Rustbucket

I love love love love the colour of this car. Good lookin' on those SSR's, also.

This is only an RB20, brother! I can see where you guys are coming from, but I have full confidence that this rad will be well suited to this build as a mild street car. It's got a great shroud, with a good fan, and an incredibly well vented engine bay. This rad was also available at the time, relatively inexpensive, and sized accordingly - finding a dual core rad that had the correct inlet/ outlet, could fit between the frame rails, and shallow enough not to hang lower than the lower rad support was next to impossible without have to notch my rails and wedge it in. I was looking for a more 'bolt-on' solution. Have faith! <3

Car update soon, perhaps. For now, here's my old friend of 11 years.

Covered in knuckle-children? I'm not sure how to take that, haha!

Dude! VERY jealous of that wheel. Good lookin' out!

There's a few coolant additives that do wonders for running temps should a problem arise. I have faith in the little guy, though!

Haha, a few people have asked me that. If a boosted B16 can have the shit kicked out of it all day at the track with this rad, I have no doubt that it'll be more than enough for my street car. A lot of the stock cooling issues come down to the shitty factory rad. The thicker (but smaller) rad, shroud, and e-fan should be a good upgrade for it.

Thanks, brother! :)

Full shot of the thing. This was my first time ever fabricating something out of tube, so I'm pretty psyched with the outcome.

Hot side was made from 2 1/4" stainless. Cold side was made from 2 1/2" stainless.

So, $300 later, and I owned 5 couplers and 2 U/J bends in 16g stainless. Liam dropped this off the other night, so that I could cut the yolk off it. Tacked up my hot pipe this evening, and got around to running about two beads before I ran out of wire. Huge pain. I'll finish it off tomorrow, and also begin and complete the cold pipe.

Haha, thanks! No stoppin' 'til she's done, now.

JP came and picked up my harness bar tonight, so that he can make it sparkly to match my steering wheel. I also remembered my camera this evening, so I took some pictures of shit I got done tonight. First off, here's a less fuzzy photo of the bay. Shit sits nice and low. Weight is way down. Rad clearance. Exhaust side. And, intake side. Throttle pulley comes mighty close, but still functions as it should. I had mentioned I sectioned my strut tubes the other night so that I could go as low as I wanted to. Here's the front suspension, with no compression, just hanging out. Awesome, right? Decided to make my front fenders tire-friendly. All this is hidden beneath the flare. Just figured I should make it a little nicer. So, yeah. That's how she's sitting right now. I'd like to get intake piping, rad hoses, exhaust, and some other engine bay things all done shortly. Then I'll go back to some lame jobs. Just trying to keep it lighthearted lately.

Thank-you! Thanks, brother. Just gonna make my own harness. There's not a great deal of wiring in the original car, so there's quite few things that need to be messed around with from the Skyline harness to the Datsun. That, and I've got a wiring guru who's spent the better part of a decade working on silly Nissans; Brendy is gonna be my saviour.

Neglected to bring a camera this evening, but took a shitty cell phone photo anyways. Motor and tranny went in as a combo this evening. Only things missing in the bay are the catch can and FPR which remain mostly hidden anyways. Intake piping and rad hoses obviously aren't there either.

So, I got an email this morning confirming my wheels had arrived at Adam's place in Japan. He sent me a quick photo of what I believe to be the 9.5J with a -19 offset. Which would be sweet, because my rears are 15x10J -25. In the past few weeks I've got a decent amount of behind the scenes shit all tidied up. Pieced together a few more things for my fuel system. Shaved the breathers on the valve covers to accommodate the new catch can. Sectioned my strut tubes 2 1/2" to allow for maximum low. Once I had mocked them up the first time I was really unhappy with how long they were - problem solved. Also modified the camber plates a tad, just to allow as much articulation as possible. Cleaned up the bay, and finished painting/ clearing everything. Got my hardlines bent up in the bay. Had this sitting off to the side, assembled and waiting to go in. Got most of the front end stuff tied up tonight, hung my doors, and mocked up flares once again for motivation.

Finished making that brace/ loop bar for my harness' this evening. Pretty stoked with the outcome; it was nice welding plate for once. Began by beveling that bar that I'd cut to length the other night. Had tacked the two pieces of plates to the strut towers to maintain the angle that they would need to sit on for the bar to bolt in nicely. Then proceeded to bevel the bar, and test fit accordingly, until I could tack it on. Cut the tacks of the plate to the tower, and welded it on the bench. Made up some caps for the ends. All finished, and ready for sandblasting and powdercoat.

So, I went to the shop with serious intentions this afternoon... Got down and dirty with the Civic rad, to make sure it wouldn't hang to low while still clearing the hood. Roger that. Cut out a big piece of the old core support. New piece. Good for welding brackets to, and a large piece of plate because it's going to be my main jacking point later on. Rad brackets. Like butter. Sits about a half inch lower than this, I just have to step the holes a little further. Threw these in real quick. My rear brake lines from the passenger side, to the drivers side. Just need to get some nice clips to hold the lines and prevent them from rubbing through.

If you're looking for other cool things to read, one of my best friends is currently nearing completion of his gangster-ass 1JZ Cefiro build. Well worth the read, as he's put a ton of effort in to making that car awesome. http://zilvia.net/f/chat/423231-build-where-most-cars-arent-cool-1jz-cefiro.html

Made up my final rear lines at work this morning. Brought in 25ft. of stainless braided line, a big pack of crush inserts, and a bunch of metric fittings, so that should take care of my front brakes and clutch line while I'm at it. Then went by JRP after work and bought a rad and fans so I can get to mocking up my motor and mounting the rad in a half decent spot. Look for another update Sunday, or Monday night.

I hope we've persuaded you back to the awesome side of things.

A 510 is 100% cooler than what's basically just a 240 with the novelty of RHD. The only remotely okay thing about that car would be the SR, but you could have the best of both worlds in a 510 with an SR. I say keep the 510, man. Hands down.

So, I made up a bracket to keep my brake block nice and tight to the inner fender, in a good spot to keep all the lines really simple and straight forward. Only four hard-lines in the whole brake system, including the two from the master to the distribution block. I'm making good use of stainless braided lines wherever I can. Also started on the harness bar this evening. Started cutting up some fancy stuff. Wedged the length in the hatch to see what my options were like for mounting the eye bolts for the harness'. Because of the design and length of the harness and how tiny these little cars are, it's best for me to loop the harness back towards the seat and down to the eye bolt just behind the seat on the rear deck. It loops the bar simply to keep the harness at the proper angle to the seat. Hopefully going to finish welding the plates on either end of the bar this Sunday, and have it powder coated next week.

I stand corrected, sir. That being said, I've had countless friends run diffs welded a similar way and had them survive clutch kicks from a 400whp SR. This makes me sort of want to look in to an LSD replacement for the R180.

Naww, there's no cracking in that thing! It was all TIG'ed way tougher than the 211 could ever get in there. Finished with all the hood pin bullshit tonight, and started looking at the engine bay side of my brake lines. Should be incredibly straight forward.