Silent Shadow

hahaha i didnt get them for the car.... nah but seriously. i wasnt aware that they needed the centre garnish until v8skylineman mentioned about it. unfortunately they were already on their way here at the time. i had a look at the situation today and i could just cut my spare garnish to fit. you just have to cut straight down, about 50mm in from the sides. im gunna have a look for a cheap one to buy but im not gunna look for long. i am taking them to work tomorrow to be polished and ill post pics of how they came up.

ahem.... out of the 6 sets of stovetops for sale on importmonster at the time, these where the only chrome ones. the others were the 2000 GT-EX style which i dont like anywhere near as much. all these need is a quick polish and they'll be sweet!!

nice one man. cant wait to see it all pretty and green!

agreed! thank-you warps!

series of events. 1. the drum brake cylinder (RR) blew out and brake fluid went everywhere. 2. brakes still worked fine for about 1 week. i limited driving only within 2 ks of my house. 3. today i started my car to move it and the brakes were sweet. left the car running for about 10 minutes and when i got back in the car to move it again, the brake pedal just hit the floor. i popped the bonnet and could hear an air leak. i used a garden hose (budget stethoscope) to find the leak and it's coming from between the master cylinder and booster. do i need to replace everything or just the drum cylinder and give it a bleed?

yea it's a coupe man. ill have a look in the morning when im pulling all the other parts off.

ok person decided they dint want the body after all so all parts will go to there askers. getting quotes now. will pm details.

^^ hahaha! public holidays are great if you want to get wasted/ be hungover or generally do nothing but if you need to do stuff and noone is is open it's just annoying. that is seriously the first time ive said that and will probably be that last!! i usually lean towards the get wasted/ hungover part lol...

update. someone came to look at the car yesterday. a big enthusiast. he's pretty much going to make it the maddest C210 coupe possibly in the world and already has the parts to do it but not the shell. he'll get back to me tomorrow hopfully. but if he doesnt want it, nightmonkeyII, all yours mate. the pillar plastics aren't on spot-on nick but they aren't at the crumbling stage either. diff is not an LSD unfortunately. harvo, will get you an estimate in the morning (tues). bloody public holiday up here today.

ive got a front bumper spare with the slightest of a bend on one side where it joins the car. you could probably just bend it out. $20?

ok ive had a lot of responses (great!) and 95% of them have been asking for parts so im just gunna strip it. the way where everybody wins!!! Mag86 has got the manifolds in/exh, whole turbo system , all fuel systems, ignition system, microtech, hks oil catch can, exhaust, rear coilovers (there were never any front ones). he pretty much bought everything that i bought the car for haha. wicked. Harvo, the thought did cross my mind! crome trims from the bonnet is yours and ill have a look at the guard for you first thing for a rust report in the morning but im pretty sure it's alright. have a good think about what you want from the car and ring me tomorrow at around lunch time. i'll be contactable all weekend! blk180, the car is in pretty rusty shape. not beyond repair but it needs work. and interior has been hacked-up a bit for it's drift pig-ness. if i had stove-tops for sale, i would make a new thread lol! i dont think this is the car you are looking for. you should get something that's already a winner (are you still looking for a car??). diff is gone now. ive got heaps of c210 bric-a-brac here too guys. have a think about it! cheers! cam.

real estate has decided that my parts car and other collected parts are no longer allowed to reside at my residence so everything must go except for 2 boxes of whatever i can fit in my room. anything you want, ive probably got. but this car and all the shit has to be gone by wednesday!. would NOT like to see it go to scrap metal. it's had a turbo conversion for Christ's sake! for all the guys who cant find cheep as skylines anymore, will sell whole car for $500 (it cost me $2500 to get it here lol). if no one wants the whole car, i will spend all weekend ripping parts off it for everyone (for cheap) and posting where ever. ill be home all weekend if anyone want to come and visit. im in New Farm, Brisbane. moblie - 0415 909 797 e-mail - [email protected] but yea i got till wednesday. be quick! Cameron

^^^ 10 points for your collection mate!

took mandie into the shop today and here's the report. the workshop bloke said it didnt have a spigot in it haha! i wasnt aware you needed one (FAIL!)... $9 for one of them and all my problems with shakes and noises have suddenly dissapeared. im actually surprised that it made it over 1000kms without one and didnt destroy anything. happy days! the door lock and latch mechanism swap was a complete bastard of a job. every single screw and nut on both cars was pretty much seized on and took me ages to get them off. i was right about the spring. it was so old and rusty that it just snapped. getting the mechanisms in and out of the cars was also tricky. the circlip that goes on the back of the lock barrels was probably the hardest part!! the yellow car now has a floppy door lol. workshop bloke also said that my right-rear brake cylinder had completely blown-out and has pumped fluid everywhere. will have to look at the drums on the yellow car to see if i can use them. WB said that a uni-joint on my tailshaft is also completely shot. lucky i have 2 of them sitting around. seriously, a spare car is worth its weight in gold!

