vegie Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 please direct abuse for not finishing it here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Race you to finishedness. Winner gets a box of Double Brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegie Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 make it a swappa crate and you have a deal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 mate just clicked your signature build thread link and it don't exist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegie Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 ah ok? not sure what i did wrong there. cheers edit. sorted now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 found thread looks mint on the new feet. I find a new favorite coupe every day! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBlades Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Man these coupes are awesome! Look forward to your updates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Needs a TD27 and 5 speed 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegie Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 leaking diseasel and oil might help with the rust problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Nice one Craig!These coupes have always had a special place in my heart. My first year at high school a senior kids had one. It used to scrape on the road due to max slam, and had a stupidly loud exhaust. I was smitten.With the R200 going in the rear, what are the plans for up front? The jury is still out about cutting that rear brace. Some guys reckon it has to be cut. And some say (Shane I think?) that they're shoehorned the diff in without making a cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegie Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 cheers man, yeah, i looked into leaving the rear brace alone, but the r200 mounting bolts are too long to fit in there. 180B's have a slightly different setup to 510's, and to make it look low, they need to be really low due to the big wheel arches, which results in MAX rear camber. like 5+ degrees... if you run the rear diff mount lower, it also increases the rear camber even more, so i had to mount it like that to get it higher, and keep diff input shaft angle reasonable. up front im going to run DR30 skyline struts, which i'll coilover to allow to wind in some front camber.Its about 2 degrees positive at the moment...eww Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 How about the engine? an r200 would be overkill for an L series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flauski Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Do like, well have like - for years I have more done on my K but I bet you will beat me to the road! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris.QCR Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Pretty sure this was going fj wasn't it Craig ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegie Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 yeah guys the plan was NA FJ20. reality struck that it was going to be slow progress to do so. so I bought a 20B... L20b that is. im going to get it up and going on an L series L20B, just so something happen this century. went and picked it up today. with 5 speed too. will probably run some sidies and extractors with an L18 head if I can find one. R200 is going to be and overkill alright, but I do have a standard R160 to put in it if I want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datto_610 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Good to see your still working on this Craig! If I wasn't so far into my CA conversion I'd probably go back to L series too. Are you going to mod the R160 diff mount to fit the R200? I used the Datsport mount for easiness but they ain't cheap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegie Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 cheers man, I already have the mount sorted. I ended up making my own. I cut and welded together the 180b ends on a r200 bar, where I wanted it to sit, and took that to a spring maker as a template. from that they made this... i had to replace the bushes with urethane, but i was going to do that anyway i am looking at a datsport kit for adjustable rear arms though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Greg and James and I, (Although mostly James tbh) designed our own rear adjustable kit. Although the cost of all the parts does add up. I'm hoping to get a hookup for more cheap laser cutting soon to get some more done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegie Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 good to know! did you guys make all the adjusters and bolts too? seems like a lot of work unless you can sell a few at the same time. keep me posted on your progress... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datto_610 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Yeah man got everything made up, check my build thread on here or NZdatsun and you'll see how it came out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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