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Did I bring that up again? Oh, you must have gone to the JNC thread where I was trying to convince that guy to put them on his 240sx...It's just such a cool flare, I think somebody ought to do something with it. I used to have some 83 Celica Supra flares, and they fit pretty well if you put the back ones on the front and vice-versa. I only had one side though, and could never find a match before I lost interest.

Can't say as I'd ever seen that one before, I kind of thought this would be about the Monza Mystery Z or maybe that black skyline powered AWD 240z. I'm really curious to see more of this car, it looked pretty stout.

Looking really good OTM! I like it. I've been working on a 240sx with some retro features (zg flares, external oil cooler, and a BRE style spook like the one I think Mike KZ has on his car) for a guy on www.japanesenostalgiccar.com, but I haven't gotten anywhere with it. Also I started mocking up my intercooler plumbing today to make less work for myself this weekend. You think that your hood in the drawing is crazy, just wait until you see my top mount, front scooped intercooler! I think I'll photoshop it together so you guys can get the idea. You want me to post the NES Z31 here, too? If not, too bad, cause here it is: For those that didn't get the explanation on the other thread I posted this to, this car is themed like an 8-bit NES console, charcoal at the bottom and bone at the top. The Nissan Turbo on the back is written in the Nintendo font, and there is a skyline R32 tail lamp assembly on the right to simulate the buttons, while the left has a d-pad shadowed in. This would work on pretty much any car from the 80's, but I think a Z31, Celica Supra, or Starion would be able to pull it off best. Or maybe an S12 200sx... (also, this was totally freehand...eat your heart out OTM! I did use a picture to look at, but no tracing)

I don't think rewinds come with that kind of offset, do they?

I think 240hoke beat you to it. That's about as close as you're going to get without doing the blow-through triples.

In nature there are two kinds of camoflage: make yourself look like your surroundings, or look so much like some other creature that you can be mistaken for it. Translate this to an automobile and you get either making your car look and sound completely stock while somehow still being fast, or making your car look like some other type of car that everyone knows couldn't POSSIBLY be fast. Since nobody knows what an 810 looks like anymore anyway, minimal exterior mods are probably fine, but throw some flares and the wheel/tire combo to fill them out with a flat black paint job on any car and you haven't built a sleeper, you've built a car that says: "look at me, I'm probably fast." The irony of making your car look like every other rice bucket out there as camoflage is that all those rice bucket owners think that the crap they're piling on their cars is identifying them with vehicles that can actually perform, when it isn't. This situation would be like if the venomous coral snake evolved to look like the harmless king snake in order to lull prey into a false sense of security, while the king snake was bragging to it's friends how much it looked like a coral snake so that nobody would mess with it. What better way to camoflage a car that is actually fast than by making it look and sound like a car owned by someone that has no idea what they're doing and has in the process of "upgrading" their vehicle actually made it slower? I would define a true sleeper as not just a car that doesn't look fast, but a car that looks SLOW. A fine line I suppose, but I think there's a difference.

You've actually posted information about two different cars. The first car is the red S130 with the 3.1 stroker backed up by a Z31 turbo transmission, and it says the exterior mods are a custom by ABR. The Bomex car is a Z32 belonging to someone else associated with the owner of the first car. I was confused by that as well, because there is a lot of conflicting detail in the text of the article you posted.

I thought about trying to get the fairings off of an early 80's Smokey and the Bandit style Trans Am to work, but I haven't had time to go looking for any lately.

Jhaag, thanks for digging that up! It looks like ABR must have made more than one of those bodykits, or else we've come up with the same car in different stages of it's development. I thought the aero mods in this pic were interesting: Notice how the front opening is sealed to the intercooler.

I thought it was gag me with a spoon?

Ah, the Panhandle...That's a bit far from where I'm at...

The Gulf Coast is a big place, where abouts are you located?

