Nissan 200SX Club - South Africa

100% for sure!
I'm aiming to have it all done by 1 feb and on track!

Few small glitches
Getting the car ready for dyno. Got her on the ground did a maiden voyage to the front gate!
Sadly the clutch won't release 100%

So box out. Clutch out, flywheel off and inspect.
The culprit .... Small piece if 2mm welding wire filler rod, jammed between the second clutch plate and the pressure release plate......how did that get in there and where did it come from
As a result the clutch was dragging and not freeing up 100%

Tomorrow I'll get everything back in.

Another glitch. It seems with all the cranking while figuring out the ecu and trigger angle gremlins,
It put a strain on the starter which subsequently gave me the middle finger... Can only get the starter reconed next week .....
Ya. The joys.

So with the down time. I decided to finish the last of the body work. I had no joy in finding fiberglass fenders
SO next best thing .... Do it myself.

The back and front arches needed more clearance due to the drift works suspension being so low.
Finally I'm nearly done witH this. Finish prepping and welding over weekend
Once I have them welded and complete for correct tyre offset and clearance. I'll make make my own molds from fiberglass

Happy days

As u can see the inner skin had clearance issue
Bearing in mind that the rear coil over is currently at its maximum height. From here it can only go lower!!!



I bought set of gold Gti mk2 front fenders for the lip
I'll cut out the top half to use as the filler plate


Filler plate
Will be welded to outer shell and the trimmed flush with body
Flared lip then to be welded onto outer fender




The bastard little fuxxer that caused clutch issue......


After its been cut out
New clearance 50mm

Off the ground obviously


Need to fill in gap between inner skin and outer fender

Like so

I can't see anything coz they blocking photobucket but i am sure it all looks great< good luck with the last preps!!

Give this man a bells!!!
dam dam dam man this is a crazy build i dont think it could be done any better, awsome job well done.

Seems Santa did leave me something after all
Unexpectedly

I discovered something this morning after searching the LS1 tech forum in the USA For my engine serial numbers

The guy I bought the motor from, sold it to me as a ls1
But after putting in the block number, intake manifold number, injector number, and heads numbers, through the forum and GM manufacture website
It turns out I have a LS6...... Not an Ls1

Ls6 are newer motors,
Better cam, better heads, better intake flow and stronger block
Displacement still however remains the same at 5.7
According to theory all this shoud make for additional 60 hp

Also, ls1 and ls6 components are 100 % interchangeable interesting

So ya bit of a score I'm not complaining!

Here is a quick video of the maiden voyage .... All 10 meters of it until I discovered no clutch

http://s1105.photobucket.com/albums/h35 ... A10F39.mp4

New rear fenders
Clearance is spot on now
I can now lower the rear instead of having the coil overs on their max limit

Looking good man!! Yea joys of these cars. Constant replacing and fixing things

Adrian wrote:Looking good man!! Yea joys of these cars. Constant replacing and fixing things

shot adrian,

right new update, over weekend soerted clutch, its now right and releasing as it should.....
Propshaft back
gearbox back

last night started on the last piece
custom exhaust im trying out.
twin 76mm pipes, only 1,2 meters long, with turn down to raod surface, no mufflers
its gonna be pretty loud, but more noise is better i say
After all. too much is just enough
76mm tube, flanges and gaskets







still need to do turn down 90 at end which will be cut level with pipe

thats one side complete, tonight the other

FRIDAY booked for dyno......

side view
happy with clearance. it may get a bit hot on the floor. Ill just make sure i dont wear slops and drift

haha nice looking good

I found on my s13. When I took the exhaust out and left it under the car it was so loud in the car.. All the noise bounced around in the gearbox tunnel. So I had to angle it to face out the side to keep it quiet in the car

Yea bud, superb work here, really nice project.

Could I suggest an exhaust and sound such as this us car ??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VGOkgOBgCg

This car simply sounds great.