Hello all im new to the site, i was doing homework on a Ferrari 308 GT and a few older 911's and stumbled across a 356 replica and instantly i was reminded of how much i love the lines of the speedsters . so i have been spent the past few hours looking at 356's and 550's. So i have decided i really want a speedster maybe one day a 550 .
a little about me, my name is Fidencio i live in NC i hope to be opening a hydrograffic printing business this year . i have been working on cars to pay my bills for almost 12 years now i enjoy being a mechanic but its time to get an easy job,
i have been a Nissan enthusiast for a few years now ( i have been addicted to nissan z's since i was a kid ) i had a rather large collection of cars 2 years ago (9 or 10 roughly )and sold all but my sileighty and my z32 slicktop (300zx rare to not have t tops) and i wound up buying a 01 eclipse (was to be a car to drive in a snow emergency but im going to crush it ) a second 240sx and second 300zx )
my sileighty (240sx hatch back with the japanese silvia front end ) is actually the first car i ever work and bleed for so needless to say i have a great attachment to it not to mention it was the car my mother drove for a while my sister drove it and it was the lead car in my mothers funeral a few years back , it has a rather long list of minor modifications it started life out as a single cam auto that was wrecked in the front when i first got it . and yes i have removed every bolt on it affter the 8+ years i have owned her
and now on to my z32 slicktop
the 90+ 300zx has always been a dream of mine but was always to exensive and the hype of how bad they were with repairs and there price always keep me from getting them. then a few years ago a car dealer i knew brought one in to the shop and i saw it was a slicktop and i had no choice to buy it. knowing the dealers reputation for selling crappy cars i knew i was buying a lemon for far more than it was worth but i bought it any way. 17 miles after i buy it it has major issues with the motor witch was to be expected, so i took it off the road and mid way threw the rebuild i deicded since im doing all this work i may as well do what i want so i oped to go wih a V8 out of the ininiti Q45 and im currently dealing with that pandora's box
the 2nd 240sx coupe i couldnt help my self i have issues , and the 96 300zx i bought it with a bad transmission i oringaly bought it for the interior so that i could up grade my slicktop, but i had a spair transmission bought a 1 peace upgraded drive shaft and installed it, it will soon replace my sileighty as my daily driver (im dying for a datsun s30z)
now on to what im looking for i would love a rolling chassis bare that i could maybe modify or fabricate a few parts on to, i love the nissan z32 ( majority of it is the same as the skyline ) set up's and try to import them in to every project i take on the calipers for example are 4 piston front and 2 piston rear with drum ebrake. but obviously the FR platform of the nissans i own wont work on somthing like the speedster
but im rambling, sry i do that . so yeah basiclly a roller i can add my own engine set up to my own caliper set up and same with the inside and all that
also i really just want to learn all i can about these since there are a few options as far as maker's and every thing. i attack any new make of car like i have never worked on a car before . im currently 30 and plan on driving a speedster by the time im 35, i dont like to rush in to things even less when i dont know much about it, hence the boxer format and the engine set up with the transmission and all that
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