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I'm "goin' Zenki" with my lights.

Looking good, looking good.

Exept for those bores, they look nasty. I cant tell by the pics but I hope .020 is enough to take all of that out. How is the crank?

Crank is shit, had to use one of my spares. Block is at the machine shop now, .020 should be enough, I hope.

which spoiler model do you rock btw? I need to get one haha

Its the fiberglass BRE spoiler from MSA. I'm kinda liking their *new* victory spoiler now. Same basic design, just taller.

I think you should keep one 240z tail light and one 280z tail light. Im a bit envious of you, you get the sexy set up for the brake lights when you convert to the 240z lights because of how your wiring is. 240s use the upper and lower outer bulbs for the brakes/turn signal, and the upper two for the running. Not like the euro/jdm/how yours will be where it uses the upper two for the running/brakes and the lower for the turn signals.

nice progress bro looking good.

Prepare to be more envious. I got the 240z lights for free cause I sandblasted a few parts for my buddy. Great condition, except I had to disassemble them to clean the lenses and the chrome plastic divider strips in the center were dryrotted to hell. I had to remake them out of fiberglass filler. Came out pretty well so far.

I'm just doing these little stupid projects while my engine block is at the machinist. Can't do much else, might as well be productive and do what I can.


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And don't think I forgot the front, either.

Needs additional mounting tabs/something on the bottom of the tail light surrounds that isn't there on a 280z. But I like the current results.

This post has been edited by Oddmanout84 on Jun 16 2010, 04:40 PM

Very nice sexy time

Its been a while, but I'm also pretty destitute. Just about everything I've done recently (which also amount to next to nothing) has been what I can get done for free.

As she sits right now, in the process of rerunning wires. Cobwebs are not visible, but have formed on every corner of the car.





And an early model dash, ready for my Frankenstein experiments in restoration. Glove box is old tired and moldy. I'm going to disassemble it to copy the pattern (its made of cardboard) and remake it out of fiberglass.





My parts were finally released from machine shop jail. Overly expensive even when the owner cut me a deal on the price, which was still over what was originally quoted. Blame my rods for being egg-shaped and a slight warp in the front left corner of the block...






Oh, and then a challenger appeared.




Don't know what exactly I'm going to do with it yet, or when.

At least it was free...

Nice progress. Really like the 240Z taillights in there. Thinking about doing the same.

Right now I'm in the middle of converting the front side to the 240Z stuff and I seen you've already done that.

Any easy way you've found to extend the harness to the 240Z turn signals? Basically just mate up the 280Z bullet connectors with the 240Z spade type clips at the right circuits? I don't want to hardwire it.

Essentially, yes. Since I don't have the 240z style connectors on my harness or in my parts collection, I'm converting the 240z style connectors on the turn signals to the ones that were stock on the 280z.

The rear lights are stupid easy by comparison.

This post has been edited by Oddmanout84 on Sep 23 2010, 07:40 PM

set that ka to rev to 12000 and you'll be laughin'
i duno if it's possible but i'd imagine it'd be sweet as in a z.

shame you guys don't have many rb30's over there..

If/When I build it, it's going to get a BC fully counterweighted crank. Dunno if that'll bump the redline anywhere near 12000 (lol), but it would be pretty unique for an S30.

So what size tires are you sporting on those rims anyways? I noticed you manged to tuck those things under the flares WITHOUT cutting the factory fenders? Do you have any rubbing issues when turning HARD? What springs/sways are you using?

I got a set of free rs3s for some 17" wheels, so ill probably go with the rota rbrs myself now off of hz, too good a price to pass up. Im worried about them rubbing like crazy when i manage to get my car onto the track.

Don't track that Z without massaging the fenders. Mine STILL rub, even after using a rolling tool. Still need to cut them. But they only rub during very aggressive cornering or large bumps, most of which I don't notice until after I inspect the small gouges in the tires, which is disconcerting... Using factory sway bars and Eibach springs with Tokico blue shocks.


I'll EVENTUALLY graduate to coilovers, its just not in the budget/time constraints right now.

Oh no, I plan on getting some flares and cutting them to high hell and back. Ive got a base line tokico kit now, plan to add some flares and some ST sways from the Z store and seeing how that goes. If i can turn hard without rubbing like this (will be rocking 255/17s) ill be EXTREMELY happy (I know my springs are soft- so ill be relying a lot on those sways to keep me as flat as possible). Budget will decide where i go next, minimum is probably GC coilover springs with illumina shocks. Ideally id love to rock an AZC set up.

This post has been edited by StraightAwayZ on Sep 29 2010, 08:10 PM

Wouldn't we all.

I will one day. Just a matter of time , my car(s) is my only hobby, ive no problems sinking more money into it than I should.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Oddmanout!!!! Looks like the old Datsun's coming along nicely!

This post has been edited by The J on Oct 4 2010, 12:18 PM

Happy Birthday!!!

(Belated)

Any more pics of progress? Plans for the RB motor?

Thanks for the birthday wishes guys. I had classes that day, and in between I decided to have lunch at one of those mall food-court Chinese places. Got sick. Wonderful birthday.


Zero progress. No time to do anything, really. Tomorrow I'm picking up some SEM paint products that I had to special order to this dump, because there's no good auto supply places around here. The paint is for a small project, but its Z related; restoring the dashboard.

What RB motor? Lol, that's a KA24DE.

how the hell did i miss your birthday?! Happy Belated BDay

Lol, its easy to miss. I don't exactly announce it.

Thanks