Owner: Richard Desjardins
Location: Moncton, NB
vehicle: 1970 Datsun 240Z
Car Club: Stance East
Horsepower: 250

Richard's dad bought the car in the early 80s. He drove it for seven years and garaged it in 1990. At 14, Richard started working on it, but it was only supposed to be a quick restoration - then they found a nice body kit. The his dad wanted wheels unlike anything else on an import at the time, so they found the Works VS XX wheel - which needed a flared body. So after over 400 hours the car looks like this. They're constantly updating the car, so on year 5, who knows what the next mod will be.

Photos By: Robin Andersen

ENGINE & PERFORMANCE
L28 Stoker with triple two-barrel Solex carburetors
Stoker crankshaft out of a old Maxima
Custom (camshaft 620 lift bored and stoked to 3.1L, over sized valves, serpentine belt setup on a 100 amp alternator)
Ceramic coated two-in. dual headers output and over sized oil pan from Arizona Z-car)
Four core aluminum rad with two electric fans
Russel black/black -6an fuel fitting and fuel linesStainless steel braided gas line
Motor was moved back 1 and 3/8 inch to install a 80s-gen five-speed Mustang GT transmission
Fuel cell was installed in the back spare tire wheel to accommodate a duel exhaust set up

WHEELS, TIRES & BRAKES
Works VS-XX color-matched wheels - 18 x 8.5 -0 (f), 18 x 10.5 -0 (r)
Tires - 225/40 R18 (f), 295/30 R18 (r)
Wilwood brakes - six-piston calipers, 13-in. two-piece rotors (f),  six-piston calipers, two-piece 12-in. rotors (r)
Russell braided brake lines

SUSPENSION
Arizona Z-car (full coil-over kit, all aluminum control arms, custom spindles (f/r))
S13 diff all sported on Arizona z car aluminum custom brackets

EXTERIOR
Full custom body kit from motorsportauto.com
Corvette style front and back side skirts
Shaved emblems, antenna, side markers
Paint (Factory GM color with a custom mix for the silver stripe topped off with multiple layers of hot hues clear coat)
PIAA halo turn signal and a center fog light
Chrome grill, door handles

INTERIOR
Stock dash with Nissan gauges.
Chip Foose signed glove box
Custom (leather door panels with custom remolded leather driver and passenger seats. with new black carpet and leather wrapped center console)
Chrome roll bar
Carbon fiber steering wheel, shift knob
Shortened shifter

AUDIO
All alpine audio
Type R components (5.25-in. (f), 6.5-in (r))
Type S 10-in. shallow subwoofer
Custom box wrapped in black and grey leather
MRP amplifiers (M500 sub amp, MRP-F300 speaker amp)
Alpine CDA-9885 deck