510T Posted May 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Thanks Draker! It is good to be back, better to be driving my Datsun! It's on the road and hope to get back to the track soon. I have a few things to do first... I need to drill the hat bolts and safety wire my new brakes: So I can run my new wheels up front: ...and about a million other things! lol 6 Quote Link to comment
Draker Posted May 10, 2020 Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 Oh nice! Those look like they will perform well. What struts are you running up front? Quote Link to comment
510T Posted June 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 On 5/9/2020 at 11:49 PM, Draker said: Oh nice! Those look like they will perform well. What struts are you running up front? Struts are Infiniti M30, same same as late Z31 turbo or S12 V6 but with 4 lug hubs and floating rotors. Not much to update, I've just been driving it as much as I can before I take it to get exhaust fixed. Night cruise! Before the curfews 😉 2 Quote Link to comment
510T Posted May 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2023 Off the back burner, now on a side burner lol. Is this the year? Time will tell! 4 Quote Link to comment
510T Posted July 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 Very old oics from the Legend @INDY510 Working at getting it back on track, literally. Lots of issues from sitting but I am making progress. 6 Quote Link to comment
510T Posted August 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 I'm glad I have those nice pictures because I recently had an incident. Forgot to latch the hood and went for a drive 😞 I smashed it up pretty good. It bent both wiper arms and blew up the blades, also got a nice dent in the cowl. My hood got bent pretty bad. Pretty bummed out. A few weeks later, I put out a post on the gram asking if anyone local had a hood. Within a few hours I had one lined up thanks to an old HS classmate and his brother. Thanks guys! We made arrangements to go pick it up the next weekend. I was ready to take just about anything as long as it was straight. Magically I found a pretty great condition hood half buried in leaves behind a stack of doors. Got it home and cleaned it up over the next week. Fresh out of the leaf pile: After a thorough wash: My first time trying to care about paint: It came out better than I could have hoped! The plan is to wrap it. That plan has been sidetracked because I haven't been able to get it to fit. My hinges were obviously bent so they came off and repops from Z car depot got installed. Still no dice. The hood is too far back and crooked to the drivers side. All adjustments have been maxed so I am contemplating my next move. At the same time this was going on I had been working through sorting out the brakes. I couldn't get them bled for the life of me, then when I finally got some pedal the front calipers were gradually locking up as I drove. Replaced the MC, bled again and the brakes are good! Finally a win. It was after this small victory with the brakes that the hood incident occurred. I was cruising around for a few days uncomfortably hoodless when my clutch pedal went to the firewall on a 1-2 shift. No leaks, so I figured the MC was roached from sitting with old fluid all these years. I limped the car home and ordered a replacement. It was delayed, and turns out I ordered the wrong part :). New part ordered and was also delayed, then I casually snapped my clutch line A/N adapter in the MC. I couldn't save it so had to order a third master and a new adapter. Got them installed and the pushrod was too long. Pushrod is now trimmed and the system is ready to fill and bleed. Lots of real life happening around the car so progress is slow. The goal is a (successful) track day before the end of this year... 4 Quote Link to comment
Stoffregen Motorsports Posted August 11, 2023 Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 I had the hood pins in my 510 race car come out during a race once. I watched the first one fly off, then watched the second one vigilantly wiggling back and forth until it hit the windshield on its way by. Then I braced for impact... The hood flying up broke the windshield and I had to make it to pit lane by taking down the driver window net and sticking my head out to see. Sucks when shit like that happens to a nice car. 1 Quote Link to comment
Draker Posted August 11, 2023 Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 Yeah pretty lucky the windshield survived. I've heard this story so many times with hood pins. 😞 2 Quote Link to comment
Will Posted August 11, 2023 Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 Would you possibly be up for a hood trade? I'm trying to find a decent hood for my car in that color (...though this one is the wrong blue for you!) 2 Quote Link to comment
510T Posted August 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 Yeah I am definitely lucky it happened at low speed, the windshield already has a crack but really glad it didn't turn out worse. Will, I could possibly be open to a trade but I have a bit of time and some $ wrapped up in this one already... Feel free to hit me up on IG @510Tyler, I would be interested to see some more pics of your hood if you want. 1 Quote Link to comment
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