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So i got some new wheels for the 120y, so the plan was to chuck the street fins on the van. Buy some tyres off the tard, get 3 sets of wheels stripped and fited up etc (had to swap tyres from fins onto new wheels for 120y, then swap tyres from trademe wheels onto fins for van) Motivation high, chuck wheels on back of van. sliding door wont open past the wheel. Rage quit. Joe, you can have your wheels back, and some free tyres. Pic for thread, jdm parts hauler yo

more welding then used cunning rat technology the worlds nutterest right angle non variable high speed drill combined with much bastardry to hopefuly get the instant center higher up and further forward given the ride height desired but I think now the tide may have turned, with just about all the horrible upside down welding to shitty sheetmetal done and more straightforward and obvious fabrication left anti roll bar tacked in place and prepping to install the coil over mountiing bar. have to box out the rails and make some towers for that to mount it high enough for the desired ride height with the 7" stroke shocks I have

Wow- after a bit of digging about through her old photos my mum finally found some of our old 120y wagon from back in the late 70s/early 80s. What I was after was confirmation that the car for sale on the oldschool classifieds area.... http://oldschool.co.nz/2011/forum/index.php?/topic/49659-fs-datsun-120y-wagon-nelson/ Mum phoned me this morning with good news. Yes!!! it is indeed our old car. Damn this is cool news!!! I have spoken to Dave's (avenger tiger) boss and its still up for grabs so I have said I'll take it away Mum and Dad are very excited about the prospect of getting their old car back. Mum has been talking about getting a Morris Minor Traveller like they had before the Datsun but they are too expensive. Getting their Datsun on the road for them would be awesome. Luckily it sounds like I might be able to get the old original engine back as well. Its currently in a Suzuki 4wd but the owner wants something else to power it. So this will be good if I can secure its original heart. Anyway- I'm so excited. I should be in the workshop right now welding my Viva wagon but I couldn't help but start a thread even though I don't yet have the car. I am under no illusions that it will be an easy resto. It will be rusty like Ive not seen before. But I don't mind that. Hopefully if I need any parts there should be enough bits floating about in NZ on the vibrant datsun nz forum. Another choice thing is that because mum has photos of it with the plates visible hopefully I can apply to reuse the old plates when it come to the re-vinning process. So here are some cool photos. All taken in the late 70s or early 80s. This is up the Westbank road when we used to go visit this mad old farmer/recluse fella. He would hang weird things about in trees if I remember correctly and thats what we are looking at. This is me and my brothers and sister in the boot along with Bella the smelly old Lab and Pipi the cat (who lived to be 19 years old!). I'm the little fella sitting on the back seat on the right in the white collared top. Here's the two family wagons. My Dad was very proud of his Mk4 Zodiac wag that he brought over with him from the UK. It was always giving troubles whilst the Datsun just purred through life. Dad never bought another english car again and we ended up with two more Datsuns after the 120Y. Mum and Dad did buy my first Triumph off me when I left for me 10 year OE and they loved that old car. But that's because Triumphs are bloody awesome too. Finally here is a photo of a Family reunion at Woodend. It was my Mums family and this was the mens beauty contest. The little Hillman Superminx wagon next to the 120y was my cousins and that was a cool car too. I think my cousin Helen ended up crashing it Here it sits in its current condition.. Discuss Here

