Not to be confused with an engine swap, this B is for Build project car is a custom creation in Datsun-shaped skin. It was featured at SEMA 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=b+is+for+build

 

Yes, I caught that build on his channel around the time he started it. Quickly realized he has no clue what he's doing, and tuned out of the disaster that he called a build.

That group of guys are talented fabricators,  I hate that they cut up two restorable Z's just to make one custom car but money doesn't seem to be a problem for them.  I think a better choice would have been to make all that power,  electronics and the rest of it work with the original interior, the one they installed is pretty cheesy.  And put a hood on that thing.

Agreed, they are talented fabricators. Wouldn't it have been easier to keep the stock interior anyway?

 And yes, put a hood on it.

 

I don't think he ever intended to put a hood on it. When I sold him the driver's door the only additional thing he needed was a fender, which I didn't have. This was about a week before the SEMA show. Maybe I should contact him and see if he wants a hood now.

They built the whole car around that motor. Don’t expect them to hide it anytime soon ...

Eureka! He could build a shaker hood. Something along the lines of the late 60's Hemi hoods. Hmm. Got to find his number.

 Edit. I sent him a message. We'll see if we can get him to put a hood on it.

Edited December 2, 20186 yr by Mark Maras

I hate they cut up two cars!!! and the car is just covered in a wrap??? That kind of obsession with the fabrication and we skip top notch paint work?

9 hours ago, Patcon said:

That kind of obsession with the fabrication and we skip top notch paint work?

I have the feeling that in the next ten years or so that wrap is going to take over, maybe even for new cars as well once the limited colours problem has been solved.  Look at how powder coating has taken over in the industrial paint applications,  just a chemistry problem that needs solving.    Now I'm not saying that is a good thing, I love a perfect paint job but it is on the verge of becoming old tech I think.

47 minutes ago, grannyknot said:

I have the feeling that in the next ten years or so that wrap is going to take over, maybe even for new cars as well once the limited colours problem has been solved.  Look at how powder coating has taken over in the industrial paint applications,  just a chemistry problem that needs solving.    Now I'm not saying that is a good thing, I love a perfect paint job but it is on the verge of becoming old tech I think.

You may be right. I guess that's good and bad. Fewer VOC's, health issues and more easily changeable. I just love the look of a fabulous paint job.

7 hours ago, Patcon said:

You may be right. I guess that's good and bad. Fewer VOC's, health issues and more easily changeable. I just love the look of a fabulous paint job.

One of my wife's coworkers recently bought a Tesla Model 3 and immediately had it wrapped in a flat finish film because she didn't like the shiny blue paint.  Her car, her money.  But, I don't get the appeal.

As for the work on the Z in the sped up video, it would have been interesting to see a "man-hour meter" ticking away in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Dennis

Edited December 2, 20186 yr by psdenno

14 minutes ago, psdenno said:

One of my wife's coworkers recently bought a Tesla Model 3 and immediately had it wrapped in a flat finish film because she didn't like the shiny blue paint.  Her car, her money.  But, I don't get the appeal.

When it's time for resale pull the wrap off and have brand new paint.