Z32 project, "six month build"

[DeltaAlpha9]

Mmmm, I love those Modena's. Not sure how they will work with the Z32 shape, but it's worth a shot.

[jkh]

damn.. i love this nissan model.. good work so far..

[anti.engineered]

you know how it is. doesn't bother me because it's not like the basic plan I had wasn't completed in six months, the plan simply expanded

bit about the current wheel set up. they are VMR VB3's that I fell in love with after seeing them in a speedhunters feature. i enquired about having a set sent over to me be in Sydney to the tune of $510. conveniently, my parents were planning a trip to the west coast a few months later. so I organised to shoot over to Anaheim and ended up picking up the rims in person. i packed each of the four wheels into suit cases, one each surrounded by clothing and got them home for free. winning!

to run them (they're 5x120) I had some bolt on spacers made up by Adaptec, whom I just learned is a forum sponsor. The first set were 15mm and 18mm, but I later moved the 18mm pair to the front and fitted a 28mm pair to the rear.



bringing the final numbers to

235/40/18 x 9.5 +4
265/30/19 x 10 +10



i rolled the guards, modified the front and rear bumper tabs and slightly pulled the rears. I need to pull the rears more as with the new spacers I'm running waaaaaay too much rear camber still.



This was during the some of the unfinished fender work, and still rubbing. i added all the camber later to get the car drive able. i have put days upon days into making tiny suspension tweaks, fender pulls, jacking the car, dropping it again... it's just endless





that day we put a set of PBM coilovers into my buddys' late model jzz30 - factory manual vvt-i one of 150. at the moment I need to do some widening to get the camber down, traction is required here.



the front fit was much less problematic than the rear but I'm still not happy with it. staggering means it's a PITA to get even close tyre gap without raking the car which I'm not keen on. I sold the 235/40 fronts and have picked up a pair of 225/35s which haven't been fitted yet in order to help remedy this. we'll see. i wouldn't go staggered again.



here's next on the list wheel wise. scrounged together a full set of Modena faces with varying size/condition lip and barrels and binned the latter as half as they were bent to the shit house from a hard life of drifting. the faces will be bolted to some custom double stepped lips and barrels, bringing them to 18". closer to the time i'll be measuring it up properly but something in the realm of 11" front and 12" rear sounds right to me.

this will be a while off though - $2k + to carry this out would be better spent on paint first

-A

[Miroteknik]

lol yeah 6 months

good luck getting running solid, has all the potential

[anti.engineered]

hi. i'm Anti. i'm a 23 year old living in Sydney, Australia. for the last 36 months or so I've been working on my project car, a j-spec 1989 twin turbo 2+2 manual 300ZX originally in black. it's my second z32 after a 2+0 red NA, and the first time I've really worked on a car. since this build has been going on for a while i'll run through some condensed bits from the last few years before getting up to the present.

i received this car in pretty awful condition, the only selling point being a motor that'd just gone in with all new seals, gaskets, 100k service, etc. the rest of it was a shagged out heap of scrapyard shit. unregistered, leaking, blistering partially primed paint, red vinyl interior, china spec wheels, neons, the lot.

the goals for the car at first were KISS - bolt ons, pretty it up, paint and enjoy.

a quick run down of the car while the plan was in motion currently is as follows. adjustable suspension, dumped and pretty flush, fully up to scratch engine with brand new high flowed OEM turbos, OEM recaros and gauges/sound system, wire tucked engine bay, bigger brakes, clutch and steel driveshaft, etc etc. then about two years in... everything changed! more on that later. in the time i've owned the car I've done approximately 3000 kilometers in it as it's been total project car status.

it's still not finished, and never reached the point of paint as it was always the intention to do that last. i find it hard to put into text what has gone into this vehicle on my behalf - more than just money for parts and time for fitting them. all work done was in my parents' garage, with skills I developed while realising what i was doing at the time. i have invested everything into this car; not only all my money and hundreds maybe thousands (yes) of hours of my time, but my future and my passion. excitedly, the best has still yet to come. the thread starts when I got the car, not knowing which way to swing a ratchet.

to catch up i'll summarise different aspects into a post each. i guess I'll start with the body

- ADM NA front bar
- ADM front dummy lights (modified, now functional)
- Fog light ducts
- Series 1 badgeless nose panel
- Escort Racing FRP vented bonnet
- Ganador wing mirrors
- Driven Authority CSL-R lip wing
- 2K spec tail lights
- Altai center panel (modified, lights up red)
- 35% tint













recentish photo before going back into the garage for the long term



below is as far as I got with the bay while I had the original engine. wiring tucked, battery in the boot, fuel filter rear mounted, HICAS deleted, etc etc. for a while, the plan was to pretty this up, get a tune, paint the shell and enjoy motoring.



Then the motor then unexpectedly blew on the dyno and that massively changed the direction of the build. back into the garage, the following has occurred and/or is currently occurring

- total rewire
- stitch welded chassis
- complete bay shave
- 6 piston / 14" rotors on all corners
- old school work wheel rebarreling project
- fully built top to bottom vg30dett
- compound turbo set up

- welding and fab work (i'm learning so baby steps!)

with plenty more coming... kind of got away from me tbh

more on that later. be back soon to fill you guys in more.

-A