so much easier to work not lying on the ground in contorted positions

in this update, more rust... Got sick of sanding bog on the fender and sill, so put the front/side down rolled her forwards a bit and jacked up the back. RH side rear wheel has a pool of diff oil on it, so i guess the axle seals are pooped. Oh well more parts for the list. anyway, onto the oxide. I fixed one tiny wee hole behind the gravel plate at the rear of the sill/front of the rear arch, but the rest of the sill was really good. So onto the Left boot well. a BIG cut to start with i cut the lot off as the inner skin is pooped as well, but mainly so i could also access the 'roof' of the inner skin. before i cut any more out i remade the outer skin while i had prlenty of datums this is why it rusts: damp and crud in the boot get trapped between the skins - this side also has three openings all behind the wheel so of course it was full up to the top with 50 years worth of road gunk. - one for the bumper mount (the skins were not spotted together here - helpful as i ca reuse the indent) - one for the petrol flap drain pipe and - one moreanother for the rear lights loom keep on digging corner of the rear bumper/valance was a bit frilly too and start putting bits back in, pretty happy how that square bump lined up, shame about the welds I have also now removed the remains of the old well floor/roof of the inner skin and remade it so the outer iwill have a single skin by extending the floor straight accross to the inside of the outer skin (instead of leaving a small gap to collect shite) so there is one less rust trap. Will also save quite a bit of material and save me from remaking such a complex piece that cant be seen but it needs some grindering first so will fit that up later in the week. hard part will be tacking the skin on without it warping to heck. lucky the bumper will cover most of it Ive saved all the CAD templates for when i get to the other side - its not as bad but may as well get the same treatement when i make it around there.

Built another ae101 as a daily in the past couple of weeks. Back to cheap reliable 4age power for daily driving yay! Keeping this one extremely simple compared to the racecar...

Already done. From the sounds of it, I've snapped up the last two bumper supports available.

This is what happens when you open Pandora's Box. CH-WOP-WOPPPPP. The front bumper support, she is toast. To be honest, I was expecting to see something like this, so it wasn't that big a surprise... front bumper supports on AW11s are hideous water traps, no two ways about it, and I would have been an even bigger idiot if I'd pulled the front apart to fix the crossmember but neglected to check behind the bumper. Again, compare with the one from the previous AW11 - which, as mentioned previously, wasn't all that rusty elsewhere. But at least that satisfies my curiosity, and it shouldn't come back to bite me in the arse further down the track. Guess I'll be getting hold of Mark from Toyota on Monday. Elsewise, the rest of the front is now off, so work can start on the crossmember. Discuss: http://oldschool.co....1-sc-chit-chat/

Well, not quite ready for nats, but good things take time right? On Thursday evening it fired into life for the first time. After lots of fiddling, and a round of fish and chips, we shuffled the E21 onto the dyno at approx 9.15pm. Big thanks to Roskilda autos! Rodney and Ari are great guys who know who to get stuff sorted, and went hard to get me doorting for the weekend! After the first run was worked out properly on a calculator on my phone translating to "old barry horsepower" figures, my face turned to a big notbad.jpg Things only improved from there. I rang the engine builder the next day to tell him the numbers. Pretty sure it's one of the only times I've heard him curse. We were both pretty happy! 152wrhp/190hp at the engine

Who's up for this? Have put my name down and will be taking the zed along. Let's get an OS crew together and make them swooon. Details here: http://www.gentlemansride.com/rides/new+zealand/auckland

couple of interior pics. original as. aftermarket 70's tacho kind of ruins the mint dash, but sweet 8 track player makes and selection of terrible 80's tapes makes up for it! engine bay looks like every other cedric it was sunny last weekend so went for a cruise needs the front right brakes adjusted and thats about it

With the VW finally out of my shed, I've got a bit more room to work. Note the angle of the pipe, that's not right at all! Realizing the Mineralli (I presume) mount is never going to work on my Morini I started making a mock up, angle has sure improved and the massive gap between the bottom of the case and the pipe closed up a lot. It's put the header in a nicer spot too, should be just a case of cutting the head pipe off at the first weld, cutting the flange off, rotating both and welding them up Also thinking I may cut the stinger off the chamber and rotate it a bit to bring the silencer in a bit as it's a fair way out at the moment and I don't exactly have any plastics for it to avoid! Had a go on Sunday at making the new exhaust mount, looking through the steel I've got sitting around the shed I could only find 1mm and thinner sheet or 10mm and 15mm plate. Obviously none of it was going to work, came close to giving it up for the day as there's nowhere open in Gisborne on a Sunday to buy steel, until I spotted a few old saw blades up in the rafters! 3.5mm super duper hard tool steel, fucking cunt to cut or drill! That's where I'd got to yesterday, ran out of drill bits and patience. Today I dropped my tank in to get sealed up, should be done Wednesday at the latest. Finished shaping up the mount bracket, just need to weld on a spacer then paint it. Sits the pipe in a good spot Was very hard to make myself pick up the grinder!But I did Port could use a clean/polish Won't take much to put back together When I'm not trying to hold my phone as well as the pipe I can close that gap right up. Also the Aliexpress goodies are starting to arrive

lets run with the meet then, I'm happy to still do it

Or your kids could hack in via Bluetooth when they think you're driving too slowly.

