RichardPosterior

I tend to go back towards solid axle swaps mainly for affordability and reliability. i plan to track the car a few times but by no means am i going to be that guy there looking for that extra 1/10th of a second. I have searched IRS rear end builds here but i can never get a satisfactory answer to reliability figures. I will carefully go over Nathanwa and Stony's Builds, thank you for the suggestions and kind words! I have been getting a lot of feedback about power goals from you, newzed and primaz. maybe since this would be my first car without power steering or ABS boiling the tires at 80mph on the highway would not be a good idea, maybe the car is sketchy as hell? i have started to rethink my approach. I am thinking i would just go NA for troubleshooting, do Valvesprings, cam and injectors with associated plumbing for a turbo in the future. this would have the benefits of #1 allow me to find problems with the engine/driveline without having to deal with forced injection and associated stresses and #2 avoid being beaten to death by my driveshaft while doing 80mph sideways on the highway lol I will attach a picture, its in a trailer right now so i can't get a side picture of it. left side of the car seems to be held together with body filler, frame seems good. original seats that is about it. More pictures next weekend when i get it in the garage. just in the planning stages right now. first step is to figure out what i am doing with the rear end. I would love to keep the IRS if i can find a reliable solution, as you said it would ruin the handling of the 240 putting in a solid axle. however i fully intend to have a car that can boil the tires at highway speeds, if i can have it handle as well even better! I know it would be very hard for a 240z to use my power goal, but the car will be mini-tubbed to handle more tire and i don't plan on the car ever exceeding 160mph (drag strip). i am not a guy for top speed stuff. Thanks a tonne for the advice and pictures on reinforcing the chassis, i will look into this and it may become my first step rather than rear end first. I would love to hear that straight six howl once you get it together... that is for sure one thing i will regret... how awesome straight six's sound.

I do not doubt that, i have a 94 LT1 camaro that puts down 415rwhp with 125 shot. so i would say i am going into much much deeper waters with my goals, car being a shoe box and all. I was inspired by a video of a which if i recall correctly, had a thread on this forum about his car, and it seemed docile enough on the street. Also, i don't have a drivetrain yet, i am just starting the build and trying to get suggestions.... I have been wrong before, i have made my camaro too loud before, thinking it would be awesome. after 3 hours of driving i ripped the entire exhaust off.... so i am not going to say i know EXACTLY what i want, but far as i can gather the only words of caution are about having something that will light the tires up, which in my mind is just a matter of throttle manipulation and not at all a negative thing... Having the choice is more or less what i am after. However, if there is a solid basis on positives and negatives i may have overlooked i am not hard headed enough to overlook someones advice who has more experience than myself. From the initial greeting i received i actually thought to myself, maybe it would be better to scrap that datsun and find a more complete vehicle with a solid axle... something i can fit some friends in more easily but, i figure if i am going to invest a lot of time into something, shouldn't it be exactly what i want?

Why would it not be possible? 600-750whp is because if you are going to dump a shit tonne of your time and money into a car, why not have it leave you white knuckled and have a hard time keeping the clutch in since your leg is shaking so badly, that holy shit feeling, the ability to turn a little knob and have it get really ******* crazy would be awesome. from Demahs build (LS1tech) he puts down about 470rwhp at 7lbs and has hit over 1000rwhp on stock internals. However i really don't want to bend rods. 600whp would be high boost, i included the additional 750 as a reliability buffer for suggested drive train components. I have a budget is up to 25 grand, but i would for obvious reasons like to be much lower than that. and yes, i went to school full time for 7 months before i got my first job at a shop, where i had worked for around 2500 hours to get my welding tickets. however, i never completed to red seal welder as i found a much better paying job that did not include toxic fumes and slag burns also, you just gave my car a name "Kind of Rediculous" so, thanks for that and the link <3

Hey guys, i picked up a 71 240z and i need a bit of guidance. The car has nothing in it, picked up a rolling chassis and have plans for a "Sloppy Mechanics" Junkyard LQ4 Turbo build, however as i delve ever deeper into this rabbit hole i am running into issues. the car has no axles or diff at the moment and the first thing i want to get started on is the rear end. I would like the car to be able to support abuse in the 600-750whp/tq range, but i read that the rear end that normally goes in these cars can support up to about 300hp before they pretty much start self-disassembling themselves. I am on a budget (hence the junkyard engine) but would like to build for the future too (who knows how bat shit crazy this could get....) I am not exactly a super accomplished fabricator, but i am an apprentice welder. What would support my goals for the rear end? Is there a solid axle swap? Will a R230 support my needs or be more costly than a solid axle swap? I have been told not to get nit picky with stuff, this is going to be a down and dirty car but i saved it from a almost certain death so please don't hate on me.... i always loved how these cars looked.