Been lurking round here for a bit and due to suffering from a serious case of the man flu I can't be bothered doing much off anthing so I thought its time to start a thread!

This is the going to be a big post, i've been working on it for about 5 years on and off now so have heaps of pictures!

Car as I got it, A $500 runner with WOF and REGO but no chance of passing its next inspection due to rust



Mounted the motor and a few other little bits and pieces and then had the shell sand blasted and primered
At the shop with my friends one





I had to do lots of rust repairs
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Car with a set of 14 by 6.5 genuine starsharks. I ended up selling these to a friend for his 510, I will probably import the same wheels is a 13x7



Engine Crossmember




Tubes hold nolathane front spring eye bushes





s14 sr20de







Decided to build a drop tank because the car was so low and witht the big diff I shortened the diff head would have made a hump in the boot floor. So I made on for it to clear which mean the tank couldn't really stay where it was (behind the rear seat, same as 510)










Modified a nissan intank pump to fit the tank




Connected to factory filler, so hopefully no stinky petrol smells



S13 wiper motor


Nissan in there infinite glory kept the wiper arm the same only had to enlarge the hole and weld knew nuts on as it had a different bolt pattern






Started making a sheet metal pedal box for reverse cylinders. Nearly finished it. Went a bit overboard its not as light as I'd hoped it was going to be.



Laser cut up a panel to mount the s13 instrument panel into datsun dash





Made my own octopus extactors






Its a close fit!


Also made my own merge collectors for it
Scallop out a section so the two pieces fit together nice








Cleaned up and welded together



First time it had looked complete in a couple of years so thought i better snap some pictures of it. This was just before we moved into our house at the start of the year.
mk1 golf spoiler








Testing 13's :D



Redid my setback a month or so ago as I wasn't overly happy with the first one. I like this one better. My welding/fab was a lot better by this point too







Started mounting race seats





Modified shift to suit race seat position, original lever was too far back and low for my liking



How the engine bay looks now.



Just realsed I don't have any front suspension pictures. I have converted to coilver front end with camber plates and shortened inverted bilsteins. Rear is reverse eyed leaves and bilstein shocks

Some of the other ratsun i've owned

This was a wagon I got given. It doesn't look to ad in the pics but the a pillar sill area was so rusted out from sitting in a paddock for 10 years that you could nearly bend it down to the ground!




Many of its parts ended up on other datsuns, with the right rear quarter going onto my mates 2 door wagon

Mint little old lady sunny I owned, stayed like that the whole time I owned it, I regret selling it now! I was only the third owner
A12 auto. It was definitely no rocket ship but man it was comfy to cruise around in :D







Current daily driver




Its just running standard b310 steels with the chrome wheel trims now as those 13" wheels where buckled to hell


Hope you like :D

Change the IMG at front and back of all pic links to lower case then they should work and remove the width=300 at front.

Man quick reply! yup all sorted now :D

awwwwwww another hot jap-inspired sedan

with the rear leafs, are they that low just from flipping them? interested in getting the same height as yours.

Hahahaha those extractors look awesome! tell me how they go, i might make similar ones maybe not so wacked out or will i?

I think they are about 3.5" lower than stock from memory including lowering blocks. Unsure they are JTS springs anyway.

What do you want to know about the extractors?
Basically I just got some 180deg mandril bends and laid them out. Its a 4-2-1 setup. I've got the 1-2 and 3-4 cylinders paired Which isn't the norm, so they may not work very well. I intend to make some proper ones once I've put my built motor in. These ones were just for fun really, they were nice and easy to make with minimal cutting, took me about 8 hours including making all the collectors etc.

nice work good fab work on it.. did you do the replacing of the rusted panels yourself?

love the sedan, its looks fawesome. (opposite to fugly )

Yup did all the rust work myself except the lower rear quarters. I had to get a mate with an english wheel to roll them up for me because it curves in two directions. I tried first though!

Holy elaborate octopus extractors batman!

Equip 01's <3