Grand Nostalgic - Zeto San-Ichi (Nissan Z31)

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Easy guys,

am new on here

building a Nissan 300zx(Z31), its a rare 2 seater short-wheel base(SWB) model, apparently its 1 of 2 in the country to be a SWB Auto Turbo.

got the car late last year and building it has been a lil painful cause most parts including coilovers all had to be custom made as hardly any aftermarket part is available off the shelf

anyways I'll let the pics do the talking, pics are from when I got it till date

this is how it was bought










Mate came down with his handy polishing gear to spark up the beast, as seen in earlier pics paint is battered
first order was to see if we can revive the paint so I can prioritise on where to be spending the cash on the car









Paint has come out well, car looks ok 10-15 feet away lol, the bumper and bonnet can defo do with a respray, other than that all the other body panels were straight and cool with no major fade
hopefully gonna start on the interior soon, get it cleaned and get rid of all the huge spiders :unsure:

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work progress as follows, coilover time!

finally after on and off working on the car for a few days, removed the struts which were a mission!! <_<

they are finally off using all kinda sh*t and home made 17mm 30" spanner :lol:

front struts being removed so can be sent off to Gaz, they are going to use these to make custom one off coilovers for this car, coilovers for Z31 were never available

rear system is a bit different, its a semi-trailarm(sumat like that), so means the damper and springs are seperate, but when the coilover goes on, the original divorced spring will be removed.


anyways pics as follows, my mate Adam workin on the car whilst I took pics........ and supervised :lol: :


















laptop isnt there for some re-map lol, reading through internet tutorial guide






and I must say all thanks to my home made 17mm spanner stuck inside a 30" adjustable hoover pipe :lol:

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new Electro/De-fog heated side mirror, its quite stupidly expensive through the dealers

Ebay ftw! ^_^



















these are just fronts ones they custom made, but cause the car is back of the garage, gonna send the rear ones after I put these on and swing the car around

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got the front coilies on!

these are set up at the lowest settings

looks pretty low

coilies will settle and probs go down a few more mm

however there is major wheel to suspension foulage, spacer time!

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did some more work on Xmas Day

painfully drove the car out the garage with major coilies to wheel foulage so I can start work on the rear

removed the speaker cover and speakers and cracking on the top mounts, but its very fiddly! need one of those bendy extension things or cut the speaker mounts(I iz avoiding to do that)

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Genuine BBS LM's - 17x10j rears and 17x9j fronts

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believe it or not these nuts and bolts accumilate upto like £50 <_<








scene pic for the sake of it as I never done one with wheels and shoes before :lol:

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sweet content :wub:










Gaz ftw! they custom made the rear coilies for me, along with building the whole coilover they refurbed the top mounts, everything else they used was brand new parts. and as you can notice the they have rebound adjustment which means they made me these Gold Class ones for no extra cost, this is KW terrority with one-off custom jobby, I gotsta love 'em :wub: bless 'em they even put brand new bushes and I never even asked for that :wub: ^_^

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sooooo.......... I had a productive day today

got my mate Adam over and thought we fit the rear coilies on the Z using all the nice shiny bitzzz


started with bolting the coilover in place and start removing the original spring

Semi-trailing arm to a Semi-Independant arm conversion




spring is out, this spot is never to be used, unless converting back to stock... which I doubt






new shiny sh*t




Result

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wheels have been bored out - centerbore was too small

trial fittingz took place today with Haris(that gay jap car *****)

my calculations sucked before, I can actually run 12j's in reality :lol:

to have the wheels flush against the arch I need like 35mm spacers




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did some work yesterday on the Z, test fittingz and to see if everything was mechanically sound, so let it run for a bit too to makesure it doesnt overheat etc etc, and I was surprised everything was working like a new car :lol: just means I gotta get my wheels etc etc sorted and insure the beast as its MOT'd and Taxed anyway

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so far this is how it looks, also needs a bit more cosmetic touches, I will update with tha shortly.

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righty, did loadsa cleaning and polishing, using some camera trickery and the result, I'm pretty pleased

also did the headlight down mod, was p*ss easy, the lights will work whilst the headlight is down and you can still pop em up using the overide switch

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