oh wow i found precisely the style i want!!! thanx a million for the tip mate :-)

i got the ol' L24 carby my average with the auto was around 15L/100kms average with new manual is around 12L/100kms winner!

translation suggest that overseas shipping is not supported. is this true? is there anyone here that can help me with this?

mine!!

wow that's in sweet condition!

ok almost 1000km later and i've encountered the following problems.... 1. the starter motor wont engage onto the flywheel properly and is just grinding on it. it worked for the first 10 starts but has suddenly started doing it. i changed the starter and still had the same problem. this leads me to think the the ring gear on the flywheel is shot. push starting has been fun!! 2. there is a random squeak/clunk when i engage the clutch. by random i mean, it only does it some times. and same sound happens when i back-off the accelerator sometimes too. the car feels and drives fine though. i dont get it. 3. i was about 100kms from home and went to shut the passenger door but it wouldnt stay shut. so i had to hold the door shut by hand for the whole trip home while my girlfriend drove. in the hammering rain, at 10:30pm, i pulled the door trim off and had a look to figure out how it all worked and tried to diagnose the problem. there is a spring loaded lever that follows the door latch on its way in and keeps it in. therefor keeping the door shut. the door handles disengage this lever allowing the door to open. the spring has come off the lever and/or snapped and this lever now spins freely. i was able to get the door to shut to keep the baddies out for tonight but it wont close enough to keep the rain out. not looking forward to replacing this as it looks fiddly. also not looking forward to finding a swimming pool in my datsun tomorrow!! as for the gearbox and starter issues, i think i am finally over of my head with this and have also run out of patience. it's time to seek professional help

yea mate she's the bomb! old yellah thankfully came with a microtech ecu in the glove box. another welcome surprise! PM sent.

well my girlfriend wants to sand the whole thing back to metal and do the rust (there's alot) then respray it and make a RB25det drag car out of it. whether that is the actual fate of the car i dont know for sure but only time will tell. if not, then ill probably just get what i need off it and pass it on.

half way through a thermo-fan conversion but ran out of light. should be done in the morning.

