, intake sprockets bad and leaking oil, not sealing to cam seal, had to go back in and replace cam sprockets. The original sprockets were burnt where the cam seal rides on the VTC sprocket. Then a ptu connection was causing a misfire. And some how two coil pack connector rubber insulators (little ruber seal in the connector)got into the same one connection and had me running in circles on another misfire issue. Base boost is set at 8psi, we installed extra boost line to the turbos so we could go back in and install an EBC easily later. We are still in need of a TT A/C condensor and a few other things, i think the compressor on it will be shoot because it did have a blown fuse to it. we need to adjust the roof moldings and probably get more clips for them. We rear tint need to be removed. But right now the car is running like a champ and Ben is enjoying it. And getting lots of complements now that the car has been wet sanded and buffed it looks great. Here are pictures we took earlier today. 
Mmmmm slicktops.......
 These garage pics didn't come out great, but eh.
 . Thanks for looking, we'll take more pictures once he gets a real exhaust and something better than NA wheels.
Formerly SpecNATT (Houston) |
Finished my firends project TT slicktop & sexy slicktop pics - 
01:40:19 04/26/09
