Little back ground with the car. Picked it u a little over a year ago with not to much knowledge of what i was going to do with it. I had purchased a project 510 with a SR20DE (green one in the first pic) that after playing with it for a month i figure was too much of a project for me to tackle



so i decided to pic up this running L20b 510





for the next few month i slowly started gathering parts to make the car my own. i pieced together all the parts to do the 280zx conversion and since i was running 13's i had to source a new set of wheels





after getting the suspension and steering bits all fixed up i drove the car for a months taking it to meets and shows and loved every moment of it.





The motor was never something i wanted to keep and was toying with the idea of re building it or going big and doing an SR20det swap. I have always had a passion for performance cars but now that i had a steady job i knew it was the time to step up and do something that i knew i would love so when a deal came up for a full SR 510 swap i jumped on it and started the long journey of parts



at first i was planning on simply getting the motor in the car and get it running as quick as possible but after a little time to think about it i decided to do it once and do it right. I wanted a properly built motor that i could beat on and not worry to much about messing things up. i picked up a big turbo



Forged pistons



Cams



metal hg



pulleys



After i got enough parts to put the motor together i decide it was time to pull the old motor





once the motor was out i puled the rear end apart and replaced all the rubber with poly along with adding a little stronger rear R200 CLDS and got everything painted and undercoated then everything went back in along with some 240sx rear disk brakes





Got some better breaks



Picked up some other goodies









now the car is at the point that it is today. waiting on a buddy that dose fab/ body work and hes gona help me with some odds and ends that im not comfortable doing on my own.



got the motor bored and decked and everything checked out good. now im waiting on is a flywheel and a timing chain guide to get the motor back together and balanced







im on ratsun alot more but ill be sure to update this when i can

nice build there. it looks awesome.curious what did or are you doing with the green 510?

Sold the green one right after I got the white one

i like your direction, keep us updated on this project......

very nice build keep it going cant wait to see the completed project

super build!! looking good.

Nice build, should be a real little rocket!

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1975 C110 Skyline Coupe

Awesome look. Love the new wheels. I need to drive one of these things someday.

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Thanks guys. This hole project has been a huge learning experience and an expensive one... Flywheel will be here tomorrow so I'll take all my parts down to my motor guy to install everything an get the motor all done.

Motor: check

damn its coming along great man

just got my cam gears dialed in so now its set up for no lope and the way HKS wanted them. cant wait to get this thing on the road. if anyone in socal wants free beer and help me put that bad ass motor in the car hit me up

Well the cars off to a buddy's house to do a little body work on the engine bay and stuff



Yum

where the hell is redlands?
love your build!

lol Redlands is in Southern California by Riverside and San Bernardino

New look


Goodies

Big day

As we were mounting up the trans we relized that one of the guid pins were broke off in the trans so we got that out



After that we were ready to get it in the car



Then once the motor was in cut the tunnel



And beautiful!

Looking good. When its all together i'd suggest making a sheild to seperate the heat from the dp and dbmc.

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73 Datsun 240Z |73 Datsun 510 |78 Datsun B120 UTE

I'm assuming you are going to do all the fab/mounting, etc, then pull it out for body and paint? Looks great so far...

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71 510
71 240Z
73 Rx2
74 Rx4 GTR
83 Rx7 prepping for street/auto cross

awesome! Love the wheels