Wow, this is an amazing build! Good work bro.

the thread is kind of upto date now

13th Nov 2011
Finally I an say car is in final stage of completion

As I did the paint job almost 10 months back and car was roaming from workshop to workshop there were minor damages to paint so found it better to get it resprayed it all over again and move to fixing parts.





It was painted on Thursday and today they were doing polishing, should be done by wednesday and installation of parts will start

I am doing a custom center console in the dash, it was like this



Now I close the whole middle part, it will have the map light then airduct, then different lights and switches along with starter button and then the gauges



There are four LED lights for High Beam, Turn Indicators, Hand Brake & Seatbelt ( had extra so using it), then four switches one for fan, AC, rear defogger and hazzard. I moved the big AC controller in the glove box for a cleaner look.



Middle console I got it repaired was broken in three pieces with cracks. Upper part will have SST audio face and after will have HKS Boost controller. Then both the parts will be wrapped in carbon fiber




I have been collecting lots of small parts over past months

I am changing all the rubbers front windscreen, rear, main door strip, upper door strip, lower door strip and two small rubbers on each corners. Will be changing all rubbers for quarter windows inner, outer and straight one. I also got cowl and three piece hatch rubber kit as well. Rear headlight rubbers seals are there as well and also got window channel rubber from Datsun Bluebird hopefully it will fit as well. So finally everything will be replaced







Also got all OEM Nissan clips and pins and all small rubbers for trunk, hood struts, battery holder, horn, wiper blades etc. Got clear small fender lights and window opener from Singapore




New door handles and hood badge




Also ordered some custom 240z engraved SS kick plates from UK

Old Vs New



For audio there was no place for a normal headunit so I ordered SST Secret Audio unit, its a small display unit and rest goes under the seat and have a radio frequency remote which can operate upto 5 meter distance. It plays radio, SD card, USB and iPod connectivity.





Some stock chrome pieces like AC vent for middle part and Ash tray was in bad shape so did some polishing with Brasso FTW

Before


After one hour of scrubbing and polishing


Before


This still under process as inside part needs to be painted so will spray paint it silver.

Other interior panels had cracks in it as well so I will be repairing it with epoxy resin then sand it and spray matt black.

I have a carpet kit coming on thursday and CF fender flares this weekend as well. Will post more details by this weekend.


16th November 2012

Update from wednesday

Rubbers getting installed




Changes the windscreen moulding as previous one had some gaps though it was new as well


Yellow and red side lamps replaced by JDM white ones


Ashtray painted silver and polished


Custom console piece, on top there will be stock map light and then AC vent




Front lamps with new clear covers and whole casing was cleaned and painted matte white



Was there in the workshop whole thursday getting things done

Installed short throw shifter


Took a lot of work to made it fit as brackets were small so was coming out but managed by making custom brackets


Carbonfiber work was done on center and dash console




As all lights were replaced or refurnished so I open up tail lights as well, will spray silver in the casing and covers were sanded and will be clearcoated




Finally by night time lots of things were on the car, installed the front air dam as well

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

Updates from Yesterday

Some more work done almost done, hopefully will take it for carpet soon

Went with Toyota Celica Fender mirrors as opposed to Datsun which usually people use, like the length of these and the angle. Painted the stalk black. Front bumper, anfront grill also painted same black installed.








Removed the stock hood lock and installed these pin ones.


Removed the CF spoiler I felt was slightly bigger will check later, tailights were done as well



Center console parts ready as well


Audio headunit with brakcets


HKS Boost controller



Gauges, toggle switches and starter button, LEDs to go in


Meters are a bit tilted towards drivers side


AC vent and stock map light


Seats were installed as well, didnt need any bracket were bolt on stock rails just holes were widened

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

Sent the car yesterday to the interior shop to do a custom carpet work, door panels in leather/alcantara and might wrap the dash in alcantara. Just some phone pics after it was washed to go, paint job looks good considering its not polished yet.

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

Looking really really impressive mate.

Making some nice progress there mate, looking good!

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1975 C110 Skyline Coupe

Looking good Aamir!

