I actually prefer the little quarter windows... great for ventilation when you don't have aircon! The 1200 would have a more modern look with the single sheet of glass though. Pity they never brought out a pillarless version of the 1200 coupe with one piece front windows (that would give the 1200 a mini muscle car look!)

sounds cool... where are you situated in Adelaide?

I run 4 into 1 extractors with a 1.75 inch exhaust with an 18 inch long straight through resonator and a dynaflow rear muffler. It's really quiet at idle (nearly as quiet as modern cars) but when you give it a bootfull it still sounds ok. Much deeper and better sounding than the standard exhaust - and it gets no attention from the cops.

My a12 is nearly stock, just running a high lift cam and a re-jetted standard carb. Surprisingly, to get the mixtures right we actually reduced the size of the main jet because the engine was running rich. I guess they must run rich stock also?

It is a fun little car to drive - sure not the quickest, but I can get 41mpg cruising at 120 - 130 km/h and it keeps up with modern traffic just fine.

Not sure about the rules in WA, but in SA it's easy. Get the sticker off and let your rego run out. Make sure you don't lose the registration renewal. Once you have done up the car (can be years) take the rego renewal down to the rego office and pay an extra $15 on top of your rego to have the date adjusted and you're back on the road.

I know we do have pretty lax laws in SA vs. the other states though, so not sure what the situation is in WA.

The remote booster at the front of the engine bay can work really well... RHD BMWs also had this setup to convert from LHD. Check out the top of the pic of my e21 to see how BMW did their setup.

(follow the link... for some reason the pic won't post)

[img]http://e21.tricord.be/members/aussie/engine%20K&N.jpg[/img]

here's an idea... take a working holiday in the UK for 12 months. By a lotus elise... series 1 versions from the late 90's - early 2000's sell for around 7000 pounds (sometimes you find them for as low as 4000 pounds).

At the current exchange rate, you get them for around 14.5k AUD. Bring it back as a personal import
When the rover engine dies, slam in whatever nissan motor you want.

You may also be able to do the same thing by taking a working holiday in Japan, although I have no idea what they cost there.

the CA20E has 84.5mm bore & 88mm stroke, so I'd presume that boring out the CA18 3mm is probably stretching it a bit too far.

Levey... as others have mentioned your profile is still listed under users... it would appear you are not banned. I don't even think that Clyons8 is a moderator (note DD's title clearly says moderator under his avatar). Over the last 12 months I have been blocked from the site on many occasions and it is no conspiracy, I'd say that the server Datsun1200.com is hosted on is slightly slow for the number of users using the site, and sometimes gets clogged up when too many people try to access the site at the same time. Pretty straight forward really. Sometimes this lasts for several days. Making up some stupid conspiracy theory and having a cry is ridiculous. Maybe you could make a sizable donation to Datsun1200.com so that the mods can pay for better hosting if it means so much to you. I happily accept that sometimes the site might be down because it is free, and I really appreciate the fact that when I log in to the forum I am not bombarded by pop-ups and advertising to try and cover the costs of hosting. I also appreciate the effort that members have put in free of charge to update the site recently.

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I was thinking the same thing! Ah well... see what happens

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication in computerese! It basically creates a bookmark that updates a list of entries each time the site is modified - used for news feeds and the like.

If you go to the page that lists all the different forums, you'll notice that in brackets next to the forum names it says (RSS)... click on RSS and you should get some kind of message saying do you want to subscribe to RSS now - in firefox, it asks you where you would like to place the bookmark (you can put it in the bookmarks list, or the bookmarks bar - the bar is most useful for a quick look at what's happening on the forums). I presume that IE7 will have some kind of similar setup - I use a mac, so don't have internet explorer to try it out - there's some info on microsoft's site - use the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/tour/rss/

Cheers
Luke