Zetsaz

Put it in a bugeye wagon

My indecision with the CD009 (or the CD00A, or whatever the stamping is on the transmission in my G37S is) is the final gear ratios. For a lot of people it honestly won't matter, but I'm building my car 90% as a fun street car and I don't plan on towing it to shows or events down the road. More of a grand touring car than anything else I guess. The nissan 6 speeds have a really short 6th. It's really peppy, especially in my G37, but even hyper-miling on my way to Utah I've never gotten more than 23-ish mpg which is kinda sad considering the LS mated to a T56 can get you close to 30 in heavier cars. That being said, it would still depend a bit on what your rear end ratio is, and what your use of the car will be.

If I was more experienced and had some proper shop space here in Washington I'd be so tempted to do this haha

Depends how much money you have and what your experience level is. Just recently someone who had first gone about this and even got to mocking up the engine they had sold off their parts. Generally these sorts of projects are the sort that "If you have to ask..." you're probably in over your head. Especially if you're expecting a write up. If you have the know-how, tools, and money though... anything can be done. Watch this entire series before you decide what you want to do. At the very least it's informative and entertaining. They initially thought they'd have the car running in about a year and a half. It's been more than twice that and the car only got back on the ground on it's own wheels in the last episode.

FD was sweet! I'm gonna have that tire kit in my Datsun when I'm back home. Will be handy since I don't have a spare with that. Still blown away by the wacky battery tie down that guy had. Most people at least make it run front to back. Also had those wacky square fender mirrors... bizarre choices being made all around.

This is a true story, I was there. Don't do it. It's just wacky and doesn't fit with the style on the rest of the car.

Yep. All along haha. Glad I could help

When you're posting, just go to the more reply options and underneath the text box it'll give you a file attachment option. You can just load up your pictures through that.

I occasionally post my car but it's a work in progress. Mostly a personal account. The nice cars in the middle east doesn't surprise me. Most people there are either filthy rich or dirt poor. Anyone with a mild interest in these cars that can afford to have them seems to have plenty of money to do them up nicely and properly. Definitely a lot of really nice, clean, examples out there, though not really any documentation on any of it.

That is glorious

About what I expected unfortunately...

Been getting held up on welding up some remaining patches from being out of town for a bit. Will hopefully be getting at least most of that done this week. I'd like to have the car primed before I head back to washington. In the meantime I've been reconsidering flares. I hate how wide flares stick out so far past the stock body lines. Standard width ZG flares are the only thing I'd consider otherwise I'd rather go to some kind of widebody, but most cars I see run stretched tires or excessively wide wheels that stick out past the flare (or worse yet, both) which I'm not a fan of and it always puts me off. 17x9.5 -20 with a 255/40/r17 tire. Only .3" taller than the stock tires but with MUCH more tire. The 255 might be excessive for the front end, but I prefer the square setup and might deal with it for the sake of being able to rotate the tires and making everything look even. Probably not that far off what some of the guys from the rota RB group buy run, but I honestly don't like that wheel despite being pretty similar to this style.

This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen. It's amazing how much they accomplish mostly with tools a lot of people have. Honestly almost makes me want to learn fabrication and do that. What am I doing being a music teacher? haha

I'm not saying don't do it, but a year of "research" can mean anything. Reading through people's ideas and some forum posts isn't exactly research for a project of this kind. Mark Rohlston has one of the craziest S30 builds I've ever seen and he decided against it. From this thread: http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/108582-240z-awd-swap/ Something similar has been done, but I don't know of much documentation. http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/51972-240z-awd-conversion/ Some videos for your interest, though these are the closest thing I've actually seen running, and it's not AWD, he used a 4wd system out of a Toyota Hilux.

Yeeeeeeesss

If you haven't worked on these cars before, I would definitely echo what others have said and suggest you start with just a refresh on your Z's stock components. It'll be a huge learning process and give insight into what you need to do. I recently changed out the bushings on my 280,and you'd be amazed how time consuming and exhausting even a simple job like that is when you're working with 40 year old components and rubber. Ares had this same dream and he's been working on these since you were in kindergarten. He'd be a good one to talk to if you want an idea of what's involved and to get a little more level headed on whether or not it's something you'll be able to do. Check out this thread he had. http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/124957-gtr-v-spec-240z-build-awd-rb26-twin-28rs-blood-sweat-tears-money/

I went to a pretty big local show of the same kind this summer with recently stripped and patchy paint and light body filler on the car. Aside from being a straight body and 95% of visible rust taken care of with new metal, the thing looked kinda junky and ratty. Very obviously a work in progress. I was surprised by how many people stopped to look or walked by saying "oh, a Datsun, these things were sweet!" a lot of people told me stories of the ones they owned. It got more attention than the very nice Mustang California Special it was parked next to, that I thought was much much nicer.

So much for no one coming on to ask about tire fitment lately... just had another thread started on that last night.

Minor project to keep me motivated recently. There was a ton of play in the shifter, so I went to an auto parts store and picked up an assorted pack of door hinge bushings. For those curious, the write-up is on Atlantic Z. Took less than half an hour and it feels much better! The order I do some of these random side projects is probably not the "right" way to got about a restomod, and maybe it slows down other things, but honestly if it keeps me motivated and stops the whole project from stagnating that's all I really care about. In my mind as a relative amateur, all progress is good progress. Best $5 I've spent. Had a friend that was going to let me borrow a mig welder, so we'll see if I can learn a thing or two in the next couple weeks on some of the portions of the car that aren't as critical and are out of site.

This is pretty much exactly how I ended up here. Most of my commenting on the DPAN page has honestly been linking people back here. The only time I post there is when I'm having issues identifying small unusual parts (even with the FSM) as I'm working and need a quick answer, but that's probably only happened two or three times.

I've seen that video clip. It's probably a custom job and mix. You'd have to find the owner and ask about it.

Pretty much everyone is getting hit by it. I'm seeing tons of websites with this issue. Here's the real kicker for guys like us on forums Plus 50 offers 52GB of Storage and No Linking or 3rd Party Hosting Plus 100 offers 102GB of Storage, Unlimited Linking and No 3rd Party Hosting Plus 500 offers 502GB of Storage, Unlimited Linking and Unlimited 3rd Party Hosting So at a minimum to let people click on a link to go to your picture, you're paying $100/yr. To 3rd party host and have all your images show up on any other website you're paying $400/yr. It's an outrageous model

Managed to get my car into the Cache Cruise in and a friend got a couple quick pictures It's rough around the edges but it got a fair amount of attention.

I'm really hoping to! Probably won't get everything I'd like done, but I'll probably just throw on a coat of high build primer and head over late afternoon on Friday or just early Saturday then go cruise down Main.

Slowly but surely! Some people have had success and enjoyed the 3M undercoating and I was reading a lot of other restoration boards and most rust reformers are pretty much identical products. The combination should be alright for now. Floors will definitely have lizard skin instead. Anyway, here's this thing... Really glad I went ahead and bought new bushings with the brakes https://youtu.be/alSr-YbIEAs