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tell me im crazy and ill never actually take this thing off road.

yep, you heard right, i bought a Datsun, well i think its a Datsun, i dunno what year they changed to nissan but this must be in there somewhere. this was really not planned, its all just sort of happened real quick and im still trying to get it all straight in my head. anywho ive had my eye on these rigs for quite some time but i never thought id end with one just because i never thought id find one i could afford, that wasn't fucked, was local and was the right price. but i did. as with everything i ever buy its in a million pieces and has been in a shed for at least 10 years and it was really hard to get any pictures of it becasue its crammed in a corner. i honestly know very little about these, its IFS and the motor is the stock one buts its got some good bits on it that make it go faster apparently? ive yet to actually see the engine. everything seems to be there for it, its hard to tell when its just a pile of parts on the floor but it seemed to be mostly there. itll be a couple of months before i can drag this thing home and ill start getting it back together once i do. umm? what else? the joker im buying it off reckons they used to race these things in Japan and having seen some of the crazy shit they get up to over there i dont doubt it. also the one ive just bought has plastic bumpers but the earlier ones had chrome bumpers so if its decided this project doesn't fit here (is my car oldschool?) ill happily move it. enough waffle, let the pictures do the talking. EDIT: i cant get the pictures to load, ill try again later, ive not got great signal here so its really slow.

how many CFM is this? maybe if you run the outlet pressure a bit lower it won't be so loud?

I think it arguably goes harder? For what it is.

Yea, same.

Some fuckin fully hectik cunt has been playing race car driver and probably had a boost tap on the waste gate. When they removed it the left a long piece of fuel hose to activate the waste gate. That fuel hose was long enough to loop up and rest against the exhaust manifold. Shockingly it had a hole burnt in it, so the wastegate wasn't working at all. It works now and seems much happier about the whole ordeal.

Then the motor was really loud and wouldn't go right. I had to make some bungs to fill the holes left by that pipe thing.

I dunno what the fuck this thing is but it said rude things about my haircut so I took it off and threw it in the bin.

The auto shifter was all over the place like a mad woman's shit so I pulled it out and found all the bushes for the couple of links had completely vanished. Made some new bushes and put it all back together. It's perfect now.

I Wanted to grease the driveshaft slip yokes because they looked a bit dry so I climbed under the truck and started unbolting the driveshaft to get it apart. I got 3 of the bolts out but I kind of couldn't really get to the top one so I climbed out and pushed the truck forward a bit to allow easier access. Climbed back under the truck to get the last bolt out and that's when I discovered it has grease fittings on all the joints. So I put the bolts back in and got out the grease gun.......

Yea fuck I just put all the old parts in the recycling and she's not light....

That's the long term goal.

Round two. Got some genuine toyota camber adjustment sleeves and took it all apart again. This time everything went fairly normally and now it's all back together. I also replaced the CV boots while I was in there. So is got new upper and lower inner bushes. New upper and lower balljoints. New rack ends and tie rods. New swaybar links and bushes New CV boots. It was quite a pile of parts but the time everything was done.

youtube wont work fro me on firefox at all. i have u block on both forefox and chrome and for some reason chrome is working fine, no ads and no issues with speed. it wont last so i would like to get the the bottom of why i cant watch youtube on firefox at all, it was working.

Righto. Did not go well. After two days I still have nothing really to show. I think I'll have to make the headders in the car because I can't guesstimate where everything is and navigate a path that works. There is just no room to spare and it's not worth making it only to have to make it again. I may even drop down a pipe size too because I'm going to have trouble getting any crush on the gasket, as well as the holes in the head are a good 4-5mm smaller than the pipe I'm currently using. I'll think about it. But yea she ain't gonna happen with the current state of affairs.

I bought (almost) all the suspension replacement parts for the front end. Upper and lower ball joints, upper and lower inner bushes, new sway bar links, new rack ends and tie rods and sway bar bushes. What I didn't buy was the camber adjustment cams that cannot be removed because they rust weld themselves into the bushes and you can't get them out without destroying them. I found this out after id almost fully disassembled the left side. So lots of parts got replaced but not the inner lower bushes. I'll order the adjustment cams and finish the job. I didn't bother taking the drivers side apart, I'll get all the bits first. It fought me all the way to get this far but whatever. And a special shout out to the joker who did the lower balljoint last time and put it back together with longer bolts that bottomed in the holes so he just gave it more ugga duggas and called it good. Both bolts broke when I tried to get them undone.

I bought a 5M-GX exhaust header kit. As it the style with this type of kit there is some assembly required.

drove the truck to work today, fuck what a difference! the rear end feels so much more stable, looking at the bushes i took out i wouldn't have thought they were that bad but i guess they were.

Put all new bushes in the rear. Trailing arms, panhard and swaybar. I think it's already been done once before, the rubber bushes came out fairly easily and they had no outer steel sleeve I had to fight with so I'm assuming not factory. Anywho they were a bit fucked and I changed them. Does feel better in the bum now.

hey, also it should be made very clear that i have no idea what I'm doing. I'm literally just doing whatever looks good, there is no science in anything here, diameter of the throttle? - fuck knows, whatever will kind of match up with the head and still be big so it looks cool. length of the runner? - 80ish mm because that the number that i pulled out of my arse. angle of the throttles in relation to the motor? - 15 degrees because i have no idea why. if there's something that seems fucky please speak up, like i say these is no science in this at all it should also be noted that this engine isn't really destined for great horsepowers, its a fucking 5m, if i wanted max powerz i wouldn't have started out with such a turd. any input would be appreciated, unless your a shitposting dickhead, then its not.

Printed some throttles to get a better idea. It's pretty good, I'll guesstimate how it might work in the engine bay and take it from there.

yes. its not very scientific, its either on or off and it runs off a battery charge circuit from a campervan. because the car has some heavy current loads (compressor etc) i wanted to have it switch off if there wasn't enough current to go around. thats it, nothing fancy at all.

Printed this at work. It fits pretty well considering the sizing was a complete guess. I might angle the throttles up higher a bit? I need to guess what some of the clearances might be

Who's this guy?^^^^^

The best thing about a stock ape is how you smash the shit out of your elbow every time you start it. Great to see you've removed the feature. Great work man!