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Polishing mk2 = Its all about the elbow grease. I can only handle about an hour + 1/2 before the tips of my fingers get fucked and I start feeling sick from dust (yes thats with a mask too!) Have not even started the actual polishing yet, the better the prep, the better the result. And got my powder coated parts back today! Look better than I thought they would. With nolathane bushes in; Just taken my steering box into Mosrax to get it refurbished, then it can all start going back together

For those not familiar with the "GX" here are some pics, spot the differences! And I am gonna do the red stripes

Yeah gonna do de stripes, and it was Mike Picketts 125. Had a worked 125T motor with sidies etc. Man we gave him so much shit about it being a Lada. Was real tidy though. The mustard coupe I talk of was Tim Inwoods. He has had some REAL tidy 1600s since then including a FJ20 turbz one. Yeah the A15 is worked as it says in the post. Larger pistons, higher comp, shaved, ported, lumpy, double springs, sidies etc.....

Feel free to give comments / feedback........

Then I had the engine bay re-painted (only thing holding her back, body wise; Here are a few pics of the engine bay done (its dusty now though damn it!); My crossmember, arms, engine mounts, swaybar are all being powder coated this week. Have all new Nolathane bushes for front end. Yesterday I spent 3 + 1/2 Hours de-flooding my garage after some torrential rain last week! (12 buckets of water removed yall!) Man I was fucked off, a lot of stuff in boxes and boxes got soaked. Spent ages moving and sorting and hence is still untidy in above pics. Have started polishing and modding some bits. Removed the Mitsubishi symbol from rear of alternator, and casting numbers from front cover. (will keep updating with progress) Til next time.............................

Seats bolted in, mock up the dash and it fits sweet (so it should) Its a Japanese JDM Sunny GX dash too, another rare item. Never seen another in NZ The "GX" was the top of the line 1200 Sunny in Japan. It had the fancy bonnet (as pictured), different dash (as pictured) different badges which I am working on getting and a better head with larger ports and twin carbs. The later model ones came with 5 speed gearboxes too. I hope to have mine up to GX spec. I only know of one real GX Coupe in NZ, and I know the owner well Then I lowered it with springs and leaves from Japan (bear in mind no motor in at this point) Lowered it about 70mm The motor I have is an A15, bored to 80mm, larger flat top pistons, lumpy cam, ported head (not head shown) , double valve springs, 40mm Dellortos blah blah..... These pics are after I just stripped and repainted the block. Stupid repco only sells one type of blue - Ford! (oh well close enough to Nissan blue) HIJACKED BY THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE!!!

BLING BLING!! And who knows what this is????? MUWAHAHAHAHHA Thanks to the Mystery Man.... Its a rear as FUCK; GX Bonnet But some clown has put a large skim of bog over almost the entire thing? And in vain, as there is no rust and only a few really minor dents????? And no the scoop is not made of bog, shes all tin.

Hey All, bout time I posted my coupe up in this piece I always loved the 1200, had a mate back in the day who had a mustard coupe with a worked A12. It was quick! And gave another mates worked 1600 twin cam Fiat 125 regular hidings! Probably has a lot to do with the weight, not too many cars lighter that this puppy which tips the scales barely over 700kg 1972 Datsun 1200 Coupe. Another sweet thing about these is the interchangibility from other Datsuns. It will be running; A15 (From Sunny) 60A 5-speed box (from Sunny) H165 diff (from 1200 Ute - bigger diff that can handle SR20DET) 1200 Ute crossmember (so A15 will bolt straight in) B310 Sunny bottom arms (bolt in more neg camber) B210 120Y swaybar (20mm instead of standard 17mm straight bolt in) B310 Sunny castor rods (more castor adjustment) 280ZX struts and brakes (shorter than standard, same dimensions less offset and they pull up 2.8 litre turbos dont they?) B310 Sunny modified 5 core radiator C20 Nissan Caravan Internally regulated Alternator E15 Pulsar electronic distributor just to name a few things....... Here it is when I first got her; (I am second owner) Original tool kit, all tools embossed with Nissan..... Without wheels... Wheels with new Advan A048 (same as Cheater 5 ) With new wheels, but too much glare with garage door open. So will take better ones on a crappier day with less sun (WHAT did I just say that??)

Old Palmy styles ay, not long before we all return to our rootes! Just think 12 years ago we started this shit in the same sort of cars we now own, driving round and round the square...... I have moved up from 12 years ago though, back then it was an orange Hillman Hunter, these days its a DATSUN! WIKID car men, its seriously mint. When my datto is going I will have to come back to palmy and we will have to go for a cruise for nostalgic purposes.....

hmmm, I went into a VTNZ just a matter of days ago. I purchased a junker I was parting out that I paid for about a month ago. I got a letter from LTSA last week "reminding" me to change the ownership (as the seller had filled out the seller/disposer card). Since I was parting it out away I went with the plates and $9.20 I filled out the deregister form first, which the lady at the desk entered. I then went to hand her the change of ownership and $9.20 and she said "Why would you want to change the ownership? I have just deregistered it, keep your $9.20." WTF?!?!? I was thinking?!?!?! I had just deregistered a car that was not even in my name......? Was it because he had filled out the disposers card first?

That ute is gonna be tiiiiight. They handle mean too. I used to have the Mag and Turbo Wellington one as a company car. It had a worked A15 and handled like a friggin go cart. Nice brakes, how do they effect the offset? Still got the design at the engineers? I gots a 1200 coupe that I want to upgrade the brakes without effecting the offset too much. Check it out on http://www.datsun.co.nz PM if ya can chat about ya brakes.

No way, Bevan at Mag and Turbo Lower Hutt is the best, they have a top end machine with a plastic head which will not damage your rim in any way/shape/form. Add to that he has been doing it for YEARS and he smokes all the other 1 year experience monkeys in town.

They look more like JDM styles with DISH. No JDM car have I ever seen has had modgies. JDM does not equal modgies Go SSR or WORK

Those aint modgees, do not spoil it, go JDM DISSSSSSSSSSSHHHH!!!! SSRs etc..... OR Else sell to me.... [/b]

Gunmetal grey like this one , FOR SHEEZY Or just sell it to me

DANG that looks awesome!!! DO NOT rotorise it, keep it OG

Nah mine is much darker than that. (Nice wag BTW!!) Its good to be able to post on here without dickhead little comments like on RotaHavik. Good to see a real mix of cars too! My favs are Datsun 1200s and Mk1/2 Cortinas....

Going to keep it the same colour. Started pulling lights out etc to re-do the engine bay, then the whole car will be resprayed. I like the look of the Gold Simmons with the Dark Green. I have thought about painting another colour, but in my opinion unless you paint the boot etc as well it looks rude. Besides no colour I have seen suits the Series 4 Capella better than the factory colours I have seen. Who sais I can't have whitewalls too???!