RUNAMUCK

to dereg a vehicle the postshop/nzta agant will record your liscence number on the form. The best bet would be to steal the plates off the car. Then they'd have to put it in their name to get new plates for it.

Or torch the fucker.

yeah fuck them, burn it.

+ Bart is going to come moleste you now

Greetings. I'm Bart, Chairman of the NZ datsun club inc.

FJ's are the shit! Was this the datto on tardme a little while ago? I know a rooster who has some live plates for one of these. You should put it on the road, and join the epic madness that is the NZDatsun club.

www.nzdatsun.com. Most of us are in the greater CHCH area too.

same as the dirty old vals.

The ozzie boys love the 31(?) spline skyline stuff. But it's quite uncommon here..........

God made rotors to keep folk like you out of datsuns!

Shit boe, Id say it was lucky that tree was there! I've been upside down in a river before, and you totally lose your bearings. Plus the water is cold. Plus doors dont open when the roof is on the riverbed.

reckon she's fixable?

you can run one legally, but you will need a motorsport authaurity card to get a wof. This requires a motorsport logbook. So if you're not using your car on a track, you

re gonna need a cable one too........

of the same flavour of diff you can yes.

what the fuck Liam, have you been smoking crack?

You hocked off you toyota to buy this thing? I might be an old cunt (read probably am) but when I was your age cars like this were usually seen on their roofs at the wiamak burned out.

FFS, Buy a datsun and join the cool kids!

while we are on this topis , i need poeple who have pulled apart de and det's to tell me if the de's have oil squirters because i have come acroos some rather conflicting info the the net re the squirters and the crank gridle .

Some of the later DE motors did have gridles. I bought a Ca18det in bits for a box of woodies that had had the girdle given away to a guy with an early det that had none. Then I got the girdle from a late DE.

The blocks are the same casting, unlike the fail-tastic SR20's.

Well according to those pictures its a w50 then

WOW! I was right!

What do I win?

looks a bit like a W50 to me. but I know fuck all about toyota gearboxes. I have a pair of W50's in the shed but I cant remember if they look like that...........

get this beast legal, and bring it to the NZdatsun.com Akaroa crusie Micheal!

You could buy a whole C20 van for $500!

You'd have to start with a 4 spd box, but if you comb tardme/the datsun forums, (www.nzdatsun.com) you should be able to find something. Yes I'm bias as hell, but OS jap motors compared to OS pommy motors is like comparing the olympic games to the special olympics.

Good call KK, I forgot all about the whole sump thing. 510wgn's father in law (Ross the GC) has a dirty old cherry (Or had?) so I should have rememebered that.

That being the case, you could try to see if the cherry bits would clear on an A14, or else just strap a T2 turbo on it.

Why not be different? Chuck in a nissan A15, and then super/turbo charge it. The A15 is a near indestrucable motor, cheap light, and readliy available. It'd probably weigh less than the hunter motor, so the car would be better to drive right from the get go. No distrespect to the 1725 fiends, but english motors were designed and built in pre war factories with dirt floors. So I'd say repower it, then modify it. You'd be able to get enough bits for the conversion for $500.

edit, I have a drawthrough supercharged A15 in my datsun 1200. Made 124hp and It's run a 14.1@96mph on 10psi. Torque is FTMFW!

It's not even that hard to supercharge these motors.

Hard on the pocket perhaps. (or the sanity maybe!) Turbo-ing would be way easier.

The motor from the sunny may be a tiny bit different in the mount department, but an A15 wont be hard to fit. If you'd like some ideas about making an A series go hard, try www.datsun1200.com.

But a brief over veiw would be a lumpy cam, shaved head, (oval port from an A15, but you should be using an A15 anyway) Dual valves springs (Kelford Camtech can supply these) And headers. (you might have to make these, I don't know that off the shelf headers exist in nz for the FWD A series) And either a pair of 40mm delorto's or just a 32/36 webber. It all been done before though. It's not even that hard to turbo these motors.

The A series motor respond well to being souped up. So just give that few mods and enjoy.

Tell him to register at www.nzdatsun.com. There are lots of datto fiends in CHCH, and we hold regular meets. More datto's are always welcome.

AFAIK, salsbery referes to the back cover only comes off the diff. Whereas banjo refers to the whole head comes out of the housing. That might be bullshit though, so don't take it as gospel.

What size are the dowel holes where the kingpin dowels go through the spring pads? Vals have quite small holes, and falcons used a much larger one. (We used to make up bushes to make the falcon ones work in a val)

Also, how many spline are the axles? If it has a high spline count, you might be onto a winner!

what ratio was it?

it's been and gone, but there is a meet on later this month. Yeah, you need a wof and reg, or you need to get a tech inspector to inspect your car. Then you get a log book, and you can race without wof and rego.

Talk to the NZDRA or the NBDRC to find out who a tech inspector near you is.

That would be epic!

Good work posting that one up mate. I usually hear about these types of events after they've been and gone. Not sure if my car will be ready by then, but it might be something to aim for....................

Sucks that NZDRA licenses aren't applicable. $100 is a lot of money for one run! Do you get a radar reading of your top speed?