The story begins here, in Gothenburg...

This is my 1971 240z when I picked it up after arriving in Gothenburg from

Chicago. E"verything" looked "well" - and met my expectations from the pics

in the ebay auction. However - the "rust free" turned out to be a big hoax...

Anyway, after getting it up on the trailer and taking it home to Stockholm

it was unloaded at a friends company - called Speedworks where I assume most of the

mechanical mischief will take place once the car's been restored. The engine

was fired up (or rather jump-started since the ignition wires had been yanked

from it's original place) - picure below.

Vidcap-picture of the car at Speedworks.

The engine wasn't running like it was new, but at least it was running. Not

that it mattered much anyway - the car wouldn't have made it through an

inspection by the swedish "DMV" anyway. As I soon learned, the floor pans

were replaced by a hopeless heap of fiberglass, riveted and bolted pieces of

metal. Click the links below for images of the so called floor...

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/240z-projekt-Hugo/b12.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/240z-projekt-Hugo/b13.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/240z-projekt-Hugo/b14.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/album185/01_G.jpg

I continued to strip the car of... everything. That was the plan from the start

pretty much, so a "little rust" wouldn't discourage me. When I removed the

dashcap - I was surprised - I have never seen a more messed up dash than this!

Anyway - I got in contact with a company called SCE - Swedish Composite

Engineering - and they will be helping out with molding/making a lot on this

car from carbon fibre. So far the planned parts incluce: The hood, cowl plate,

service hatches, front fenders, doors, rear hatch, center console, dash and

the tail light plates. Since I don't want to completely "out source" the job I'll

be present during the production of the parts, hopefully learning something

Since the car was all together nasty, I figured having it sand blasted would

be the most reasonable thing to do. Said and done - Doors were sent packing.

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag20/00_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag20/01_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag20/02_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag20/03_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag23/05_G.sized.jpg

I think they came back alright... As did the other small parts I sent every

now and then - including the cowl plate, tail light plates, fenders, etc.

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag30/01_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag30/02_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag30/03_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag30/04_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag30/05_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag31/01_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag31/02_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag31/03_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag31/04_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag31/05_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag31/06_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag31/07_G.sized.jpg

After a while, there wasn't much more to dismount from the car, looking like this:

A rotisserie stand was made by Speedworks, from the blueprints of a friend:

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag28/00_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag28/02_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag28/06_G.sized.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag28/11_G.sized.jpg

Since some parts weren't feeling to good, I called in the reinforcements,

ordering parts from a company called Meca. Tabco wouldn't even reply

to my e-mails even though I had placed an order. Very poor service IMO.

Pictures of the actual parts are here:

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/hugo-diverse/delar01.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/hugo-diverse/delar02.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/hugo-diverse/delar03.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/hugo-diverse/delar04.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/hugo-diverse/delar05.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/hugo-diverse/delar06.jpg

So - that's about it. As of now the car stands knee deep in sand at Allblästring

(the sand blasting company) waiting for me to pick it up, but I'm not going

to be able to during this week. Bugger

More pics:

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/01_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/03_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/04_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/05_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/06_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/07_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/08_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/09_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/10_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/11_G.jpg

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/12_G.jpg

Parts from ZEDD FINDINGS, yay!

http://gallery.voodoo-people.com/albums/dag32/13_G.jpg

The front frame rails will be replaced, along with a bunch of sheet metal.

I got 4 square meters of 20 gauge sheet metal standing by to fill in all the

gaps. Will probably buy a bunch of 18 gauge as well... When all the rust

has been cut away and replaced with healthy new metal, the car will be

hauled back to sand blasting to blast the welds, etc. The entire car will

be painted with POR-15 silver (I know what Escalon [spelling?] thinks of

it - but I've been told by the resellers of POR-15 Germany that it'll be fine

as long as the surface is rough (go over it with block sanding). I'm being

sponsored by the swedish reseller of POR-15, so I reckon It'll be alright.

