This is my Datson. 77 280Z. I found this car sitting in the original owner's driveway. It had not moved for ten years and I offered the owner a "few bucks" for it and he told me that If I removed it from his driveway I could have it. So I towed it home and the fun began.
Some of the Upgrades I've done so far. Complete replacement of the suspension bushings to Poly. Tokico Illumina 5 way adjustable struts and Illumina lowering Springs. Suspension Techniques sway bars front and rear. Turbo from an 83 ZXT and a dizzy and ignition from an 81ZX. Custom 2.5 inch down pipe with a mandrell bent 2.5 inch exhaust. New paint color matched to the original 411 Datson paint code. Complete replacement of all the window and door rubber. I replaced the big 77 crash bumpers with the smaller and better looking IMHO, bumpers from a 73 240Z. The car has not been to a body shop or a garage, my 4 year old daughter and I have performed all of the work done to restore this car.
When I aquired this car it was dead. This is the first time I've ever attempted to restore/rebuild a car.
These are the after pictures. The following pages contain the before pics as well as all the pics of the work as I progressed thru this project. Projected completion date? who knows.
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Posted by: Garage510
05/15/2008, 09:40am
Great job on the restoration of that Z. Cant believe you did it all by yourself. 5 star on the work done. Keep it up. Cheers!!!