Terry's Project 240K

[Noddle]

It depends on who you talk to,
I don't know much about them myself,
but there is some good discussion about them on HybridZ
search on "Tony D ", he is a wealth of information.

Nigel

[tez240k]

Yeah I'm sure their very similar but my flat tops have a **** load of hoses for the emission crap. Couldn't turn them down for the price

[Disco Bob]

3 screw round tops- rare as. def early type no emissions stuff, used a different needle and are bigger 1" 3/4(?) than flattops , best performer. have seen over 150whp with these( usually stirs up the weber lovers)
good score.

[tez240k]

Haven't done much on the car as I've been distracted with my 4x4. But now I've stopped spending cash on that I'm back keen to work on the Datto. First bit of inspiration was a quick sketch I did in illustrator

[diamondude]

Wow never knew the 240k existed....awesome looking car

[tez240k]

For the 2nd time painting the wheel wells but this time on the new project

[uras1]

any suprises yet?

[tez240k]

nah man not yet. few things i can hopefully get hold of off the spares car that wernt on it like heater box and drive shafts.. but so far its looking ok.

lucky i took the crossmember and struts out of the last one, because this one had engine mounts welded on for the rb20 and the struts wernt complete. so going to paint mine up and put them in, and do rear end to get it rolling.

heres a better pic

[uras1]

nice, decided in colour yet?

[tez240k]

im thinking holden tungsten..

similar colour between the silver and gold 240K's released. but bit cleaner more modern colour

[uras1]

painted that colour a few times, looks good fresh.

[tez240k]

yeah should go well with the chrome!

[tez240k]

Thought this works as a good door piece


Gave the crossmember a quick sand


Crossmember and control arms painted

[uras1]

nice, are you fitting new bushes while they are out?

[tez240k]

Their the ones out the new project. Has all nolathane Through most of the car

[tez240k]

Hey who knows what drum brakes are the same as 240k. Rear disk conversion isn't complete on this and would rather just put drums on for now

[uras1]

zeds?

[Hoybo]

260z should work quite simply and be a decent upgrade. Fins on/in the drums I believe??

[uras1]

yeh alloy fined

[tez240k]

The other silver looked cheap n yuck so trying something different. Turned out more of a navy ship grey



I'm about to get big shelves welded up in the shed so I'll be able to sort all my stuff out. Like my 5 tail light panels and 15 door trims n maybe sell some stuff

I've been distracted by buying trail bike and my bike license, so I'll get back into it!!

[Alfadog]

Zed finned drums fit no problem

[tez240k]

Not a big update. I'm currently painting my front struts and bits to put the front end together. I have a workshop manual on the way.

And something interesting, looking through my paperwork I found this, seems a doctor originally bought my other shell

[Adzmax]

What a cool find.

[tez240k]

ok. motivation is back!
even with a cold, i went and stripped brake caliper and painted it, finished painting strut, finally found the other tension rod, painted it, cut a stock spring down so i whack it in temporarily and started figuring out the order of all the bushes etc.



after seeing prices of some spares, i quite enjoy looking at my stockpile


ive got 8 tail lights, 5 garnishes, 3 dashes, 15 door trims etc haha

Next is to get the other side strut done then once its back rolling, start doing rear brakes

[uras1]

Dat stock pile haha.

[khughes]

if you have the time could you put up a photo of that whole rear quarter without the skin? really interest for planning on how to cut in flares more cleanly!

Kent

[tez240k]

Rear quarter without the skin?... Not quite sure what your talkin about?

[khughes]

sorry my bad, i saw the rust in the rear door jam picture and wrongly concluded you had a coupe and that the rear quarter had been unpicked.. been a while since i have seen sedan

I may have missed it, but what paint did you use on the crossmember and struts?

[tez240k]

Haha all good! The colours called medium grey. Just out of a can but I'm prepping everything properly and giving thick coats. Coming out pretty well.

