My RB26 260Z Project

[andy_gdon]

What a project!!

Epic thread already!!

 

[EF Ian]

Con - They are awesome thing to drive, I've seen that red one before, it looks awesome, red is a good colour for them if you are going to have a black wing and flares.

Spectacular project, I followed your EF thread on itr-dc2 and if it turns out half as well it'll be a fabulous car

Cheers, should turn out better, higher budget on this one.

your a **** a massive **** so much hate right now haha love it, what an awesome car. Have you got a link to the EF, would really interest me

I don't have a project thread on here, although I have on 4GUK and ITR-DC2, theonly photos I have on here are from 2010 when it still had the the B16B:

http://reallymeansounds.com/forum/threads/ef-civic-detail.97989/

If I find time I might put a thread up here, but not with the whole progress from the start as I've had it since I was 19 and that woule be far too much. I'll just put the main parts up.

Excellent project. Love those old cars.

One thing though. You do/did not need to change your fuel gauge.

Fozmula can make you a sender to whatever spec you want, and they are cheaper and better quality than the VDO one you were supplied. They are a direct replacement for the VDO sender you have.

They may not specifically list the one you need on their website, but contact them about it. £35 + postage will get you what you need.

Thanks, didn't know that, I'd need to find the voltage/signal that the stock guage runs on and see if they have a sender that can work with it. Although I might just use the VDO one anyway as I'll need the guage pods for more important things soon like boost, water temp and oil pressure guages for the RB.





Thanks to everyone for the postive comments, its really nice to see an oldschool car being properly appreciated.

 

[EF Ian]

Started to fix/repair/strengthen the front end today.


3mm plate should add a fair amount of strength to the chassis:

Once both sides are done and the few small holes from rust damage have been replaced with new metal the camber plates should be getting welded in along with the strut brace brackets and finish off welding up some unused holes. Should be on a fair bit by tomorrow night, hoping to have it ready for paint on Thursday and after that It will be off to get my stainless steel brake lines fitted and the adjustable prop valve installed.

 

[Phil_EK9]

Wow, that's awesome!

 

[ChrisL]

Epic .., simply an epic thread

 

[Shannonsir]

Unreal. Never been so interested in a build thread as I am with this one, the workmanship that's gone into it is simply outstanding, as is the car itself too. The EF sounds like a fantastic car too. Wish I had half the talent to undertake something like this!.

 

[Mr.Mint]

There is no other word to describe you man...... LEGEND!!!

Awesome build and it's so refreshing to see money being spent in the right places and improving on what was there to begin with. I only hope that you keep the outside pretty OE as they are just stunning standard.

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[stuartyvilla]

Unreal! Some amount of work gone into this and the quality of parts is just superb!

 

[davey21]

There is no other word to describe you man...... LEGEND!!!

Awesome build and it's so refreshing to see money being spent in the right places and improving on what was there to begin with. I only hope that you keep the outside pretty OE as they are just stunning standard.

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can only agree with this... very nice project this,

 

[C4L]

this thread is just fantastic, its nice to see a properly restored and improved car...

clearly money is no object

 

[Boydie]

Was hoping to see the car finished after reading it all lol will just have to be patient and wait for the updates!! Keep them coming!

 

[stevieturbo]

Thanks, didn't know that, I'd need to find the voltage/signal that the stock guage runs on and see if they have a sender that can work with it. Although I might just use the VDO one anyway as I'll need the guage pods for more important things soon like boost, water temp and oil pressure guages for the RB.

Old cars, and indeed most new simply offer a resistance to the gauge. That will be a single wire from the gauge to chassis ground ( ie battery negative )

VDO does the same except they are inflexible with the resistance scales they offer.

Fozmula can make you any height of dip tube sender you want, with any resistance scaling. Or they offer far more complex units with different outputs. But you'd just need the basic setup
Just take your old Datusn sender and measure the full/empty resistances of the sender unit.

Another option although same price really, and perhaps not as neat.

https://www.spiyda.com/magento/index.php/fuel-gauge-wizard.html

 

[Cro]

Stop the bus!! That's it im doing one! Absolutely fantastic thread

 

[hannakournikova]

Fantastic thread. my uncle had 2 of these in for restoration. sadly he passed away last year and they got given away. ragin!

 

[Cess]

Great project. Really enjoyed reading the progress to date. Fantastic car

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[davecoupe]

Love this thread.

Epic car.

 

[johnm]

I was literally saying to @DaddyC that they're isn't enough proper build threads on here and he corrected me and told me about this one.

Brilliant work man. Some amount of work being done to upgrade everything and those brakes look awesome!!

Can't wait to see more updates!

 

[Woodcutter]

@B-Lorenzo could have some great build threads too if he didn't just pay other specialists to do all the work!

 

[Mark315]

Unbelievable thread! Keep the updates coming!

Most cost an absolute fortune and what a machine!

 

[Cooper]

@EF Ian this is unreal. I'm a huge Z fan and an enviable project for sure. Keep us informed, looks like you are definitely doing it right

 

[Lappintyre]

I saw/heard this in Portrush over the twelfth weekend, nearly creamed myself and jumped out a pub window for a better look!

Really epic this!

 

[PoddyM]

Jesus this is awesome!
*Hits watch this thread button... runs to find clean pair of shorts.

 

[Gambit]

one word........ special

 

[Creaney]

subscribed for sure.. awesome car and awesome plans

 

[Neil_M]

This is so cool! Keep up the good work.