Popular Post fletch Posted September 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted September 8, 2015 (edited) Finally got this sorted so i thought i better put some photos up. Some history first, I saw some photos on face book somebody took of random cars at kumeu hotrod show. One of them was of this car. I got hold of my bro Ray (ja1lb8) as his family is always at the show. His old man was there and had already spotted the car and put an offer on it on our behalf knowing one of us would have it. It belonged to an old lady who was going into a home and her family was selling off all her old shit to pay for it. The car was bought new by her husband in 1970 in OZ, and they bought it here in 74 when they moved to nz. The husband died a few years later and she kept driving it to the shops in west auckland once a week ever since. It also came with a folder of invoices for the last 40 years of ownership. Lets just say she was taken for a bit of a ride by a certain west auckland nissan dearler with servicing costs and repairs for wof's. Could have bought a few of them for what she has spent over the years. A month ago i finally picked it up from Ray as it took me a while to obtain permission from the boss, (insiders would argue that i never actually got permission, but it was too late...). When i went to change the ownership, it came up as stolen. The brother of the old lady wanted it and had reported it stolen to try and get it back. The next week as i tried to get to the bottom of the story i stripped it in case i had to give it back. The cops cancelled the stolen car notice as it was just sour grapes. Then on the weekend i went to get a wof and it had no vin number in the system. Here we go again, turns out it has never been in the system, and only now its fully computerised, they could not issue me a wof. Thanks to the GC's at VTNZ new plymouth it was sorted monday and now its legit! tl;dr photos L24, 3 speed column change. Drums all round. Has had a respray at some stage. Will put some photos up of the interior in a few days. Also came with an 8 track and some sweet old tapes Discussion //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/50036-fletchs-1970-datsun-cedric-super-six/ Edited August 17, 2018 by fletch photobuck can ead 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 couple of interior pics. original as. aftermarket 70's tacho kind of ruins the mint dash, but sweet 8 track player makes and selection of terrible 80's tapes makes up for it! engine bay looks like every other cedric it was sunny last weekend so went for a cruise needs the front right brakes adjusted and thats about it 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted November 7, 2015 Author Share Posted November 7, 2015 Been on a few weekend burns and i noticed it was loosing water. One of the heater hoses was leaking in the engine bay. gave it a squeeze and it disintegrated in my hands. I pulled it off and decided the top radiator hose was also on the verge of failure. next thing i know, all the hoses are out, the dash is half out, the heater is out etc etc not 1 of these 45 year old hoses is stocked by anybody so i took a selection from supercheap and repco to try. So far i have fitted 2 hoses. only 7 or 8 to go. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 FIxed all the hoses, including pulling the dash out to get at the heater box. Been driving it around a bit and discovered a small leak out of the bottom radiator outlet. Took it out and tried to swap in a 330 series 260c item, but its too tall. Today i took the radiator to some old barrys at the radiator shop in town. They knew who made the core and where to get one before even finding out what the radiator was out of! So thats getting recored. Also, the brakes are fucking stupid. One day a long time ago, datsun decided to put disc brakes on their flagship cedric. They looked around and saw these calipers on cars such as ferraris, jensens, jags etc. All mid 60's sports cars. They thought that they would be a great choice. They were wrong. Took me a week to locate a caliper kit and some pads. Also, new semi sealed headlights. Tried many types of lamps until i found some that fitted the car correctly. A little flat on the lense, but they will be sweet. However they are the most expensive. FML Long story short $$$$$ hope to have it going for nats. pics then 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 some pics ended up going with hella semi sealed. not that cheap but best fit by far. before after also whipped out the drivers seat as its a bit saggy like your nanas you know whats fuck its heavy also, broken springs x 3 being the slender human that i am has probably not helped I think ill just put some plywood in there and a piece of foam on top Radiator back next week, got the kit for the brakes and some new pads as the current ones have swelled up and are jamming in the stupid english design caliper. maybe a little makita action on the front coils? the back is a bit soft so im cautious about trying to do too much there. maybe a small block. nats is only a few shed nights away for me. what could possibly go wrong 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Bit of maintenance post Nats. Things happen slowly round here. Hmm strange bonding rivets on this shoe. No wait, just screws. Thought it was about time I fixed the shoes up. Got me home from Nats via the wangamomonas plus done a couple thousand kms like this no worries. Bought a 4 speed column box the other day a day have located a 3.9 diff so should be top spec luxury cruising in no time. So next year basically. