This thing needed a shit ton of body work... Like. a lot. And a lot of fab work. The entire radiator support need's to be chopped up and re built. The floors. it will need rockers soon. cab mounts. the bed was fairly clean, a few rot spots, but not too bad considering. and i need to do 2 frame patches. only some of that is done, but i'll post pics of what i've finished. New radiator support cab mount that i fabbed from some scrap 90 wall:
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Yes, those are fender mirrors, on a 720. regardless, i ordered new fenders, i drilled new mounting holes in the fenders, re-painted my mirrors, and mounted them. they look pretty good too.
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Still needs to be gone over once more, finish sanded, and re-painted.
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Next i decided to tackle some of the engine bay and performance stuff i wanted to do. Immediately, i decided i wanted to do a weber, because my stock hitachi was shitting out on me, and i just didn't want to deal with it, plus i'd heard the power gains from the Weber are fairly substantial. I ordered a header, the weber, a fuel pressure regulator, new radiator, all new front end bushings, and a few other odds and ends. Pics Before:
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So far, i've installed the weber 32/36. The new radiator was mocked in, i'm waiting until the radiator support is finished before i final install it. Installed the NGK spark plug wires. Timing chain/valve cover is off for painting. Deleted a shit ton of vacuum crap. Charcoal canister is next if i can find a good deletion method for it. The header should be in today, and the exhaust should be finished by the end of the weekend. So far, this is about 6 months worth of work, a majority of it has happened in the past 4 weeks. Hopefully the truck will be close to done, and on the road at least by near the end of may.
If you want to see all the pictures of the truck with captions i have an album on photobucket for it, i'll throw the link in here: http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/nsackett/library/83%20Datsun%20720?sort=2&page=1
any input is highly appreciated, i know this is a forum of well experience builders, so any advice, or criticism is actually helpful. I want to do about a 1 inch body lift, and maybe a ball joint spacer lift, to get another 2 inches out of it so i can clear my 31's. eventually i want to do a solid axle swap.