Spiff Posted July 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Yes, I have drop spindles and lowering blocks in the garage, just waiting for new wheels and some spare time. 2 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted July 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Wheels came in, they looked way better in the photos, the paintjob on them is horrible, so my plan of just sanding down the "spokes" and outer ring went down the drain; these are gonna need media blasting and a new paintjob first. Fitment was good though, no more poking out of the fenders :) I was also gonna install the drop spindles and all the work of changing one only to find out they don't fit the 83 :( So I'm gonna need new brakes and I'm thinking of just buying the d21 vg30 calipers and discs as I believe these are a bolt on upgrade? Heres the caliper not fitting: 1 Quote Link to comment
Lockleaf Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 If you want an even better brake upgrade, you can use pathfinder parts (if they sold those where you live). This will all bolt to your new spindle with only one small modification. I posted a thread showing how this works out here - http://community.ratsun.net/topic/66968-720-brake-upgrade/ 1 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted July 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 If you want an even better brake upgrade, you can use pathfinder parts (if they sold those where you live). This will all bolt to your new spindle with only one small modification. I posted a thread showing how this works out here - http://community.ratsun.net/topic/66968-720-brake-upgrade/ Good one! But I ended up buying the 86 d21 rotors and calipers. Hopefully they'll be here next week or so! Had a cruise with some friends the other day, finally some cars that are smaller than mine :lol: 3 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted August 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 So when I bought this truck I found an old ESSO oildrop man keychain in it, or what was left of him, I thought it was cool so I decided to clean it up, make a pedestal for it and im gonna put him on my dashboard so he can greet everybody :) 3 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted August 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 wheels are back from sandblasting: I also picked up some 4runner wheels, gonna use them for winterwheels. 2 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted August 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 'Yota wheels: Nissan forklifter lifting a nissan engine in a nissan truck: Got my new brake setup. D21 stuff. Testmounted on the drop spindles and together with the 720 hubs. inside the wheels: Also my search for an lsd is proving fruitfull having sourced a rear h190 rear axle with a factory lsd, only downside is after having a really good look at my own axle I do believe mine has the smaller H165, so my thoughts of just replacing the diff unit fell apart. I'm gonna need to swap the entire axle... 3 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 So, engine swap is nearing, hopefully I'll get it done this weekend... The engineswap itself isn't the problem, it's the wiring and all carb to efi related stuff that takes time coupled with the fact I want things to look clean and I also want to hide some wiring, so thats gonna take some time. I spent all last weekend disassembling the Z24 and cleaning it up, funny how one small thing leads to another. Lots of work but endend up pretty good. Don't know If I've mentioned it but I'm combining the Z20E and the Z24 to build a Z24E. Since they're similar there's not a whole lot of stuff that needs to be done, just remove the carb manifold and fuel pump, put on the z20e blockoff plate and some portmatching of the inlet manifold. You could bolt it straight up but I like to believe that making the ports match up might be good for something... Here's a work in progress pic of opening up the manifold ports. For the rest of the conversion i have the stock z20e wiring harness and ecu. I got a free fuelpump with armature from a friend for a bmw 320 that I'm retrofitting to the fueltank. I will need to put in a return line for the fuel injection so I have bought 8mm copper pipe for that, along with new fuel lines. 1 Quote Link to comment
TENDRIL Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 such a neat truck! 2 Quote Link to comment
RedSquare Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Those Enkei KBAs are making me 2nd guess going 6-lug. 1 Quote Link to comment
Gradyfest Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Thanks for the updates and keeping your thread alive! I like what you got going on. 1 Quote Link to comment
gene knight Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Are the rims going to rub on the spindle inside tie rod arm, cuz by the look of your recent picture it looks like it will 1 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted October 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 I don't know, it might be the angle of the picture. It should fit 15" wheels and upwards according to the guys who has run these lowering spindles. Still haven't got the engine in the car, progress has been slow, lack of motivation I guess. I hate wiring so that might be part of it. Spent the last day rerouting the engine harness and also trying to figure out how to connect the efi to the car. Here's the old layout, with the harness over the manifold. I wanted to hide it so ended up removing the old tape and rearrange some of the wiring. It's missing the piping for pcv,air regulator and emissions stuff. I'll add that but as soon as the swap has been approved I'll clean it up and remove the emissions stuff... I also needed a dropping resistor for the injectors, luckily I had one from a s13 so I'll just cut the plugs off and solder on some new ones. Trying to make some sense of it all... Also here's the rest of the intake manifold porting, I also needed to mill out a small section of the ports on the head so the injector spray isn't blocked. Same with the manifold gasket. 1 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted October 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Well.... Fuck!....guess it stops here for now. If anyone is parting out a rwd 720 with a z series engine let me know, I need both engine mounts and possibly the oilpan... Will pay for shipping to new Jersey. 1 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted October 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Researching this today and it seems the rubber mounts are the same across all 720's regardless of engine, also the engine mounting brackets share partnumbers on the 720, so with this engine coming from a D21 I need the brackets that sit on the side of the engine block from a 720. SD- diesel or Z20/22/24 or L20B gasoline. 1 Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 The L20B Steel Mounts are different as the engine slants the opposite direction. I know this because I own a 1980 720 L20B and a 1985 &1986 720 Z24. Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted October 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 The L20B Steel Mounts are different as the engine slants the opposite direction. I know this because I own a 1980 720 L20B and a 1985 &1986 720 Z24. Weird that they share the same partnumbers then. Anyways, 720's never came with l20's or z24's here, most where diesel so I'm hoping those can be used as I know of a couple standing around.... If not then my hopes are someone in the us can gather a set for me... 1 Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 You might be able to use the steel mounts on the opposite sides. What was stock in your 720 before the swap? Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted October 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 A j16, which shares nothing with the other engines, I've tried using the mounts from that but that didn't work either. I'm waiting for some diesel mounts right now so we'll see. If that don't work then there's a guy on Facebook that was willing to part with some genuine z24 mounts from the 720. Fingers crossed.... 1 Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 Be sure they are 720 mounts the hard body mounts may be different. I use this sight for checking USA part numbers. http://www.nissanpartsdeal.com/ Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 These are the part numbers I came up with for the metal mounts that bolt to the block. USA Vehicles. 1980 720 L20B 2WD Left 11232-05W01 Right 11230-05W00 1983 720 Z22 2WD Left 11233-06W00 Right 11232-06W00 1986 720 Z24 2WD Left 11233-30W02 Right 11232-30W02 1986 D21 Z24 2WD Left 11233-01G00 Right 11232-01G10 1996 D21 Ka24E Left 11233-86G00 Right 11232-01G02 Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 I might have a set of the welded on 720 Z24 frame mounts if you need. Please post some pictures of the frame welded engine mounts and the the trans mount and crass member you have. Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 The rubber engine mounts are: 1980 720 L20B 2 WD Left 11221-03W02 Right 11220-B8001 1983 720 Z22 2WD Left 11221-08W02 Right 11220-B8001 1986 720 Z24 2WD Left 11220-08W02 Right 11220-08W02 Quote Link to comment
Spiff Posted October 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 Thanks, I've been using nissan4u.com which obviously haven't been so great. I didn't see your post in time or else I could have gotten the pictures for you. I'll get them next time. So there's a difference even between the Z22 and Z24? Or are they the same since the first five digits in the part numbers are the same? 1 Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted October 9, 2015 Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 There is some type of difference since the ending of the part numbers are different. Quote Link to comment
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