Z31 N/A RB project

[five&dime]

[five&dime]

Ignore the runs and the small imperfections. It will be final smoothed by Wednesday. Then paint soon after! Check out the before and afters. 

[Diseazd]

I’m so excited about this Resto mod. This car is going to be sooooo incredible!!!!  Safari Gold on this jewel in 3 weeks.

[NVZEE]

I hadn’t seen your impressive project thread — here’s some RB music to get the juices flowing:

 

[five&dime]

Ha! I actually reached out to them 6 months ago to make me that throttle linkage setup but it was a one off ?

 

This one sounds pretty good too. But neither had as extensive headwork so very curious to see what kind of power mine will make and how it will sound with a 10k redline! 

 

 

 

[five&dime]

Brand new NOS R34 Skyline RB25 5 speed transmission from Japan! And the painter sanded everything in preperation for paint. He has to do a few front alterations to fit the later years headlights, hood and bumper then should be ready to start painting!

 

[duffymahoney]

Wow, what a cool build.  

[five&dime]

Some updates. The front end and side skirts have been mocked up. There are some slight differences where the side skirt fender mud gaurds mount to the body between the 86 and 87-89 so he will weld in a little metal there and tighten everything up. On the front, I have always hated that little rubber strip that goes between the front bumper/fenders and the bumper/hood. He will modify the bumper and relocate the mounting tabs to the fenders as well as slot the mounts from bumper to hood. Then the surfaces will mate up to each other like they should have. I also have always felt the rear bumper is far too long so he sectioned out 1.5" and will bring in the back half to the first step down on the top surface. It already looks so much better than stock without sacrificing the stock lines. 

 

The engine is together and we are good with piston to valve clearance with cam gears at 0. Now he will try and and set them more aggressively at maybe 3-4 and check again. Going to try some Mikuni velocity stacks on the RB26 throttle bodies since I found some with the same bore and only 5mm difference on bolt spacing. Should be able to slot the holes and have an off the shelf solution.

 

I had the front cross member and torsion bar brackets powdercoated along with the port and polished intake manifold. I realized afterwards that I should have gotten the later 87-89 torsion bar brackets done because they are of a far superior design but that's easy. 

 

Lastly, since I lost all of my detailed and meticulous dissasembly photos, I have been searching for a junker to basically dissasemble as I put my car back together. Plenty of parts I could use as well so in my daily searches for the past year plus, I finally found a 87-89 300zx that was local, manual and $500 or less so I had to buy it! I call it winky. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Patcon]

Looks great!

[five&dime]

My painter should be back onto my car very soon once he finishes up the Bronco that started before mine. The engine is ready for piston to valve clearance check with aggressive cam settings and then they will be degreed in with the other 5 piston install following so hopefully the engine will be done soon too. 

While I wait, I finally recieved my 1984 Nissan Skyline that I found/bought searching Japanese sites. It arrived to my door just under 5 months from my original purchase and holy cow, did it exceed my expectations! I lowered it but need to come back up about 1/2-3/4". Have some small plans for the car but it's just about perfect in every way and is the best looking Skyline I have ever seen hands down!

 

 

 

[grannyknot]

Perfect, is that a heated windshield we're seeing?  I have lost track of how many cars you have.

[five&dime]

Haha, I now have the Mercedes E55 AMG as a daily, the 95 Nissan D21 hardbody for bad weather and hauling, the Z31 300zx in the paint shop and this 84 Skyline. 

That's just the glass itself. I bought a circular polarizer filter for my new camera and it really shows the patterns in all glass which I love. You can see it in person sometimes inder just the right light. 

 

 

Edited July 14, 2019 by five&dime