Hey guys I'm back on line with a new computer after the last one had a nervous breakdown.
Now on the subject of GX heads, Justin the A14s did get a GX head,I have one on my Ex Japan 1400 GX. The oval port A15s aren't always GXs either as the ports are oval, the valves are bigger
but the combustion chamber is the same as the round port head. As Teretonga said the SGX vans usually are fitted with GX heads though the chamber volume is greater with a round top about
2mm thick before the chamber starts proper, obviously to lower the compression ratio. I have a pile of GX heads and most have come of NZ market B310 Sunnys which now have vitually no value
here.
On a different subject we have the Chev powered coupe going again and after a very quick blat down the road got a visit from an amazed cop. He was impressed with the car and went for a ride
once he was off duty, of course!! He was a real petrolhead and proudly owned an SS Commodore. Just goes to show that they are not all bad.

Geez Mikko ,
You got every one talking...!! I have owned over 10 1200s and they have been stock and modified. I have fitted 4,6, 8 cylinder and rotary engines to many. I love them to death and would never
be without one. I am continually looking out for parts for my own projects and friends cars as well. As I have got older I have found myself tending to go for the more standard look. When you
are younger you tend to copy the style of cars involved in motorsport, that means lowered, flared and spoilered. My race car is to say the least radical but is still a Datsun and it amazes me
still how many young guys get excited over it.The wings and spoilers are necessary to keep it on the track at over 140 mph! My 1400 GX road car is a racetoration, that is a car fitted with
all the period parts available from Datsun to improve it's performance.It was stripped to bare metal and fitted with brand new fr guards, doors and valance. It has twin sidedrafts, Nismo
manifold and header, alloy sump and radiator. It has a race oil pump and oil cooler. The cam is a factory race grind and the suspension has adjustable front struts, 20mm front sway bar and a
12m GX rear bar. It is lowered with Nismo springs and has Panasport Minilites as were offered by Datsun Competition as they were known then. The diff head is alloy with a LSD and it has alloy
brake drums. The front discs are larger and thicker and all I need now is a pair of alloy 4 pot calipers which were fitted in the 70's. It has no flares, spoilers and the tyres are narrowish.
To some people, they see the car as modified but I argue that it is built in a way that it could have been brand new. The Datsun options were incredibily detailed with steering wheels, seat
and even back then pedal extensions. I am all ways getting enquiries from people wanting to build 1200's and if it's a racecar they want I will try and find them one all ready built or an
abandoned project.There a very few unmolested cars left. I unloaded a new project for a fellow 1200 nut last week... it's a 1 owner 1200 4 dr sedan. It has been acid dipped and there is no
rust! It will be a stock looking car with some sensible upgrades in the brakes and handling departments. I appreciate a well restored car as much as the next guy but as a owner of several
vintage MGs I get bored going to events and seeing standard cars that all lokk the same. Though a time capsule unrestored car is all ways a buzz. The main thing is as has all ready been said
is that together we are keeping 1200s out there and in peoples faces and having heaps of fun as well. Anyone can go out and buy a new car that will corner like a train and go like a rocket
but there a certain satisfaction in zapping past these boring belly button cars with a 30 year old Datto.

If you are really keen Nissan Motorsports (USA) still list a gearbox mount for the 5 speed conversion as this was a factory option
in some markets.

We have built cars with both steel and composite panels. Old faithful had all steel panels except for the Ford Escort Zakspeed flares. With the A12 it weighed in at 570 kg.
My new car has carbon or kevlar front guards, spoilers, bonnet, boot and seat. It has a very heavy stainless exhaust, 4 wheel discs and oilcooler. It weighs in slightly heavier as a result!!
As I've got older and wiser I've found myself adding more steel in the form of a rollcage to help shell stiffness and safety.Composites help trim the fat without taking risks with structural
strength. I shudder to think of the amount of metal I have removed from my old past cars with holesaws and plasma cutters. A huge crash that left a good friend unconsious in a car I built
had me rethinking my engineering concepts. We've currently got his 240RS kitted out with every unboltable panel including doors and bumpers in gel coated carbon fibre and it looks awesome we
don't plan on painting it for a while!! The flares on Pikey's car are readily available and are called a universal flare and come in sizes to suit 13 and 14 inch wheels and there are several
widths.The panels we can get are really for race but I can get them made thicker for street use. I will get a price list together and post it soon. By the way I've been adding to the photo
galleries too. Check out the Factory race cars & Fun Stuff albums.

I can source the panels you want from a friend here in NZ. He does bonnets, boots, front guards, tail light panels, doors and dashboards in fibreglass and carbon fibre. He
also does a bumper spoiler unit which can be seen on my old racecar in the Kiwi race cars folders, photo "Old Faithful".

The conversion is straight forward if you have the right car to start with. The prefered model is the auto trans model as the tunnel is way bigger. I doubt you will fit any of the L series
gearboxes neatly into a manual trans shell. In Japan B110s were sold with 1400cc L series in them and they were called an Excellent. The nose and grille were different and they had unique
tail lights, oh and they were bloody ugly as well. I suspect that the Excellent had the auto floorpan. The fitment of the L series lead to the LZ/FZ twin cam being fitted and homologated for
racing in Japan. This to me is the ultimate derivitive of the B110 family... I would give my left nut for one of those factory race cars. In the "more engines folder" I've added a couple of
pics of the twin cam.

Great photos Mareo. I can't wait to see more. I am really keen to get a look at Peter's chassis. About the spacers on the struts they allow the stub axle to sit higher
hence lowering the car without compromising the bottom arms geometry.Otherwise running short struts and a super low chassis will screw up your front end settings.

Why anyone would want to rebuild an Austin Maxi the first time is beyond me... if you had got a digger I'd use it to dig a hole and bury the awful thing. On the subject of the crashed coupe
your admission that you were doing 60 kph could be enough for an insurance company to fail to payout even if the other driver was at fault, they wiil screw you for any admission of breaking
the rules e.g. exceeding the speed limit etc. Good luck and in the mean time start looking for a ute thats been rear ended so you can source a new front cut, as most sedans and coupes will
be stuffed by now cause of their age. A ute has got to be at least 5 years younger.

Another 1200 nutter mate of mine a few years back fuel injected his A14 by boring holes into a sidedraft manifold and used the twin webers as the throttle butterflies. He fired the injectors
with a stock computer for a E15 and it ran great until an injector popped out on a hell run down the motorway and ended up with a completely burnt out car. He used the throttle position pot
and crank angle sensor from the E15 as well to keep things simple. I made my own throttle bodies for my race car by copying the Weber Marelli units on a 851 Ducati.They are single units. I
made some wooden patterns and added a Weber style flange had them cast in alloy and machined them myself using butterflies and throttle shafts from SU carbs ( see they are good for
something!!) A friend helped out by building a computer to fire them which is now 6 years old and would be considered ancient now though it works really well. Actually I like SU carbs they are
nice and simple just like 1200s.

Good on ya Justin for the articles... I don't get to see the ZOOM mag often but I have got every issue of Fast Fours. With all these feature cars appearing there will be an increase in
guys wanting coupes now as well as utes. Ben Cox the owner/builder of the SR powered car also has a circuit racing 1200 coupe which is black and A14 powered and another 1 lady owner
coupe hanging in the roof of his shed!!! He's hardcore Datto..