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Geeze that looks fine!!!

I'm gonna say it is... Leak looks exactly like mine did before I replaced it with a four cylinder L-series unit (with only two bolt holes, but it still works fine haha)

Awesome mate, really enjoying seeing it get some love!!!

My fuel pump was leaking out of the pivot pin hole too. I replaced it with another and cleaned out the end of the hole well before sticking some silicone neatly into it with my finger too. No leaks there yet

I know it's a tad late now, but what about swapping to 330 stub axles?

Yeah it's a little funny to think about. You would really want the old balljoints as well to chop up and install some very high grade bolts.

I have heard of machining a spacer between the lower balljoint and the lower arm/wishbone. I'm tempted to give that a crack. But I'm also going to raise my car a fraction (both front and rear) because it isn't all that practical how it is haha. On the front mine has 290mm between the centre of the hub and the wheel arch. You won't get that with the unmodified standard bumpstop in place.

Would also be really keen on getting some plastic B-pillar trims off that parts car if they are in good condition.

Thanks guys!

lol definitely not going any lower anywhere. Can't get it into my driveway and it's just riding the bump stops in the rear end the whole time.

Front springs are custom coils I had done locally, but they aren't as stiff as I was told they were going to be, even after cutting heaps off them, but I think I'm gonna get some nice thick 'sports' HQ springs and cut them down to size. I trimmed the bump stops down to next to nothing, but I want to alter that as well to get a fraction more travel and a better dampening effect when it does hit the bump stop (which it will be doing frequently as I drive this thing every day, country & city)

Stoked to see this thread up and running again.

Cream interior w/ brown carpet is sexay.

EDIT: That parts car of yours, does it have the orange reflectors on the rear guards? I really need some for my car! I've just got the crappy black blanking plastic things haha

Ride height fixed:

Year and a bit on... thought I'd hassle you haha. Lowering my wagon a little more ATM and came here to read up a bit more on opinions

haha definitely planning on going a bit lower, and bought an L28 for it too. CEO spec is the aim haha, fucking BOSS

Stepped up 15" barrels from Whitehorse Industries in Melbourne.

Started doing lots of drilling

Then etch prime, top coat, polish and clear for the centres

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Bolted them up:

Lick of silicone to seal them up:

And some donuts stretched on:

Wheel specs are as follows...

Original alloy centred Speed Star Racing Starsharks, Stud pattern 5x114.3mm (4.25")

Barrels machined off and flanges drilled to 16-holes on flange PCD

New heat treated 4140 barrels, 4mm thick, polished outers, bored to suit centre spigots. All done at Whitehorse Industries in Melbourne

New M8 12•9 (high tensile) dome head bolts with nylocs

Fronts are 15x7.75" +7.5mm wrapped in Bridgestone EP100 185/60/R15

Rears are 15x8.5" +5mm wrapped in Bridgestone EP100 195/65/R15

Well, a year on I thought I might update you guys over the ditch!

Pulled the interior out, had some retrimming done, put in a stereo, better insulation, factory tacho, electric aerial, optional factory auto-seek radio etc

Brought it down a bit lower:

Tried some other wheels:

Next got Jesse Streeter to bring me over some B310 fender mirrors. Baseplates were rusted apart so I made some new ones out of alloy and fitted them up

And got stuck into my masterpiece... Turning these 14x6.5" 5x114.3 Starsharks from Otomoto:

Into proper size & offset shakotan style rolling stock. Modelled this up for inspiration haha

Damn you welded 3pce wheels!

Making them holy

Media blasted centres

Just a small update from a little while ago. I pulled off the bumper and removed the square trailer light socket (gonna put a round one hidden somewhere underneath the car when it actually has enough grunt to pull a trailer haha) so I could install the number plate in a better spot and get the P plate out of the rear window. Also panel-beat the bar into shape and painted the inside of it, the brackets etc, put new lenses on the numberplate lights and put new globes in there. Now the reverse light lenses sit nice and flush in the bar too, it was all over the shop before!

