dude i got your message and sent emails and will contact road rat monday. The problem is i am in Cape Town and they are in joburg and pretoria.---things happen very slowly here cos everybody is relaxed here [must be as result of the recent law they passed that you can smoke weed and grow it at home]

'' I get by with a little help from my friends''lol ---Can the E16 crankshaft work with an A14 block. A15 are scarce and those at the importers are rubbish --just not worth it.

I was looking for an A15 when i saw this car [gumtree south africa] Datsun 1200 winner of the 9 hour race.The little 1200 just kept tickin' over and there was a lot of sour faces from the other manuf. I'm not 100% sure but it looks like the orig. and the owner is quite well known name.More cars on OLX eg. datsun with egi,AGE,v6 etc --sorry about the link

yes Bert i was watching the under 2l p/island 2016.I must say if it's a 1200 turbo it is quite fast just a pity he had problems in the first race. In race 2 and 3 he was back in the mix although he started way back.Bloody good for a 1200 turbo

does anybody know what is in that red 1200 coupe?

Yeah but to us it is still expensive. DD when i see what you are paying for engines and gearboxes i just shake my head.[never]An A15 plus g/box for R4500.00 here [A$ 450] --bargain last week ---only thing is lots of auto parts are stolen,not reg or no papers --so problems when you reg it

DD the parts for the 1200/1400 you can buy all over.The square grille you can buy at the chinese auto shops and the chaps like to make it look like a champ bakkie.I just bought 4 door hinges at the chinese shop annd they look and work better than the originals R700.00 or 70.00au$

dd geez you also using the word bakkie already lol. The word bakkie was used by the old boere -- they would say ''gooi dit agter op die bakkie'' --throw it on the back.The model you should get on the same page you got the bakkie.The two main colours were grey and brown interior.The heritage bakkie that was shown i have never seen here [could be i missed it]The best seller [looks] was the 1400 Champ --known as 'the bakkie that built south africa' cos all gov and small business used the bakkie.I think this is about 2006 ---a model just before the heritage

Ay just as a matter of interest the Banzai car mag has the datsun 1200 coupe [Jan month] and next month [Feb month] will have a datsun lowrider [wagon] ---looks like the 120y station wagon --sold in RSA

D you wrote quite a lot about the E16 crankshaft [same as lemonhead is using] and i had a look at the wiki and some other sites. I am still not sure if this was sold in south africa. Info wiki gives is nissan sentra fwd 1982 ---1988 and i think it is 1600. I know there were 2 types of sentras sold --box type with long rect rear lights and one with corner lights. Wiki shows b12 and b13 --so are they found in these vehicles and why is it called e16 crank.