Senza pari 280z build

[SENZA PARI]

Hea,hea! He's back-and we're grateful for that! From the sounds of things, you're too busy to watch TV, so I'll up date you a bit. "Glamoured" is a term from HBO's "True Blood" - a vampire series. Basically, the vampires, by just looking and speaking alone can hypnotize motals-just like your team's work! Wasn't saying you're glamorizing your work to us.

I think I can say for all of us, we hope, every morning we wake up to see a new post from you. It's magic what you got going on.

Again, my thread was to appeal to the "ego" and get SOMETHING, ANYTHING from you! Haha, much love and do you think you could post maybe twice a month? Just twice, cause my crack habit ain't covering this SENZA PARI addiction!

Ha! You are correct, there is no time for TV. I may catch a re-run of Seinfeld now and then, but that's all. I might as well sell my TV.

I'll see what I can do about updating this thread more frequently. Hopefully things progress a little quicker once the suspension is in and sorted out. Fingers crossed??

[2GRX7]

Hea,hea! He's back-and we're grateful for that! From the sounds of things, you're too busy to watch TV, so I'll up date you a bit. "Glamoured" is a term from HBO's "True Blood" - a vampire series. Basically, the vampires, by just looking and speaking alone can hypnotize motals-just like your team's work! Wasn't saying you're glamorizing your work to us.

I think I can say for all of us, we hope, every morning we wake up to see a new post from you. It's magic what you got going on.

Again, my thread was to appeal to the "ego" and get SOMETHING, ANYTHING from you! Haha, much love and do you think you could post maybe twice a month? Just twice, cause my crack habit ain't covering this SENZA PARI addiction!

[evilstar]

beastly. I want to see it driving around as is.

[SENZA PARI]

See post #678 from the previous page. We build custom plenums for L28's and L series motors using only the stock manifold cores. We cut off the factory plenum, leaving 4" of runners and build our own.

what's the deal with the cut up L28 intake manifolds?

[Jlyons617]

what's the deal with the cut up L28 intake manifolds?

[SENZA PARI]

A few photos from the last month or so:

Welding in the new camber plates... As some of you may or may not know, there are no bolt in coilover kits like that of most modern cars. The strut housing and hub assembly is one unit, and in order to use a modern coilover, there is a bit of fabrication involved. Weld-in camber plates and threaded sleeves are available, but because I am using 18" wheels, and still want to go rather low, the sleeves that are available would not work well for me.
So, I had to make my own.

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Now, the body of the car sits much lower than most Z's, relative to the center of the wheels (again, joys of using 18's instead of 14 or 15's). This puts the steering geometry quite a bit out of whack. In order to get it back closer to parallel, spacers are used to lower the mounting point of the lower arm. It's still not ideal, but at least I don't have any suspension/sway bar interference anymore. I'll go back and address this down the road at some point...

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

A few static shots...

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Inner fenders cleaned up and painted black:

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Trimming rear fenders:

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Trimming front fenders (disregard jacked up camber):

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

Camber straightened out:

Untitled by SENZA PARI #1, on Flickr

[SENZA PARI]

Sorry to leave everyone hanging again... please believe it's never my intention.

To the post regarding me try to glamourize the people with my/our fab work... I post the photos only because people seem to like it. I'm getting emails and PM's constantly to show more... so that's what I've done. I don't get to spend a lot of time working on the car, unfortunately, so these photos are a way for you/the people/whoever cares, to see what's going on with my life... which is what these build threads are all about... at least to me. They're much more than just a collection of photos on how low your car is, but more of a story, or a look into someone's life... which happens to involve a car which may or may not "need more low." That's what actually drew me to this site, and these build pages in the first place. It was a much more laid back atmosphere. It wasn't the typical forum where you have a million 15 year old kids yelling at **** talking at each other. I've been on those forums, and I don't care to deal with it anymore.

I'll admit... my 280 is cut apart and awaiting a full tube frame/suspension and drivetrain. That will be a 10 year project, and I don't have the time, nor the funds to allocate for that right now.

The Rx7 is owned by my good friend, who recently just had a baby. He's also involved in a number of other things which take up a good deal of time. We make custom furniture together, along with the custom automotive parts. These past few months we've made close to 30 custom manifold for Z's. Most are the same, some are quite unique. Regardless, the 7 has been on the road, making 620 to the wheels since 2008. The fiberglass body work continues, but he takes it out sans front fenders, hood and even doors at times. So while it may not be the show car on the front of a magazine just yet, it is used, and holy shit is it enjoyed.

The design and fabrication work that you see is not my day job, but something I do on the side. My 260 is something I'm able to work on when I'm not doing something on the side. I work a 50 hour week designing stainless steel fire truck apparatus. When I'm not working, I'm building turbo kits for various cars, building exhaust systems... the past few months we've made close to 30 intake manifolds for Z's alone. I design and build furniture and do various other woodworking projects. I design and build rifles, knives, and have been working on our new house. The list goes on, and most of it no one would care about.

So... yes, I work on the car when I can, and post photos of the various other car related projects I'm doing as a way to stay in touch. Nothing more. And I hope those of you who have followed this build continue to ask for more.

I'll stop back in later today to post a few photos of what's been going on lately....

[loekaaz]

I see what you did there....

[2GRX7]

LOL! No soul- funny! Naw, just appealing to the "ego" to get him to hit back and then we'll have him in our grasp (evil laugh ensues)!

[Carlsen]

HaHa! You really think you're going to see this done any time soon? I think dude was just looking to "glamour" us with the ridiculous fab work his company does.

Seriously, he's got three open threads that have some tasty stuff in it and as far as we know, none are done! He at least got his "pat on the back".

I think he's just got a lot to do besides working on this project..
I know how it is, got 2 bikes standing in the garage for years now begging for some simple fabrication before completeion, but my daily bike and car takes most of the attention, time and money I've got available

Still, hoping to see some progress here soon! We have proof this project has been brought back when we thought it was dead before

[DeltaAlpha9]

I read through the entire thread and was getting the vibe that this thread was dead. Glad to see it still kicking and definitely subbed for updates.

[hi its me alec]

HaHa! You really think you're going to see this done any time soon? I think dude was just looking to "glamour" us with the ridiculous fab work his company does.

Seriously, he's got three open threads that have some tasty stuff in it and as far as we know, none are done! He at least got his "pat on the back".

Do you not have a soul, or something?

[2GRX7]

HaHa! You really think you're going to see this done any time soon? I think dude was just looking to "glamour" us with the ridiculous fab work his company does.

Seriously, he's got three open threads that have some tasty stuff in it and as far as we know, none are done! He at least got his "pat on the back".

[TeckniX]

Some 240z motivation:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2y_-vpolA"]Dare to Be Different in a Datsun 240Z[/ame]

[Bobbythunder]

At this pace I'll be a grandpa by the time this car is finished