Are you able to drop the motor enough without disconnecting the lower control arms?

Fixed the box today, it looks like it was a combination of the selector prong coming out of the selector shaft slots and then the little tab that stops you going from 5th down to reverse seems to have jammed over to the far right.

I've fixed it and nearly got the car back together but am too nervous to drive it to the nats now because i won't have any de-bugging time.

Fortunately I have filled my track position so I won't be too badly out of pocket.

For those of you who are interested, my sedan is now running reliably and I'm having a ball in it. There is still plenty of stuff I'd like to get done to it but the basics are there and it's keeping cool and has enough grunt to scare me every now and then.

Here's a couple of pics.






And here's my two exhaust tips. At the moment I only have the one muffler in the system and it's freakin loud with the full 3 inch pipe so I made this little pipe to keep it quiet. It loses heaps of power but at least it doesn't attract too much attention.

nah you should just keep the big one, and drive near commodores and skylines and stuff

no one will ever suspect the little datsun

yeah they're also more likely to get blamed for the tire smoke coming from the area as well