240Z: Big update, mudflaps arrived, Intake manifold research, Trunks disassembled

Sorry for the lack of updates lately on the 240Z project, it’s not like i’ve been not doing any thing, just was enjoying my EK9 in the nice weather, and had a lot of other stoff going on. My bodyshop man has a lot of daily-business-customers wanting to have their american cars ready for summerseason so  he’s busy working on small projects currently and my car is on the backburner. Also did a lot of research and ordered a lot of parts. currently i’m awaiting 2 shipments from Japan and a big one from USA and still need to order a lot of tools and small bits to complete a few things. however, let the pictures talk:
1) As mentioned before started with the assembly of the pedal box. This is just a little teaser shot as i’ll go more into detail when it’s completed. still need a lot of parts and tools to get it done:

2) got these mudflaps from MSA which were on backorder:

3) I’m trying to get my bodypanels ready for paint- and rust-stripping at a local specialized company soon so i’m currently stripping all my parts. Completed the second set of doors, as well as both trunks. Still need to do the service flaps, the hood cowl, the hood and two sets of fenders:

4) then made some research on rare JDM intake manifolds. Let me share my results with you. As there are many different L6 intake manifolds from japan (aside from the other brands like Cannon, etc..)
– Sanyo Kiki: Japanese brand which still exists has been splitted into different groups and doesn’t produce intakes under that brand anymore (See below).
Here you see an early casting version:

– SK Sports kit: Was a complete Kit sold with a later Sanyo Kiki intake cast-design but also came with the carbs and everything. Quite a popular choice and i like it:

– OER Corporation: In 1983 Sanyo-Kiki was splitted into different branches and their Carb-business renamed to OER Corporation. Since then the old SK-kits have ben redesigned and sold under their new brandname either as Intake only or complete OER Sports injection kit (Still available new through OER Japan):

– Tomei powered. Was available until around 2014, not anymore sadly. Design looks quite close to a lot of other Manifolds, like the datsun competition etc.

– FET / Far east trading / Kyoku-To
Here we have an early Kyoku-To Design Intake manifold (Kyoku-To = Far east)

– Later versions came branded as F.E.T and had the additional Balancer tube on top. My favourite design so far, will probably look brilliant together with my similary finned Kakimoto intake manifold:

– Mikuni
Famous Carb manufacturer (actually they built Solex carbs in licence) also had their own intake manifolds:

– Harada Shokai.
Looks pretty similar to many other designs but is still available and probably the technically most advanced and best engineered design. I love it but it’s probalby a bit too modern for my car and i somehow prefer a more oldschool design even if the power-gain is not the same..

– Datsun Competition
Intake for the Mikuni / Solex PHH44 Intakes (Picture from the 1978 Competition catalogue):

– Kameari Racing.
Intake Manifolds are still availabe new from kameari for various carb sizes and applications:

Here’s a closer look at one of them:

– Hayashi racing:
So far only got this single picture showing a Hayshi racing L28 Intake manifold and i’m not sure if it will fit the other L6 heads but it looks beautiful:

Others: Well there are other Manufacturers like Ohtsuka and so on but sadly wasn’t able to find any pictures of these. if you have some, i would be very interrested!! Get in contact if you have some pics 🙂

That’s it for now.  Need to prepare a few things before recceiving my new daily car and getting rid of the old one including all the parts (already sold most of it) and so on, but i never stop thinking and researching on the Z so don’t worry if updates are lacking doesn’t mean i don’t do anything 😉