A Little Background:
My friends and I had been wanting to get ahold of an N600 since we were in our early teens. The small size meant any power upgrades would be extremely effective, and we wanted something that we wouldnt have to dump a TON of money into. I belive it was our junior or senoir year when I took a vacation to North Carolina. On the trip there I was pulled over for having a tailight out. I found a backyard mechanic and pulled in to see if he had one. While he was rumaging through some boxes, I was walking around his backyard, where there were 20+ old cars sitting in tall grass. Thats when I saw it. A beat to hell N600. After the guy found a bulb for me I asked him how much he would want for it. He said $100 cash takes it... So I called my buddies, who promptly drove 7 hours through the night to pick it up.
Since then, weve gotten another one, thought about putting a d16 in it, built a subframe, put a vfr750 motor in it, converted it to RWD, cleaned up the body, made a fiberglass front end, and its mostly been sitting in my friends garage. Fast forward 8 years. Im 25, recently bought a house with a 3 car garage and my friends parents have been trying to get the thing out of thier garage for a while now. He works a full time government job now and has a 65 ford falcon he puts most of his time into. So the project has moved to my house and now I'm determined to have it ready in time for my fiance Sarah and I to drive off into the sunset in after our wedding.
I got a rediculous deal on a wrecked 07 Kawasaki ZZR600 that I figured would fit the bill for a powerplant, and I've been trying to at least devote an hour or two every week to working on it. So thats where we are now.
I hope you all can enjoy following my progress as much as I will enjoy working on i!
My friends and I had been wanting to get ahold of an N600 since we were in our early teens. The small size meant any power upgrades would be extremely effective, and we wanted something that we wouldnt have to dump a TON of money into. I belive it was our junior or senoir year when I took a vacation to North Carolina. On the trip there I was pulled over for having a tailight out. I found a backyard mechanic and pulled in to see if he had one. While he was rumaging through some boxes, I was walking around his backyard, where there were 20+ old cars sitting in tall grass. Thats when I saw it. A beat to hell N600. After the guy found a bulb for me I asked him how much he would want for it. He said $100 cash takes it... So I called my buddies, who promptly drove 7 hours through the night to pick it up.
Since then, weve gotten another one, thought about putting a d16 in it, built a subframe, put a vfr750 motor in it, converted it to RWD, cleaned up the body, made a fiberglass front end, and its mostly been sitting in my friends garage. Fast forward 8 years. Im 25, recently bought a house with a 3 car garage and my friends parents have been trying to get the thing out of thier garage for a while now. He works a full time government job now and has a 65 ford falcon he puts most of his time into. So the project has moved to my house and now I'm determined to have it ready in time for my fiance Sarah and I to drive off into the sunset in after our wedding.
I got a rediculous deal on a wrecked 07 Kawasaki ZZR600 that I figured would fit the bill for a powerplant, and I've been trying to at least devote an hour or two every week to working on it. So thats where we are now.
I hope you all can enjoy following my progress as much as I will enjoy working on i!