Project Datsun 280ZX - E36 M3 Evo Engine Swap
Discussion
Chunkychucky said:
Awesome, can't wait to see this progress further! And it should bloody shift too, a standard E36 evolution can hold an Audi TTRS up to 120mph, after which point the M3 starts to pull a little bit out on the Audi, so in this old Datsun that power should see you shifting!
Yes and a striped m3 3.2 like our track cars that weigh 1200kg (similar to the finished datsun im guessing hopefully datsun will be lighter) will have away 400BHP+ V8 New M3's and other similar superpowerfull cars in road trim. cant wait to see it on the track, with some trick suspension and some huge porsche brakes it should handle and stop ok to. hopefully !!! lol
d4cjr said:
Oh and yes mike after telling me you go on here every night after the wife had gone to bed and you just keep reading through the tread time and time again, are you shaw thats all your doing 
isnt it about time you posted something on here, you explain the whys and whereforths, plus your spelling is probably alot better than mine
Benny C takes the time to come on an take the P**S !
Give him a year or two, he only learned how to do e-mail this year isnt it about time you posted something on here, you explain the whys and whereforths, plus your spelling is probably alot better than mine
Benny C takes the time to come on an take the P**S !
Spent the last 2 days gutting the car, cleaning up the interior, removing big chucks of no more nail where the alloy floor plates at been, cleaning of weld, muck and sticky s
t.
Then came out the hoover, blocked that twice!
Next came the big deep clean, a very concentrate mix of TFR and de-greaser through a very hot steam cleaner, inide and out, theres no grease anywhere on it now. 30 years of grime and crud gone !
and my concrete pad outside my workshop look like brand new again!!
The sun came out so its drying out as pictured.
Once dry, a few hours masking up and i can get the engine bay and interior in primer
t.Then came out the hoover, blocked that twice!
Next came the big deep clean, a very concentrate mix of TFR and de-greaser through a very hot steam cleaner, inide and out, theres no grease anywhere on it now. 30 years of grime and crud gone !
and my concrete pad outside my workshop look like brand new again!!
The sun came out so its drying out as pictured.
Once dry, a few hours masking up and i can get the engine bay and interior in primer
Edited by d4cjr on Wednesday 26th October 14:57
Edited by d4cjr on Wednesday 26th October 15:23
Edited by d4cjr on Wednesday 26th October 15:45
sniff diesel said:
Good idea, that'll help my paint dry too, second coat on tonight, then axle back on in the morning.
How hard could it be?
With you at the job, very bloody hard, what i want to know is, how hard will it be getting all this white Hamerite of my workshop floor? !!! and when will i get my ramp back ? How hard could it be?
For you wondering WTF
Here is Rich's M3, pretty stuck on the ramp at the mo, its just had the complete engine bay painted in BMW Alipne White, the complete floor pan done in Epoxy mastic 1-2-1 and now hes doing 2 top coats of white hamerite on the floor pan, bloody thing will never rust. - the shel has been acid dipped prior to all this so it is very rust free and now very well protected.
Here is Rich's M3, pretty stuck on the ramp at the mo, its just had the complete engine bay painted in BMW Alipne White, the complete floor pan done in Epoxy mastic 1-2-1 and now hes doing 2 top coats of white hamerite on the floor pan, bloody thing will never rust. - the shel has been acid dipped prior to all this so it is very rust free and now very well protected.
Edited by d4cjr on Wednesday 26th October 16:59
And in the back ground you will see my project rally car. the black BMW compact with full T45 customs cage jusst been fitted, god knows if the car will get finihed at this rate, My evan newer project has arrived a 2006 BMW 130 to become a rally car and i havent evan got close to finishing the compact yet !!!
Well shes painted, had a nightmare, I had previously bought some synthetic paint as it was advertised to be very tough and that it will not react with any other paint, well 99% of paints it cliamed, what they dont say is that everyone who uses it has a 99.9% chance of being in the 1% catagory 
fooking stuff is crap, did the interior with it in gloss black and its not the best finish althoough still better than a brush painted or rattle can finish, just many reaction spots, so it will be knocked back and getting another coat tommorow hopefully this time it will work, think it needs to be extreemly warm to use the sticky stuff, so i will get the space heater fired up, bake the car before painting and then bake it quick, the reactions dont seem to come for about 20 mins of the paint going on, hopefully if its hot it will dry before this happens. who knows, we will find out
So for under the bonnet i had some BMW Mugello Red left (proper paint) from my old rally car, a true M3 colour so its had that and i must say it looks mint, a realy nice very bright glossy finish with not a single mark, run or reaction in it.
Pics to follow tommorow
fooking stuff is crap, did the interior with it in gloss black and its not the best finish althoough still better than a brush painted or rattle can finish, just many reaction spots, so it will be knocked back and getting another coat tommorow hopefully this time it will work, think it needs to be extreemly warm to use the sticky stuff, so i will get the space heater fired up, bake the car before painting and then bake it quick, the reactions dont seem to come for about 20 mins of the paint going on, hopefully if its hot it will dry before this happens. who knows, we will find out
So for under the bonnet i had some BMW Mugello Red left (proper paint) from my old rally car, a true M3 colour so its had that and i must say it looks mint, a realy nice very bright glossy finish with not a single mark, run or reaction in it.
Pics to follow tommorow
Hammerite is to brittle it chips off very easily.
Matt Enamel I used to use under the Land Rover. far more hard wearing.
Por15 was by far the worst it peeled off in sheets.
the Stuff M Stewart is using on his 500bhp fiesta is the stuff to use I reckon.
for not revisiting a job twice.
Matt Enamel I used to use under the Land Rover. far more hard wearing.
Por15 was by far the worst it peeled off in sheets.
the Stuff M Stewart is using on his 500bhp fiesta is the stuff to use I reckon.
for not revisiting a job twice.
Edited by white90 on Thursday 3rd November 21:03
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