Thanx for the TVR link, Eddie. The Griffith was a cool little machine that would do 150 MPH in the 60's. Very few things would run with it really. My 100 cubic inch larger tri-power
Pontiac GTO wouldn't even come close. At the time in 1968, it was definately the fastest thing that I had ever been in and still today, I have only been in four cars and two motorcycles
at a real 150 MPH.

Thanks for the info, Ratdat. It is good to get information like this. I think I had a set of 1000 pistons once. They fit the bore but the wristpin was a wee tab larger than the A12 and the
wristpin hole was out of place. I got them with a box of parts including the very high compression head I mentioned in an earlier post. I always assumed it all came from a 1000 motor. I have
never seen one but I have read about them back in the 70's.

I just got a phone call from an old friend that had a foreign car wreckers yard through the 70's and 80's and he has a 1969 510 coupe that he said he will sell me for $200. It hasn't run for a
few years but it was his driver car for years. He has spun and lubed the motor and all every so often. He has been handicapped for the past eleven years and he hasn't driven the 510 since
then. It has the factory quad SU carbs and engine. I haven't seen the car in a few years and it was in very good shape then. It has been outside but under a shed. He says there isn't really
any rust on it. I will check it out tomorrow or asap. It is calling for 6 to 12 inches of snow in the morning. I want it.

Question for 510 mechanics ? ? ? ?

Is the 1969 510 1600 engine like the 1969 2000 roadster engine or was it more like the L-20 2000 of the 70's 610-710 cars. I have never been around the 510 motors very much and I don't know
them very well. I have had experience with the 69 2000 Roadster engines and the timing chain systems are very different from the later 2000. I would appreciate any info on the 510. It would be
very helpful just so I will know what to look for and were to look for it. I'll keep ya'll informed.

Mareo

Again, I stand corrected and I apologize again. I am only familiar with the motors that were here in the States, which are the A12 of 71-73, A13 of 74, A14 from 75 to 82, A15 from 79 to 82 and
the A12A from 79 to 82. We didn't get the 4-door, estate wagon or the Ute here. There is a lot going on in the rest of the world that I haven't encountered for sure. It seems unusual that they
made a different A12 block but it still used the same intake bolt pattern as the early A12 instead of the later pattern like the A14 and the A15. I did get a head once that had so much
compression that the guy took it off of his 1200 because he couldn't get gas with high enough octane for it and I have never seen another one like it. I picked up a 14 pound flywheel also
where most are 19 pound flywheels here. A friend worked at a Datsun dealers and he got me factory 13:1 pistons for cheaper than he sold stock dished pistons but he only had that one set. They
would not work with the high compression head. I assumed that the head may have been from a 1000 motor. Correct me if I am wrong and I probably am wrong but is the 1000 motor basically the
same as the A12 but with three main bearings instead of five?

Also, is anyone familiar with a car called the Griffith? In 1967 to 69, I was stationed in the Navy with a guy that had a Griffith with a 289 Ford engine. Now that was a running mother and as
cute as any car I've ever seen and small, I'd love one of them. I don't know anything about them either. I think they were an English made body but I am not sure. I'll search for them on the
web.

Mareo

Arsonist's evil work can not be considered as nature taking some of its anger out on us. A wildfire that was started from
lightning is nature.

Mareo

The motor of my choice would be the Lincoln 4.6 OHC V8. I drove my ex's mother's to Texas a few years ago. It pulled the big Town Car at 78 MPH all the way there and back plus I
drove around Dallas-Ft, Worth for four days and it averaged 33 miles per gallon for the trip. If it can haul ass in that 4100 pound car, just think what is could do in a 1500 pound
Datsun 1200.

Mareo

Dimlights,

If you want a 215 aluminum Buick/Oldsmobile V8, let me know and I will make a call and see how much he wants for one. I could have gotten the whole car for $500 five years ago.
He still had four cars left when I was there a few months ago. I am in Tennessee.

Mareo

Most of the Sunbeam Tigers had the 273 Chrysler motor, only a few had the 289 Ford. The Chevrolet has the distributor right in the way at the rear center and will not clear a
lot of firewalls too well. I put a High Performance 271 HP 289 Ford motor into an Opal GT. That was a screamer and it still handled reasonably well.

I know what you mean there, dimlights, the 1200 is a handler and anything else would mess up that balance. Besides, the A-series motor will hold together with a lot of horsepower. Many
times, I thought about putting in some larger motor in one but I never did. I couldn't find anything that I knew was as dependable and wasn't too heavy. I had a RX7 drive train but I could
not bring myself to put it all in one of my cars. The rotary motor runs like a bat out of hell but the chrome on the cylinder surfaces strips off way too easily for me. I have seen too many
beautiful RX7's in the junk yards with bad motors. I have never seen a 1200 in the junk yard with a good body and a bad motor. A scrapper friend told me years ago (in the 70s) that the A-
series motors were like a boat anchor to him, he couldn't sell them because no body ever bought one. I have though seen a lot of A15 motors in the junk yards with burned pistons.

Mareo

That was a very informative article on the Tiger. The two that I have been around have 273 Dodge motors in them. They are probably made as an aftermarket car, I had never thought of
that, I had just taken it for granted that they were factory cars. These two are also the only ones that I have seen with the hood open. As Maxwell Smart said, "You take teh bus 99,
I'll take the Tiger." Thanks for setting me straight, wubbits.

Mareo

On the news last night, it said that over 20,000 people were evacuated from their homes because of teh fires near Sidney. It showed the smoke from a satellite traveling over
the Tasman Sea. That must be one of the largest fires ever on the earth in historical times. I feel for you guys and the people that are affected by the fires.

Mareo