1978 B310 Datsun Sunny 140Y Coupe **NEW LOWS & De-Rust** :)

Sweet ride you have to commit to this one i think this could be a lot of fun

Well I took it for a late night spin........ and came across more retros.............





And the next day the mods started!! Ive been playing with my Wheels ;D

First I tried my 14x9 Enkei's................
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Unfortunately although they look right on the car......... I can even get half a turn on the stering wheel before they catch everything!!!! The arches just arnt as big as my corolla!!

SO I tried my 14x7 Watanabes...............








Well these fit just fine and TBH look good with the black on brown!
Next is to lower it ;D

Oh and heres a better shot of the interior............


And my Current "In Car Entertainment" ;D


cheers more soon

Your choices of wheels and the picture of the race spec 140s says you've got taste I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.

Very jealous of your Enkies! But I agree with you that the Wats suit it much better.

Awesome car, awesome colour! I hope you do make it to the gathering will be good to get all the datsuns together at some point for a group piccy.
Love the watanabes, but think they would look soooo much better on my 120y
Seeya there!

Awesome! Exactly the same spec and year as mine except the colour. You have a rare car there fella, cant be too many preface lift 310's out there running doglegs! My 81 is undergoing some serious surgery at the moment, once thats done I can think about cracking on with building a ts replica. I'm gonna be watching this thread closely. . . . . . . . . ;D

UPDATE

Well ive been busy getting the Datty ready for the Gathering this week. Heres an update................

First off it said Goodbye to my Micra before it went to its new home...


Then it said hello to its new partner in crime..........


First off was to try and repair that front end damage the best I could without actually buying any parts for now lol.
This is how I straightened my bumper HAHA.........




Taaa Daaa ;D








I then decided to convert the bumpers back to as near "J Spec" as I could....... meaning removing the horrid plastic end caps and bumper extensions and moving the bumper back closer to the car in full chrome mode ;D

So I stripped the whole front down..........


And while I was doing this I thought I'd tidy up the rest of it a bit INC trying to fix the dent in the N/S wing.........





Beat the wing with a big hammer until it was pretty good and then stonechipped all the bare bit of metal and around the edges......


Stone chipped the inner arch where it needed it.........


And the front panel...........


There will be pics coming up of what it looks like all back together

Then I had an oil leak on the rocker cover so I stripped that off.......


Found the culprit.............


And replaced with new...........


Next it was the fun bit of trying to lower it,
SO I stripped the front down.......






Marked where I needed to "modify" it lol (not to much for now just to see how she sits)........


Them trimmed a little off ;D............


Next was to Strip the rear springs out.........






And gave them the same treatment........


NEXT I had to get some modern tunes in here as I was getting fed up with the MW/LW and the not so loud Ipod Dock lol............

First up was to run power wires........


Next was to hide some speakers up under the dash.........


I had to make a hole on the passenger side to get the wires through neatly...........


And protecting the wires..........


The headunit was fitted neatly under the glovebox and even matches the colour or the dash and trim (and the dash lights ).....


Tidy up the wiring under the rear seat...........


Mount sub in the boot on a removable plug......


I think it looks pretty neat...........


Now for some nicer shots at this stage with the car back together................


























Next was to touch up the black and tatty bits around the car as the weather was better yesterday............






It was only a quick job but it looks much better! Unfortunately I wont have the time and don't have the paint to colour code the bad paint job on the drivers side before the show.

Ive also now filled the holes in the bumpers with dome bolts to neaten it up.

Hope you like it and hopefully cya at the show this weekend ;D

Never seen one of these before! I think here in Finland we never got that body style, not that I know very much about J cars though...

Great to see another retro being brought back to life, great work so far (especially loving the straightening of the bumper)! You got the stance spot on, and those dark Watanabes suit the car very well.

There's one thing, though, that I personally wouldn't feel safe running with:



I'd really consider fitting proper grommets to further protect those wires from chafing against those sharp edges! Wouldn't like to see your car burned down...

No worries........ its not a power wire....... its a heavily armoured Sub RCA cable so basicly just a speaker wire. The power cables go down the opposite side of the car through factory insulated holes and to prevent feedback.





Erm......... I removed it from Cornwall and took it over the border to Plymouth ;D

I would sell a kidney, or maybe even one of my children for this.

Let me know if you are interested!

Lush.