My track/street 240sx LS Swap
06-15-2013, 12:05 PM
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I would be very surprised if that radiator provides enough cooling for your engine. Maybe since you are up north where its cooler it won't be so bad. My S14 with a full size dual pass radiator always had heat soak issues while sitting in traffic. With only 750cfm per fan you won't be moving much air either. I had dual 12" 1250cfm fans and I still didn't pull enough air across the larger radiator while idling.
06-16-2013, 01:39 AM
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I would be very surprised if that radiator provides enough cooling for your engine. Maybe since you are up north where its cooler it won't be so bad. My S14 with a full size dual pass radiator always had heat soak issues while sitting in traffic. With only 750cfm per fan you won't be moving much air either. I had dual 12" 1250cfm fans and I still didn't pull enough air across the larger radiator while idling.
Now that i'm turbo though, I'm thinking about trying to make this same radiator work with my setup.
06-16-2013, 01:44 AM
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I hope it does work for you. You seem to be going all out on the build so it would suck to have to swap the radiator back out. On the page you linked to it states in the description that the fans are 750cfm not 1750 so maybe they just did a typo on their page if they are telling you they are indeed 1750.
06-17-2013, 08:43 AM
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And I got a little bit done over the weekend. I had to paint the new bumper for my truck which took up some time, I hit a stump with it off roading. And fathers day was sunday. But I picked up the fenders, headlight covers, and this rear trim piece from the acid dipper. Then i cleaned them up and coated them in primer.
06-18-2013, 08:37 AM
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So last night I went and picked up a lot of my parts that I had sand blasted and primed. I think all of them turned out pretty good. Hopefully I'll get them coated in the chassis paint this weekend.
06-22-2013, 05:36 PM
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Thanks for the kind words guys! I'm getting some more parts painted today. Hoping to have the car finished before November.
Also my brother I took my dad to the drag strip Wednesday for a late fathers day present. I brought my truck and my dad brough his Mercedes SL63 and the Porsche Cayenne Turbo. It was fun just to test everything out. Everything was bone stock down to the air filters.
2012 Dodge ram 1500 4x4- 14.7@93
2011 Porsche Cayenne Turbo- 13.1@107
2011 Mercedes SL63- 12.7@111
Also my brother I took my dad to the drag strip Wednesday for a late fathers day present. I brought my truck and my dad brough his Mercedes SL63 and the Porsche Cayenne Turbo. It was fun just to test everything out. Everything was bone stock down to the air filters.
2012 Dodge ram 1500 4x4- 14.7@93
2011 Porsche Cayenne Turbo- 13.1@107
2011 Mercedes SL63- 12.7@111
06-26-2013, 08:34 AM
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Thanks. And yeah its safe to say this is probably the first project I've actually done the "right" way. It can be a little frustrating sometimes but it will be so nice to actually work on a car and turn black in the process haha.
06-26-2013, 08:39 AM
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Well its been storming this week up in Michigan so we cant push the car out to mess with more body work. So I decided to start assembling some of the motor. I only got the crank in last night, I still have to get a nice piston ring compressor for the shop.
But I used clevite H series bearings, coated all the surfaces with clevite bearing grease, and assembled it with arp main studs.
But I used clevite H series bearings, coated all the surfaces with clevite bearing grease, and assembled it with arp main studs.
06-27-2013, 10:28 AM
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I was too impatient to build my car like this, would have love to though, its looking great, do you still have the r200 diff that came with the 240, i'm still using the factory r200 and i've run out of spares, saving for a 9" swap
