cxracing

Hello everyone, i want to start off by saying that this thread will not be used as a vendor account and will not be offering any sales, coupon codes or opinions about the products we represent. The whole purpose of this thread will be to document the on-going rebuild project we just begun with our 1973 Datsun and showcasing different engine mock-ups until we figure out which engine we will actually run in the vehicle. Any sales or product related issues or questions can handle by calling CXRacing directly.

We have yet decided what engine we actually want to run in the car, we have a few to choose from but haven't completely committed to which one just yet. The car was purchased with an L28 and 4 speed transmission but

1973 Datsun 240z
blown L28

**Modifications**
CXRacing coilovers
16x7 Konig Rewind rims

We have just began stripping the car down and so far have already removed most of the interior to see exactly how much rust we're going to be dealing with. Here are a couple photos to show what we're working on.







You can see how bad the rust is in the driver side floor, the passenger side is no better and is missing material. I'll be looking for replacement floor panels to weld in as well as getting the dashboard either replaced or somehow fixed.

cxracing

Over the past week we removed all the glass and trim pieces, we haven't removed the dash just yet and I'm not sure what exactly we plan to do about it's grand canyon of cracks. We may have it sent out to get re finished or look for another one all together but i don't know yet.

I haven't looked in the classified section yet but if anyone has a replacement driver side door and good dashboard please let me know or point me in the direction where to get them.






looking around I find dash covers/overlays everywhere but I'm not that big a fan of them, I've seen them warp from being left out in the sun and this will eventually be a street car so i don't want to have to deal with this in the future, any suggestions?

cxracing

we've been a little busy at work with a few other projects and have making an SR20 swap kit for the Z as well. we had a some more body work done to the exterior but won't be sending it off to paint just yet.





















i snapped a couple photo's of the undercarriage showing some of the damage which is minimal but we're still going to put in new floor pans.













not also not really sure what to do with the rear end, i think we're going to leave it stock for the time being until we figure it out. we don't plan on making a lot of power but i'd feel more comfortable swapping this out to a z32 diff and axles but a lot of the information i'm seeing is kind of vague on what exactly i need to get.

cxracing

we finished making our new sr20 engine mount kit, i thought I'd share them with you guys now rather than wait for the production models to come in later this year. i believe we will be offering both a stock turbo set up and aftermarket turbo set up.





here's a look at our mock up of our upgraded turbo set up, i don't have any photos of our stock turbo set up yet.













the turbo pictured is a T3 gt35

cxracing

i took these photos just before the engine was going to get pulled so it may look like the engine and trans. are a bit crooked.










as you can see here we made an alternator relocation bracket and moved it over to the Driverside, the relocation bracket will be included in the engine mount kit once it is available for purchase.





we had the transmission crossmember made to fit the oem transmission mount instead of making it solid to help reduce some of the vibration and noise.

cxracing

we stripped some of the floor panels down to bare metal to see if there was more rust anywhere, which there was, so we will for sure be changing out the floor panels.

Steve260Z74

Floor pans - Zedd Findings
Frame rails (if needed) - Bad Dog
Dash - Just Dashes

I've seen some people offering fiberglass/carbon fiber dashes on Facebook.

rx927

Any updates?