Minty 1969 510 Sedan

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How it sits now:

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Love 510's and can't wait to see how this build goes

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Everything was going great and nothing could go wrong... until this happened:



Ironically I was picking up a set of freshly powdercoated rims when my tire decided it no longer wanted to live... I scrambled around for tires for the new rims (as I didnt have any plans to mount them for a bit) and got her back on the road quickly.

New rims and tires installed:



SSR MKIIs in the front (15x7 +10) and SSR MKIIIs in the rear (15x8 +12) with a slight stretch on all four tires.





I picked up an even rarer grille from a friend in Japan. Its a 1973 SSS 1600 grille...



Theres no center console so I needed somewhere to put my drank while cruising so I remembered I picked this up last time I was in Japan:





Added some seat covers to cover up some of the tears in the stock upholstery:

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Stock front suspension:



280zx suspension:



How it sat after lowering it with the front coilovers... its at a bit of a rake due to massive rubbing in the rear. The tires are 80sw so they were quite large. The stock springs in the rear were so soft over their 40yrs that I couldnt carry more than 50lbs in the rear or I would rub.





Decided to do something about the soft rear, so I installed a set of Camaro shocks and ST lowering springs. Although shorter than stock, they were far stiffer which resulted in less rubbing.



A quick roll for clearance:



And this is how it sat:



I drove it around like this for quite some time. I enjoyed the hell out of it...



I picked up a rare grille known as a Safari grille and rocked that for a bit:

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So this is going to be a compacted version of my current build thread from a forum Im more active on. This build is fairly new with me purchasing the car in January so theres still lots to do to get it exactly where I want it. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to discuss.

This is how I picked it up from the previous owner:









Started working on some small stuff.

Covered the rear seat. It was in great physical condition, but the PO removed the cover to have a new one made but since that didnt happen I had to do something.







Installed some rare GL tail lights. I still have to install the third center piece that goes with these, but the tail light panel in dented in some so it wont sit flush. I also have to remove the license plate lights and move to a bumper mounted version as well. Just havent had time so Im rocking just the two lights:



I installed 280zx hubs, struts, coilovers, and brakes on the car so I could no longer rock the stock steelies as they would not clear the calipers. I didnt want to get rid of the whitewalls just yet, so I picked up a set of Aero Racing rims. They are the only 13's to clear a ZX setup.

Stock height:



Side poke: