Great to see another 180B SSS getting some love!

Looks real clean! I think that is the color mine is meant to be but mine is more of a greenish color, I thinks its called 121B Turquoise Blue or something like that???

Also I've noticed something weird with the front strut tops on your car, seems like they have tried to do a bit of a DIY wheel alignment and camber rectifying job by drilling extra holes....

will stay tuned and see the progress...

Alex

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year the guy fitted 240k front struts, and i noticed that hes redrilled the holes with extra camber
still not enough. the paint code is 121 as you say still has the sticker under the bonnet.
just pulled the 720 diff apart and the crown wheel and pinion are fubar, dont know what to do
now, maybe look for subi diff.

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2002 m35 autech axis
1975 180bsss (soon to have sr20det)
1992 s13 silvia

Looks like he used the K strut tops which have a different bolt pattern to the 1600/180B strut tops. That's why he had to redrill the strut tower. With standard diameter springs you can't get a decent amount of negative camber by moving the strut tops inwards, there's no room.
If you want negative camber you need to either move the bottom of the struts out with longer (ideally adjustable) lower control arms and castor rods or use smaller diameter springs and adjustable strut top mounts to move the top of the struts in. The right front castor & camber transforms the way a Datsun handles (3 degrees castor, 1.5 degrees negative camber for the street works great).
Hope this helps.

Cheers.

thanks for the info, was looking at a set of adjustable arms, i think might have to by some

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2002 m35 autech axis
1975 180bsss (soon to have sr20det)
1992 s13 silvia

You'll need adjustable castor rods as well. I use modified LJ Torana rods. Used to be cheap & easy to grab a pair from the wreckers and get an engineering place to extend the threads. Some people prefer to use XE Falcon rods with the ends re forged, but in over 20 years of use the LJ rods have been fine for me.

Howzit.

Any progress?

update: car now has a rpm race clutch (solid plate)

and now have cusco subi r180 lsd 4.4 ratio, and the half shafts bought from sled510 (thankyou)

also done a mastercylinder upgrade to the 240k one as the car has
rear discs already, and clutch slave cylinder and master. Got a datrally manifold the other day
still deciding weather to go 45 webers or maybe injection throttle bodies

and last the rear cross menber is coming out, and will buy a dstsport one with the
bigger exhaust hole and adjustable toe and camber brackets, ofcourse with all new nolethane
rubbers through out.
Still tring to source american coupe tail-lights and chin spoiler, tried tokyo2u but the emails
kept coming back unsent, does anybody know if he/they are still in business?
cheers
dave

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"...and then God created the orgasm,
so that women can moan even when they are happy."

2002 m35 autech axis
1975 180bsss (soon to have sr20det)
1992 s13 silvia

Nice work.

For the rear discs, using 200SX parts? About the rear crossmember, some photos would be great when available.

Doug's 180B has a very cool tail light assembly ( off of a 2000GT 6 cyl 180B sibling ). In Japan those two tail lamp styles were available ( US and 2000GT.) From this side of the Pacific, the 2000GT tail lamp assembly is the most sought for.

Do you know if Datsport has the half shaft boots available? Mine have gone stale and dry from having my car on jack stands for too long.

I would like to get one of those slotted crossmember bars myself. Got to check into that one.

i think the rear disc,calipers are 240k setup, looks like i might have found a set of us tail-lights (hope so)
will know fully after chrissy, will ask datsport about the boots when i call about the crossmember (pics will be up
when i get it)

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"...and then God created the orgasm,
so that women can moan even when they are happy."

2002 m35 autech axis
1975 180bsss (soon to have sr20det)
1992 s13 silvia

I would like to see further about how to do the rear disc conversion your doing

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nice datto, i have a 180b sss myself its a show car with a transformers mural on the bonnet , but theres one problem i cant find a left hand side indicator anywhere lol and its the only bit stopping me from getting it registered can anyone help?

Howzit.

Any progress? This seems to be a greart project.

here are of the disc conversion (at last), i said they were 240k disc and calipers but now i've had a good look i think
they might be from something else (anybody know maybe?). Its a real simple conversion with a backing plate that bolts
the calipers on.





hey jaimesix progress is non-exsistent at the moment because of christmas and now holidays for my family (yeah!), off to queensland
for a couple of weeks, will get into putting back together when i return, progress will be reported.

cheers
dave

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"...and then God created the orgasm,
so that women can moan even when they are happy."

2002 m35 autech axis
1975 180bsss (soon to have sr20det)
1992 s13 silvia

Looks like the usual R31 Skyline rear disc conversion. It's a good thing, well proven and improved the braking on my SSS. What about the handbrake? Does it have a trans tunnel mounted lever like a 200B or Skyline?

Your SSS is coming along nicely. Well done!

Hi Nisman.

Nice rear disc set up. We did not get the Skyline series over here. What we usualy use is the Nissan/Datsun 200SX's. I will get photos when I get back, also out of town until late Feb.

Noiccce project !