[tez240k]

Anyone got rear quarter and taillight Panel 'skyline' badges they want to sell? Or I've got lots of spares if you wanna work out a deal

[tez240k]

Also seems like I need 1 sumitomo caliper as one seems to be missing. Buying a half started project has been a pain in the ass. Parts from who knows what and **** half done

[240k Style]

Anyone got rear quarter and taillight Panel 'skyline' badges they want to sell? Or I've got lots of spares if you wanna work out a deal

Email Jason in my sig. Got my rear qtr skyline badges through him. Ditto for the GT badges and he GTR grill/rear panel ones. I need him to get the rear panel skyline badge and dash skyline badge. Hope this helps

[tez240k]

while ive been working on the front end, ive been looking all over the car and one thing i noticed was the inside of my doors had a lot of surface rust.
My doors have had the major rust cut out and patched, but i thought id treat the inside of the doors before they get any worse.. especially seeing as the old 240Ks have to be the rustiest cars i know
So i gave them a light sand, then got my bottle of chemsearch rust converter out, painted it on, then after a day it had turned black, i sprayed killrust enamel all inside the doors!

hopefully THAT will fight that bloody 240K cancer looks a lot neater now

[uras1]

lucky not to have rust, always make sure the drain holes are clean .

[tez240k]

ok. So after spitting the dummy with the struts i had and the one and a half calipers. i Bought a pair of struts off downunder datsuns page off a dude in adelaide. They have super low king springs and near new Monroe shock inserts with sumi calipers.
They had the brake line bracket taken off because they were in a 1600, so had a mate weld some one, painted them in my grey, and put them in. Bit of a pain with all the new bushes making everything so tight, and after getting one side put together, found the pin that holds the lower control arm was stripped so had to pull it all apart again. Lucky i had a spare.
Now i just have to connect steering arms and put the calipers on.. progress!

[uras1]

looking good, front end should feel great now

[tez240k]

yeah hopefully feels better than the first project that i drove for a couple days. Go round a corner, your mirrors almost touch the ground with that much body roll then 20 minutes of it wobbling down the road and feeling like you cant stop at the traffic lights the brakes were that spongy. haha! maybe a strut brace might tighten it up a bit more too. ive heard they are pretty wavy up front even with stiff springs

[uras1]

brace and swaybar will help along with a good alignment

[tez240k]

It's rolling!!! Yay



So you like my sexy rims

[uras1]

rolling is always good haha. up to body work now?

[tez240k]

Nah jack the rear up, and do rear brakes. R31 disks were dodgy welded on so taking them off and putting drums back on. Then gotta take the locker out haha

[uras1]

sounds nasty, did you rebush the rear end as well?

[tez240k]

Yep kframe mounts and diff mounts are new nolathane

[Adzmax]

Suspension looks great man. Good to see it's rolling again.

[tez240k]

Under the rear of the car has reminded me that this next project is a doozy..

Firsty the previous guy cut the spare wheel well out to put a flat floor in it, which is a bit of checker plate bolted in and scrap metal tacked in place. so that will be getting ripped out and a wheel well welded back in.

next is it had R31 disk rear brackets welded on not too well, and from what i gather that path was not going to be easy nor legal, so i will be grinding it off and putting drums back on.

Then theres the diff. It has this wicked burnout sick drag car spec centre in it, which i will be replacing, but on a good note i was told it has 3:9s in it. Which i was told at datsport that if it does, their not easy to come across.
All i can see stamped on the crown wheel is 'H 3 9 X 1 1 J 7-3' any ideas? (Edit. just found its 39/11 = 3.54 ratio. ie stock ratio) another bull**** fact thrown in when i bought the car

Also has big fuel lines that were bent all dodgy down the car as it was going to have fuel pumps under the car for the RB20. So new fuel lines will be run.

Another good note is that it has nolathane kframe bushes, wishbone bushes, diff mustache bushes, new pedders shocks and low king springs!





