Carsnz123's Rusty Datsun talkie talkie

[Carsnz123]

Chat about the large volume rust, diesel smoke, and misfortune in the build thread 

 

[brocky41]

Wow good work - Karl filled me in today on these. Pretty much any L series can sit forever, throw some plugs at it, fuel and battery and your away.

Karl might have told you that Cedrics are my thing aswell - great to see hopefully more than one being saved from your lot.

[Carsnz123]

We may end up doing all three. It would be good to do a diesel and a petrol. The red one is 3 on the tree 

[Snoozin]

I'm not gonna lie, I'm into these things. 

Look forward to following the progress!

[igor]

I love it when a car sits for years like that and then starts up pretty much straight away. Enjoyed those two short vids. Karl's taxi was one of the more memorable cars for me at Hanmeet this year.

[Carsnz123]

I'm just gonna post some pics of ideas for the car so I have a quick reference to foam over.

 

[kyteler]

If you can turn the engine bay into an S30 one you'll definitely be doing well...

[Carsnz123]

one can but dream. 

 

[bigfoot]

I don't see a ld28+t there

[RUNAMUCK]

The man who puts an M90 on an LD28 will become a coal rolling god. 

 

[brocky41]

But it wont roll coal unless it has a turbo for lagyness haha

M90 + T51R-SPL twin-charging FTW or Compounding turbos.

Careful over 15PSI boost and use a J or U-pipe for keeping 6 cool.......like this....

 

 

[Carsnz123]

Twin charging did cross my mind but I'd have to build a strong engine and run 30lb of boost to make it worth it 

[- i5oogt -]

I should really put a boost gauge on the taxi and see what it is running

[scooters]

@Carsnz123

how far along are you ? 

i just bought this.... well pending payment and shiping.. you know the usual. 

 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/nissan/auction-1740702048.htm

[Carsnz123]

Mate who was going to do the rust work moved workshops so didn't have any time to fix it. So not much has been done as of late. I need to decide the overall goal for the car because I want to keep working on my Chrysler. Crowns and Skyline are first on the list though. Too many cars. 

[scooters]

2 minutes ago, Carsnz123 said:

Mate who was going to do the rust work moved workshops so didn't have any time to fix it. So not much has been done as of late. I need to decide the overall goal for the car because I want to keep working on my Chrysler. Crowns and Skyline are first on the list though. Too many cars. 

Oh yea your screwd poor Datsun.

Do you know where do the nice tripple side draft carbs for the l26 come from ? 

 

[Carsnz123]

7 minutes ago, scooters said:

Oh yea your screwd poor Datsun.

Do you know where do the nice tripple side draft carbs for the l26 come from ? 

 

 

Not sure, @kicker will know,  I looked at getting a complete Weber kit off Ebay but too spendy ATM. I'd like to see someone fit this ITB kit 

https://datsunspirit.com/shop/itb-setup-for-l6/

Unless you modify the rest of the engine (cam, port job, extractors, higher compression) Triple sides are not really any advantage over twin SU carbs except for epic dorts. 

[RUNAMUCK]

My mate Damon at rocky auto is a dellorto expert. I think he knows where to get new ones off the www. Italy maybe?

He said the new webers need the throttle butterfly screws loctiting in or else they fall out, and you have a bad time. 

[scooters]

1 hour ago, RUNAMUCK said:

My mate Damon at rocky auto is a dellorto expert. I think he knows where to get new ones off the www. Italy maybe?

He said the new webers need the throttle butterfly screws loctiting in or else they fall out, and you have a bad time. 

yea it's going to be interesting to see what turns up. (end of the week) 

a few years ago these were worthless/non desirable. But I think most of them went by the way of rot and now they are still non desirable.. but getting 

less and less as we go. 

[RUNAMUCK]

330's are legit as fuck.

Much better cars than the 230.