I think the ideal vehicle for the NES paint scheme is probably a Scion Xb or a Nissan Cube. I like the Nissan idea better though, because you could then write "Nissan" in the Nintendo font.

What exactly does "sleeper" mean to you and your GF? Pass a cursory external inspection by someone who doesn't know what they are looking at anyway, pass a cursory external inspection by someone who DOES know what they are looking at? Pass both external and underhood inspection by someone who doesn't know what they are looking at, or pass an underhood inspection by someone who should know what they are looking at? I think your only real hope of having a decent sleeper is to pass an external visual inspection. Ideally, you want something that sounds like a ragged out engine that is about to fall out of the car, but really isn't. So your choices as I see them are Honda engine with a straight pipe (using the G-force tranny to convert a B-series honda motor to RWD configuration), possibly a toyota motor with a straight pipe (has the advantage of already being RWD in many applications), or you could do the ultimate: the Mazda rotary. Before you laugh at the rotary, consider: What is the only thing that sounds worse than a piston engine about to fall out the bottom of the car? A super high strung rotary engine, that's what! I think a nice 13b with a radical port job and a down draught Weber, coupled with either a straight pipe exhaust or a rice-can clamped on at a jaunty angle being held up by a coat hanger would be perfect. Then you find some wider than stock steel wheels that you can put grippy tires on, and get like 3 of those chrome trim rings that simulate a polished lip but leave the fourth one off. And THAT's how you build a sleeper. Oh, and get a type-r badge for the back. Just make sure it's seriously fast before you do all that...

Sweet! That looks like something I would do in my spare time...

I don't know Sven, I hadn't really gotten that far yet. I'm not a Z31 owner, so it's not a very pressing concern, but I imagine that something could be done with the early turbo hood scoop to give the impression of a cartridge slot...maybe a fog light block-off on the front right that looks like power or reset, and an opening on the left for an air duct that's shaped like the controller socket? I didn't want it to get so themed it looked rediculous, but just to suggest an NES console, so I don't know how far I'd want to take it.

Really? Nobody had a 12mmX1.25 bolt? What length did you need, maybe that was the issue? I just recently found a place that sells nothing BUT nuts and bolts, that's where I bought the Grade 8 5/8"X10" bolt and lock nut to replace the spindle pins that I had to cut and air chisel out...

Didn't really want to post this one to the "my S30 drawings" thread because it's not an S30...maybe we should start a Z31 thread, or just a general Z drawings of any kind thread? The theme of this one is "NES console." Note the R32 right side tail lamp, and the cross hair on the left side, harking back to the square two button controllers of yore...

Is anybody familiar with this car? I came across this web page by accident looking for Z31 pics. http://kanchan.uchidacw.com/?cid=21726

Oh, well in that case, now I don't feel so bad. (you can tell I don't look up the skirts of too many S130s...)

You know, that's the second time I've seen someone mention their spindle pin just randomly fell out...and wished that I should be so lucky! Man I had to use an air chisel to pound mine out! Although I wouldn't want them to fall out while driving, I'm still a little jealous of people who's pins just come right out.

I still like how the Primadonna cars handled the front spoiler: taken from this thread: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=119098 I would have LOVED to see what that would do in the tunnel...

does it start up as it sits, or is it dead in the driveway? I've seen RX-7 guys pour a bit of motor oil down the carb (not much, mind you) to get things going every once in awhile. Also, that's the cheapest 3rd gen I've ever heard of, in any condition. Popular internet wisdom has it that turbocharging an NA rotary is a bad idea, so finding a factory turbo car might be the way to go. did you see the link I posted in the other engine forums to www.amvracing.com? Got to love 750hp NA with two downdraught Webers... This particular engine was destined to go into a 1st gen with a Supra tranny and a ford 9" according to the guy in the booth at HIN that I was talking to. Also, I second the motion on RacerX's awesome 1st gen bodywork!

the lead in "You Got Served" drives a 280z with the cool factory alloys...but it's not on there...

Now you've got me wondering if I should change my sig...