1970 Datsun 510 Project Car
3" Mandrel Bent Exhaust fabricated by Diamond Fabrication.
Pics from Milan Dragway, I made it to second round eliminations and broke out.
More BBQ Pics, thanks everyone for taking pictures!
1st real drive to the Spring Xceedspeed BBQ
Some "final" assembly pictures. One week until UTL #1 at Milan. Harness & seat are final mounted.
Likely a temporary gauge panel mounted to the roll cage
Final assembly of front coilovers, and off to finish welding the cage (4/9/05)
Test fitting of the new coilover design - Pulsar rear strut tubes, 82-86 sentra Koni inserts.
Start of the custom coilover build
Steering rack & shaft finished, just before being installed.
New control Arms, and new tension rods installed
Steering rack mounts, fabbed by me of course!
New Tension Rods, Thanks Jerry!
BOV flange welded & BOV mounted
Intake installed (Valvecovers  are one of the next things..
Intake manifold painted, injectors installed, secondary butterflies removed.
Roll cage install progress, almost done!
Roll cage final fitting, need to notch the tubes now and paint...
Front cover cleaned up and painted and re-installed, also working on using 2 stock hood latches
Timing belt install, I needed to replace the tensioner and idler, as they were both making noise
Fan brackets painted and fit on the radiator.
Nismo Tension Rod Kitr & Fabricated fan brackets.
Test fitting the 6 point roll cage
More roll cage pics for reference
Removing secondary butterflies in CA18DET manifold.
Fabricating bracket to mount washer reservoir on passenger side
Removing spare manifold for cleaning and painting, and machining for Denso injectors.
Pics with the car back on the ground and the hood re-installed. And my dog Raven.
Engine bay work in progress pictures.
Work in progress.
Piping work in progress.
Piping and radiator work.
Piping work.
More piping.
Wiring mess!
Custom sway bar install.
Custom driveshaft work
B210 booster & 280Z Brake MC install.
WIP.
Turbo Pics
1st steering rack bracket design for power steering rack. undergoing redesign for manual rack now!
More rack pics (old) & test fit of S13 lower control arm.
S13 240sx brake caliper install.
WIP
Intercooler install
More intercooler install pics
E-coated & powdercoated rear crossmember install.
More crossmember pics
WIP
Turbo test fit pictures
Initial steering rack install from 240SX
Initial motor test fit & transmission install
 
 
 
 
Engine bay cleanup & paint
more paint pics
What I started with in the engine bay
L16 out
Dash removal
Suspension comparisons, 240sx
240sx suspension pictures
Death of a donor 240sx
more 240sx
CA18DET & 510 suspension pictures
more
Original pictures of the 510