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Well can't leave well enough alone and picked up another rig. This time it's a 240, a 1990 s13 with 2 previous owners, although they must have been kinda hard on her haha. Car is originally from Virginia and has no rust at all something unheard of in my area of atlantic Canada. Traded my 1974 Datsun 620 project for it and seems I got a pretty good deal. Came with D2 coils, enjuku er spec 10 point cage, nrg suede wheel with quick release, spl titanium arms, 5 lug conversion and quite a bit more.
Was thinking about an RB swap but since it came with ls1 mounts and I had an aluminum 5.3 sitting around I'm going to be going that route.
Some pics
Bolted down the fenders and set the hood on just so they wouldn't be in the way
Interior is gutted waiting on installing the cage. Dash is just sitting in there in this pic
Tearing into the 5.3 here, it's getting full forged internals, cam, rockers, and some head work to start
Why the forged internals? Because of this
Garage is pretty full at the moment
Those of you with keen eyes might notice the stripped Sr20 on the stand in the background, and if you're really looking might notice the sr20ve on the floor beside it. That hybrid is going in my other car (build thread on here)
It used to have a bored and stroked 11:1 fully built l series but that thing was a bastard on the street. Full suspension and driveline has already been done on it, pretty much ever nut and bolt besides cosmetics haha.
Did some more small stuff, decided to throw the bumper and lights on just to make me feel like theres some actual progress on the go.
Also got ahold of a front sump pan and notched crossmember
Glitter because why not
Now for the part that's really going to piss off the Nissan or even jdm purists. Picking up the trans in a few days and going with an old school 3 speed chev automatic. I know there's some eyes rolling now but in the end its my car and i'll do what i want, car will see some strip time and there's just no beating an old built auto with a transbrake in that regard. Especially with the power this engine is going to be making my options for a beefy manual were limited to only a few options.
Keep an eye on this thread because hopefully a placeholder 6 litre will be installed soon to get some major progress started!
Was thinking about an RB swap but since it came with ls1 mounts and I had an aluminum 5.3 sitting around I'm going to be going that route.
Some pics
Bolted down the fenders and set the hood on just so they wouldn't be in the way
Interior is gutted waiting on installing the cage. Dash is just sitting in there in this pic
Tearing into the 5.3 here, it's getting full forged internals, cam, rockers, and some head work to start
Why the forged internals? Because of this
Garage is pretty full at the moment
Those of you with keen eyes might notice the stripped Sr20 on the stand in the background, and if you're really looking might notice the sr20ve on the floor beside it. That hybrid is going in my other car (build thread on here)
It used to have a bored and stroked 11:1 fully built l series but that thing was a bastard on the street. Full suspension and driveline has already been done on it, pretty much ever nut and bolt besides cosmetics haha.
Did some more small stuff, decided to throw the bumper and lights on just to make me feel like theres some actual progress on the go.
Also got ahold of a front sump pan and notched crossmember
Glitter because why not
Now for the part that's really going to piss off the Nissan or even jdm purists. Picking up the trans in a few days and going with an old school 3 speed chev automatic. I know there's some eyes rolling now but in the end its my car and i'll do what i want, car will see some strip time and there's just no beating an old built auto with a transbrake in that regard. Especially with the power this engine is going to be making my options for a beefy manual were limited to only a few options.
Keep an eye on this thread because hopefully a placeholder 6 litre will be installed soon to get some major progress started!
Winter has hit pretty hard and just got the car tarped in time, next chance going to push the car into the temporary tarp garage to wait out the winter. The Datsun gets the real garage while the sr20ve swap is completed lol. Will at least finish up the spray bomb job and maybe get a junk block set in the engine bay so i can play around with welding up an exhaust and figuring out where i'm running everything.
I like the RB heaps more than an american v8 though
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