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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Build Diaries => Topic started by: Rex Schimmer on July 23, 2008, 11:17:36 PM

Title: New fabricator in town:
Post by: Rex Schimmer on July 23, 2008, 11:17:36 PM
OK everyone I know that this is big time "off topic" but I just had to show some of the fab work that my youngest son, Duke, is doing on his Datsun 510!! He is swapping a late model Nissan 240 ZX engine into his 72 510 and he fabbed his own headers and intake manifold. These are the first headers he has ever made and they are nice! The intake manifold will fit a pair of 45 mm Mikuni side draft carbs to the engine. The engine and trans mounts are also very neat.

Sorry for this not being a "Landspeed" subject but Duke and I are working on the ideas for a small I or K class lakester, probably start next year and I am really depending on Duke for lots of fab help.
Title: Re: New fabricator in town:
Post by: Rex Schimmer on July 23, 2008, 11:19:21 PM
This is the intake manifold.

Rex
Title: Re: New fabricator in town:
Post by: Sumner on July 23, 2008, 11:26:11 PM
.............These are the first headers he has ever made and they are nice! The intake manifold will fit a pair of 45 mm Mikuni side draft carbs to the engine. The engine and trans mounts are also very neat..............

He did a good job.  I've never made headers yet myself.


.........................I am really depending on Duke for lots of fab help.

What's wrong, getting old, tired, lazy or all of the above.  That will be neat I wish I could have worked along side my dad on a project like what you have planned.

4 weeks from today we should have already been talking on the salt.

c ya there,

Sum
Title: Re: New fabricator in town:
Post by: maguromic on July 23, 2008, 11:40:07 PM
Rex, looks like a chip of the block!!!  8-)
Title: Re: New fabricator in town:
Post by: Peter Jack on July 24, 2008, 12:01:31 AM
Keep a tight rein on him Rex. Someone's liable to try and make him a better offer! :-D

Pete
Title: Re: New fabricator in town:
Post by: Freud on July 24, 2008, 12:17:04 AM
Who says that it's all OLD MEN  in this game?

'taint true.

Dad will have Duke involved before long.

Congratulations, DUKE and Rex.

FREUD