My last trip to the parts shop for regular replacment struts and a set of brake pads and shoes is more than what my sedan is insurable for.

Unfortunaly one of the bad parts of moding a car with next to no retail and insurable value...

Anyone know where I can find a replacment Datsun badge as fitted to the 1200 sedan right before the side pannel wraps around to the back of the car?

As per mildman, the majority of the cost is labour, I cant see it being under 15-20 hours of solid work to require a complete 1200... might not be complex but its still one hell of a lot of wires

I agree, but one must remember you are not always paying for actual part/material prices. Often suppliers will build in a markup for R&D done on many items...

IE.
Customer one:
Buys $3000au coil overs from maddat, bolts them in and gets brilliant results within a few minutes

Customer two:
Spends $950 slapping a kit together, then works out the problems, tries to fix it, cost him another $200-300, then the locks arnt right and causes damage and another few $$$ and so on till he eventualy 8 months down the line gets it right costing him not much less than what maddat charges for known good performance items where the R&D has been put in.

Just a total theoretical to understand why people somtimes do charge more than most understand, they put their time into building and selling a good quality product that its tried and tested, you can not expect them to not get anything out of it.

Yes its the event in Knysna,

Yes, its the origional color, "sunshine yellow" though it looks more green in kak light, will take some nice pics this evening.

On target, but only just

Yeah its a great sense of satisfaction, but damm its a horrible job, especialy when rushed, have two weekends to finnish the whole car before a big hill climb and then a International event early November...

Rush rush rush

With enough money anything is possible.

Is it likely that it went to 13 500 and still made power? I doubt it, port sizes alone would need to be MASSSSSIVE to support that type of flow, with that type of build the last think you would worry about is using some old V8 single spring per valve setup.

I now have no skin left on my fingers

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I hear you, just would me a big pitty to do all that work to have it perform worse, the IRS lotus guys get slaughtered by the live axel guys, they always seem to have a battle keeping it under control.

Unless its poo brown or tan,,, then i would repaint