My friends work in progress (NO 56K!!)

[AkademikONE]

I just wanted to post some pictures of my friend's 240 in progress. Some of you probably have heard of him (Ben Abutin), he owns the show-winning widebody Power Enterprise 350Z TT. He stripped out his interior and put on some aero (I'll ask him later what kind) with the S13 Silvia front conversion. He also has some widebody rear and front fenders. He chose the Gram Light gold as his paint scheme since he's also going to use the Gram Lights as his rims. He's installing a rebuilt KA into it next week. He's throwing on some coilovers, Kouki taillights, and some other goodies all in about 2 weeks. Now onto the pics..





Reason there's no dash is because it's going to be all CF









and here's pics of his 350z





19x13 HRE's 335/25/19

I didn't have a $100 bill, so Jackson was good enough

I'll post more pics as he adds more parts.


Modified by Akademik1 at 11:44 PM 4/7/2005

[sleepyRPS13]

thats a badass z33

[Neejay]

Is he doing all the work himself?

Looks like its gonna be one hell of a car. Whats his plans for the interior?

[AkademikONE]

I'll update with more pics as the car develops.

[sensibleS13driver]

OMFG that Z is beautiful, and the 240 is gonna be badas$ when its done, keep us posted, wow im jealous.

[HKSpeed]

I didn't have a $100 bill, so Franklin was good enough

thats jackson, the 17th president. sorry I was a history major in college

[AkademikONE]

Haha yea, I forgot to edit that. I was thinking of Franklin when I put $100.

[Juujai]

nice dont see gold too much

[biggie]

So all this money and time on the body and putting in a NA KA or is going to be turbo'd? Both cars might look great, but if they're not driven then they are no good.

[AkademikONE]

So all this money and time on the body and putting in a NA KA or is going to be turbo'd? Both cars might look great, but if they're not driven then they are no good.

The 240 is going to be his daily driver. He drives the Z to every car show he attends. He's not one of those people who puts it on a trailer and tows it to shows. He's going to keep it NA for now, but will eventually go turbo.

I'll update next week when I go back to his shop.

[BomexS13]

there's 2 Gold 240's now. Im pretty sure he'll be showing his car..

[GhostDriver]

That Z is a daily driver? It looked like a race car at first glance. The paint scheme is like the one that Falken uses on their race cars. I don't even want to ask how me he spent on the Z because those HREs are worth a pretty penny alone. The s13 looks like it's going to look nice.

[The 240 kid]

What series is that 350Z in? Local SCCA?

[thekage]

lol. The Z reminds me of the love bug for some reason.. awesome work. How nice it would be to just be independently wealthy..

[Neejay]

...How nice it would be to just be independently wealthy..

My thoughts exactly.

[HashiriyaS14]

Yeah, this guy has to be LOADED. That's a $100,000+++ Z33.

That is a NICE car. I like gold cars, the S13 will be sweetn355.

Keep us posted with more pics, and do you have any more pics (interior, engine) of that Z33?

[Eikon]

thats jackson, the 17th president. sorry I was a history major in college

You dumbass! What college did you buy your diploma from?

Andrew Jackson was the 7th president.

Andrew Johnson was the 17th president.

just playin with ya.. I'm sure it was a typo.

[skydragoness]

That Z is a daily driver? It looked like a race car at first glance. The paint scheme is like the one that Falken uses on their race cars. I don't even want to ask how me he spent on the Z because those HREs are worth a pretty penny alone. The s13 looks like it's going to look nice.

No, I don't think he said the Z33 was a daily-driver, he just mentioned how he actually drives it to car shows instead of trailering it like everyone else. Which is nuts btw, because any kind of mild-fender bender has to cost thousands.

[GhostDriver]

Call me crazy but I could have sworn that it said daily driver over the first Z33 pic.

[Dattebayo]

well, youre crazy. and I am not sorry, I like calling you crazy.

I think that all show and no go has to be the sorriest way to be. Belive me, I am halfway there. My sileighty is 4 different colors tough.

[AkademikONE]

He drives the Z to every car show he attends. He's not one of those people who puts it on a trailer and tows it to shows.

The Z is not his daily driver, haha. The 240 is going to be his daily driver. He likes driving his Z to shows to show people that it does get driven and that those twin turbos actually do spool up

I'll also post the dyno numbers he gets when they dyno it soon.

The colors of the Z are the Power Enterprise color scheme. The Falken car colors are a bit lighter than that.

The 240 WILL not be a show car. He's planning on retiring the Z soon since it's won at EVERY show it's been in and he really can't win anymore. He's looking for a TT Supra as his next show car.

It is all show... but it has GO too, believe me

[AkademikONE]

He put on the taillights, headlights, and rims, next up is the coilovers and the interior. I'll update with pics next week.

[PantherRacer]

Sweet...that thing looks like it's gonna be killer

[_neokeoki]

love the paintjob!

[574-240sx]

I will take the Z33 if he will trade me even up for a 89 auto coupe with a bad trans. That Z is dam nice. The 240 looks like its heading in the right direction. I'm not digging the molded bumper. The car looks decent though.

[AkademikONE]

I don't like the molded front too, but to each his own I guess. I'll take more pictures on Monday.

I'll be doing a GB on the same Gram Light 57Pro's he put on his car. I have to redirect you guys to another site if you wanna participate in it since I can't do group buys on NICO. They're going to be at an insanely low price!

[nsrZ32]

Don't like widebody, but the 350 is definately unique.

Definately interested in seeing the 240 hatch done though

[AkademikONE]

Yea, I can't wait to see the final product either.

[Nameless EJ6]

I'm not too famliar with the S15 front end.

I'm not seeing a fender edge here. Is it molded? If so... WHY?

[AkademikONE]

That's actually an S13 front, not an s15. The reason there's no fender edge is because, you guessed it, it's molded. I don't know why he molded it, but i'm not doubting why he did it. He knows how to do things.