my 71 dime

[wes d]

hey hey all, my name is wes, i live in the sacramento area.

a friend of mine had a thrashed wagon sitting in his side yard and i talked him out of it.

 

 

im not sure where to start so ill just start.

 

 

i had an 84 200sx that i parted out, had the engine rebuilt. it now has a hot cam in it.

i need a 5 speed.

 

my father and i built an intake manifold for a weber redline set up.

we used a canon adaptor from a z car, milled off the flanges, took a factory carb manifold from a truck and cut off the carb mount, milled the ends flush.

then we welded the canon adaptor onto the factory naps z manifold.

i bent some tube and cut the bend out and made the water jackets.

 

im going to run a painless wire harness.

cheap,simple.

 

ive got some seats out of a civic, a budy of mine is an upholsterer and took the clothe off of the bend seat from the honda and fitted it to the 510 seat, looks great.

 

ive got 280z struts, going to use the ground control conversion.

 

i plan on taking one leaf out of the rear and putting 2 or 3 inch blocks on it.

 

 

z brakes in the front, anything recommended for a rear conversion?

 

 

thats about it.

 

i want to keep it plain simple and alot of fun.

 

 

 

 

 

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thanks for the killer page!

[Braden]

sweet man!!! good job on the manifold, thats the best home built mani ive ever seen, ive seen soem pretty lame attempts before, somone must know how to tig weld pretty decent!

[loveoldrice]

That carb manifold set-up is wicked looking , let us know how it works

[wes d]

hey hey thanks guys!

i have to thank donovan ford of ford welding out of rancho cordova ca.

hes a great guy and he is a great welder!

 

 

it should work great! looking to be in the 200 hp range.

 

 

im selling my 61 corvair to fund the 510. it leaves tuesday but atleast ill have one hell of a ride, i hope!