Time to start an official project thread...
8 years ago I rescued this peach out of a swamp in someone's backyard in Kerrville, TX. $430 on eBay. An early 1970 4-door (old granny speedo), it was bought new by an old lady in San Antonio until 2002, then driven into 4 feet of water by the chick who had it in 2002. Sat, grew mold, was hauled to Akron, OH. Long trip.
The sweet dash...
Anyways, tore it down, left it in the garage for, oh, 8 years. Started grabbing some parts finally. Picked up a set of 280ZX from strut towers with brakes from a local salvage yard (lucky hit on craigslist). And a couple weekends ago, snagged a KA24DE w/5-speed from Matt @ Slick Motor Sports (North Ridgeville, OH). Dude does some great work on Subies, Mitsus and Nissans (including a sweet 240Z with an RB26 in it). Now I have this cherry:
And the trans...
SO! Getting started. Next step is to get the garage in order, and start stripping the old paint from the datsun and giving it a flat black to start cutting on. Not much metal to mess with. Little rust in the rear window channel. That's really it. Clean and solid car. I'll probably clean up and seam weld the engine bay. Flip the engine cross-member (lots of welding there), custom trans cross-member, the usual. I just want to get the car rolling and in the stance I'm looking for. Then I can start dropping in the rest of everything. I'll post sporadically, since I get to work on it sporadically (2 kids under 3). On from here!
Later...Aaron