S130Z, Dottie

[Farmer Joe]

they don't ding ya on tech/saftey for the stacked mess of what ever on the front suspension?

[PurePontiacKid]

they don't check suspension, just if everything is taut and not falling off

 

I'm not running stacked RCAs anymore anyways, get with the times.

[PurePontiacKid]

more time consuming as fuck work today, for little to no gain :|

what rub looks like from the other side

went to replace the first needle-and-seat, this fucking shit happened:

no big deal, drilled it out super careful and picked the rest of the shit out like a bawse.

comparison of the old, improper one to the new, correct length needle-and-seats:

proper (possibly, everybody has a different goddamn answer) float level set:

mild wire-tuck progress:

(there was a random mess of harness that literally went to nowhere, deleted that, then re-routed the headlight harness on the other side of the radiator support to make it less visible) also removed the AFM mounting bracket

mainly just a loom/re-loom on this side:

will wait until the re-shell to do something about the old carbon-canister hard-line

overall shot:

new gangster as fuck fuel hose routed all gangster as fuck behind the heatshield (more heatsoak preventative measures)

[PurePontiacKid]

acquired stock fuel rail, promptly went had a quick street-sesh in the rain with a bud

wrapped it in gold heat-tape, all measures to reduce vapor-lock issues that plague SUs in general, which I'm having.

might make a second or third heat shield tomorrow. pretty tired of working on this dumb thing.

[jrock4224]

Wait is jalen callin someone a hypocrite..... Hmmmm

 

I like the differentness bu I wanna drifts on big wheels I wanna see smoke from the wheel lips rubbing

[PurePontiacKid]

^that happens on the way to the track, with all my tires and shit, tires rub hard enough just light accelearation throws smoke off them lol

 

by next year I should be rocking nappy wheels all around, though. Hopefully in a new shell, too.

[jalen]

hey ian do you have more pics of the s30?

[PurePontiacKid]

FINALLY, all the parts for my coilovers came in Friday!

so I cut them up

welded them back together

etc

 

fuck Megans

these things ride like fucking BUTTER, even with 14k springs. They're valved for 10k (since I run between 10 and 14k springs) at full stiff. I fucking love them.

anyone who says a coilover is a coilover has never driven on decent coilovers, and now I can feel right in saying this. huge fan of STANCE and Touge Factory now.

[that one guy]

Whatcha doin with the old ones?

 

 

 

;)

[PurePontiacKid]

they're blown and I'm using the springs on the front of my car lol

[I'm BLUE]

if you think dual round top su's are a "little" moar response than efi

 

you'll LOVE Tripple dcoe's !!! response is just... pure ... Columbian dope yo

[ArchetypeDatsun]

Hey Ian would you ever consider making some to sell? I wish I could weld or have a place big enough to do stuff like that.

[PurePontiacKid]

nobody with a regular 280ZX should ever need coilovers this short.

 

just get the regular S13 ones.

[ArchetypeDatsun]

I ment to say the S13 ones, I don't think I could ever go that low especially around where I live shit load of deep pot holes.

[PurePontiacKid]

I don't understand your question.

 

the only reason I had to modify these was because I'm using DC2 Integra dampers.

 

Order a rear pair of S13 from Touge Factory and be happy.

[ArchetypeDatsun]

Oh ok! Well stupid of me had some HKS Hypermax S13 coilovers for the rear that I got from a parts cars and sold them I later realized I could have used them for my ZX new ones are way too much. I don't want used those tokicos unless I get them super cheap or free.

[PurePontiacKid]

yeah Tokicos fucking suck.

 

just keep an eye out on Zilvia, that's where I picked up those dumb Megans a while back.

 

if you're lucky you'll find a full set for a good price, then just adapt the fronts to the struts on the front!

[ArchetypeDatsun]

Sounds easy enough!

[bludestiny]

Adapting S13 coilovers to work on the s130 are a piece of cake.

[PurePontiacKid]

picked these up from the junkyard today for $52, with pads:

cool thing is they bolt-up to my control arms, now I just need to find brotors that will fit properly inside them, hopefully with no custom work involved...

[Dattokai]

Loving this build!

[PurePontiacKid]

Bent a control arm and a wheel this past week in the rain (shenanigans! still had fun, though)

 

put my stock-camber control arms back in, way happier with these.

wheels pointing straight ahead>wheels straight up and down (the "corrected" control arms had gnarly toe-out, 1.2* or more)

 

also test-fitted some other wheels I scored a little bit:

16x12 -23

[bonvo]

them new wheels are sick

[Stupid_fast]

Watanabe ??? ?

[jalen]

Probably panasports or konigs. Can't quite tell by the teaser pic