looks good man keep it up. if your exterior work is anything to go by, the interior should be a smashing success

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Daily Drive: '80 200B GX Wagz
Soon to be: ... Supercharged? Can't ever decide..

If it's not broke, don't fix it.. Upgrade it!!!

Hey thanks,

would love to see some carbon on the inside, bit of leather, oh boy.

Its got a face finally






















Its all stock I promise. Cut and paste exercise required, as gaurd is 75mm north, Gnose outta place. Red line is average effort to show where the cuts are.

Cut bumper out and move forward to keep the same distance to the over-fenders as a stock zg front.
Cut the lower section of the gnose to form to new gaurd
Cut the newf.glass headlight cones out, blend with gnose headlight thingies. Butcher!
Make a re-inforcement to the chopped gaurd to mount to gnose around the headlight areas.

Make it all look factory fresh and un-molested?
Hope the hammer/dolliers are more skilled than this jpg editer.....

looks like a flathead fish
lolz
mate ii cant belive this build?????
its awsome
wouldda cost

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Shean Connery ish Shexty shex and shtill shexy

1964 hillman minx under resto at the moment
BUT DATSUN COMING AFTER THAT
FORMERLY JDM120Y

Pardon the delay, the panelman has begun some work.

Its been about 1.5 weeks work for 1.5 men roughly so far.

In no specific order.
Butt welded everywhere, minimal filler rod used - (oxy acetylene)

60% metal work complete.
Few holes to recover in places, otherwise Im happy.


Car was treated with Tectyl?, spray on goo stuff to help minimise rust , from new.
It looks like rust , on the inside of panels, but its just this tectyl stuff. OK?
Welder could tell, weld bead wouldnt look like that, welding to rust alright...already



























Enough of the boring rusty 'looking' stuff,

Arches at the rear. Folded lip flat, and butt welded again, so that the inner arch comes flat. gives the tire more clearance. if the chassis hits (not gonna due to bumpstops etc) the tire wont be hit with a sharp edge of the gaurd. ie. no crazy high speed blowouts from this scenario.



















One side of the (metal) car almost complete,
































The rear end is looking 50% done.
Ill get the sparky to wire up a solenoid for the hatch release/lock.





















Left side has started, but requires the fundamentals.
Nice section constructions around the pillar. Nice butt welding on the door.

The cost?

Less than an average condition old carb'd Ferrari 2nd hand.
And it would probably deal to most of their new ones.

Looking good mate

(You still recieving treatment?)

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http://www.lescollinsracing.com/

Nah,

been out a week, 3-6 month recovery, and wait for cancer to come back.
Given the panelman the hurry up.

This car is just amazing!
Hope you are doing well also

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200B sedan, Z head on L18 bottom end

The panel beater fellow is a pushy bugger, so its off for another epic drive to hand over parts that are requried to help work on the next areas.

Thanks to Glenn for the gaurds, these will help take moulds for the front end work which will start next week. After a quick review today, it looks like as much time as the tin work has taken. ie. Quite a bit....

Ill ecplain over the next few weeks.




Here's a better pic of something I mentioned a while back talking suspension,
If the rear end still feels too mushy with softer tires at the track, the hard bushes you see may get replaced - rose jointed, etc.












Indicator hole filled up. No warts here.

Hatch likewise with opening device.

Dove tail hatch area all done & sealed


















Left hand side continues, almost there. Rear quarter replacement panel originally from Tabco, some USA outit. Not much went back on the car.















The front pillar needed a bit of love, so love applied.



















Few other parts/areas furthered

This is gunna be one helluva car. Its epic!

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Simon,

1978 Stanza, undergoing track spec build.

As a first note, I really appreciate the note for appreciations.

Any persons that have a sniff of interest in a Nostalgic Jappa or Datsun will get a ride.
Obviously once its completed, and while its in NZ....


Almost forgot about this thing down south after 3 weeks off.
how very refreshing!

Last time I talked to me man John, he said "we'll finish the metal work, then I want bills paid"

Fair enough.
Either that or some of the 40k odd persons following these threads globally start sending their cars to this guy...virtually immediatly

Hence why the work finishes clearly where the metal stops.
On the outside at least.

Havent told him about a few minor things to chop later....

seat mounts, bonnet struts (eh Mike), holes Ive made in the engine bay etc etc.....

All good so far.


right side still ok, just needs the gas flap keyhole welded up









Note that window chrome & SS into position. Had to move a couple mounting holes for the rear quarter glass windows, as cage fouled chances of getting a screw in......unles your hooked up? Save it.


























Few other issues at the rear.Did some costing of rear metal bar, take one dull but straight unit, de-chrome, weld up all exisitng holes and seams, straighten/smooth, re-chrome etc = $$$$

vs


buy new glass bar and paint a colour
and sell old dull bar.

no contest. Plus minus many kgs, pity its the wrong end eh.

I can break many glass bar before asking for mr dull chrome back.
Chrome could always be thrown back on later if I have a spare wadss of cash.









This pic is to note. What is going on here. Surley a clean body cant be painted with a skin looking like the close up of the moons surface?

BEADBLAST approaching. A new step added to the build. Argh well....I might get back 1/20th of it upon sale price.....
Not me talking








Panle beating getting a flash boring, time to spice things up a little I reckon

RSVP

getting closer with the panel work, looking great

love the new exhaust position! who needs a rear hatch window anyway

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It's for the gas turbine motor...

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1972 Datsun 1600, S14 SR20DET Engineered (204rwkW @ 17psi.)
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#SR20Datsun @SR20Datsun

Hey good effort with your sr 510 build, its REALLY cool.
Back when I was 17 I put an FJ20T into one, with prog. Haltech, and lots of parts I made when I was at Technical college. Car was matt black, and rough, but went hard.

This zed is (like your build) another version of the same tune.