Project Datsun Supercharge

[brapboys503]

I got me a 1970 Datsun pl521 pickup. Can't wait to make it a beast.

[CelicaGtN2O]

Wow dude!!!! I had troubles breathing specially during the surging!!! Your exhaust is scary!!! Fantastic job dude! Now if you had one video of it on the strip :)

[turner593]

great video and awesome job on your car thanks for posting it .

[se7en1976]

You wanted it to run 8.9 in street trim before you built it? WHAT A PREMONITION.. YOU ARE A TRUE PROFIT... (or did you just make that shit up after?)

[DaveTheyCallme]

Man, hats off to you for a great slideshow . You sure transformed that beast into a beast on steriods. Have you got a video of it at the strip completed as shown ? Would love to see it run. Let me know. Thanks.

[bzsiros]

my favorite sound in the world is at 9:00

[zredbaron240]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video of your project! BAD ASS.

[UsedUpDope247]

lmao... The ear bud is tickling my ear with the sound of that BEAST!

[SuperBadWOG]

Great car and fantastic experince you have had, but can you tell me where you bought the airscoop ontop of the blower from? and would it fit an single carb set up or is it made for roots superchargers?

[watchthisrobotmove]

SEE NOW ALL AMERICANS DONT BUY AMERICAN>> fact from this video..domestic heart in an import body. great job man.. japanese imports are by far the most compatible with power and other projects unbeknownst to men IMHO

[Smacdoug1]

NICE CAR, im geting a datsun 180z 1975 for my first car too, yay im so excited, i love the car, its my baby, but yours, now that is a CAR lol cool sh^t man

[Jester4point0]

I raced a sedan one night that surged so bad it would chirp the back wheels when he would try and park up. Needless to say I shouldnt have raced him, it ran a 9.70 with street tires and I ran 10.10. I was impressed, everything was under hood.

[snobmxman101]

i wanna put that engine in to my dads 71 chev c10!

[theleakytaps]

whats with all the nice datsun being ruined with idiot chev v8s?? there a datsun not a fucking chev go get some chev or holden car to bloody ruin dickhead

[drizzetsrevenge]

@theleakytaps Whats with the idiots bashing those with a different taste? Datsuns didn't have a V8 and he wanted one. Shut the fuck up and keep your idiotic opinion to yourself.

[ramittwice]

how many core is that rad like 8

[randomblame1]

wait a minute - your wife let you do this?

[randomblame1]

this makes me wish I wasn't married...

[halusions]

Your car is completely ridiculous! It looks like one of my Hotwheels from the eighties with that HUGE blower jumping out of the hood! WOW! I like it!

[Smacdoug1]

@halusions hahaha i think it is ugly in my view, i just dnt flow good with a fuckin dinosour stinking out of da hood lol how dus he see around it???? lol i like the small hood scoops perferably....=)

[xXEngel13Xx]

That belt seems a bit loose...

[BARCDAEH]

Why did you waste all the money on that? you could just put that on an actual car thats supposed to b e a musscle car... what a shame....

[theleakytaps]

@BARCDAEH its cause he cant drive around corners so he made it in to a drag car and ruined a nice car like nearly every idiot with an old car

[z06camaro]

Don't forget the EGR :)

[elfiera09]

dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm man...NICE VIDEO AND SUPER NICE CAR...how much hp this car have??? like 1000 somethin right

[BIGDUMMY71]

very bitchen video

[07350zhr]

my dad was gonna helpme do this to a nissan but i thought to myself chevy motor in a nissan? NO

[drauglintuor]

You're a smart kid.. you can still go V8 and keep it 100% Nissan though if you want, just use the VH45DE. Peace.

[07350zhr]

@drauglintuor i got a 350z now i love i would have probley got like a rb26 or somethin but i didnt really have the money to put in to it i like the older ones too though

[theyakuzadude]

lol , whats wrong with usin a american engine on a japanese car?

