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TAC · #1 09-03-2012, 09:16 PM

Heres a few pics of the spindle and upright assembly my friend made for his car. I used to work at a shop that did racecar fab so I helped him with the design and he did all the machining. They do a lot of Boeing and helicopter parts.
He is building a 71 datsun 240 . Although I still haven't convinced him to put a LS in it, it should be cool.

All the parts are custom including the spindle bearing nuts and the 12 point bolt. Even the knock off nut is custom.
The upright is ported for the cooling ducts to the rotor hub.
The rear ones are slightly different with cv shaft setup.
The tie rod connection is yet to be finished.

**FETorino** · #2 09-03-2012, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TAC

Heres a few pics of the spindle and upright assembly my friend made for his car. I used to work at a shop that did racecar fab so I helped him with the design and he did all the machining. They do a lot of Boeing and helicopter parts.
He is building a 71 datsun 240 . Although I still haven't convinced him to put a LS in it, it should be cool.

All the parts are custom including the spindle bearing nuts and the 12 point bolt. Even the knock off nut is custom.
The upright is ported for the cooling ducts to the rotor hub.
The rear ones are slightly different with cv shaft setup.
The tie rod connection is yet to be finished.

That's a lot of hours of work there. Are you going to talk him into starting a build thread on his fairlady?

What's he planning for power? A twin turbo straight six?

TAC · #3 09-03-2012, 10:27 PM

I will probably end putting a few pics up when it really gets going. Yes he is planning on a twin turbo six....even being a Ford guy I still think the best route for that car is an LS motor.
He figures about 100 hrs so far.

And of topic, your car is looking real good.

**FETorino** · #4 09-03-2012, 10:34 PM

LS would be cheap and easy but didn't Paul Newman won a lot of races with a hot inline six.

TAC · #5 09-03-2012, 10:43 PM

Oh, there is some very impressive sixes out there no doubt about that. But the six won't save much weight over the LS, if any at all.

Werks · #6 09-04-2012, 05:08 AM

Ill vote LS as well. I went with a 2.0 turbo in mine and although I made 430rwhp with mine, the power band sucked. It would have been a much better car with an LS. Check out my thread from a few years ago. It has a few pics of my old 74 260Z.
https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=25284