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[Brock-Lee]

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Hey boes, I have been a long time reader of all the projects a goin ons on this site so I figured I would share my project.

1982 datsun 1200 ute. I bought it off my grandma for a grand and then realised that I had bought the special lightweight rusty model. So a year later and there is no rust and all that is left to do is a bit of body work and then top coat......(pics up later)

Here is a list of modifacations so far.

Body: shaved lip around tray and cab, Shaved the handle off the tailgate and adapted a hilux catch system to work, shaved fuel filler flap. Goin to be painted red like that glossy as fuck red but a solid colour none of that mettalic shit.

Engine: A15 with a cam and a 28/36 downdraught weber, Which is later goin to be twin sidies and even later ahve plans for a dirrrrty carby turbo setup

Interior: Fixed backs, electric windows (I got bored one rainy day, works mint), Black and grey door cards and shit to come.

I have also custom fitted the front disk setup from an s14 200sx (non turb) with adjustable coilovers to sack her out. and in the back it has a rearranged leaf pack(ghetto stz FTW) and 2 inch block so she tucks haaaard.

For wheels I have some 14x6.5 chrome cragars that look slightly bogan but I am looking at getting some others that are a secret at te mo and If it goes thru they will look fuckin bangin.

Sweet that is about as much as words can describe. photos will be up when I can be bothered.

Chur,
Dave

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And i no order at all some photos of the build.






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Another small update. the tray was beaten to fuck so me and the old man decided to make a completely flat floor by fibreglassing in a sheet of ply.
First the ply was glued down then the edges were glassed in, next step is to finish the glassing and then fair it so it is smooth enough for some ultra super gloss topcoat







chur

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Got a layer of dynil (sp?) cloth resined in and some microballoons+resin+sanding lots = very smooth tray that is going to look fucken schmick

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got diff cleaned up and got a coat of pa10.



also have engine cross member cleand and painted with new bushes and seals, to be put away to keep it purdy.



Got rear drums cleaned up and painted with high temp paint



And places that carry datsun 1200 ex stock in whakatne actually rule my world. brake parts for the win.



Fuck scraping underseal off licks balls hard. It is a cunt of a job and it goes fucken every where

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seedy al has 4age turbo goodness. pah, so what I have rb25det inlet manifold

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Before i went flew back down to chch i started making the hidden fuel filler above

well thats done \/\/ and now i/dad just need to figure away of hingeing the access panel so it is covered.


Dad also got the floor perfect and so that got a coat of primer goodness

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Okay, a no pic update. But have decided to build a draw through turbo setup for my a15.

Decomp a15 pistons, Nismo metal headgasket, custom exhaust manifold, Need to suss out a turbo to use(needs to be carbon sealed), 2" SU carb, Custom inlet manifold, warm cam, slight port/polish, dbl valve springs. And am toying with the idea of a water injection setup to cool intake charge so I can run a bit more boost and kill my engine/gearbox/diff quicker.

Anyone with any ideas/SU carb/suitable turbo, hit me up.

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Hi long time no update ^ dunno what I was smoking there but there is NO-WAY im gonna go carby turbo........Its fuel injection all the way

Had pistons machined, flywheel machined, got new clutch and p/p ( sprung puck clutch and 65% heavier than stock p/p)




Also scored an a15 head that has bigger valves and has failry large port to go with them, double valve springs and a tidied up combustion chamber. just to make it a little bit less responsive down low

Started cleaning a few bolt on ebgine parts up. polished the fuck outta my timing cover. is mostly done but there is still a little bit more to do on it. And i now have 3 finger pads polished off and a few chunks outta my hands from various methods of polishing, some successfull some really not.




Have to wait until the 5th and then my internals get sent away to mr balancer then i can start putting this angry little motor back together.

Mocked the grill up the other day. used to have a plastic ute grill on it but i managed to source a sedan grill and surrounds for it. I think it looks farken aws



Thats all for now

BAI!

EDIT: all the little tabs that can be seen just under the grill are being cut off.

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OHAI

Been fucking around with various things over the past few weeks. My engine internals are being picked up tomorrow and so there should be a lil update this coming weekend with a built bottom end.

Now if anybody has read this you will notice that my original coilover setup was pretty basic and the springs that I had were waaaaay too stiff.

So using chris'(cheater_5) setup as a template I bought a few parts and got into it:

Started with this



These two perpertrators were removed from the situation never to add to uneccessary ride height again


after a bit of weld prep and setup I then treid to remeber how to weld. this was the final result



please dont look too closely at the welds there was full penetration I just think that I am developing early onset parkinsons.

also i will be using these 250lb springs and depending on how the final setup works the keeper springs off the old setup



I also found out that the head that I bought turned out to be a heavily ported GX item. stoked

there was somthing else but i forgot what it was. yuh.

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oh lol. thats what i forgot. The sleeves are being turned up by a mate tomorrow or the next day and im using km-10 lock nuts for spring platforms.



also this is what i based my setup on



cept mines gonna be black. none of this poncy/badass as fuck green shit.

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am gonna wait till i have them in the car before i finally weld them inplace. really dont wanna have to cut and reweld them becasue its too high/low/[NVA2LO]

turbo and injectors and other various shit (cheers QCDATA) is sitting in my bedroom so I can get onto exh mani's etc soon and finish off my intake once the flanges turn up (c/o mark105)

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I bought some rims for it off chris_5.

the orange mk3's in the photo^ should be a sweet addition to the front of it.
Also bought a pair of brand new 175/50 semislicks for silly cheap as well.

Got a sweet woodgrain momo as well looks really similar to nardi stz, unsure if I am gonna run it in the ute yet, but just hoarded it anyways.

My head just got picked up from engine guy. looks fucken sweet. dont have pics though

Have been lokking at widebands and shit to help tune the fucker and have decided to flag the DIY setups on http://www.14point7.com and roll a proper innovate lc-1 setup. will cost me more but will be a bit easier in the long run and at $300 odd they are pretty fucken cheap. Also I am looking at redoing my fucken front fucking coilovers for the fucking third time

I just Wish I hadve thought shit through properly at the start. am currently looking at honda coilovers to run a fulltap setup.

Will update as I do more/wont happen for ages

lame update

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Big ports^

Valves hit pistons so it has to come apart again to get some cutouts machined. guts

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another shit update.

It is pretty close to having some colour thrown at it. Just after a couple of opinions. What colour centres on the mk3's bear in mind that the body will be red, like fucken RED red, and I feel that black centres will look meh.

I fail at cars tbh

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^Can anybody say yuck mexipoke?

Was heaps gutted when I threw the diff under it haha. My shitty little guards will just have to run some narrower rims is all. Angle grinder is getting closer and closer to those rear chassis rails

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^Can anybody say yuck mexipoke?

Was heaps gutted when I threw the diff under it haha. My shitty little guards will just have to run some narrower rims is all. Angle grinder is getting closer and closer to those rear chassis rails as well

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balls

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balls

You cannot make another post so soon after your last.

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balls

You cannot make another post so soon after your last