To be continued...

This thread has been sleeping for way too long, if you ask me.

That's what two mighty brave souls thought too. This is why

they've volunteered to get the project up and running once

again. Meet (and praise) Huddinge Kustoms.

Time to mount the rear suspension, seats, pedals, seatbelts

and so on in their respective place.

It's been a long time coming - but here it is - part 18 : )

Enjoy!

PICS

Big whee... No weels keep on rollin'!

The Skyline suspension put in place. Kind of anyway. Andreas to the right.

Henrik drilling out some spot welds.

Very nice.

Rear suspension is gossiping with the spare wheel tub. It's for sale.

Rear rails gone. More chopping up to be done...

Aluminium bushings for the rear suspension.

Always good to have some mounts as well...

FILM

YouTube

640x360

Mirror 1: [Coming soon]

Mirror 2: http://rapidshare.com/files/68425592/mull_huddingekustoms_part1_360.wmv

1280x720:

Mirror 1: [Coming soon]

Mirror 2: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Mull is back for the holidays!

I sure hope you've got eliminators for that rear suspension's Super Hicas 4 wheel steering system...

Complete links:

FILM

YouTube

640x360

Mirror 1: http://www.voodoo-people.com/~daz/mull/wmv/mull@hugo18.wmv

Mirror 2: http://rapidshare.com/files/68425592/mull_huddingekustoms_part1_360.wmv

1280x720:

Mirror 1: http://www.voodoo-people.com/~daz/mull/wmv/mull@huddingekustoms_part1_720p.wmv

Mirror 2: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

I sure hope you've got eliminators for that rear suspension's Super Hicas 4 wheel steering system...

No. But some ductape should do it

Looking great! I didn't know you posted on this site, I was following your other one over on HybridZ.

I'm pretty much overwhelmed right now. I used to apply a saying, by a wise swedish childrens comicbook

turtle - Skalman, to this build. The saying (roughly translated) is: Hurry slowly. When Huddinge Kustoms

took the reins, they kicked Skalmans saying right off the wagon and put rockets on it. So uh... How many

days did it take to construct, build and finish the R32 Skyline IRS-swap? Answer: 2 days. Sure sure, there

are some welds still to be done - but I'm *bleep* blown away by the progress made in the last few days.

In fact, my brain is starting to melt down - so here are some (23) pictures of todays progress!

Oh, one more thing: mull Huddinge Kustoms

Like I said, chopping up - not yet finished.

Mr Andreas - aka. chop-meister aka. Rear-IRS-master: D

See where the massage has been placed?

Some muscle-breakage occurred (not to much surprise) thus, Hugo needing some attention.

And grinding.

Sore muscles fixed up : )

Chop chop. Bloody rust! Death, rust and taxes, I tell you.

Some L-profiles welded in place to hold the measuring device.

This is what all tape measures dream of being reincarnated as : )

After measuring, Andreas started cutting up some square tubing.

...in order to have something to mount the front mounts to.

No holes = no mounting = break out the drill!

Chop chop!

Stepping it up a notch further. Tubing inside the square piping.

Weld.

Welding inside - who needs Intel? : )

And in a flash, all mounts were done!

No words needed. I'll do some cheering instead! WOop woop! : D

Pretty tight fit : )

Some flares might be needed - the tires are 185 wide : P

Andreas is pretty pleased with the progress as well : )

Like I said, very very pleased Andreas - My smile is twice as wide : )))

And this is what it looks like from the side. More to come...!

Even after this monster (spoiler) update, there's a new video coming

sometime in the near future. I just have to try to make room for the

video on my harddrive : )

Woop woop! : )

Keep up hte great progress Mull

I just wrote a bit of a feature for your car on http://grandjdm.com/

Hope you don't mind.

Arrr finally more news! Great to see it's still coming along nicely.

Wow, crazy progress since the last time I peeked at this thread. Shier madness! :stupid:

Does the R32 have rear steer? I can see the tie rod in the pic. Will this be functional or will it have a permanent set?