1975 710 2 door sedan

[abe froman]

I have been lurking for while and thought I should share what I am working on, it is a US spec 1975 Datsun 710 sedan. Here are a couple photo's from August of 2010,







Here are some spec's on the car.

Body
Original paint
US spec one year 1974 Coupe bumper conversion front and rear ( bumper shocks drilled to move the bumpers closer to the body )
140J grille
International rear tail lights with amber blinker's
Working on replacing the Passenger fender ( damaged by the 80 year old lady that was the previous owner )

Interior
Volkswagen Recaro seats
MOMO wood steering wheel
installed factory tach

Drivetrain
L20B
280zx 5 speed
Weber 32/36 2 bbl. carb
Early intake and exhaust manifold
2" exhaust with Magnaflow muffler

Suspension
280zx/910 front strut's with coilover's
Bump steer spacers
Cusco camber plates
910 hubs with 12 inch Coleman brake rotors
Mazda 4 piston front Rx7 aluminum brake calipers
Custom made brackets to mount Mazda calipers
240z rear aluminum brake drums
1 inch front sway bar
Koni rear shocks ( rear still need's to be lowered )


Wheels
3 piece Black Racing sports wheels
16 x 7 front
16 x 8 rear

More to follow,

[Bartman]

Sweet car dude!
Are there many of these in the US?

[unlimitedpower]

I need one!

[abe froman]

Sweet car dude!
Are there many of these in the US?

Thanks, and to answer your question no it is not a common car here.

Here are a couple more photos,


16x8 rear wheel

Here is an earlier photo of the stock grill and the modified US spec bumper

more of the interior.

[classicdat]

Is it just the photo angle of the front or have you like improved the look by 1000%?

[broke]

Looks mean. Did you used to live in NZ?

[abe froman]

Is it just the photo angle of the front or have you like improved the look by 1000%?

I agree with you, and think 1010% !

Well, here is the next modification I tackled I got around to lowering the rear of the car. The stance was really bothering me, I ended up making a set of lower block's as I was not happy with any of the kit's you can buy . I did not want to over do it so I used some 2" x 2" tubing cut to length, a hole was drilled in the bottom and bolt with a bit of tubing welded to it to make it the right size to fit in the axle. I made this to bolt in to make it adjustable if I wanted to add up to another 1/2 " of shim on top if I want to go a little lower. The rest was pretty straight forward, I sourced four 2 " longer U-bolt's and everything fit the first time. Here are some photo's of the job.

Here is were I started ,




Here is a bad picture of the blocks,


Here it is after,



It has settled a little more since the photo, but here it is after the first test drive


I am very happy with how it turned out, and no I have never lived in NZ but would love to visit someday.

[abe froman]

Then it was time to work on my fender/guard, I got the car with it in pretty poor condition.

Here is what I started with,



Took me awhile to find a replacement, but here it is.



Repaired a couple small dent's, and applied a little temporary sealer color. .



Finally here it is on the car waiting for some new international corner lights.



That's if for now.

[crustywhip]

IRS in one of these would be so cool, I love it. Did you get 140j wagons? I heard there is alot in mexico.

[abe froman]

IRS in one of these would be so cool, I love it. Did you get 140j wagons? I heard there is alot in mexico.

IRS would be great in one of these and they did come that way in the SSS model, but we did not get them in the US. But we did get wagon's here, and they were available in Mexico but trying to find a nice one is pretty hard to do.

They seem to drive them into the ground, here are a couple of pictures of them from Mexico.



Here is a wagon,



But they mostly look like this,