[MonteLSV6]

I think its kinda weird that people that have a foreign race car, usually have an American made engine that's built or blown or boosted. lol what does that tell you

[innie721]

it tells me that the owner is american :)

look up RIPSNZ...

[MonteLSV6]

Did you mean "The Mystical Red Devil Z"?

[innie721]

just looked it up, yeah its the same car im talking about but RIPS never gave it that name lol.

[MonteLSV6]

lol oh ok, why did they take the skyline motor out?

[innie721]

its half of a skyline motor, its a hybrid of a skyline motor (RB26 head) and a RB30 bottom end, makes it DOHC and im pretty sure they went with the 3L for more bottom end torque

[MonteLSV6]

@innie721 but why did they swap it out with a 502ci?

[innie721]

oh in this video? i dunno? owner preference? i would've went with an RB :)

[MonteLSV6]

lol from the sound of it, me too :)

[edanneberg]

Absolutely WICKED!!! Just loved the build vid portion. Gotta love POWER - even if it's over the fricken' top!!!

[freerideking06]

this is awesome! great work man, that must've taken a lot of effort, nice job!

[SolidSnacks92]

Chevrolet and Nissan together in perfect harmony that is beautiful i wonder can u still drive it on the street anymore lol

[1yellowcow]

Nice set up. What was the output on the dyno?

[zavatone]

Wonderfully insane.

[240zguy240]

yep im pretty sure i jizzed in my pants a little there... beautiful man...i have always loved how much room the engine bay in those 240s had...its almost as if those guys over in japan wanted guys like you do do this kind of stuff:)

[GodDamnthissuckx]

oh my dear sweet jebus, this is so god damn ridiculous in all the right ways my friend, amazing fabrication work on the intake and that radiator, out fucking standing man, im blown away, i knew they had room and a large engine bay but this is pushing my limits of knowing what it can take, sweet!!

[alexana107]

No A/C?..Why?

(My soul for that idle)

[knt3119]

What's the horsepower on this?

[younitehumanity]

Hell Yeah!

[redoctober2008]

Like gettin' all dressed up for Prom and only getting a kiss at the door!!

Where is the 1/4 footage? Where are the launch shots??

Gave you 2 Stars because of that.

[turbohusque]

Holy fuckbiscuits. I thought putting a supercharged Series II 3800 in my '85 300ZX was insane. I feel normal now!!

Good god I don't even want to know how much this cost. :)

[mrZdude]

Why the hell would you put a supercharged series 2 heavy as fuck GM pushrod v6 in your '85 300ZX? Why not the SOHC turbo 3.0L V6 thats lighter, and makes almost as much hp and more torque at less boost, and can make 250+whp and over 300ft lbs of torque on the stock turbo and fuel system?

[rennocsk8er]

You think thats a 300zx? your a fucking retarded dick whisle

[mrZdude]

No douchebag, read the rest of the comments before you post.

[adoblayeva]

because its his car bro..

[turbohusque]

@mrZdude

Several reasons. The 3800 is bulletproof. It's made the Wards Best Engine top 5 three years in a row. It's easy to work on, makes metric buttloads of power, consistantly. No turbo nonsense, no intercooler, no extra heat, plus 30+ miles to the gallon.

And lastly....no one has ever done it before. :)

[mrZdude]

@turbohusque LOLOLOL. the supercharged 3800 is FAR from bulletproof. We've gone through atleast 4 series 2 3800s in a Supercharged SSEi Bonneville. It keeps breaking rods.

I'd go with a Nissan VQ series engine first, the VQ35. 300hp NA is hard to beat, boost it (supercharged, stillen roots type) and you're worlds ahead of the crappy 3800. Not to mention the VQ was on wards best list from 1995-2009.

[alloyvistaeatswafer]

the idle makes me jizzzzzzz

[weaver2109]

That right there is a true Ratsun if I ever saw one!

Looks like a lot of work, but it sounds like it paid off.

