So, you like RS-Watanabe’s and you own a classic Skyline or similar. Watanabe’s do command quite a premium and perhaps don’t have the same significance that these do;
Mmmm, 8-spoke.
If you’re too lazy to click it to find out more info, what you’re looking at is a 14x8J ’0′ offset Optional Wheel, presumably for use with the PGC10 you’ve just bought. Nice. A pair for 50,000JPY starting. Seems reasonable?
http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/131591623
-Michael
The weather in the morning was pretty decent so I got stuck into the C110 again, in the process I destroyed a drill. No big loss as it was under warranty, replacement drill already received. Anyway, before it died I managed to finish off the driver’s side door. The only disturbing part was the pathetic holes made for attaching the door mirror, which were even more ridiculous than on the passenger side, as you might remember;
Yep, all class.
With the door and sill on the driver’s side now done on the car itself, it just leaves the roof and the front scuttle. Then I’ll get onto the panel’s I’ve already removed, bonnet, boot, front fenders… Slow process, but shall prove rewarding upon completion. Looking forward to it.
-Michael
Hirst (of oldjapanesecar.com fame) recently bought himself a rather amusing but entirely awesome because of it, C32 Nissan Laurel Taxi. No, not some attempted little novel conversion by someone outside of Japan but rather a genuine ex-Japan Taxi! Complete with fantastical meter, roof lamp and even remote door opener! Magic! Check it out;
1992 Nissan Laurel (C32)
You can forgive the early 90′s build date in that the beginning of manufacture was well 80′s. Continue for more pictures and the link to the project thread(s).
Due to atrocious Holiday weather, I’ve not had much of a chance to do much of anything at all to the C110, Max, Prince or the Cedric (not that the Cedric needs anything done). However, with the arrival of the new components for the 110 build I thought I’d play around with my new camera (Olympus E-500) and focus on some of the more important digits and otherwise.
Manifold
Carburettor Manufacturer
That is, if my latest stupid plan to acquire a BNR32 doesn’t eat up all of my disposable income.
just before Xmas last year (i.e. less than a month ago) I drew up a small “things to do in 2010″ list on the DR30 sedan which quickly snowballed to include the coupe, and then the RX-7 for good measure. Having somehow ended up in Hamilton on the 31st at a friend’s place to see in the New Decade, it was a no-brainer to visit the workshop the next day to begin crossing Items off said List.
…rather wisely – or perhaps stupidly depending on your outlook – I’d drank no alcohol the night before.
This! is! MADNESS!
Over the course of the day I managed to get squid running again, by getting my electronics-whiz friend Brendan to crack open the faulty fuel pump controller (with a grinder, no less) and re-solder a bunch of dry joins. mental note: do the same to the one in the coupe! Once the car was alive it was time to inspect the faulty alternator – 18.2V at 3500rpm and rising further still with revs… definitely not healthy. With Brendan’s help it was quickly ascertained that, strangely enough, switching the headlights on would cap the voltage at a safe enough level (around 14.8V at all revs) and allow the car to be driven back to Auckland at a later stage. I’m suspecting either a faulty diode, regulator, or both.
with that out of the way it was time to unbolt the mint driver’s seat out of squid, and swap it with the torn driver’s seat from the coupe; reason being that squid will eventually end up at the re-upholsterers getting the rear seat headrest fabric repaired, so why not get the front seat done as well?
Bring on 2010, I say.
