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    Default 1988 Nissan 300zx projects x2

    This is a brief overview of my build that's been ongoing for about the last 2 years give or take. I stopped counting the amount of cash that's gone into this thing, but I still feel it's all worth it!

    We'll start at the beginning.



    This is one of the very first pics I have of her. Fresh from Vancouver (to Kelowna at the time)

    What the interior looked like:



    If your eyes are bleeding, don't worry, it's a natural reaction to that interior.

    Engine shot, nothing special.



    After a few modifications here and there. At the time was running about 8.5psi on the stock (itty bitty) t25 turbo.



    Started to pull apart the shitty red interior piece by piece replacing it with what I could find locally



    The turbo finally gave up the ghost on a trip to edmonton (leaving me with a $700 tow bill, nice)



    I got the car home and pulled the engine apart, luckily there was no damage to the lower end at all. I had the heads ported and had a 5angle valve job done. Put on a bunch of other misc goodies and packed it away for the winter again (back to school)



    After winter was over I finally brought the car to Calgary after I found a place with a garage for it, and did a few suspension mods to start with (polyurethane bushings everywhere)



    A little paint to make it look nice and clean.

    I then proceeded to drop the rear subframe to replace the bushings back there, turns out that the control arm bolts like to rust into one solid lump, so that took some doing to get out and proper



    I then found some of my most favoritest thing in the entire world, Cancer.

    Last edited by DeleriousZ; 02-20-2013 at 11:01 AM.

    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    Made a 3" downpipe out of some 304 food-grade stainless





    Got the rear end stuff cleaned and painted



    Screamer pipe





    Decided that my stock, busted ass suspension needed some work dearly, so I went ahead and got some custom stuff done up to work with s13 GR+ Stance coilovers. The amount of z31's with a proper ride height is Severely lacking, stance = moar low.

    Custom rear upper mount



    Serialnine weld-on collar adapters installed onto cut down stock strut tubes, powder coated beautifully.



    Fronts installed with z32 30mm iron calipers



    Fuel pressure regulator on custom mount.



    Halfass engine bay shots, sans plenum and piping:





    Custom made intake plenum.





    First startup video, ignore the last few seconds

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7rlaqPozg

    A very dusty, Very battleshipped Z31.



    New wheels were planned for before the layoff, now she sits on stock shoes looking silly.

    I've given the car a very very base tune, taken it about the block a few times, it runs, drives on its own power which it hasn't for 3 years, and sounds mean as hell. The plans now are to take it back to Kelowna where it'll sit for another 3 long years whilst I get my degree in Mechanical engineering.

    Oh, and the entire interior is all black now, including carpet, I just don't have any pics of it!

    I'll do my best for a mods list, but I'm sure I'll miss a ton of stuff.

    Engine:

    GT3571 journal bearing turbo
    3" thick aluminum radiator
    3" thick intercooler
    16 row oil cooler
    42mm turbonetics racegate
    custom intake manifold
    3" custom downpipe
    ls1 stainless steel exhaust manifold studs ($$$$)
    P&P heads
    5 angle valve job
    Colt cams 'stage 2' turbo regrinds
    SATAN turbo relocation exhaust manifold
    schneider valve springs
    1 5/8" screamer pipe
    DEI exhaust wrap
    TurboXS RFL-H bov.
    2.5" intercooler piping.


    Fuel/control:

    Nistune type 1 board
    Walbro 255lph pump from an s13
    550cc SARD injectors (same as fc turboII)
    A1000-6 FPR
    AL fuel fittings all around
    Billet -6 fuel rails
    Innovate LC-1 wideband w/ G3 afr gauge.


    Brakes/footwork

    s13 Stance GR+ coilovers
    Serialnine weld-on collars
    custom rear upper and lower coilover mounts
    MSA anti-sway bar endlinks
    Prothane total kit polyurethane bushings
    1990 z32 30mm 4 pot iron brake calipers
    z32 front rotors
    s13 to z32 brake lines from PDM
    Ebay s13 short shifter


    Drivetrain:

    Centerforce dual friction clutch
    Stock R200 LSD (clutch type) rebuild with 6 clutches (2 stock)
    custom solid rear differential mount
    custom solid rear crossmember mounts
    Polyurethane transmission mount
    Polyurethane engine mounts.
    Stock FS5R30A transmission (same guts as z32tt transmissions)

    Interior:

    Autometer gauges all around (boost, oil temp, water temp, oil pressure)
    Pleather racing seats (can't remember brand) custom mounts
    2 kicker compvr 10" subs
    Oldschool kenwood deck
    oldschool RF amp.
    Red interior converted to black, every, single, last, piece.
    lo-tek 3 gauge pod



    That's as best as I can do for now, thanks for looking, apologies for the massive pic dump.

    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    wow amazing work. i think you can get some new moulded carpet from ebay for a few bills, that would get you the black carpet. any work done to the bottom end of the motor?

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    Very nice, did you do all the fabrication yourself?
    Speedy
    1985 300ZX & 1991 300ZX

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    All of the TIG welding was done by others as I don't have a tig machine. I designed everything via SolidWorks beforehand. The front strut tubes were done by a friend in the states as well.

    The bottom end is stock for the time being. The stock bottom end has been known to reliably hold 450whp on a good tune.

    I'll try and get some decent interior shots sometime before the car goes home. Thanks for the comments.

    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    nice project looks nice, never seen a old 300zx this clean

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    Some weak interior shots.




    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    i do enjoy your z31 very much,
    makes me miss my rusty piece of crap when i had it :P.

    You still post at 88hybrid?

    keep us updated!

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    Yep, just hit over 10k posts over there.

    There won't be many/any updates coming, car's going back into storage for three years.

    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    Looks good keep up the good work

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    One final update...

    Some shrouding work I got done before the car went home...





    From start to finish.


    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    Really nice car.

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    Wow, solid build! Great work.

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    Minor update, the car is now sitting in Kelowna. I got it running and driving on a basic tune and slightly skinnier tires up front (coilovers were rubbing.)

    Car pulls like a mofo with a horrible tune at 6psi, can't wait till i get some dyno/tune time to bump up the boost pressure.

    Main thing to get now is a set of shoes and a fender roller.

    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    This thing is sick, I can't believe you're storing it for three years.

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    I hear you. I'd love to bring it out and get some work done on it while I'm in school but there's just no time for it. At school for 8 hours a day then another 4-6 hours of hw every day.

    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    Since I'm moving back to Calgary in a few days, I figure I should update this build thread.

    Due to lots of slacking and even more lack of motivation i haven't done a whole lot more since the last update years and years ago.

    Borrowed a buddy's tig machine and welded up an exhaust..









    bash ramp, idea stolen from chris (revhard on here)



    Got my turbine housing ceramic coated



    random engine bay shot



    bought some fancy nuts



    Extended studs



    Lowered it and tossed some shitty replica wheels on it :P








    random cool shot of the front suspension





    After all that I brought the car back to Kelowna for now until the dust settles from my move back to Calgary, so she's left at rest now...


    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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    Wow that's good looking, exhaust tip really isn't my style but the build quality on everything looks beautiful, nice work.

    Should have kept that burgundy interior just for laughs.

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    Thanks,

    I'm thinking about changing the tip up a bit. I liked it at first but now I don't feel like it fills out the bumper well enough. Probably going dual 3" blast tubes next.

    If you take anything I have to say seriously, you're gunna have a bad time.
    1988 300zxt. gt35, stance coils, etc.
    1990 Jetta VR6 Daily, "stock"

    Originally posted by ercchry
    people are dumb, kids need to stop playing in the streets, SW soccer moms are the worst kind of people, the end

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