A mathematician named Bath
Let x equal half that he hath.

He gave away y
Then sat down to pi

And choked. What a sad aftermath.

A minor league pitcher, McDowell
Pitched an egg at a batter named Owl.

They cried "Get a hit!"
But it hatched in the mitt

And the umpire called it a fowl.

These ones are gold:
There was a young lady from Bude
Who went for a swim in the lake

A man in a punt
Stuck an oar in her ear

And said "You can't swim here, it's private."

Or,

There once was an athlete of Venice
Who liked to play matches of tennis

When a ball hit him hard
He went to a ward

Where a doctor did cut off his foot.




Gotta love the internet

I cut mine out heaps... cut it with a hacksaw to keep the slots as small as possible. It doesn't seem to have moved yet. I will re-measure and double check when i weld back in. For the mean time though, with all the trial fits etc it sure is a lot easier to slide it in and out this way.

It would be easy if you had a hoist... just make up a frame or something to sit the motor on, lift the car up, wheel the motor under, and drop the car on top.

Think i'm gonna get me a hoist....

if the engine number matches the plates, why not keep it??? I'm sure some one will love you for it a few years down the track if you ever end up selling. And you probably won't get a whole lot for it...

just as many datsuns... just triple the amount of cars in between them

the 180b is probalby your best bet. 120y will be a series, skyline wil be an RB30 (6cyl).
you could put the bluebird motor in, but its probably a CA20, which isn't all that great. The 180b would probably be your best bet. Its virtually a straight swap (I think 521 is much the same as a 1600 with an L16 standard?) so the move up to an L18 is fairly straight forward, with a noticeable power gain.

brake wise i think the skyline is the way to go, although it will require a lot of effort. not entirely sure whats involved, but you will need to change the springs with some smaller items (possibly 180b or bluebird ones) and i'm not sure what kind of camber you will get, it could be postive (nasty) requireing strut tops etc. to sort out. I think there's something on this kind of conversion in the datnet forums.

Do a bit more research anyhow... I don't own (or ever worked on) any 1600's or anything like that.


[edit] whoops... just found out they have a series engines... in that case it'll take a fair bit more to get the L series in. How similar to 1600's are these cars? maybe you could get the crossmember out of a 1600??

that sucks Tom... I was in tassie in Jan 06, and if those pics were taken on a weekend, i was probably in launceston too... shoulda met up with ya, I was missing my datto

Met one guy in a red 1200 ute at a servo not far from city park though... had a lengthy chat with him until the guy from the servo came out and asked if he was still going to pay for his fuel

whats it getting written off for? if its front end damage, I have a sedan shell you could cut the front off...

Shell otherwise is in a pretty sorry state. your welcome to come have a look at it, but i doubt it'd be worth your while.

pics of it here:http://www.freewebs.com/teamdat/1200sedan.htm

its worse than it looks in the pics though. Roof's been jumped on etc.

[edit] just checked your other thread. Don't think it'll be any use to you at all, and it'll probably be less effort to fix your ute. Sounds like your better of fixing the ute to me. rear quater panels are around the 500 mark i think??

who cares about the box if 4th works, and it takes off in 4th???

My speedo is out 20%, if it says 120, i'm actually doing 100. I have L20b, stanza box, and 14" rims... not sure on the diff ratio (borgwarner). dunno if that helps.

195/65 R14's

Only rub when I have a passenger and wheels are at full lock. Front of the wheel arch on the front have been trimmed though.

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don't tell me that... I'll turn up to uni even less than i do now...

Whats specialist maths? is it just that every state does it different or have they changed the courses that much since i went through?? I did Calculus and applicable maths. The calculus is more applicable though (for engineering anyhow)

Hey pigdog, sign in on msn if you get stuck... I'm usually on a whole lot more than i should be, and might (emphasis on might ) be able to give ya a hand.