Icehouse Posted August 10, 2011 Report Share Posted August 10, 2011 I'm the proud new owner of Roxy! THANK YOU RICH!!!!!!!!!! The weekend before last I picked her up. Such a cool truck. I've always wanted one. When Rich was talking about selling the truck I couldn't believe I had a chance at owning one, and to now actually own it is just insane! So far all I have done is lower it, later it will go a bit lower but I want to do it right and upgrade to disk brakes in the front during the next lowering project. So for now I'm just searching for parts. I also need to put some better rear end gears in. The motor is just singing on the freeway, which is painful. I'm a fast lane kinda guy, this whole slow lane BS is killing me :) Anyways I will update this tread as much as I can. Here are a few pictures. Quote Link to comment
Laecaon Posted August 10, 2011 Report Share Posted August 10, 2011 Awesome! That is a nice ute! Quote Link to comment
SSS510 Posted August 11, 2011 Report Share Posted August 11, 2011 NICE BUY!!! :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
goichi1 Posted August 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 You are very welcome Jeff, you are about the only one I would have sold it to....I missed it the next day when I had to go and buy more shit from HomeDepot for the shed. I know it's in a good home now!! Quote Link to comment
hang_510 Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 I'm the proud new owner of Roxy! awesome!!! :w00t: Quote Link to comment
1lo620 Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 That is totally sweet Jeff.....funny that the first thing you did was lower it, I would have done the same thing!!!! Have fun with it....!!! Quote Link to comment
Aaron Datsun Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 This truck is awesome also one of the reasons I really want to get stationed in Japan at some point and time. Congrats to icehouse the new owner Quote Link to comment
WAGON JON Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 So, when are you going to add a turbo? Quote Link to comment
SR20DETdatsun510 Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Almost exactly a 1 year Bump! Cool truck. What's the status of out now? Quote Link to comment
Rustina 510 Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 ....and they say the realm is rough!! :blink: I thought this is where all the cool folks hang out! hahahaha..... Cool folks are sarcastic, you will get use to it Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 Welp about 70k miles later I'm still loving my truck. Seeing the first pics make me realize how much the earth is trying to take it back! Anyways. Been driving with about 1" of suspension travel for the last 11 years. So since I had it up in the air to install even better gears. I pulled the OG 4.11 out and put 3.7/3.9 in can't remember which I just know I wanted 3.3 or 3.5 which I finally found a 3.5! If anyone runs across 3.3 for the H165 let me know! I also got a 5 speed but that's later. Also 3D printed a cool stereo holder. Really I've just driven it the since I bought it. Not much work. on it's 3rd set of tires and second head gasket. Great little truck. It's on the fair weather lift!! old bump stops Standard Datsun unibody. Multi layers and rusty. Such a bitch to weld. Other side went better but I didn't take a photo. Added some angle for added strength. Yeah I raised the exhaust. Also no photo. New brake lines. Old guys decided to crack on the way out.... This is how low it sits. Yeah I know it looks good. 6 Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 On 8/23/2011 at 9:17 PM, WAGON JON said: So, when are you going to add a turbo? I bought a FJ a long time ago for it. Not sure when that's going in. Quote Link to comment
]2eDeYe Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 It does look good B) Quote Link to comment
Stoffregen Motorsports Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 Is that a flip-flop being used as a bump-stop? 1 Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Stoffregen Motorsports said: Is that a flip-flop being used as a bump-stop? Yep! Summer was over. So I repurposed them 🙂 2 2 Quote Link to comment
Stoffregen Motorsports Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 If you ever decide to sell that little guy, hit me up. I'd like another Datsun, but not an ordinary one. Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 4 hours ago, Stoffregen Motorsports said: If you ever decide to sell that little guy, hit me up. I'd like another Datsun, but not an ordinary one. My daughter says when I die it's hers. So you will need to bug her when that time comes. 1 Quote Link to comment
Icehouse Posted July 27, 2023 Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 C notch was a success!!! Rides so amazing. Should have doe that the first week I bought it. I also did air shocks but plumbed in a pump. I used it to haul a Honda Helux for my motorcycle test (my Husaburg I converted to street legal broke down). Also 3D printed a radio holder so I would have to cut my dash. Tunes sure are nice. Datwifey had this retro looking 30 dollar amazon radio in her roadster and it seemed to work good so I bought one. I wanted to incorporate the pressure gauge you can see hanging down into my radio holder along with a water temp gauge. But feature creep is a real thing and I didn't want to print a million versions to get it right. So later I will print a pod for them. 3 Quote Link to comment
iceman510 Posted July 27, 2023 Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 7 hours ago, Icehouse said: OK, that's just hilarious. The Helix is almost bigger than the Sunny. 1 Quote Link to comment
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