ONe of us, one of us, one of us, one of us, one of us, one of us........... If there's anything you're needing Alex, sing out. If you upgrade to 13" alloys, there is a very easy brake upgrade which will make it stop like a champ. (Assuming it has disc brake struts?) I have an A15 (if you want?) that you can have for what it owes me. The water soluble nature of datsuns will be no match for your gifts at de-rusting cars. We'll have to find you a factory B120 tacho for it too. Oh yes, we're going to have lots of fun.....................

Please do post photos on this thread of your setup. Yeah I like those above safety designs in a E throttle you mentioned. Plus you could fit a bluetooth dongle thingee to a MS equiped car running a E throttle and using MS droid rev the engine whilst standing away from the car !

I also enjoyed the convo about road boners and school bus drivers with over sized novelty spoons to take care of such business

The more I looked at this the less I liked it. I cut it back off and welded the old pieces back in. Then trimmed the top off. Made a couple of brackets up. Lined up the radiator with the hole in the bonnet, and away we went. I've remounted the alternator to the lower left, I think it's where a P/S or A/C pump might go on a car? Anyway it will give more room to mount a hydraulic pump up where the alternator was. The bottom hose has been altered to point into the front of the chassis, the radiator has had it's inlet and outlet changed to match the Datsun motor and I made a tensioner and dummied up a radiator hose. The alternator sits out a little but no problems. I've found a problem. The hydraulic pump I have, it's designed to rotate anticlockwise and I wanted to turn it in a clockwise direction. Aliexpress have pumps that look like they should do the trick, I'll order one this week.

Im back! Well I was always around but on one night a couple of weeks ago A cold sneaked up behind me, threw a sack over my head and dragged me off to a place where I did not want to do anything but sniff and feel yucky. This was just after having been busy fixing other peoples cars for that money thing. Basically put.. my roll had stopped rolling and this wagon stayed up on blocks. But yesterday I got my rust mojo back and got stuck back in. The wagon has been sharing the workshop for the last few weeks with a cool old Volvo 145, a very bright Saab 95, Bimmer 320 plus Hannahs Trump Mk1 wag. I do like lifting the door to see intersting cars in there Not too much to show because it was all slow repairs around the chassis rails and jacking points which I want to really make sure is nice and solid. I have now just earlier finished the worst of this area with not much to go. I used a combination of 1.6mm steel and a very handy piece of box section that happens to be the correct width and thickness. This has been saving my folder from trying to fold 1.6 too often- it being really only designed to fold up to 1.2mm. Luckily the rust has been along the bottom of the rails where the damp has sat thus leaving the uppers attached to the floor nice and strong. I remade the gearbox mounting brackets and made them semi fixed with an extra bolt rather then the little tabs that Vauxhall had fitted, now rusted away. As I have been working my way along the rails I have sprayed the insides of the new steel with zinc rich paint. Later on it will get a heavy dosing of wax. So the last very interesting photo for this mega update is of the underside sort of almost rot free. I promise I will try to do better next time although I most likely will just take more photos of rust. I am very much looking forward to the mechanical/bodging/fiddling/tweeking updates when I get the car moving and stopping. I have been having many day dreams whilst chilling in the sun under the influence of man flu about what I could do with the engine/what I could swap it with. I still love the absurdity of a grand plan I dream about where I squeeze a BMW V12 with a manual box in place However I usually come back down from cloud nine and mull over more realistic propositions such as a sneaky carb fed turbo, perhaps a Datsun engine or maybe fit fuel injection from another 1200cc car (that last one more for the technical fun in doing so rather than any real benefits it most likely wouldn't really bring) For now though it has to be rust removal.