On your home ground

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

I know buddy. I hereby promise to try and free up some time this week to come and shoot the Z.... promise

very nice, i like the out come so far, the time and effort put in is showing in the results. keep the updates comming, i want to see the final product.

FYI, the clear side markers are not "JDM". They are aftermarket pieces. All the stock 240Zs used the same side lights in all markets.

thanks

Interior work in under way, as my car had no head liner and carpet so instead of getting stock one, did a customized job here works out much cheaper.

Roof liner and A pillars are done in something like alcantara material which according to the guy is same as used in merc so far so good.

For carpet just the under liner for sound deadening and carpet over it sticking it at most of the places, its just loose pieces will have a plastic backing and will be in foot well and trunk area.

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

Interior is all done, car is ready for registration just few small things, left hopefully next week it will be running on the road

View of the seats front front



Center console, might do the gearshifter boot again later






Armrest in alcantara with same stitching as seats




Roof liner and sunvisors




Trunk area carpeting came out very nice



Overall very happy with the quick and clean interior job

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

Wow.

Very well done.

Love it, love love love!

More updates please, heart sank when i was reading and saw there's no videos of it running ;(

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nice car, any updates?

I'm just picking here, but I tend to not like autometer gauges in a JDM themed car. Defi or anything else would be more fitting imo. Autometer is great for american cars, but i just dont like them in japanese cars. lol

MashaAllah Z is looking very very nice.

I should be start my build in a years time.

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"Life can only be understood backwards. Unfortunately, it must be lived forward." ... Kierkegaard

Its ok man, I found them to be fine and serve the purpose, couldnt find any other 5" speedo guage and infact a full set. I found these better looking with LEDs in the night and everything flows with the theme

Changed the differential finally, thanks to John at Betamotorsports for providing the custom stub axles, Sti diff fitment took 10 mins all bolt on just the drive-train needed the holes to be redrilled






Sti to S30 halfshafts Stub axles






Drive-shaft holes were re-drilled



Cusco rear strut bar fitted, front will fit after all engine work




Was tired of all messed up wiring and VTC was not working as well so went with Adaptronic Standalone ECU for RB25





As the engine theme was black colour so changed coil and cam gear cover to carbon fiber ones.





Car finally has some number plates

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

As I said earlier when the shop was doing wiring i sent crank covers and intake manifold for polishing, so today everything came back and was installed along with coil pack and camgear covers in carbon fiber

Got this long time back today installed it



Compared to Chinese Nismo one



Replaced



Custom radiator cooling plate not liking it much but will fix it later maybe cut in half and some more bends, was done in aluminium then chrome plating.



Got aluminium covers for headers and turbo plate and removed the stock ones



Coolant overflow tank custom made according to the body curves in aluminium



Chrome cam covers with coil pack cover in carbon fiber



Cam gear cover changed to the carbon one, some changes were required as cover was for series 1 and Neo is slightly different.



Intake manifold installed







With fuel rail

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1972 240z
2011 G37s

Got the last set of missing parts some new emblems, strut covers, door handles and misc clips and stoppers







for Nadri had to buy both Momo and workbell adaptor still the horn button is loose any suggestions?



After the wiring got the car on dyno (AWD Mustang) but couldn't go above 230-240whp, coils start misfiring, but did the tune and car is running perfect now, pushing around 215-220whp on 5psi. Will change the stock coils, plugs and do a retune after a month or so.

Did a quick cleaning job, all left now is to check the brakes as pressure is very low even after 1 inch willwood brake master cylinder

Installed some generic pedals



Will install Nardi after all the mechanical work, interior is all set now





Installed the front Cusco strut bar cheery of the top for the bay , loving the engine bay some cleaning of nuts bolts is there but thats more of an ongoing project






Installed spacers front and back fitment is superflush






Front needs a drop but will do once final alignment is done as caster, camber and toe is totally out as well


Courtesy of recovery vehicles infact all wheels has big curb marks



Stanced out nice in the end



With my DD, perfect combo of beauty and the beast

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1972 240z
2011 G37s