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  1. 32 minutes ago, Roman said:

    If I reeealllly wanted to save some money, I could buy a bare block at zebra or pick a part for about 100 bucks.
    There's a few of the right shape/year Prius's there, but it's hard to tell if they have 5 billion kms on them or not. 
    Just costs a day of mucking around to get it out instead and there's more risk that it might be a dud motor.

    Like the BMW high km M10 turned into M12/m13 F1 motors, maybe these are the ones to go for :)

     

     

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  2. Tbh, It wasnt discussed, but as the ends will need to be more or less hand made, im assuming not cheap, but probably still a bargain!

    I think if the ends were 'standard' off the shelf items it would be much cheaper. They have a bit of a catalogue of ends on their site.

    Ill let you know tho.

  3. Slightly foolish chat regarding Sunbeam's absolutely mint Millecinquento

     

     

    Wow! You are broken my friend!

    Apparently there is (was?) one on the side of the road in Glenavy for sale that might be worth a gander depending on your plans for this.

    I shall live vicariously through you.

     

    For those that dont know, these 1500s (also come out with a 1300 and slightly different trim level) were pretty trick with 4 wheel disc brakes in 1961, and was the basis of the 125, which shares the floorpan and basic suspension design, but with a OHV pushrod engine and column change box.

     

     

     

  4. Looking nice man!

    Re rear wheel centering in the arch, could it be an assembly error?

    • Leaf springs in back to front? Have you put the driveshaft in yet? was it 'too long'? Could use it as a spacing check?
    • Lowering changed pinion angle/more weight might centre? 
    • Angled shims?
    • spring/diff locating thinger not lined up?
    • Weird angle of the photo?

     

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  5. Big fan* of the later e24 and e25s, (*in that ive had 2 of each). I assume that in classic nissan style they are basically cosmetic improvements on the e23.

    More or less Equivalent to the hiace but about 60% of the price, here anyway. 

    This is an e23, so pretty rare, and should have the sd23 na  dizzle. which was replaced by the td27 in the e24 which was no race winner esp without a +t

    In my experience you wont get anywhere fast, but youll get there. 

    Typical nissan/datsun stuff, solid power train, some finnikey shit that will make it hard or annoying to work on or get parts, and watch for rust. If these are like the later vans, then a lot of the drivetrain will be shared with the equivalent generation navara/ute which are much more common

    I think @73crownwagon had one?

     

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    3 hours ago, Sunbeam said:

    Got a call from the engine shop, bore wear is 6 thou which is the trigger for a rebore. New pistons on the way$$$$$!

    can you even find genuine oversize 1608 pistons? I guess thats why they are spendy

    May be worth exploring other more common alternatives, i think there are much more common Mazda and Honda piston alternatives with very similar dimensions and details that have been used commonly before - the pistons in my 1500cc van engine for eg whcih have the same bore and dims (will have to check my notes for the details).

     

    that should save you a few bucks to spend on underfloor neons, 22's and some mad ICE

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  7. Yeah, i was pretty worried it was going to be terminal, but glad to figure out it was just an assembly error.

    I managed to convince my chief pedal pumper that i didnt make the van squirt brake fluid on her on purpose and definitely, under no circumstances, never ever, will that happen again*.

    *on porpoise 

     

    So yeah, shes a goodun XOXO 

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