Senza pari 280z build

[SENZA PARI]

Theme song for this build "Tom Sawyer" - Rush. Any tips for beginning welders ? or like forums we can check out ? or better yet do you offer classes lol

I would have to say Asking Alexandria - A sinlge moment of sincerity, KC Blitz remix.... but that's just me. Actually there's too many that come to mind when I think about it... there's been far too many good/fitting songs that have been played while working on the car or updating this thread.
I posted a few tips the other day, they're on the page before this near the bottom. Again, I would say start with those (not enough people do), and just put in the time and get very comfortable being under the hood. Keep it clean, and keep it in position.

[Mr Von Smack]

Man. You are a huge inspiration. I'm not even going to ask how you manage to weld so smoothly. I was first linked to this thread by a car related page on Facebook. I constantly kept checking to see if any updates were made. You are the reason as to why I found this site, probably the reason why I kept checking out everything else there was to offer.

Keep up the good work. And honestly, I think the intakes sticking out of the hood will be sick! Keep us updated!

[SENZA PARI]

Man. You are a huge inspiration. I'm not even going to ask how you manage to weld so smoothly. I was first linked to this thread by a car related page on Facebook. I constantly kept checking to see if any updates were made. You are the reason as to why I found this site, probably the reason why I kept checking out everything else there was to offer.

Keep up the good work. And honestly, I think the intakes sticking out of the hood will be sick! Keep us updated!

Thank you for the kind words. It's huge, it really it. As slow as the build has been going, setbacks or not, all of the positive feedback makes it more than worth it. So again, I thank all of you.
Right now the big hold up is the wheel uprights, which in turn is holding up the correct suspension geometry from being known, which is in turn holding up the front end of the frame and suspension pick-up points from being finalized.
I've chosen to fabricate my own uprights, as opposed to using a stock offering (say from a Rx7 or Corvette) which locks me into using their geometry, which would be less than ideal (not to say they're sub-par for the car they're inteded for, but in my case using the wheels I am, the king-pin angle and scrub radius would be way off).
Also, I want to design them to use a scecific brake setup. I don't want to fabricate a set of uprights only to have to use shims or additional brackets to get a big-brake kit to work. And as big-brake kits aren't free... it progresses slowly:-/

At any rate, here are a few more screen shots of the frame as it is now. The brackets for the A-arms will be revised to use heim-joint rod ends as opposed to the traditional bushings.


FRAME ASSEMBLY1 by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr


FRAME ASSEMBLY by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

[laBeef]

WoW. Man I can't wait till the beast comes together. Keep the up excellent work. This has to be the best build on the internet at the moment.

[ScubaSteve]

Your work inspires me to go buy a welding setup and just practice on anything i can.
Beautiful work. It's art. I've never been impressed with anyone's work very much after i have seen yours. Even the cleanest fall inferior to yours.
Just beautiful. Keep it up.

[Unit01]

Why can't this just be done already!?

[Mr Von Smack]

Why can't this just be done already!?

Because then we wouldn't have anymore awesome updates to look forward to.

[milano_red]

Woooooow

[M.Sam]

Holy shit....

[padraigmk3]

Do want.

[SENZA PARI]

[IMG]
Do want.

Na... you'll like yours better;-)

[SENZA PARI]

Does anyone want to sponsor me in the brake department?? Your generousity would be compensated with wild weldments!

I'm not kidding....

[TeckniX]

What kinda brakes you looking for?

[SENZA PARI]

What kinda brakes you looking for?

Something along the lines of these... or the Ksport. Any of the 14" big brake kits out there would do, used would even be fine...


StillinAPRacing_BigBrakes_14inch_Overview by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

And I am being completely serious when I said I'd barter for crazy exhaust systems/manifolds/whatever it might be.... Most of the parts I will create or fabricate myself but things like brakes, racing seats, shocks, those I just can't do. The sooner I have them (as I'm one person who doesn't have endless pockets, nor funded by anyone else), the sooner I can finish this up!

[ionz]

Something along the lines of these... or the Ksport. Any of the 14" big brake kits out there would do, used would even be fine...


StillinAPRacing_BigBrakes_14inch_Overview by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/74953263@N0I #1[/url], on Flickr

And I am being completely serious when I said I'd barter for crazy exhaust systems/manifolds/whatever it might be.... Most of the parts I will create or fabricate myself but things like brakes, racing seats, shocks, those I just can't do. The sooner I have them (as I'm one person who doesn't have endless pockets, nor funded by anyone else), the sooner I can finish this up!

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1633922

maybe?

trying to expedite this! (and help out a bimmer brother )