FUN FUN

[uras1]

eerrrrrhhh, what do people think

[tez240k]

They think 'I heard you can put r31 brakes on it might wack some brackets on. Bit of rust in floor.. Hmm grinder will fix that! Weld some mounts to cross member, cut up the chassis to fit an intercooler. Bang. Race car.

[uras1]

poor thing, at least your saving it from certain death

[tez240k]

So this is what im working with...

what was under the boot..



what they welded in place..



and some nice cut n shut work in the boot... not sure of the reasoning for this..



Then i noticed the rust repair in the rear quarters has been left untreated and theres real crispy bits of metal that probably still contains rust in the bottom so will grind it all back and see what needs doing.

[240k Style]

Bugger!

[Hoybo]

When bogans get classics..

[uras1]

haha, be a good movie title

[tez240k]

Painted diff brace

[240k Style]

Nice!

[uras1]

shiny and new

[Adzmax]

Looks good!

[tez240k]

Been dealing with Jason from jdm factory and won me first item from Japan



Looking at getting the side badges, a model car and maybe a strut brace next

[240k Style]

Jason got me a complete set of the badges for a C110 from Japan!

You'll find it its anything skyline related, especially the classic ones, he knows it.


Atm the moment I have him chasing some C210 fender mirrors and tail light assemblies.

[tez240k]

Might have bought this too I'm liking all this stuff in Japan haha

[240k Style]

Shame the dollar has gone arse up

[Adzmax]

I've been reading some financial reports over the last couple of days. I'd expect it to slide some more, then perhaps bounce a little as we get foreign investment in the AUD, then slide back to where it was earlier. It's overvalued at the moment. If you need to buy, buy now.

[240k Style]

I've been reading some financial reports over the last couple of days. I'd expect it to slide some more, then perhaps bounce a little as we get foreign investment in the AUD, then slide back to where it was earlier. It's overvalued at the moment. If you need to buy, buy now.

Yes buy now and buy big. The good days are gone

[uras1]

talk to me when its 60y~$1 haha, best I have ever bought stuff was 112y~$1

[tez240k]

and another purchase

[uras1]

nice, getting gt badges?

[240k Style]

If your getting the GTR ones Jason knows which ones. They have an additional line inside the boarder

[tez240k]

Nah not gtr. I got gt ones off eBay, but they feel cheap and look really small? Anyone else bought them?

[240k Style]

Look at this on eBay:

Datsun 240K C110 JDM side GT badges. Skyline. KPGC110 GTR

http://bit.ly/14q8HVK

[tez240k]

Yeah their like the ones I bought. What's the difference between red and blue

[240k Style]

You can get black ones too. I think it was for different models.

My c210 badges are f****d but the GT badges are actually Black GL badges

I haven't seen these for sale so ill use red GT ones instead

[240k Style]

Look at this on eBay:

~ GT CAR BADGE Chrome Emblem *NEW* Datsun C110 ? Nissan ? 240K ? *NEW*

http://bit.ly/10ijrWe

[tez240k]

yes thats the ones i bought.. and i compared it with the gt badge that was on the car... odd..

[240k Style]

Ahh I see its a fair whack smaller. But when it's on the car with the skyline script would the size difference be that noticeable?

Could always restore the original ones

[uras1]

could be a 210 gt badge or just a crap copy. The G isn't the same as the original where as this one looks the same
????GT???*???????*????*GC110 - Yahoo!?????? - ????!

[240k Style]

I vote crap copy....doesn't look to different. Enought to notice

Linked one looks nice

[Hoybo]

Can you PM the part numbers / or where you got all the rear bushes?

[tez240k]

Sorry man they were on the car when I bought it

[Hoybo]

sad panda.

[tez240k]

The K has been pushed to the side lately because Ive sold my Suzuki and buying a brand new ktm 350exc next week!

