Shoota_77

GT-R clearly the better choice! The 300 is certainly not insaly fast but has a decent amount of poke. Does a nice little drift around the corners with a decent amount of throttle. It's VERY predictable in a slide too. Feels so progressive! People probably presume there's a 25 year old driving it based on my behaviour this week! 🤣

Yeah Jap import. Fairlady Z then! I'm a bit the same. They've been on my radar for a fair while but then just impulsively decided to buy one! Was going to just buy an NA and add turbos to it later but decided to save the f'ing around and just buy the turbo version.

Thanks mate, well done to you too! Yeah not looking forward to doing any major work to it!

Hi guys, long time no post as per usual! It's been a busy year so far, the biggest thing being a new job. After 28 years in the automotive industry I decided it was time for a change. I was losing faith in the industry and where it's heading. Now in a completely different industry (electrical) working for a company that manufacture water pump contollers. Not as sexy as cars but it's an interesting, challenging industry. I now don't work Saturdays which is a bonus! It's still 50-55 hours a week but having Saturdays ack after 28 years of working them is awesome! No news on the GT-R but i did decide to add some more JDM goodness into my life.... 1990 300 ZX. She's not perfect but for a 35 year old car she ain't bad! Just going to tidy it up a bit and enjoy it. It's currently auto but will start stockpiling everything for a manual swap. It WILL distract me even further from the GT-R but im hoping not for too long! It somewhat proves a 6'8" freak can fit in a 300 ZX. Sort of... I drove it home from the previous owners house in Melbourne via Black Spur and Merton Gap (2 awesome bits of Victorian twisty road) and it was amazing! Handles so well!!! I don't think it would be worthy of a full build page but I'll post up some of the upgrades here if anyone is interested? Cheers guys!

Sounds like an amazing project! Have you got any previous car building experience? If not, you've certainly taken a bloody big bite straight off the bat which I applaud you for doing! Big balls are rewarded with big prizes! Look forward to seeing a million photos and if there is any way we can help, post it here and the community will be sure to help!

That is the epitome of how it's done! Rolling around in a Q7, draggin a dirty old Datsun around! Have fun! I've gifted myself an SQ7 demo at the moment. V8 twin turbo perfection. I may or may not still have a licence when I go to hand it back. I'm not going to enjoy when I have to park it and get back in the Amarok.... Post some vids of the beast on the track!

Good tips, I like it! 😂😂 My wife is a LOT more frugal than me so it's only me we need to worry about! A splurge to her is buying 2 pairs of socks in one visit at Kmart!

Yeah kids certainly add a whole another dimension to your life. Life ceases to be about you and more about them for a while! And I wouldn't have it any other way. I love watching them play sport and make new friends along the way. Wow, sounds like your mate is a good guy to know!!! He's got some serious toys in the toy box! Yes it would be lovely to be able to do stuff to your car without getting all tied up in boring shit like how to pay for it!! I would describe my spending style as "aggressively spontaneous and logical but regrettable purchasing".... That will hopefully make no sense at all which would be appropriate given that is how I buy stuff. I'll decide at the drop of a hat that I'm buying something expensive, research the living shit out of it for 2 days straight then go out and buy it. Then I'll have instant buyers remorse for 2 days which generally passes by the time it turns up on the front step! If I'm feeling ballsy sometimes I'll tell my wife. Other times it just makes its way silently passed the house and out the back to the shed, never to be spoken of again...

@MBS206 you need more shed in your life... What sort of car is your mates race car? Hopefully he returns the favour when you're ready to get cracking on yours! None of my mates are into cars so I don't have to worry about that as a distraction thankfully. I have enough other distractions so I don't need that one too! Between working 6 days a week (5 1/2 really so 55 hours or so per week), both kids have basketball almost every week night (including Friday night in Melbourne - 2 hours away), my daughter plays netball as well, my sons footy has started now and I coach his under 14's side as well as I'm on the Footy club committee this year, I ride motorbikes every spare Sunday I can find, plus trying to be some sort of a husband. Life is a busy little exercise at the moment! I wish there were 8 or 9 days in a week sometimes!