Sweet - if you do get to it - I would pay good money for the rear window winder motor - the one in my mates has died a death - and to me that window is one of the coolest parts of it..

I was at a wrecker today and there was a 330 series wagon which had a key-barrel in the D-pillar... It's fairly likely that they would have the same electric motor as the 230, right?

I completely rate this car, new wheels look good dude, polishing up the lips and gunmetalling the centres is the best thing you could have done to them!

These just arrived by courier

The air con is a dealer fitted 'Clarion' system and it isn't connected, but I'll probably leave it there with the intention of getting it working later on down the track if I keep the car for a long time, which is fairly likely.

Thought you guys might wanna see this lol. I drove it to the city last night with 6 drunken yobbo mates in the car to go and see a Horrorshow & Bliss n Eso gig. This is what it looked like without me in it hahaha, even lower with 7. I reckon it looks so good and it was loads of fun. The L26 didn't really struggle either which was nice, and I don't think it's running quite right yet.

There was a fair bit of arch rubbing on the side walls but I think if I had lipped my guards it wouldn't have touched at all, so I'll try and sort that out soon. I'll probably end up with it just sitting on the bump stops when it's loaded up (maybe get some progressive bump stops and be able to adjust them a few mm to get them in the right spot, and I'll still lower the springrate in the back a little bit and lower it a fair bit anyway.

What other spare bits did you get from the parts car you found?

The tail light & indicator assembly with the indicator was all I got, I was going to buy the car but it sold before I could really feasibly get it. I'm hoping to get a bumper off it, and some others bits and pieces. It actually had a dogleg floor shift 5spd and a rebuilt L28, so if I bought it I probably would have swapped the driveline across and put the blank steering column in. The car has taken a hit opposite the tail light that I bought, hense why it wasn't on the road.

I haven't even seen a photo of it!

Thanks for the comments guys. So glad to find some people with similar taste hahaha

k-trips I read through your build thread a few times a while ago, it's the only build thread I've found of a 230 wagon, anywhere!

I'll try and take it out and get some good photos of it when I'm happy with the ride height and a few other things. Might take me a while though. I don't sit on my arse but there are heaps of things I wanna do to my Torana soon too. Had the Datto for like 3 months so far. Can't see myself selling it any time soon but I will really want it to go to a good home when I do sell it! Provided someone doesn't run up my arse or something

Tailshaft centre bearing/mount was pretty second hand. Couldn't get a new one so got a Bluebird one and made it fit by machining up an alloy 'snout' kinda splash guard with an interference fit on what was already there, and a steel washer to space it off. Diameters were all correct but the guards were different, offset was wrong etc.

Obligatory shot of me looking like a goose

Oh yeah and got given these 14x7 0 offset Japan-made chromed steelies, fitted them with some cheap 195/70s. They aren't my dream wheels, but for $0 they are my dream priced wheels! They fill the guards spot on which is nice. Gonna sack it soon hopefully, I was waiting til it was on the road before I did that stuff, but that's sorted now as I got a roadworthy last week and rego earlier this week.

And I spent like 50 hours pulling bits apart, cleaning them and putting them back on. There was so much of that plastic sticker stuff like a screen protector on a phone that had never been removed all through the interior. And poxy carpet installation etc all sorted. Replaced seals here and there, gave some locks a good clean out and dose of lube etc.

Thought I'd just throw this in for good measure too, I reckon it's pimp as haha

My plans are nothing outrageous. I definitely want to get it running on straight LPG, needs moar lows and pissing off the 330 bumper that doesn't fit at all! Correct bumper shown below:

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All folded down, before I started cleaning shit. Still had heaps of bits of screen protector-ie stuff from when it was new! Unscrewed all the trims one by one and cleaned them up since these shots were taken

Pulled the sill trim off to fix up the rust

Other side too:

Little bit around the screen:

Had LOTS of fun finding a replacement lense! I managed to find what I guess is the only one parts car wagon in Australia

It was a country car its whole life, had lots of cleaning to do. I thought the Torana was bad underneath but this was horrendous. Anyway it came up pretty mint!

