Royalworks 77 280 Z widebody
 

This is a project we have going on the side currently, it is going to be a completely custom car. It is a 77 280 z datsun that plans are, getting the whole body widened 5 inches, flush mounted glass, custom quarter glass made, delete bumpers, extend tail pain, make our own body lines in the tail pan, custom rear lights, custom cowl hood, corvette style door handles, and im sure more

the start of the cutting and widening each side out 2.5 inches.

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this is to give us an idea where/how everything will sit so we can start adjusting the panels and do more cutting and moving

This looks like a fun one to watch :thumbsup:

Great project! Good to see people thinking outside the box, these little cars have so much potential!

Very cool!

How do you plan to widen the door frames? I was thinking you might use a second set of doors?

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

that car is going to look like a Ferrari. Always though these cars were too narrow to begin with. Nice work so far, looking forward to more pictures.

Very excited to watch this build progress. Should be awesome!

Different, cool.

You may need to relocate the door hinges outward the same amount that you widened the doors. The arc that the door needs to swing (if you don't move the hinges) might be too great for the door-to-fender clearance. Let us know how it works out!

Looks like a fun project. Keep the pic coming!


--Eric

This should be a great build. Do you have a rendering that you are going to follow?

As far as the hinges go I won't need to move them. I just cut the door shell before the hinges. It does go in father since the distance is greater for the skin to swing in. The only part it hits is the fender brace that also acts as the dust shield. Cut that out and make a new one. Problem solved. Widening a car this way also makes the car longer. I have a lot of different ideas I want. I showed them to Ben Hermance a while ago. When I get the body closer I'll have a rendering done with all the details. I've worked with Ben quite a bit. I have also worked with Sean Smith once.

Johnny