Cool ! Nice to see this kind of project ^^
Cool ! Nice to see this kind of project ^^
https://www.facebook.com/simon.mitch...9971362013626/
She lives
Very close now
Watch until the end for a lovely exhaust blip
So a few days after the video above, I went down to see her in the metal and the engine bay looks factory. It looks like it was always meant to be in there, I cannot wait until I can do a shake down at Mallory or Donnington to get a feel for her.
Thankfully Abbey have a Hunter Alignment rig so they picked up on the fact my suspension swap was a tad out of whack. The tension rods I'd fitted were way too short, so castor was stupidly high, this was a relatively easy fix with some skyline tension rods about 60mm longer than the S chassis ones I'd fitted
Fcukingawesome
Originally Posted by scimmy ben
I get the feeling that this would only work if we could pursuade Ernest Borgnine to drive the Isle of Wight to Portsmouth hovercraft.
Cheers, I'm so fkin excited about driving her.
Fcukingawesome
Dan who did the test drive to see how the geo was said she's going to be a beast, and she was only running a base map when he drove her.
The screen is now in and the few final bits are being sorted.
So, sorry for the lack of updates.
She made it home at the end of last year under her own steam
I've done a few bits in the last few month and have been out a few times
She's huge fun.
The site won't let me upload images for some reason, I'll try again later, if yopu want to have a catch up I've dropped the updates I wanted to put here on the 350Z/370Z OC forum.
But needless to say, bigshout out to everyone involved, Brett at FVS in Leicester, Terry at RetroMasters in Norwich, Leadfoot Racing and obviously Mark and the team at Abbey Motorsport for all their work and pulling it all together.
It made 250WHP, so well over double what it would have had when built and around double what I'd got out of the old CA18ET with my boost and IC mods.
I'll try and get some pics up again soon
Last edited by SimonMitch; 10-11-2021 at 13:52.
https://www.350z-uk.com/topic/122094...q-build/page/2
In case you can't wait for pics here
Little update, she's done about 800 miles this year mainly to shows and gentle(ish) testing.
A few minor issues all sorted easily enough, except for I had a hard time finding a wiper relay but eventually found a Austrian guy who sells New Old Stock for alot of old Nissans.
Slight ECU issue but Mark at Abbey sorted an FOC replacement with Link without any problem.
Made 252whp on the dyno during the swap over to the new ECU
I can't seem to get any images on, so you'll have to checkout the updates on the 350Z OC forum where I've been posting updates as well due to the VQ35DE engine in box.
DWYB Santa Pod Drift day booked for february : )
Drift Day went really well, sat around 89 deg water temp all day, only issue was boiled power steering fluid, so am going to fit a cooler.
Got some pics to upload : )
tiny s12 1.jpg
tiny s12 2.jpg
tiny s12 3.jpg
Looking good!
Thanks : )
I've done a couple of shows now as well, this pic is from Modified Nationals
I'm booked for a trackday at Mallory now as well.
Edit: The image doesn't seem to want to load so here's a link.
https://www.facebook.com/SoSlickMedi...1522699759602/
Last edited by SimonMitch; 06-06-2022 at 16:16.
Nice job this. It's great to see these modern classics back in action!
Pete
Pete
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Mallory went really well, only issue was a lack of bite on the brakes, so I've found some EBC pads that will fit the front S13 brakes, Yellow, and some for the rear, only Green, so I'll let you know the results.
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