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Haha yeah just ignore my previous post, see ya'll later!

It's raining, do we go somewhere else? Or postpone?

Can't wait to cruise up to nats in this!

Down for friday morn departure/whenever Bart goes as I'll rolling with him.

Power feed. Motor is a CA18DET. All wiring is done just needed a more permanent solution to the fusable link to the battery no longer being where it originally was.

Yeah there was also a manual reset one like the one jakesae101 posted. Thanks do you think 100A would be the go?

I've relocated my battery to the boot and I'm wondering what to replace the fusable link with. At the moment for my car to actually run I have the two wires twisted together and taped up(not ideal) so was looking at the Narva website and came across something like this. http://www.narva.com.au/products/browse/high-amp-automatic Would that suffice also what sort of amperage would I be needing? Apologise if my question doesn't have enough info.

So keen!

Got my new phone so can take photos again yay! Here's a pic of the drivers door with the central locking motor installed. For the rear doors I'm going to need a much longer arm to mount to that short locking arm on the door will most likely end up mounting the motors vertically and attach to the locking arm. Will hunt around work for some quite small o.d rod. Also spent many hours trying to track down the leak in the heater system. First I attempted to try and remove the whole heater assembly which was proving difficult, I suspected it was the heater tap right at the back but after putting my hand in behind it was bone dry, so after much confusion as to where this leak was coming from I manage to figure out that the core itself was leaking Whipped that out and yup pretty nasty leak on the side, which is weird must've been on it's way out as it never leaked since I first topped the cooling system up... Because I'm a hoarder and don't throw things out I had a spare! Filled that up with water to see if this one was any good seemed legit so chucked in it hooked the heater back up voilà no more leaks! Still need to bleed the cooling system some more temp gets rather high, also my thermo switch for the fan doesn't seem to work and it's brand new! so currently have to run a jumper wire between the two connectors in order for it to work. Any thoughts on why the switch isn't working? Think it's an 85deg switch which I'm pretty sure is the same as the t-stat.

Good score on that head Craig!

Did some work on this today! Even if it was just hooking up the front doors central locking solenoids. Wasn't as hard as I first thought which is why I hadn't done it sooner. Going to have to get creative on the rear doors though, Mr Datsun didn't make 610 rear doors very central locking friendly.... No pics as I lost my good phone just before xmas and I can't find my SD card for my digi cam. Should have replacement phone soon be patient. Also as I was backing her into the garage noticed a big pile of water on the ground drove back out onto the drive to investigate. Could only see water dripping down passenger side chassis rail nothing in the engine bay. Then looked back into the inside of the car and noticed the heater box was leaking...... Will investigate further at some point.

Yay!

Hahahahaha quite possibly!! Have to come round sometime and pine over this/talk shit/get rid of my R30 stuff

Some bogan came round last night and told me this was going to be ready for OSN '14. It better! Let me know if you want any plating etc done. Don't doubt my abilities like you did with Barts death trap last year

Alrighty my holidays are almost over and I still haven't done anything except rev it up when people come round to visit. Bart was over last night and mentioned I should make a list of things I need to do to finish this thing off. So I did! She's a pretty big list... *Make fuel filter bracket *Get new handbrake cables made(mine are pretty rusty and no doubt second hand replacements will be also) *Rebuild rear calipers *Run rear brake lines *Buy and fit new rear C.V boot clamps *Get new rear springs made (1045lbs) *Shorten rear shocks to suit *Finish exhaust system(have my eye on an S13 2.5'' zorst on the tard, also getting a mig welder so might have a go at making my own from that...) *Mount central locking solonoids *Re-fit interior *Mount ECU and relays to kick panel *Get my mate Dan to convert my tach to work with the CA *Get rear crossmember and front struts crack tested then paint and re-install *Buy new rear discs *Install driveshaft hoop - will need some more right angle flat bar as I used some of it for the g-box xmember. Still have the loop part. *Buy my own tyres *Attach front guards and grill permanently. Will also need to address the huge dent in drivers side guard at some point.... *Get speedo calibrated. For the moment I'm using my 4.3 R200 VLSD but have a 4.1 that I want to build as a mechanical LSD at some stage so will have to do this again. *Fix oil leak in diff, just needs the cover removed and threebond used not red rtv.... will do this when rear end comes back out. *Make a panel to conceal fuel tank in boot. *Re-bleed brakes once rear calipers and lines are fitted *Re-fit dash *Mount horns *Fit replacement reverse light switch - one on g-box at the moment has the connectors sheared off was like that when I got it. *May need to shorten speedo cable? *Mount battery box in boot, either get new cables made that reach boot or lengthen existing ones *Get fittings welded onto turbo intake for BOV plumback and exhaust side cam cover fitting - eventually run a catch can. *Plumb BOV into the turbo intake, need 1'' I.D hose. *Plumb wastegate into I.C piping - will most likely need to strip anodising off and weld a fitting onto I.C pipe. No big deal as I can it re-done for freebies! *Do a skid!! *Get wheel alignment *Go for cert a.) pass and have a big party or b.) fail have a cry sort it then still have a big party *Drive the dam thing around after 6+ years and debut at Datsun Nationals Akaroa 2014! If I have missed anything out don't be afraid to mention it.

By burnouts do you mean in the 180? Then no.... need to actually do some work on it although I could prob get some wheels going in the driveway.......

I'll actually be at this one. Promise!

Yeah man got the round gauge SSS cluster in, don't you remember a few years back I got the SSS loom and SSS center console off you

Shit yes!! That dash is looking lush man. Have always been a fan of the JDM SSS dash. I had one of those clusters but is completely shape to the NZ new dash's so could never fit it Keep the updates coming Also don't know if you got round to checking out my adjustable rear end but here are a few pics.

Direct abuse at me to work on this... It runs and kind of drives so there should be no excuse!

Are you offering to help?

Keep the updates coming Bart! Or come over and harass me into working on my car haha

Yeah man got everything made up, check my build thread on here or NZdatsun and you'll see how it came out.

Good to see your still working on this Craig! If I wasn't so far into my CA conversion I'd probably go back to L series too. Are you going to mod the R160 diff mount to fit the R200? I used the Datsport mount for easiness but they ain't cheap!

Keen as for a nosey haven't been in a while!