Fixing up the Family Whip S130 2+2

[BluDestiny]

Hey everyone. This is my first official build thread. This is with the first datsun I've evey owned, it was the car that inspired me to get an s30 in the first place.

 

 

The car:

1981 280zx 2+2 GL (Panda)

When I got it, it had no interior pieces int he trunk, and was missing the backing of one of the fold down seats. I still need the fold down seat behind the driver. It also came missing a bunch of random interior trim pieces, like the fuse box panel and one of the under dash light panels.

 

The Story:

 

One of my friends had basically had this car in his family since it was bought new off the lot. His uncle eventually passed it down to him, he gave it some minor mods, and then blew the engine taking it up a canyon about 3-4 years ago. It was sitting in his front yard, and he new that I loved Nissan. At the time I was driving an 1990 nissan Sentra, The car I learned to drive in, and I was 16 at the time. Well he offered to give me the car for $500 since the rims he had on it were worth about $1100 (bought from rbmotoring.com). When it really came down to it though, he ended up just giving me the car with two very distinct instructions, I can never sell those rims, and I have to get the car running again. Well I bought a "rebuilt motor" from this guy off of a forum, put the motor in, and it blew about 2 months later while I was on the freeway. Turned out he had broken off a piece of the block and jb welded it back in place, unfortunately it was a cooling passage, and it broke off and all my coolant leaked out.

 

Some pics of it sitting with that **** motor pulled

 

SOOOO flash forward to 6 months ago and I put in my own rebuilt engine. Got an F54 block had it rehoned, decked, jet tanked, crank magnafluxed, etc. The major performance parts were the Ross 1mm oversized forged flat-top pistons I had bought, along with a Fidanza 11 lb Flywheel and a stage 1 Exedy organic clutch . Other than that the bottom end is pretty stock, and almost bullet proof. From there I pretty much put about 700 miles on the engine, then drove it cross country to Florida for college. While there I really didn't do much. I had the cracked windshield replaced, and a pair of 300zx seats installed, and I got the windshield and seats for free. I also bought some interior pieces that I was missing.

 

Some pics of my and my friend putting in my motor

 

 

Anyway Now that I'm back for summer I have a lot of plans....The first of which is repainting the interior and looking for rust, which I've already found.

 

Here's the progress so far. I'm going to repaint the interior with POR 15 and then maybe a layer of primer, since I don't plan on installing rear interior parts I'm thinking of also putting a layer of truck bed liner down.

 

 

I'm also removing the Sound deadening tar

 

 

and looky what I found. A real cheap plastic patch thing

 

hiding this...

 

 

Engine wise I eventually plan of installing my N42 non-egr intake, I need to get it shaved first, mostly to clear up the engine bay. With it I'll install of set of 6-1 headers I have laying around and a pallnet fuel rail, as soon as I can afford it. I've also just picked up a sparco Fighter Bucket seat today and need to get some sliders and a bracket to install along with some harnesses. I'll take pics of those parts and post them in a few days.

 

Anyway I plan on updating this a few times a week since I have nothing to do during summer.

[BluDestiny]

Ok Update. I painted the trunk area and passanger floor area and I did get the holes patches. Some pics.

 

 

Here's the patch, painted over

 

 

I also got to hacking the intake and cleaned it up a bit.

 

 

Also had the holes filled in at a local muffler shop for $20

 

 

Finally, I also got to drill out those crappy side moldings

 

 

Hopefully it will be ready for some paint within a month. After I learn some body work that is

[dernikmatute2008]

what is the make on the front lip

[PurePontiacKid]

That's an MSA Xenon piece.

[dernikmatute2008]

thanx

[dernikmatute2008]

thanx

you want to sell the one you have sir ?

[BluDestiny]

Wow I haven't touched this in awhile.

 

Anyways, a lot has changed. The biggest(and best in my opinion) is that I got around to sanding the whole car and painted it with some gloss black Krylon. Whoohoo for $50 paint jobs.

 

To get this damn thing sanded though I bought a power drill with a brass wheel and a 5" sanding attachment along with like $40 in sanding pads. Got all the crap paint off. It was like 5 layeres thick. Also got to see a bunch of cancer spots, well more like 4, and I found out that both of the rear quarter panels right behind teh wheel were bondo'd. I managed to do some body work, and didn't take a ton of pictures.

 

Here is one of the hood sanded

 

a really bad one of the krylon grey primer I laid down

 

and the finished products

 

And for some laughs later on I threw on a racing stripe. Doesn't look so bad in the pic, but it is a tad bent, and I got overspray on the black.

 

Fast forward about a year and I hate the paint. It's fading like crazy and I want to repaint. I'm thinking blacking out everything including the trim and painting it a matte black, going for the murdered out style.

 

Also you've probably seen this thread on me putting in diamond racing rims.

http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/98048-diamond-racing-rims-on-a-zxactually-on/page__p__920338__hl__%2Bdiamond+%2Bracing+%2Brims__fromsearch__1#entry920338

 

but just in case here area few pics.

 

 

I have a few more pictures in the sun of with my new rims. Will upload later.

[BluDestiny]

Here are some better pics. As you can see the front of my hood is crunched in. My roommate backed into my car when it was dark and I was parked behind him in the driveway.

I got a 280zx turbo hood and a new driver door(mine had a big piece of bondo put on to fill a dent). Those pictures will be up later.

 

Oh also forgot to put down the mod list as of right now:

 

Suspension:

Tokico blues in back and Illuminas in front with Tokico springs all around (looking into converting a set of s13 coilovers this summer)

Polybushings all around

MSA Big sway bar kit

Cusco rear strut bar

 

Brakes:

SS lines

MSA cross drilled/slotted rotors in the rear only

 

Engine:

Rebuilt with an F54/p90 combo Bored to 88mm with ross forged pistons and 1mm metal HG

Stock intake and ecu, stock headers, but no cat with ajust a flowmaster muffler on the end

s13 sr20 aluminum radiator(replaced after mine took a crap on me) with custom mounts

dual electric fans hooked up to one switch

Exedy Stage one clutch

Fidanza 11lb flywheel

 

Inside:

Completely gutted except for a few things I still need to remove from under the dash

I sanded and resprayed the entire interior(except under the dash)

Using a sparco fighter seat for driver and a 300zx for passanger

Momo 10" steering wheel with an NRG quick release

 

I think that might be everything. Probably missing a few knick knacks here and there. I'm getting ready to do the brakes and wheel bearings soon.

 

Going to be using MSA drilled/slotted rotors in the front, PBR semimetallic pads, Timken wheel bearings all around and new studs.

 

 

Also I'm trying to scrounge some extra cash to do better body work/paint. I have an Arita Gnose kit that I'm having a shop install soon and then eventually have them do the body work and paint.

Edited April 1, 2011 by BluDestiny