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 Did some things. Swapped diff housings to a spare one and rebuilt a 3.9 head to drop the rpms a bit on the highway. Also a little off the height. Hopefully finished this weekend, but only get a couple nights a week in the shed 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 update got a 330 diff, got a 3.9 head out of a r31, threw it together with some bearings and seals and thought i would just chuck it in bro. well, it would appear that the 130 cedric, being the first if the nissan/datsun combo, has metric motor and box, imperial everything else. so now i have a 330 diff, with 130 brake cylinders. and 12mm studs on the back wheels, 1/2 inch on the front. I was going to run the 330 slave cylinders, with an imperial to metric hose, but they were only 3/4 cylinders vs the 1 inch of the 130 and since nobody has ever said, 'you know what?, i think i need less brakes on my datsun' so i had to swap the cylinders and lines. This was made harder by the fact that some old vice grip wielding barry has previously attempted to pull the fitting out of the cylinders and now they are round.... Next up, springs and blocks. easy. Except i fucked up bit and ordered the wrong rear shocks so i had to run these impressive specimens i found in a box of parts. they will do for now... I then decided that i had 3 weeks until my chch/hanmer roadtrip, so i would chuck in a 4 speed column change box to go with the 3.9 diff. How hard could it be right? Well the sneaky fuckers changed the style of gearboxes after the 130. the driveshaft was flanged at both ends. and it was longer.. no problem, @- i5oogt - found me one that he had been aging in a paddock for a while. except the rear half was too short so it wouldn't fit the hanger and the hanger was way different. no problem, i can fix that The box being longer hit the roof of the tunnel so i made that fit too, but i didn't take any pics as you dont need to see that The the fucking linkage didnt have enough travel as it was only for a 3 speed. Lucky i have some spare parts I had to mod one of the levers to make it have more throw. I found a welding rod in a puddle and dried it out a bit and it did the trick. Photo taken in potato mode so you cant see the quality bonus pic of custom racing shocks 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted August 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2018 So this made it to swapmeat and back, but i needed to change the hanger bearing as the driveshaft needed some more engagement in the back of the box, and the rubber was flying apart due to it not being designed to move with the suspension. I made a new hanger bracket to fit the later bearing and a spacer to lengthen the driveshaft. it took a few test fits on the hanger to get it right, but i got it fitted up Wednesday night and made it to chch today. win. except, somewhere north of amberley i smelt what i thought was rubber grease, and 10 minutes later i pushed the brake pedal and uh oh. made it to the thieves at safe r brakes in chch 5 minutes before closing to get the required caliper kit and limped to the inlaws on the handbrake. the front brakes are dunlop calipers as fitted to late 60s jags and aston martons. yes thats right, british. ughh so thats my saturday sorted.... 11 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted July 14, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2019 Gave it a wash and drove up to auckland a few weeks back. Came up pretty shiny. Fitted some new shocks to go with the reduced suspension travel and its lush again. Had a few funny issues at first and stopped and gave all the spade terminals on the coil/ballast resistor and away she went. Sat on 70mph the whole way, even passed a car up the mahoenui hill at more than 70 Also, gotta catch em all! 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted September 30, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2020 Dusted this off last week to use it next month for a family trip. Wof man did not approve of my 'custom' shocks. I found some old ones from some holden that were a bit short but did the trick. no pics, but you can see the bump stop has been working a fair bit. I was looking at getting some of those air shocks that you can pump up to take some weight, but might trim the bumps a bit first, and look at some new springs I also changed the front springs to HQ super lows. They are 17.5mm vs 16mm wire diameter so a bit harder. the stock trimmed ones felt a bit soft. Done a few kays on them, not sure yet.Think the rear needs to be harder Getting good at changing them, only 15mins a side now so can change back easily. got a bit of a lineup going on.... Probably got enough now. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted October 31, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 31, 2020 The front spring change made it handle better but made the soft rear springs stand out a lot more. @Bistro had some leaves lying around that looked like they might fit so i engaged the safety squint and split some springs from the parts car Spot the difference No real change in height when relaxed, but around 10mm higher in the car which is what i wanted. The bolt through the leaves was too short, but fyi a chinese honda gx390 headbolt is perfect, even same thread. Had to engage the safety prop under the diff to change the springs out too. has been load tested under heavier things so is only slightly bowed Took the family to the mount for the nth island Datsun Nats over labour weekend. Did heaps of driving. most of it at a fair clip too. Under 10L/100km too. didnt take any photos, but saw this one of FB Im thinking about selling this as i need the space and time to work on my next one. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted December 28, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2020 Action shots! Well some photos at least. I'm shit behind a camera, and forget to take them. Currently in chch on a family holiday of the sth island. Been to Nelson for a bit, over to Takaka, down to Westport then Hokitika and across to chch. Went up to the Denniston Mine. Was quiet so snuck through the barrier for some photos. Did some other stuff too. Discovered the rubber boot thing on the wiper on my side leaks and drips on my foot 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted December 28, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2020 Took the kids to the caroline bay festival today. A solid 4 boring hours of flat out straight road. Well on the way there it was flat out, the way back was full of bloody caravans Done about 1100 or 1200 miles so far. Hasn't missed a beat. Just rolled over 105,000. Still got the sticker on the windscreen saying next service due @105 or june 2010. So hasn't done a lot of work the last 10 yrs Edit, soz upside down pic. Dunno why. Easier to turn ya phone around. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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