Front end needed some love

Painted in all the arches:

Couldn't find any balljoints or anything, nobody seems to make them? haha. I cleaned all the joints out, put new boots on them and gave them fresh grease. Nothing seemed excessively worn so I'm not too concerned. Put new shocks in and adjusted the springs a bit while I was there. The rotors copped a skim too.

Drums machined and painted:

Link to Discussion

Hey guys, posting from the wrong side of the ditch here haha. This build thread format is a bit different to what I'm used to, so if I do anything wrong let me know. My car seems more appropriate here to a lot of forums in Aus so I thought I'd join up and post it up, a mate suggested I have a geeze on this forum

I was looking for an MS55 Crown wagon for months and couldn't find shit. They've all been thrown out by bogans because they didn't have V8s. I can't believe I actually thought Toranas were rare cars before I got into this stuff. You ask any wrecker, part distributor etc about any parts for any of these vehicles and they look at you like you're retarded or laugh in your face. The older generation don't seem to understand that they took so many liberties with what people like me would go to such great lengths to get their hands on. We just get left with the exceptions that didn't get penetrated by shotgun pellets or sent to the wreckers because they had blown head gaskets

Anyway, I wanted a wagon that had quirkiness that appealed to me, needed to have a bench seat in the front and an in-line six, needed to be manual, had to be made between 1960 and 1980 and really needed a paintjob that made it look like it had been sitting neglected for a while (more patina would be preferred but that can be arranged later). I got pessimistic about finding something Japanese so I started looking at full sized Holdens and they were all overpriced, auto, distasteful with boganized interiors and filled with dodgy repairs and backyard paintjobs aging in really ungraceful ways

Then some time in Feb my mate found something for sale that was a bit out of the ordinary. I'd never even seen one before. $950 later I had some mad car not many people here understand hahahaha.

It's a 1973 Datsun H230. In Australia this one was called a 260C but there are a myriad of names for it internationally, for all intents and purposes, it's a Cedric - Nissan's answer to the Crown, but Nissan also have a more upmarket version called the Gloria which is pillarless (not available in a wagon). We never got Glorias in Australia unfortunately, but we got Cedric sedans, pillarless coupes and wagons. But they are all really rare in the 230 series!

This has an L26 with a single twin barrel carbie, backed by a 3spd manual on the column with a hydraulic clutch. Leaf-sprung live axle with big drums and canted shocks, no swaybar. Front end is double wishbone with a swaybar, steering box with linkages, twin piston calipers on solid discs. Fortunately it's a twin circuit braking system too.

Bench seat front, bench seat rear, two person dickie seat in the back that faces the opposite way.

It's got all kinds of important factory features like a hidden map light in the dash, cooling vents in the front footwells like you get on an 40-series Landcruiser, only these ones are more subtle than the steel flaps on a 40. It's got a light that sits on the underside of the bonnet so if you break down at night, the whole engine bay is illuminated well and you can pull the end out of the light and put it wherever you want - it has a lead. It has an electric window above the rear left quarter that can be activated by the key barrel in the guard or a switch on the dash. It's got storage space under the rear seat, and it all folds flat with hard rubber on the back of everything (not like a Holden wagon where they trim it with vinyl!) so it's good for chucking diffs and gearboxes in the back (which will be a common activity in this car). Also has four windscreen washing jets, intermittent wipers, two piece tailshaft, five stud wheels (5x114.3), mechanically sprung tailgate and bonnet, etc. The spare wheel is stored up under the arse and it has a mechanism for lowering it gracefully, it has a nice original toolkit which has a few things in it including 'Datsun' folding wheel chocks and a speed-wrench with rotating grips so you don't rub your skin as you lower the spare wheel or jack the car up using the scissor jack that is stored under the bonnet which has its own reduction gearbox incorporated into it! lol!