Too much poke for an egg!

Im not really new I just never post. I just picked up this previa a couple weeks ago super cheap and fixed the headgasket and have decided to keep it. I have had a sh*t-ton of different cars. I really just like to work on them I guess.... 

I happened across some wheels and decided to see what they would look like on my egg. Decided to take a few pics while they were on there. 

As I figured they are too small and poke too far. I deffinatley am going to have to get bigger diameter wheels with less offset. These are Old Centerline Replicas 15x10s and some kind of rediculous offset (5 3/8" lips) 195/50r15 tires. I had almost the same rims on my old Corona before. lol 

Don't worry, I am hopefully going to be purchasing coilovers from a another member on this sight in the near future. 

So yeah. My Mexi-whip.....

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Here are the same wheels in 15x8 and 15x9.5s on my old Corona

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And my 240sx Base/truck conversion

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My 73 240z w/v8 with my Rustoleum "roll-on paint job" lol!

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Josh

awesome! love the previa the most! haha jp. the Z is my fave but a very nice collection! cant wait to see what you do with the egg

Thanks! 

I went to the Nastalgic Car Festival in Nagano Japan last may and saw an awesome Z. So when I got back hom I just had to have one. And what better to have than one with a built chevy 350! Lol

The previa will come around it will just take some time.

Very different !! 

BTW, did you have your 240Z for sale ??

Thanks!

Yes, I sold it to a guy in Alberta, Canada.  :(   I really miss that one.

And the guy that bought it media blasted it to bare metal and is currently putting an RB30 in it with g-nose and full widebody! I dont know why he spent so much to buy mine when he could have just bought a shell to build his own but whatever. I needed the money.

That Z is ILL!!!!

The paint job on the Z came out clean or is it? Haha how long did it take you?

thats some crazy poke

now all you need is an insane set of fender flares!!! and a big drop.

or jack the rear up.. that would be funny.. 

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zHHU6gfQE[/url]

The paint job on the Z came out great! But I would never do it again. It is all in the prep work. It is waybmore work than putting a legit paint job on a car. I spent 2 weeks of working on the paintjob everyday. If I had to do it all over again I would have just payed to spray it!

There are 8 coats of paint on the Z. Each coat rolled on with a high density 4" foam roller. The paint is bought at home depot in a can for around $15 and is cut 60/40 with mineral spirits.


All the body and prep was done first. Then roll on a coat, let dry overnight, sand with 800. Roll on another coat, let dry over night, sand with 800. Did this 6 more times and each time went to a finer sand paper ending at the final coat then sanded 800,1k,1500, 2000 grits and polished with a high speed buffer.

Here is a pic of the driver's side quarter panel
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When I got the Z

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I tried some really thick urathane universal flares I had and it looked horrible. With out loads of neg camber it wont look good. The wheel diameter overall with these tires is smaller than the stock 205/70/15s that it came with.I drove it through a parking lot on the way home and it almost high centered on a speedbump and the suspension hasnt even been touched yet!

Once I have suspension I will get wheels. I have my eye on some that are of a concave monoblock/disk style. Just kind of want some rims with lips.

Here is a link to a little video I made of the Z before I sold it.

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And 

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[QUOTE=bad egg;371257]or jack the rear up.. that would be funny.. 

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Wtf... That shit is tite, they probly copy that idea from lowriders ridin locked up...

^ I have been there and done that too! hahaha

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This was the inspiration I guess for my Z. I took these pictures in Japan last May.

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There were some really awesome cars there I would rather have but the Hakosuka is expensive in the US. lol

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Probably my favorite body style Skyline and my favorite of the show!

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