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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Moving on, fabricating pipes for the intercooler, which seemed to go quite well. Things on the turbo side didn’t work out as planned, I had bought a 6 boost manifold which ended up positioning the turbo too far forward on the engine, and was interfering with the body work on the car. So I had...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Onto the next job, I had bought a rb25 sump, and a rb26 sump, I had a choice of modifying one or the other. However I was not really happy about doing either of them, I was talked out of modifying the 26 sump, because it is quite a rare part now, it’s hard to get hold of. So I did a deal to let...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Before I gave him the car, I thought I better put engine in to make sure it did fit. So once the engine was fitted, the car was delivered to him, where he had a list of jobs to do, starting with fitting the gear box. Making a cross member for the gearbox, then it was onto making a steering...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Before I could get back onto the 240Z I had my mustang project, which has been lying around for 2 years, due to the fact I have given up trying to make a right hand drive manifold for it. I came across an engineer who offered to do it for me, which was a wise move. As it turned out, he was a...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    I purchased the basic frame and it was green oak at the time, I just left it on the garage base for 12 months before trying to put it together. Big mistake though as I did not realise green oak, when it starts to dry out, twists and shrinks, and I soon found this out when I tried to fit the...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    It’s been a long time again since an update, but I have been busy over the last couple years. As I did not have the Datsun at my home address it was stored in a container. I decided I had to build another garage. Picture of garage is added below. So I spent many months building this garage, and...
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    What is this 911 worth?

    It looks cheap, but it certainly looks rough. As said, you will probably spend £30,000 doing this car to the standard you would want. You are better off getting a 1987 model onwards with a 3.2 engine and the five speed box, or from 1990 a 964 which is a better model again. If you are looking for...
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    My 260+2 Build

    Hello I don't like telling people how to do their projects, but I feel like I must enlighten you to try and save you money. I class myself as having good skills and I have rebuilt many cars over the years, but looking at what you have there I wouldn't even attempt it. It'll be the biggest money...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Another long interval between doing jobs on the car, but finally removed it from storage and have had it the last couple months at my house after building another garage. Managed to get a slot from the guy who worked on it last year, with now having the rear arches tubed, and a spoiler kit...
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    Street Bandito build

    industry garage.com
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    Street Bandito build

    I have been watching this guy for the last couple of years building this project and I have found it thoroughly interesting. He has transformed it in to a completely carbon fibre shell. Some people might not like the look of the car, but it is built for one purpose only - he is using it for...
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    What relay plugs in here?

    I think you find those wires go to your rear heated screen and interior light as I have been making a new loom for my project
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    What did you do to your Z this week?

    Finally checked all the suspension making sure everything is tight and a reasonable spec. Then placed the car on a x4 wheel alignment and was surprised on how well the car set up seeing it is a complete S14 underneath.
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    GTO 250 on 260Z chassis

    Oh well, as you live in North Devon, Minehead and nobody else has given you a recommendation, I can give you one good recommendation, Exeter based a Company called Retro Shack. You can look at their work on the forum under hybrid, there is a member on here who is having his Datsun done at the...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Small update, I have no time scale when the car is going to be finished, but just trying to proceed as quick as possible, with also other projects I haven't finished by listing the help of others. Hopefully some of these photos might give other people inspiration of what can be done. It wasn't...
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    Memory Lane

    Memory lane started for me back in 1976. After saving up my Saturday money, I purchased my first machine. Yamaha FS1E Yamaha RD250 - upgrade at 17 years old. Didn't last long after getting two speeding tickets in a week by the same copper, then getting a smack around the ear by my old man...
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Here are some photos of the job
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    Resurrection of Rolling Death 240Z

    Hi all, Its been a long time since I posted anything on here, but due to the fact of loosing the garage and the help of my friend with his equipment I had to put the car on hold. I have been waiting for over 6 months for a partially guy I have wanted to finish off the car for me. Once I got the...
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    Part of 240Z shell with GTR running gear.

    I think the chap got frightened off with so many people saying that he was taking the identity of an RB35 and registering it as a Datsun. His original posts are still on the site under 4 WD Nissan R35 Datsun 240Z build. He started the post in about December 2018. His name I think was Josh and...
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    260Z Project - 260Z GT-R

    Hi Ian Being honest it came as no surprise to me what was uncovered when you had it blasted. The trouble is these cars are nearly 50 years old and when they were repaired years ago they were repaired as cheap as possible because the cars were of low value. I think your best route is to stick...
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