My Project: 1990 Nissan 240sx
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:37 pm
This is a thread to show off my winter project, a '90 Nissan 240sx. I bought the car for $800 in Aug of this year (2010) with intentions of driving it back and forth to work, while fixing little things here and there and selling it later.
Well, after driving the car for a few weeks I started to really like the car and decided to keep it and race it. I initially planned on building the 2.4 4cyl with a turbo make around 300hp and have a fun daily driver. Well, it was looking like it was going to cost around $1800 just for the engine, not including any turbo, fuel sytstem or engine management.... and that was using the stock block, crank and cams. So I said to hell with that and started brainstorming and came up with this plan.
This is going to be a dedicated track car with plans to run in the local 1/8 index classes. I'll start with the 7.50 class and work my way up to the 5.80 class. The basic plan of the car is as follows
302 sbf
c4 trans
8.8 Ford rear
12 point cage
ladder bar suspension
Started buying parts last month and am now just starting to get down to business. Heres some pics of the progress.
Making room for the tires. 315/60/15 radials
Fitting pretty good so far.
Heres my 8.8 out of a foxbody mustang. Originally came around 58" now at 43". Got the jig, centering up the pinion, tubes are straight and the 9'' housing end are going on. Big thanks to Ed Nitzki from Strange Engineering with all the diagrams and help so far !
Questions, comments and everything else welcome...
Joe
Well, after driving the car for a few weeks I started to really like the car and decided to keep it and race it. I initially planned on building the 2.4 4cyl with a turbo make around 300hp and have a fun daily driver. Well, it was looking like it was going to cost around $1800 just for the engine, not including any turbo, fuel sytstem or engine management.... and that was using the stock block, crank and cams. So I said to hell with that and started brainstorming and came up with this plan.
This is going to be a dedicated track car with plans to run in the local 1/8 index classes. I'll start with the 7.50 class and work my way up to the 5.80 class. The basic plan of the car is as follows
302 sbf
c4 trans
8.8 Ford rear
12 point cage
ladder bar suspension
Started buying parts last month and am now just starting to get down to business. Heres some pics of the progress.
Making room for the tires. 315/60/15 radials
Fitting pretty good so far.
Heres my 8.8 out of a foxbody mustang. Originally came around 58" now at 43". Got the jig, centering up the pinion, tubes are straight and the 9'' housing end are going on. Big thanks to Ed Nitzki from Strange Engineering with all the diagrams and help so far !
Questions, comments and everything else welcome...
Joe