Welcome to the buncha nuts club, Josh. You seem to be a likely candidate to get into some of our tech debates on here. LOL. This is
a great place.

It's 4:40 Christmas morning here and Merry Christmas to all here in the 1200
Club.

Chris
On my first Datsun 1200, I replaced the strut oil with a thicker oil and that stiffened up the front struts a lot. That doesn't work with inserts though. I hate the inserts because they
are too soft and they don't last very long either. Maybe where you are, good inserts are available but until a couple of years ago no struts or inserts were available here at all or at
least I could never find any. I parked the car for a few years because it was dangerous to drive without any damping at all in the front. I finally found some soft Monroe inserts. I do not
like them at all.

The 14 inch 240 rims are a bit big for the front and I had to flair out the wheel wells some to keep them from rubbing and had to make a 1/2 inch thick spacer and get longer lugs to keep the
tire from rubbing on the struts. With a hand dolly and some tender hammering, the fenders flare out pretty good at the crease and look good also. My left fender was wrecked when I got the
car and I just hammered it out without taking the care to do it well but the right fender took some care and came out great. I haven't flaired the rears yet but I will when I restore the
body this spring. I just got a new left fender and will get the right fender in January. Hopefully, I can get it finished by summer.

Happy Holidays to you dudes and dudettes. It finally warmed up to the freezing point here in Tennessee. Yeah....... I'm going to stick a battery in my 1200 today and take it for
a spin. It has been a year since I drove it. Someone broke the drivers door glass and I can't find one so it has been parked.

I named the Pontiac GTO, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE, because it was so wild. I should have never gotten rid of it. A friend still has the motor in a 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix. I found
the shop manual for the 120y and it also for the 1200. I will get it in the mail today. It is barely used.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE

Hey Chris, there are two reasons for mags.
1. looks
2. weight

I've never figured out why a person would put in a lightened or alumunum flywheel on the motor and leave steel rims on the car. I put mag 15 inch mags on my 1200 and my brother caid it
would make ir rev slower but make it have higher top speed. I told him that it accelerated faster and he didn't believe me. When I explained that both mag real wheels and low profile
tires weighed less than one stock steel 1200 wheel and SR155 tire, he understood. Less rotating mass is better. I now have 14 inch 1975 240Z spoke wheels and they look a lot like the 1200
spoke hubcaps but nicer and a lot lighter.

Jesse, I live in the eastern USA, Knoxville, Tennessee, not NZ. Western Australia is the opposite side of the earth from me. I'm daytime, you're night time, I'm in winter, you're in summer,
Hell, we're even in different days. The temperature here now is at 25 F degrees, that's -5 C. It was down to 15 F during the night. You are up to 100 F heat. LOL. Wish I was there in the
warm, I hate cold. I went to Sydney and Auckland in Feb. 1991 and had a ball at both places. We opened the F1 races in Auckland with F1000's. I wish I had known there were so many 1200 there
then. I have not see a 1200 here in America since 1989 other than the one I have. When I bought my first 1200, America just was not into economy cars then as gas here was cheap and cars were
very fast. The V8 in Sterling Mac's mate's car is one of the medium sized motors for here at the time period. For 8 years, I had a 1965 Pontiac GTO with 433 inches (7.1 L), 3 two barrel carbs
and built to 550 to 600 HP. I did not think anything at all about getting out of the GTO and into the 1200. It was more of an economy car but it ran and handled like a go-kart, comparatively.

My apologies to you. I wasn't trying to put you down or anything like that. I was just making a suggestion. My email is:

mareospeedwagon1@yahoo.com

Send me your address and I will send you a B210 (120Y) manual. It is basically the same as a 1200. What works on one usually works for the other. I have an extra. As I was growing up, my
older brothers had race cars and I learned mechanics at a young age. One of my friends had a chassis dyno that we got to use for free to see just what things made and took away
horsepower. I guess sometimes I assume everyone has a mecanical education. I have had a few 1200's. One I bought new and put over 300,000 miles (roughly 5000,000 Kilometers) on it. That
was Mareo Speedwagon 1, a turquoise '72 sedan. I lost it and a '53 Studebaker in a divorce in 1989. I now have an aunts 1200 coupe that she bought new in '73 because she liked mine. All
cars have problems but the little 1200 has a bit less than most. I consider it the best engineered automobile ever made. I think most of the people in this club will agree to that.

You need to get yourself a repair manual for your car model. It will show pictures and drawings of your car and give names of parts and everything like that. I'm surprised
that you haven't thought of that before.