OH MEAN. So yeah did't get compeltely finished with a few things. I wasn't completely happy with the brakes, exhaust is still buggered. headlamp adjustment was done by me on the shed wall and I thought it was stil way out of whack, and yeah she's got a couple of rotten looking tyres, but the compliance man was happy as a dog with two dicks with the thing and only kicked me out for the exhaust. Took it straight to exhaust shop once the testing station lad rang me, and will hopefully collect it from there mid morning tomorrow and go get a recheck and win at legality. CHOICE

tell me what im doing wrong, or give me pointers on how to do it right, or both!

God damn holden. Cooling sorted, now brake master cylinder and power steering leaking. Why can't you be reliable as mazda rotary ? Don't you know, all I want to do is listen to you idle at red lights and do sly skids at green ones.

Karl and I have talking about doing a vintage gaming day, I'd be keen to set it up at mine as a meet in the next couple months

it was, now its been raining for 3 months its all fucking mud Got some wood to line the wall from the plyguy. was pretty cheap. mostly cosmetic seconds. done about 75% of this end. Just need another stud to attach it to, and wire up the switchboard. and find my motorvation. i left it out in the rain somewhere? also partially built some shelves. it was easy cos the wall was half my shelves already built. couple lengths of 4x2 and some other random offcuts, plus some more seconds ply to line them. They are 700mm apart so im thinking of making some levels in between the current ones starting to fill up...

*******WARNING******* This post contains coarse language Despite all consuming thoughts I've been having to burn this shit heap thing to the ground I've been making some progress. The last two months have had thier up n downs with this. Not long after my last post i decided to pull the pin on this 1g and bought another low kms one off a member and another gc brought it up here from duniden. CBF touching it / wasting time / spending more money on another 1g i decided to just leave it and chuck it straight in as is. In it goes. now is about the time i realise there are a few subtle differences between the 1ge and 1geu. like this; and this; and some plugs and the oxygen sensors etc also i discover this. Whatever, thats fine :/ Now with that shit all sorted and everything plumbed up etc ..... its time to fire it up again right? wrong. Some scumy fuck has stolen my petrol. Again!!! Whatever, got more petrol the next day and fire it up. It ran good for a minute or so then starts missing really bad and wont idle, i can hold about 5k revs on it and it sounds ok. So i take it around the block to blow it out and it dies and wont start again After looking around for a problem i discover the back of the oil cap has gone all milky looking. WTF No. Not this shit again. The curse of the 1g Threw my toys, pack shit up and give up for the day. Under closer inspection the oil seems to smell a lot like petrol. Hmmm?? As it turns out, lots of fuel in your oil makes it look a lot like it does when there is water in it! who knew..... not me. So why the hell is it putting so dam much fuel into the engine??? I then discover the fuel return line is completely blocked and the pressure is getting so great that there is fuel squirting out past the hose clamps on the rubber lines. AH HA, that will be the cause of the issue! NOPE! did not fix the problem. Different oxygen sensors? nope The coils are different. is it the coils? nah! I checked the resistance of the 1ge injectors and they are slightly different to the other 1geu ones. So i changed them over aaaaaand it made no difference. God dam it! What else? a bung temp sensor? swapped and tested all the temp sensors. Not that! Removed and checked the cold start injector. That is fine. That only leaves two things, the ECU or the airflow meter. Now i have no way of testing either of these so i give up for a couple weeks. Which brings us to today. I took the AFM off to take and compare to my 1ggeu one and maybe try that in there. That's when i realize that the fucking flap inside it is stuck at about 3/4 of the way open! Well that will sure as hell cause a shit load of fuel to be injected unnecessarily won't it!! Nasty Its now that i realize there was possibly not much wrong with the last engine i just took out, and the fact that the compression tested good amplifies the fact that it was just doing the same dam thing this has been doing. Anyway! i put the afm back together after I regreased the rusty bearing and gave it a good clean up. Start it up and WOOOOOOO success!! it idles and revs smoothly. Finally! So i take it for a hoon around the block and it dies. Out of fuel. Who the fuck is stealing my petrol!! I feel actually feel sorry for people who are scummy enough to have to steal peoples fuel. The price of meth must be going up or something. So with all that behind me i can now make some dam progress!

