Thanks Mitch, hehehe.
The previous owner painted nearly everything in the car that can be painted. I like the funkiness but since it's going CA the engine bay will be going back to plain with chrome being the only fancy colour.

Firstly, GEEEEEEEZ that looks good 2332! I don't have any full body shots of my coupe strangely but

Before, this engine will one day go in a sedan I hope.



After


It's an 'after' in progress, hehe

I bought one from 120fly. Needless to say I'm very happy with it. I'd say more but I'm late for a pub crawl

Well I'm running mine in a Bunnings box in the back of the coupe, this bloke told me to do it, think his name was Ben or something..... wait a minute!! Don't tell me he was telling lies?!?! Hehehe.

Not my work, but I used to work as a miner on a Station in the outback, and one day one of the work utes got a flat. One of the young Geo girls swapped on the spare tyre but didn't do the wheel nuts back up properly, only finger tight. about 6 hours later 2 vacation work uni students were driving the ute off to do some field work and the wheel came off as they were driving down the road.

After calming them down we called the mechanic and he drove out, swore his head off at us for being stupid (I had nothing to do with it ), dragged his mig over and welded the wheel onto what was left of the stub axle...

That's pretty dodgy, would hate to be the person that tries to change that wheel next.

Might want to add your location

Hey guys,
I dropped 3 of my L16 main bolts down a drain.... don't ask.. one of those times when getting some sleep rather than working on your car is the better choice.

Does anyone have any so I can finish my engine? It's sad because I'm 3 bolts away from having an EFI turbo L16 stroker.

Cheers.

Times are always hard to estimate but don't forget the advice the amazing car oracle had:

That you can gain precious mili seconds by double shifting instead of granny shifting and using a motec exhaust. But if you use NOS for too long your floor pan (apparently they call these "intake manifolds" in America) will blow off and bikers will shoot your car until it explodes.

Thanks Vin Diesel.

I asked a road worthy place this exact question a few days ago and I was told "sounds fine to me, as long as it has all the correct lights and a reflector, have to ask an engineer though"

A promising but annoyingly non-commited answer.

Hey guys,
thanks for the help, sorry Ange, I'm a poor final year uni student and will have to pass, hehehe. Thanks also Billy.

Looks like the decision was made for me though, I bought a 180b sss about a month ago from a mate and he was keeping it on his farm for me but he said that if I don't pick it up on Thursday he's going to crush it to make space...... and it's in good condition for a $70 car.

So looks like I'll be bringing home a 180b this week...... I REALLY wanted a sedan because I have a fully rebuilt a12 with cam, weber and extractors for it (and sedans are very sexy in my opinion) but looks like I'm moving to an L series.

I hope people will keep talking to me , I know it's not a 1200..... but at least it's a Datsun. And it is getting a suck through L18 turbo which is going to the LPG place this week to try and tune it for straight gas (I'm rather worried about this). But a L18 turbo 180bSSS daily and a CA18Det 1200 weekend car is a pretty nice setup I think