[mrtegu]

I'm also glad you had 40K to drop on it xD

[mrtegu]

hahahahaha I like how enormous that radiator is

[mrtegu]

Are you fucking kidding me?!!? That is rediculesly awesome

[DANTHETUBEMAN]

you can do anything with a z!!!!

[toms72chevy]

damn i really wanted to see this thing do a run. i watched the video, and after cleaning up the slobber off the keyboard, i was kinda pissed.

[piecartbox]

I gotta look into the rear end setup! I hope its on your site!

[ratsun516]

You can check out my website at

ratzun dot, You know the rest.

[ratsun516]

Thanks guys for the compliments!!

And yes it is very street legal. I drive it quite often. It is driven to the track every time I go as well.

[blabbershnitz]

is that street legal?

[twoeightythreez]

love the pic of the bbc in the back of the D-21....what a beast!

[clubby1234]

i want it SO bad, ive always wanted a 240z and this video defines exactly what i want to do with it

[redbull280z]

that is the best thing anyone has ever done........ ever.

[Tehsnook]

jesus thats a beast

[ziggassedup]

that should do a good skid...

[byunique]

nice! would have been nice to see how the structure improvements were made, and of course the 1/4 mile after the improvement!

[rogueorange]

y is it surging like that on idle

[ratsun516]

I am finding that that surging at idle is sometimes common with Roots style blowers. If you set them up a little too rich at idle they will do that. It becomes even more pronounced if I speed the blower up. After spending several hours of experimenting I have achieved an Idle that has very little surge for street driving, but so far my track tune up still has a little more surge than I would like. I am still trying different things to try and minimize the surge and still respond well.

[bzsiros]

@ratsun516 the surging is my favorite part of blowers

[redmight93]

nasty stroke

[redmight93]

that is insane!

[gunner112]

quite possible the most insane datsun of all time, they should have come factory tuned like that

shopping would never have been the same

[two40]

tidy engine. how are the tops of the a and b frames holding up? any cracks yet?

[mrbill672]

nice job on the z, thing is crazy

[RIPSNZ]

Had to watch your vid again :-)

My 240 is being stripped over winter, a few changes to be made and a general tidy up, you must be just sbout ready to go again now? Keep me posted and best of luck!! 8.71 to beat, lol

[eulluisgtr34]

i never seen a radiator that big before..

[joekz1000]

your not in kansas anymore lets see it run wear yer seatbelt good luck

[Zedman260]

Probably one of the best tubbed, blown zeds on the net...well done! I think they use those same radiators on diesel loco's? heheh

[raulgotbeat]

hey i curently own a 240sx but i want a datsun for a project car so i can build it... how much do u think i can get one for running???? thanks for any help anyone can give me....

[ratsun516]

I just sold a 78 280z running for 1500 a month or so ago. It was in primer and needed some rust repair but not too bad.

[SierraKilo9]

BRAVO!! I'm running a 302W in my '73 240Z and have been toying with the idea of a blower for a few years now. Awesome to see the actual product of those thoughts. Well done, an instant favorite!!

[ratsun516]

Thank you...looking forward to getting to the track again.

[ganadaria]

Nice car

[ratsun516]

Thank you...Thank you.

[RIPSNZ]

AWESOME!!! I presume she stays cool now?

I can relate to all the long hours of work you have put in, good luck and keep us posted with progress at the strip, I'll be heading back to the strip shortly with the Datsun/nissan sister car on this side of the world.

[ratsun516]

Yes... It's much better now. Just waiting for the weather to break here in the midwest. I am itching to get it back out on the street.

[radarak47]

I'm from Oz and I know of only one person who has done a similar conversion. Chev 350 in a datsun 260Z. His was street registered and NA it ran low 10's. He is using the same motor now rebuilt with twin turbos in a HJ Ute fully tubbed etc. I would be interested to know if you got your 8.9 ET. Awsome build mate, I take my hat off to you.

[ratsun516]

Thank you....350's are a nice fit it the old Z's.