I cant be fucked reading all the discussion Whats going on in here?

Figure out the lock issue? hitting Headlight buckets?

aagain I feel your pain

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/4-hole-mounting-type-max-250bar-working-pressure-hydraulic-gear-pump-HGP-1A-F8R-with1800rpm-rated/1691104933.html

Yep so you wire in the knock sensor as an input to laptop with headphone jack. Use the laptops amplifieer in the sound card to output it to headphones. Then works sweet.

Do I dare ask what they set you back? I've got one spare mint one, was thinking of getting it galvanised haha

Working threw little gremlins atm while I wait on some suspension and hub parts to roll in Swopping booster and hilux cylinder over too. Old one had leaked, pealing the paint underneath it. Seems to be a common thing in these Sanded it back and painted it, it's a couple shades off so hopefully no WOF guys get funny about it Long ass acsel cable Hanging on by a thread Finley found it fun too Started on the drivers chair too, will make sure to do a good write up on that

so apparently the DGR Ride is on this Sunday. should we just can the meet for this month and do a BBQ next month?

If it's any help i had an A14 in a car certed for 12 and nobody noticed.

I sure hope so! They were "low on stock" when I bought one back in 2011.

maybe add some ducting from the cooler up to bumper. air is probably taking the easiest route, around oil cooler.

150 dorts at the rubber? Fuu aye, I bet that's fun! Run in and then some wailing on it or 'drive it as you hope to' run in spec? With some typical sparkle nana driving that thing will have glazed bores in no time!

Dyno plots, one in 3rd, one in 4th

Thats pretty rad to find a vehicle your olds once owned! we have a similar story in my family, the old man saw a chev corvair on TM that brought back memories of the one my grandfather had when they first moved out, he somehow tracked it down and even better managed to buy it! here it is tucked away waiting on hefty rust repairs but the effort for that history will make it worthwhile. I must show him this thread for motivation!

Painting going on and sissy sticks coated.

DGR LYFE (thanks to my photographer www.stephenfield.co.nz )

UJ sounds more ape than monkey tbh

and also sorted out the bonnet.

Personally I would go unboosted brakes like that white one I posted the pic of, fuck with the pedal box, and get the pedal ratios and mc sizes right, add a balance bar and profit. But I can see that for sprak, getting a smaller booster is the best option hahaha

Progress, I should really charge my proper camera instead of using phone photos.

That is not a permanent coating for bare steel IMO. shit just peels off.

Not a good enough excuse. Sell the child. Even a sick child has to be worth at least a pod filter and a couple of Eagers.

So Beave and I were yarning about sweet old seats. An 1980s era Autosport seat came up for grabs in Welly, so Beave grabbed it to give it a go. He wasn't so much of a fan/bit of a mission for his interior so he offered for me. Have always digged these seats, and by golly it's comfy. Had some choice dudes help me make up some mounts, and looks pretty lush in there tbh. Have got the standard seat sitting in the datsun cab, so can biff it in if I decide to change back at any point. Managed to finally pick up a 2 litre/convince a contact of mine to sell me one of his. Pretty lucky as it's out of a 4 cylinder E21 320, which was only made for a couple years, and they're pretty rare here. Mounts up different to the 2 litre from the 2002, and has electric ignition/apparently a good head. Only downside is these motors have super dumb standard compression. I think somewhere around 8.3:1. Tempted to change the oil/get rid of the yuck carb and biff it in, but in reality I would really like to get porting/rob cam/sidies/bottom end refresh before it goes in. Could likely use 2002tii pistons which are 10.5:1 to get it up. Stayed at Maria and Daves the other night, and pilfered this off Dave in the morning. Need some sidies/bright orange trumpets a la Alpina steez