Minty 1969 510 Sedan

[sally pu]

this is an amazing build, in for future updates! I just have to admit that I have a sickeing fetish for these 510's and 510 wagons, and I love that steering wheel, it's gonna look amazing in this car!

[metalmonkey47]

Tristin, is this a Ratsun takover of stanceworks? lolol

Car looks good as always man. Love the color.

[MattyHacks71]

Love your car so much!

[tristinGrind]

Unfortunately no... I shifter that I posted actually got scraped. I thought I had a picture of the version 2 I made (a little smaller but mos def nicer looking), but I dont. I ended up breaking the tap off in the first one so I had to make another. Now Im just waiting to tap the second one before I snag some pictures of everything installed.

Ive been machining lots of things this past week as everyone seems to want a set of lockvpulls from me. Selling a few sets just means I can dump more money into the car!

[Anonymoose]

Loving the machining work man, good stuff, column shift brought back memories Any installed pics?

[tristinGrind]

Made a turn signal knob last night so now everything matches...

[tristinGrind]

OEM lock pulls for a member here:



Column shift knob:



No installed pics of the shift knob as I have yet to tap it. I also need to make a turn signal knob so everything matches. All this should be done tonight/tomorrow morning while I'm at work.

[tristinGrind]

Before:



After:

[dropped.]

sooooo sick!

[tristinGrind]

About 2min with a set of calipers measuring the OEM piece, 1min sketching up the actual design on a scratch piece of paper, and a quick thought on how to actually cut it out on my lathe. Maybe 4min. total. Took me way longer to actually cut them. Especially since I've had requests from others to make some for them so even more time cutting.

[Bokeh]

Wow those custom locks look amazing how long did the design take?

[tristinGrind]

Thanks everyone!

Speaking of the steering wheel, today after work I should be taking my stock unit apart to see of I can design my own hub. I don't currently have the cash to buy my own, so looks like a fab job is in order. Should be pretty easy I think... I won't know until I pull the wheel apart to see how everything connects up.

And speaking of custom fab, I made these the last couple of days while at work:

Ok, here we go... a little story before the pictures. The door lock pulls were horse shit in my car. They were dry, cracked, sun-bleached white in some places so I decided to pick up some new ones. I only knew of two places to get them. There were OEM replacements available at a merchant whom most do not do business with and a member on Ratsun who made aluminum ones. Well, I ***** the style that were offered over on Ratsun (Im sure they were great quality), so I bought them from the other guy.

Needless to say, they sucked. I know he doesnt make them himself, so I really dont fault him, but they felt cheap and crappy, a few barely threaded on... they sucked.

So I decided on a style I wanted and cut my own. I can now call myself a real machinist now as I have officially designed the part, setup to machine from scratch, cut the part manually, and finished them myself. All work done by me and I think they came out fantastic. 100% happy with them. I have a bit more bar stock left so Im contemplating making a decent run of them. We shall see what happens, but either way Im loving them so far. Onto the pictures:

OEM piece:



OEM reproduction:



Parts I designed and cut:



Blurry closeup (sorry):



Locked:



Unlocked:



Outside in the rain picture:



They are currently a mostly shiny silver from the cutting process, but Im probably going to brush them up to match my sill plates.

[Sir_Townsend]

dat steering wheel is gonna look sooooooo fresh!

[WideFive]

Damn i love 510s sooo much!! looks awesome btw

[tanktank208]

Thanks!

I actually have a line on a set thats even better (read: larger, dishier, rarer). Its going to take some work to fit them though... Im going to need to drop the car even more, cut my fenders, and fit some flares. Other than being expensive, its pretty easy.

My biggest issue is that the rear fender wells are part of how the rear door shuts and seals. So I might need to forgo the use of my rear doors and just keep them sealed the whole time. Im going to have to cut the fender, wheel well, and door itself. Then install the flare over the door seam and slice it to allow the door to open (or at least look like it will open).

this is how it was with my old ke70 but we just took the front arches off the fenders cut out the rears and welded the fronts in. then used Mk2 gti fender arches for the front. was alot easier than ripping and cutting and welding and smashing and bashing to make them work. these two cars are alot alike. people have done fender flares on them. you should def check out some ke70 threads great car though man love it