hehe

well i FINALLY got the gearbox conversion done yesterday. meet Sammy & Shaun. the 2 boys that have helped me with doing the conversion and changing gearboxes for a second time as well. thank-you lads!! they've been very fun to work with and their mechanical knowledge is superior to mine so i've learnt alot as well. in our first mission we had to do the whole conversion from auto to manual. my idea worked for the pedals which was great. which was to undo the rail that the pedals sit on and slide it out. then put the new pedals on it as you slide it back in. very easy! though working upside down for long periods of time is a bitch lol. Both Drew and I had no idea what sort of shape the gearbox was in. we didnt really know until it was all bolted up and went to drain the oil to put new oil in. the sump plug pretty much summed it up. SNAP! and the maiden voyage?... well the clutch was a slipper and wouldn't handle even half an inch of throttle. whenever you backed-off, the gearbox would make an incredible noise infused with whirring and grinding. but at least it made it to the bottle shop!! some little snags i came across with the conversion: 1. i assumed that the bolts that attach the manual box to the block would be the same lenth as the ones that came out of the auto. they actually need to be 10mm longer than the ones that came from the auto. we figured this out at 4:45pm and couldnt make it to the bolt shop until 3 weeks later when our lives aligned again (we work 68+ hours a week and have plenty on or plate other than the datsun). 2. i think this is the little spacer that Drew mentioned in his conversion thread. throw it away. 3. the linkage to the pedal from the 2nd clutch master that drew sent up must have been damaged in transport. but i was able to pull them both apart and make one good and compatible one out of the two that i had. very easy, took me around 3 minutes to figure out and do it. 4. i got this advice AFTER i got the box in. "get your flywheel machined and get a brand new clutch!" 5. starter motor wouldnt run after the conversion but everything else was fine. i remembered that with the auto, the car wont start unless it's in park or nuetral. i found the 2 wires for this and simply plugged them together. then it worked. im pretty sure i didnt miss anything there and if i did then ill add it later. no hard feelings against Drew either btw. he actually felt so bad that he sent back some coin and he gave me the new cylinder and workshop manual for free. thanx mate! so i was was thinking that id have to get the gearbox rebuilt and get a new clutch and all that jazz but like 2 days later, Tony put up a post saying that his '79 turbo coupe with a shit load of extras including.... a 5-speed! was still for sale the car cost $1500 and it getting it here cost $1100 all up. transport cost significantly higher for a non-running car. Tony had a look around for quotes and we decided to go with 'Lobster Logistics'. they said it would be picked-up from Tony's door and delivered to mine in "no longer than a week". the car took literally a month to get here!! one sunday, tony waited around all-day for this guy to pick the car up and he didnt show. and he didnt call to say that he was going to wait another week till some race cars came across from perth so he could take them all up together either! what an ass... so anyway, a week later the guy showed and took the car. said it shouldnt take longer than a week. after a week and a half and still no car i was starting to get worried. called the company and they said they'd get back to me once they'd found out from the driver. they didnt call back that day and i could get in touch with them either. i was starting to poo myself as i had already paid Tony the $1500 for the car! the next day they rung me back (thank-christ!) and just my luck, the truck was half-way up here with the car and sprung an oil leak. he was pulled over by the cops in armadale and defected. he couldnt go anywhere and had to get the truck fixed before he got to brizzy. so another 5 days later and he finally gets to brisbane on a sunday with my car and my phone decides to shit itself and i miss his call from him saying "where are you? i got your car!". by the time i got back to him on monday he was half-way to sydney again and i had to wait till thursday for him to get here again. i didnt know he was going to be bringing a 19-metre car trailer with him and there is no way you would get one of them in and back out of my suburb so i had to organise him to drop it a bit further out of town, then get a tilt-tray to bring it back to mine. which was another $100!! but it finally arrived the car is built like a drift pig. it's hilarious! but the parts on it are gunna get my car to where i want it so im happy as i got a welcome suprise when i opened up the boot and there was a surge tank and fuel pumps where the groceries are supposed to go. the racing seat fits very snug! there was this strange lever dangling free in the cockpit and i followed it to a vorex butterfly exhaust silencer fan-dangle thingama-bob (you can tell i dont know the exact name lol). it's got a straight through exhaust going from the turbo that hits 2 trumpeting pipes after the diff. the 5-stud conversion has been done by 4to5-stud adapter plates the go between the brakes and the wheels. there's only 4 out of the 5 bolts you can actually bolt the wheel up to though (eep!). the coilovers on the rear were fitted by drilling holes in the body to suit the 2-bolt configuration of the strut tops. also eep. but otherwise it rocks! ok so mission 2... using the gearbox from the yellow car to put into mandie! with help from the lads again. establishment shot.... we pulled the yellow box's sump plug out before we did anything and the plug was clean as a whistle with only near new oil pouring out so we were pretty confident with it. this time i wanted to go a little better on the flywheel and clutch side of things and ordered an Exedy "sports tuff" heavy duty clutch. which arrived at lunch time to my nearest repco for $220. once we got the flywheels out of both cars we did a comparison and the yellow car's one had heaps more meat than the other so we decided on getting that one machined. got it done within 2 hours of making the phone call to United Brake & Clutch across the river and cost a sweet $44. even though we didnt have anything to line-up the clutch and crank with, i just did it by eye and got the box in first go! the pink's pretty aint it? lol... got the box bolted in. and got the oil in at 8:20pm. went for the maiden voyage and the box is 100% perfect. clutch is perfect. life's good!!! so that's pretty much my auto to manual conversion story.... another cool little upgrade i did was convert the sealed beams up front to H4 halogen headlamps. the kit cost me $315 (from memory) and although it came with white bulbs, i wanted blue ones. they cost $150 for all 4 (also from memory). i got the kit in with very little modification. on the high beams, 1 of 3 guiding knobs on the back of the beam was backwards. i just pried it off with a screwdriver and it fit fine. there was more than enough play in the headlight adjustment knobs to compensate for the missing knob. ill show here what i mean it looks awesome now that it's done. exactly what i had visioned it would be. and i can even see the road now! big thank-you to Simon for the speedy hook-up from sydney. call 0416099111 and he'll sort you out. and finally.. in amongst all that nonsense, i found a set of stove tops on ebay from thailand with 5 days left and no bids. so you bet i jumped on them and bid $350 to start with. and i ended up winning them! the guy got my address and said he'd sent them blah blah blah.. 6 weeks later and they still hadnt arrived. i went on ebay to see wtf was going on and he had closed his account and done a runner!!! now luckily i paid with PayPal, cause 6 weeks after that i was able to get my money back through buyer protection. but seriously, i was SO much more pissed off about not getting the lights than i was about the money. broke poor cammy's little heart and that's it!! im finally getting somewhere so im pretty happy now... just gotta get those stovetops!! and next is to do a full diagnostic on the turbo engine to find out what's good and what's not. and get it ready for a possible swap. also gunna get the rust done on mandie and swap the sparco seat over. cheers, cam