DreamZproject

You certainly have to be quick around here!

He is quite tempted, but i think he has his eyes set on an MX5 though. I think he wants a project completed before he kicks the bucket

So i received my second 260z today It has all the plates to make it legit so it can be registered, also has a couple of spare panels so I'm not 100% decided wether I'd like to keep it for parts (few as they are interchangably from the 2 to 2+2) and then part it out, or simply to sell it as a whole unit... When Lurch comes out to check out my 2 seater I'll get his opinion. Enough nattering, here she is.

The amount of time he would have spent on getting that much fiberglass and bog on the car SURELY would have roughly equated to costing the same as just getting a professional to weld it all up...

Oh don't worry. There was pleeeeenty body filler too. And very unnecessarily too! For some reason thr guy Bogged up areas to heights that never existed on the car! :/

Well some progress. Firstly i discovered that my car is made out of carboard and fiberglass; Then I carted it away; Then i decided i loved it too much and took it to fly to the moon Oh yeah, and i bought another 260Z :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D But seriously. I found that the rust that had been covered up by bloody fiberglass was a lot more rampant than i first thought :/ I am still sticking with my original shell, but as luck had it, the towie that i used to take my car to the blasters had a 260 2+2 he needed to move on! The car had been someones project who simply threw in the towel when tehy realised how much it would cost them! So it has a fresh coat of primer and has (from what i could see) all the rust repairs already done (with METAL!!! ). I haven't 100% decided what I'll do with the car yet, but more than likely I'll be parting it out when i have taken the bits I want from it (possibly the fenders). Otherwise I'll sell it as an excellent start to a project.

Yeah I was aware that 10's were a factory option but I probably should grab a copy of that.

We really don't have the hugest option when it comes to rims... Ok well seeing as though there's no real way around getting tires for a 15x9 thats legal I'll Probably have to start fenderless, then at some point where I can find a set of te37's cheap Enough (yeah right) I'll take my chances and get the flares cut :/ It's sill how rota makes a rim that is impossible to be run legally in Australia when they could Easily step it up to a 16" and open up a whole market of buyers. They already have the 16"ers They only go up to 8" though. .. :/

I don't know if there are many people on here that would have spent over 2k just on rims... Basically just costing it up to see if i can get the flares on before it all gets painted. As Lurch said he's a little hesitant to cut into a panel thats been recently properly painted. I guess it's probably easier to just abandon the dream of flares, but was just checking if there was a way to get something that I like under 2k. I know i can get rota RBX's 17"x9.5" for a little over 1k, just no the exact rims i was after (the Rota grids) Was just wondering if someone knew of another brand that looks similar in a more suitable fitment, or if there was a legal way around stretched tyres etc etc.

Blah, I've even considered going 15x9's -10 But there are just no tires for them other than the Toyo 888's which are a bit much for a weekend car... *EDIT* I've found that 225/50/15's are not too expensive and I've found that that Rota's Grid classic come in sizes (in 15") right up to 9" -10 http://www.rotawheels.com.au/wheels/rota-grid-classic Is this a good option for when i can afford it (not too much at just over $200 per rim and $200 per tire) I would make these the last things i buy before putting the car on the road. What sort of problems/ benefits would i come across using this combination? Is this legal in any way shape or form? it seems as though the manafacturers say that its only fine to have 225/50/15's on an 8" rim. Blah! any way around this? as there is no larger sizes made any more... This is tricky shiver.

Oh no, i don't mean to buy them yet! I just want to know what the options were for putting under flares... I'm starting to think that it might just be too expensive to run flares all together. I can't find anything I like that will fill out the guards for under 2k...

Haha funny thing is, this was one of the things lurch said that is better to do before the car gets resprayed. Its always possible to do it later, but it always possible to screw up a perfectly good paintjob...

Great to know! thanks for that. Alright, i guess all i need to know now is how a 9-10 rim negatively effects the car. It seems as though these are the only sized rims that are going to fill the flares and if they are too much of a hassle i might unfortunately just have to stick with flareless...

The steelies on this looks somewhat bad ass an di know you can pick them up brand new for about $500 for a whole set. http://zilvia.net/f/z-chassis/446471-my-sr20det-240z-build.html But I'm not 100% sure that it will suit the look I'm after, and doesn't it become pretty difficult to turn the wheels when you have 10 inches of rubber and no power steering? Is 9-10" too unmanageable?

I know that this build hasn't been updated in a while, but i thought it worth a comment. The scariest thing i have ever been in. The end.

More to come

Oh sorry i meant genuine Datsun ones, not just the Z car ones (they came off the 1300 or something???)

Still would make them illegal though wouldn't it? although, would they need they spacers on? How much would they miss the flare by if they weren't used?

Here they are! Please let me know whos car's who's so i can give credit where its due. Be sure to watch them in HD! All fantastic sounding cars

Blah ok. I'll use smelly youtube...

Hmmm, well I'll keep my eye out for a nice cheap set, but they're not exactly common...

Yeah... I'm starting to think that it probably wont be realistic. Unless i can find a cheaper rim thats around 9" I don't think it will be possible... Rota sells a 9" with -10 offset which should be good. But it's a 15" and i think that might be a little on the doughey side???

Hey guys, I'm in the odd situation of wanting to find rims to fill out flares (rather than being forced to run flares by the rim choice). I really like the look of flares, but don't like the cost of the rims that are generaly needed to fill them out. The easiest solution would be to buy some 8" (which are are ton cheaper than the 9/10's that are generaly used on flares) and whack on some spacers. But i really don't want to go for this option for obvious reasons (legal...). What I'd like in a wheel is 16"x8" (seems to be a good allround rims size) in a design similar to volk TE37V's/ Rota Grid classics or watanabe type R's and the like. So to fill an 8" rim out to the flare I'd need an offset of somewhere around -50mm right (pretty extreme???). Do such things exist? Otherwise I'll just run fenderless as it saves a ton of money over buying a set of Volk's!

Hey guys, not sure if you have seen/ heard of the GT phanton mirrors yet. They look bloody awful. But let me continue. I recently saw these on ebay for something like $100 including postage and nearly instantly dicounted them as they look so shite with all the plastic moulding lines and the crappy looking logo printed on each side. But, i then realised that it really wouldn't be too hard to sand all the moul dlines back, fill all the divets, and give it a good lick of satin black paint (the colour of mirrors i was after anyway). I did a bit of a search and found that someone else had come up with the same idea. http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/parts-swapping-s30/48268-gt-phanton-headlights.html I think that I'd like to try and do a better job than that ( i think matt black can make it look too cheap over satin). Considering the cheapest Nissan mirrors you can get in this format are at least $200, and they will need a paint anyway, what do you think about these?

Hey guys, just reserving a spot here for the sound test that we did on the weekend. For some reasons each of the video's i took were between 75 and 130mb even though they were only a min or so long!!! Where is the best place for me to upload them to keep the quality of video and sound, as well as making it easy to view on the forum? Some of those engine notes were BEAUTIFUL! I can't wait to get them up.