Ha ha, that is very true! I'm too scared to leave it in the position though, it tingles my balls seeing it like that!

Ha ha, ended up going it alone. I just sent it (in a very nervous fashion). Once I'd released the locks and it didn't automatically start spinning out of control i felt a bit more confident. It made some loud sounds (cracking and creaking noises) when I first spun it which got the heart rate going again! I couldn't bring myself to leave it tipped on the side. I feel a bit more comfortable having back right side up while it sits there. I'd get angry with your last point but you're 100% correct! 😅 Even yesterday I managed to distract myself at numerous times to make a bracket to fit an LED flood light off the back of the house and fix my sons pushbike. There were other little taks nibbling at my brain for the rest of the day too...

Probably one of the more nerve wracking experiences of my entire life! 😂😂 The balance (centre of gravity) is out still but in a direction that gives me comfort! It's quite bottom heavy still meaning it takes a bit of muscle to rotate it. The plus side of that is that it wants to to go back to upright. Better that than wanting to go all stranded turtle on me!

Sounds insane! 🤤🤤🤤 Do you have any vids of it driving? A flyby would be nice!

Was not scared..... 😬😬😬 20250222_153105.mp4 Now what.......?

Wowzers.... You've got some explaining to do young man.... How T.F did we go from some swiss cheese panels on the ground to a fully finished car attending car shows? Don't you realise that car building porn is what we're here for? I DEMAND more photos an information on the process. Please.........? 🙏

Yep, it's why in Australia we never brought in the 1 child policy like China. China can't afford to use the shit they make in their own country as it's too much to risk having only one child... Or maybe that's how they test their shit before they send it to Australia - they use the second kid that families had when they weren't supposed to as the tester? They weren't supposed to exist in the first place so no loss if they succumb to a work place incident? 🤣

This makes sense. I have 2 so I'll just choose the least favourable child to perform the task. If all turns to shit, I've still got a spare. Win-win!

Personally I wouldn't put tyres over 4 or 5 years old on any of my own cars. Once they go hard the grip characteristics completely change. As per most things it only matters in an accident and that's when you most want them to do their job!

Good old Monty Python!

Better crush protection-

Stop making me overthink it! 🤣🤣

No not yet. Hopefully this weekend if I can pluck up the confidence! I had to sit in the car at one point yesterday to unbolt the rear struts. As mentioned in an earlier post when I was putting it together there is still a bit of rotation possible so when I sat in the car, it rotated a little bit. I near shit myself thinking the whole thing was coming down! I do 99% of my own shit in the shed but I think I might call on some assistance the first time I spin it!

They see me rollin' they hatin'....... Took me most of the day to make the necessary mods to the mounts to make them fit the car. Fortunately I was able to just use the mounts that came with the rotisserie. The rear ones are really secure, the front I feel i might reinforce a bit more as it doesn't seem like enough attachment to the vehicle. I'm sure it's fine but better to be safe than (extremely...) sorry. I drilled and tapped thread into additional M12 holes to each car mount where it attaches to the rotisserie as an extra fail-safe. Without them the side to side movement is just restricted by the allen head pinch bolts, nothing actually goes though the beam. Does now! I still need to adjust the rotisserie to get the car centred in terms of centre of gravity. If it's too high or too low relative to the rotational centre line of the car, it will be like a turtle and roll onto its back or as it currently sits, I dont think I'd be able to rotate it as it sits as it needs to lift the whole car up as it rotates. Ain't happening... I'm going to be nervous as hell the first time I go to spin it on its side...

Far out, that thing looks like some loose fun! Nothing beats the rawness of a filthy old Nissan with zero aids to keep the wheels pointing in the right direction like modern "fast" cars!

I would call it the "manifold coolant outlet" or something like that. If you know the dimensions you can just get a bit of mild steel (or stainless) pipe that is the correct size, bead roll a hose retaining lip into the end of it and bash it in! Or, get fancy- https://boostdoc.com.au/products/rb25-neo-billet-top-hose-outlets?srsltid=AfmBOopjNetVaMphRC0x44Er2jwO2k5vPp-4AGG5Bd285Ah0SsXXGk3e