I purchased a 1990 300zx Naturally Aspirated 2 seater from a douche bag named Fernando Ramos (stay away from this guy if you ever meet him... Ramos isnt his real last name either, haha) down in Hollywood, Fla. This was a while back, so i've gotten over the whole getting screwed part. Anyways, car was described to me as "MINT condition" when it came on the flatbed, it was deffinately NOT in mint... not one part of the car was. Only advantage, the car had a straight body. When I fired her up she would make a noise similar to this... "TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK (rev to 1000) TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK (rev to 1500) TICKTICKTICKTICKTICK (rev 1750) TICKTICKTICK kljafdkljdsafkljaf *stall out*" and it would stall. My mechanic performed the "breaker bar" to the head test, and determined that it was the intake side of the heads, and I would need to replace them. So I began to tear the VG down to bare metal. Remove harness, cut all tubing (dry rotted, no use anyways) removed plenum (wow that was fun... no no it wasnt.
) removed the spark collums, removed cam covers, radiator, fan, and shroud, and radiator hoses (ones which lead into water pump) and then removed valve covers... So now I am awaiting my mechanic to come over and manually turn the engine over to see what is wrong in there, he is also going to perform a leakdown, and compression test. But I know I am going to need these parts so far in:
1. New Harness***
2. New tubing
3. Refurbish kit (includes new pulleys, water pump, new belts etc.)
4. New or repaired heads
5. I will need to bead blast up the lower and upper plenum... Intakes arent suppose to have black gunk caked inside of them eh? (personally I think the car was dropped into some water... And removed, and the owner convienienty forgot to mention it to the cops... No report, nothing shows up on carfax... BAH)
- Does anyone else have any ideas? Post any comments, or idea imputs, I can use any and all. I personally think that the timing belt either broke, or skipped time. What are the possibilities of this? If this happened, chances are that the heads are just going to need to be replaced... Any ideas? Peace foo's.