Automotive Design and Fabrication

Here are some samples of some design and fabrication work I've done.

I'm milling a piece of aluminum billet to make an adapter plate.

Here's the finished adapter. This allows me to replace the ugly 2 piece idle housing I had on my Datsun 510.

I designed these hreaders for the V-6 that is in my 510. Each side took about a week to finish, not all bad since it was the first set of headers I ever made. They came out pretty good in the end.

This is a short tubular intake runner designed to adapt a throttle body to an carburetor intake on a Datsun L-18 engine.

These brackets were made to use 300ZX brake calipers and rotors on a 280ZX strut. Solid steel, which made them heavy, but also very robust.

Here you can see the plate I designed to adapt a 300ZX master cylinder to a stock 510.

These are the camber "boxes" I designed. The camber is changed by turning the bolt head, which moves the pivot point up or down. The caster is changed by sliding shims between the box and the crossmember.

This is just a neat doodad I made for the radiator tube. When I went to the 90' Maxima manifold, I lost my radiator cap and collant sensor spaces. I made this to relocate them into the return line.

I had some really nice Covercraft saddle bags, and no way to mount them. So I constructed these nice side racks for my KLR-650. The bags attach via the stainless studs at the top.

I had seen some highway bars for the KLR-650's for sale at around $60. I figured, heck I could do that, so I built my own. They can be ordered for $40.

On an MX-3 transmission swap we were doing, we could not locate the correct transmission mount, as apparently it is an extremely rare part. I just took the old one we had an fabbed' up some new mounting points. Works perfectly.