But these rolled up from Japan

[tez240k]

so trying to get motivation to get stuck into the k again. my heater box was removed by the previous owner for whatever reason, so got one out of a wreck out and cleaned it all up and realised one of the clips is broken that controls the circulation. not only that im thinking theres going to be lots missing. what a pain. anyone have spare controls, clips or the likes?
my parts are motivation

broken clip

[PLZ818]

Looking at all those parts...... i have a certain hatred against you haha jks mate.
If i may ask how much where the skyline badges?

Also Blue GT = N/A Red GT = Turbo.

[240k Style]

hmmm you have a lot of dash faces....might need a practice one to strip for the aluminium panel

[tez240k]

Um I think the side skylines were about 80aud and rear one about 70. Off Yahoo japan.
Yes I love my spares

[tez240k]

Well with some time off work thought I'd get stuck in.
Removed drums off k frame I got from paddock car. Painted backing plate and ordered new protex brake cylinders and shoes off eBay.
I've also started wire wheeling under the car as it's all surface rust and painting with killrust enamel.

And finally took the grinder to the brilliantly welded in boot to cut out the 44 gallon drum lid out. Was hoping i sneezed so it'd fall out. Then To replace with new spare wheel well.

[tez240k]

found the wheel well i was using had rust in it, so i cut the whole bottom out and replaced it. ive seam sealed it, and will paint it.



so got new brake shoes, and cylinders. started installing them


and the pins, springs and retainers wernt looking great, so went to power brakes and... bang. new ones

[uras1]

should stop well now

[240k Style]

Drum internal looks the goods man

[tez240k]

[tez240k]

Cut the welded on bracket for disk conversion which was quite tricky.
All that's left now is hook up handbrake and brake line and that's passanger side done.

[240k Style]

i've got a few of the finned drums sets lying around if youd like to go that way

[Red Rocket]

Hi Terry,
I just read through the entire build thread you have here, man what a journey over a couple of years and you still have a way to go.
Really admire your determination and passion for your K project.
Good luck with the rest of the build, I'm sure everyone can't wait to see it in the flesh!!
H.

[Red Rocket]

Under the rear of the car has reminded me that this next project is a doozy..

Firsty the previous guy cut the spare wheel well out to put a flat floor in it, which is a bit of checker plate bolted in and scrap metal tacked in place. so that will be getting ripped out and a wheel well welded back in.

next is it had R31 disk rear brackets welded on not too well, and from what i gather that path was not going to be easy nor legal, so i will be grinding it off and putting drums back on.

Then theres the diff. It has this wicked burnout sick drag car spec centre in it, which i will be replacing, but on a good note i was told it has 3:9s in it. Which i was told at datsport that if it does, their not easy to come across.
All i can see stamped on the crown wheel is 'H 3 9 X 1 1 J 7-3' any ideas? (Edit. just found its 39/11 = 3.54 ratio. ie stock ratio) another bull**** fact thrown in when i bought the car

Also has big fuel lines that were bent all dodgy down the car as it was going to have fuel pumps under the car for the RB20. So new fuel lines will be run.

Another good note is that it has nolathane kframe bushes, wishbone bushes, diff mustache bushes, new pedders shocks and low king springs!

FUN FUN

Hi Terry,
I know you've well and truly sorted your diff woes out by now, but it got me wondering, and please anybody chime in with your knowledge or opinions.....
We have a 78 280zx 2+2 5 speed that has a disc braked diff. Has anybody used one of these units to upgrade a 240k sedan or coupe? They seem to be very similar just looking at it under the car but I haven't measured anything.
H.

[tez240k]

so ive finally got round to welding in the new and improved spare wheel well. and patched the big hole in the boot. Thought that was about it but now found lots of rust in the bottom of the rear quarter.
Ive cut it out and tried welding new plates in but its real difficult with limited access to it and the shape. So i will try to patch as well as i can and then killrust it all and smooth it with fibreglass filler