i've been a nissan person my whole life, always loved them! i grew up with my dad having a 720 pickup, and an 84 s12 turbo which ended up being my first car. and since then i've had 2 s12 turbo's, 7 240sx's one of which with a full built t3/t4 ka-t, and a 94 infiniti g20 for cars, and trucks i've had a 72 620, an 80 720, a 96 hardbody 4x4, an 08 frontier, now have a 2010 titan cc with some goodies, and i just picked up a 86 hardbody kc to toy around with and save gas. which leads me to here lol.
i've found alot of great information here on this forum and you guys all seem like a great bunch, so i figured i'ed join and share my project, and hopefully get some help along the way. with my new little hardbody project i'm going more datsun style with it. i even have thoughts of doing an l20b head swap on my z24. i have already done a bunch of stuff to it asfar as maintenence stuff and removing a few "rats nests" from the previous owner, it looked like a 6 year old worked on the truck, i cant believe it didnt burn down haha. also slammed it down a little bit, on 3" blocks and torsions, and i've got pinto shocks up front, and quest shocks in the rear, i also put on my old stock titan wheels. i just recieved my weber 38 outlaw carb this last week, and im tapping holes in the intake today so i can get it going again and start driving it, im throwing out all the efi and emissions crap and going back to a more basic setup. within a few months of accumulating, i'm going to pick up a motor, and do a basic build with a cam and ka pistons. if it's not too difficult i will do the l20 swap, but i still need to figure out if the head ache is worth the gains lol.
before the drop
after the drop.. i'll get some better pics up eventually.
i took the intake off lastnight, and dropped it off with a buddy so he can tap it for the mounting plate, and plug up a couple emissions ports.
i'm really excited to have a project agian, with my titan it's just bolting parts on and go, no challenge, building up this truck is alot of fun, i love how you can frankenstien them together lol.
one thing i noticed and i think is retarded is why the heck did they have to fill the intake with water? i can see why the run it through part of it, but why did they run it in all the runners and everything? and if i were to block off or weld up the holes on the block, would it effect water movement through out the block? im wondering if the hks manifold has water passages, or if it's just solid to block off the passage.