Mission to the Cosmos

[LateFan]

In your trunk, is that bulkhead panel a carpeted thing? Fuzzy? Ours is kind of a black hardboard panel with black plastic push clips, and it kind of rattles against the steel bulkhead if there's not a toolbox or something up against it.

[2mAn]

It is awesome you have a 5th SSR Comp as a spare.

Yup! With the correct size and offset as the rest. I actually also have a 6TH(!) SSR, but its cracked. Creep my history and you can find the origins of these wheels, but lets just say I got really lucky years ago and found a pair of the correct size and offset

[mike.bmw]

It is awesome you have a 5th SSR Comp as a spare.

Also, I had to do it...

[2mAn]

K.I.S.S.


I had a simple goal. I wanted bass. I actually bought a 10” Lukebox the same day I bought this car and have been lugging it around since day 1.

The simple plan got a little complicated because I just wanted to keep things simple by retaining the original cassette deck. EN BEE DEE right?

I picked up a Hertz 5-channel Power something that my buddy strongly suggested. We finally connected this weekend and spent way too long to trying to make it work. He’s the genius, I’m just the guy holding the flashlight. It’s my childhood all over again... this was my face and what my face was looking at for hours...





After 3 hours of sleep and a bunch of errands to run, I somehow stumbled back into the garage to give it another go.... slowly, I reached my goal. And now I have bass!

All done. Clean and simple.



Also, one thing that happened that I was quite satisfied with was changing the antenna seal, old was totally dried out and the new one looks fantastic. The little things...

[BlackbirdM3]

I have SRL-00016, so one of the earliest 67.5s known to exist. Yes, it does have Mikunis as well as a big cam and 7qrt oil pan. I bought the car in Atlanta years ago from the second long-term owner. It was rust free, but needed a complete restoration....that's why it's apart right now. I have the frame and suspension painted and have been collecting NOS parts over the years. Years ago, I was able to buy direct from Nissan Canada a complete NOS competition suspension, including lower, stiffer leaf and front springs and Koni adjustable shocks. I just need more garage space to put it all back together

Woah, 3 2 liter roadster owners who have E30s. What are the odds of that?

Will

[Reichart12]

I feel your pain. Also commenting to say I was able to get those tops CA bolts by doing one small turn at a time. I was worried with my nice rusty car that they would be rusted on too good. Broke them loose relatively easily.

[2mAn]

I have SRL-00016, so one of the earliest 67.5s known to exist.

Ahhh you’re in the registry already. That’s cool. Looks like you HAVE had it for a long time.

[lgb240]

annoy the owner of a pristine original car when they want to do simple work! haha


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Glad you caught it hiding in the frame, those taillights are an easy giveaway. If you want the R3V version of the build, its below. I also have a much longer thread on 311s.org I hope you're already on there. We are always trying to document the cars, especially a 1/1000 like yours. Mine is SRL31101228 so its one of the first 68-2000s

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=408588

Sooo you have a 67.5 2000! in Canada nonetheless so it probably came with the Mikuni's from the factory, you lucky dog. Get back to work!

I have SRL-00016, so one of the earliest 67.5s known to exist. Yes, it does have Mikunis as well as a big cam and 7qrt oil pan. I bought the car in Atlanta years ago from the second long-term owner. It was rust free, but needed a complete restoration....that's why it's apart right now. I have the frame and suspension painted and have been collecting NOS parts over the years. Years ago, I was able to buy direct from Nissan Canada a complete NOS competition suspension, including lower, stiffer leaf and front springs and Koni adjustable shocks. I just need more garage space to put it all back together

[2mAn]

What is that part supposed to even do? Its on both mounts

annoy the owner of a pristine original car when they want to do simple work! haha

Not sure how to post an image...

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Greetings from a fellow Datsun 2000 owner...I have a '67.5 2000 Roadster. It's currently in a million pieces.
Good luck with both your projects. Great to see the 2000 in the background of your pics.

Glad you caught it hiding in the frame, those taillights are an easy giveaway. If you want the R3V version of the build, its below. I also have a much longer thread on 311s.org I hope you're already on there. We are always trying to document the cars, especially a 1/1000 like yours. Mine is SRL31101228 so its one of the first 68-2000s

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=408588

Sooo you have a 67.5 2000! in Canada nonetheless so it probably came with the Mikuni's from the factory, you lucky dog. Get back to work!

[lgb240]

Greetings from a fellow Datsun 2000 owner...I have a '67.5 2000 Roadster. It's currently in a million pieces.
Good luck with both your projects. Great to see the 2000 in the background of your pics.

[Bill Brown]

Ha! Yep. We could sort of see it from above, but I am lacking in wobbles, etc. Not sure how to post an image, but was going to show my son holding a ratchet with all of our extensions on it that we tried to reach them with :)

Edit: thought I was about to proclaim success re. images, but having a hard time figuring out how to shrink the file size adequately (could only get it to 400k?). Will have to work on that, so many good images posted on the site.

[amcp]

What is that part supposed to even do? Its on both mounts

[2mAn]

haha glad Im not the only one who has spent hours cursing at those two. It would have been a lot easier if the "hood catch" (??- according to realoem ) wasnt in the way, but it was and I had various fantasies of destroying it in different ways

[Bill Brown]

Those two nuts were the bane of my existence for several hours recently as well. I am actually surprised you were able to get that clear a picture. With an M42 could barely see them, was mostly by feel.

I ended up with a spanner from below, about 10 degrees of rotation at a time because of all the obstacles, final torque with a fish scale on the end of the wrench.

None of the DIY guides I have seen had any cool tricks. On that note, I am amazed at how 4 lines of instructions in the Bentley manual can actually indicate 4 hours of work, e.g. "remove the bolts that secure the trailing arm." :)

[2mAn]

So it took 3 hours of fiddling with your 2 nuts to get them off? Ahhhh, to be young again... ;D

Car is looking great, btw!

LOL! I was so frustrated/ tired last night that I didnt even think of the opportunity I had to talk about how hard it was to get those nuts off. Thanks!

Tangent: I just received a 5-channel Hertz Amp that will hopefully turn the audio character of this car from an old school all treble, no bass setup to something MUCH better. It should help compliment the collection of cassettes I have on the way. Collection will be about 10 cassettes including NWA, Eazy-E, The D.O.C. , Too $hort, Wu-Tang Clan, Rodney O & Joe Cooley and also a Bluetooth cassette for all that new sh!t that will never be available in a physical media