or just keep it in you shed for a while and sell it... so are you going to normal reg it or club reg? race car or fun road toy? i do love the 2 dr thou's. wanna buy my wagon? rego'd until friday haha

thou love is in the air lately :)

saw this beast tonight, very nice find. hard to find in this original condition. I also siad i have first dibs if he wants to sell (haha good luck!) awesome start for a project

Yep, she's a good looker all right. Thanks for your help getting her in the shed. My half clean shed that is now filled with stuff again. Good stuff this time, not evil stuff.

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Mik, for once I like your thinking. But I will be holding off on any brake conversions at this stage. The way I see it, if blokes like Bert and the other thou guys can race the arse off these things with drum brakes, then I can use them for occasional duties. I'll see how they perform first. And besides, the car is going to be light as hell wnyway, even with me in it it's not going to be pushing over 900kg.

Who wants to know what motor I'm going to put in?

All right, you twisted my arm. Some already know anyway. Ive got a CR14DE from a 2008 Nissan Micra on the shed floor which is as luc would have it, a fairly easy bolt up. But I'm slowly working through getting a manual behind it. Before the thou I was considering using it behind a 1200 auto, but now that the thou is here, it will be manual.Depending on what the authorities have to say in reguards to ECu's, I am hoping to get away with using an aftermarket job and not having it engineered, but if that is the case, it may be impossible. But I may be forced to use a smaller CR12DE or the CR10DE to make it easier for factory ECU. Let's see what pans out.

Brakes are easy for 12inch rims if you so wish no need to look at other makes
especially FWD. The datsun 1200 coupes front brakes pretty much bolt straight
up if you use the sigma caliper brackets modded to mount the 1200 or 120y calipers
but I found Sigma GE discs & calipers are worth the effort if buying new rotors and
running 13 inch rims. No need to tell the engineer the caliper bracket was modded.

You might be in luck with the CR10de without engineering if the mounts look
factory enough, you have to somehow retain all the pollution gear and stay
within the necessary capacity limits.

The CR10De might have the longer rods so the cr14de crank could
be a drop in item taking it up to a cr13de with "cr10" on the block.
However 71mm bores taken 1mm+ overbore will make it 1348cc.
Not running air con & power steering pumps will bring power up.

If no pollution gear... you already know lpg is a goer but there is something
very special about the 1000 tudor/fodoors in that the original fuel tank sit
behind the rear seat. This means like another member has proven in a 1000 that an
70l LPG tank will sit nicely with room to spare. I have a 72 litre Stainless
tank which by law needs to be in the boot or not exposed to the elements as
its of thin gauge making it halve the weight of the normal steel LPG tanks.

In not saying to go LPG but the option is there as it rids all pollution gear
and a 4age quad throttle body setup could be used with Oz made lpg injectors.
This in turn allows you to use a ca10de as you can state that A10 engines
are too hard to rebuild or get parts for which is under the guidelines
providing the power is equivalent or 10% more like its capacity.

The LPG fitter will pass whatever induction and exhaust you wish to run in
the name of getting the LPG to run properly and efficient as he sees fit.

If you decide to engineer it in the future when funds come your way or if
you want to go further then something like this might be of interest.
http://forum.cubeownersclub.co.uk/topic/2667
A sc14 would be perfect though for 1.4 litres :))

Good one Don,yes as D has said the 1200 coupe hubs and rotors will go straight on to the 1K stubs,then all you need is to make or buy a bracket to hold the "push me pull me" A series caliper and keep the 12" wheels,however it's worth trying the drums for a while if they hav'nt had the crap machined out of them.

Back in Bathurst days when the 1000 won its class
they used some kind of shoes called green grabbers
or something from what I heard from Gordon Dobey.
It allowed the 1000s to brake 20-40 or so metres later
than the bigger disc braked cars.
Id still prefer discs though in the wet.

Don there is always this as a parts car
http://melbourne.gumtree.com.au/c-Car ... wagon-W0QQAdIdZ285192761#

There will be no parts cars at this stage. I picked up a fair amount of spares with the car, but no extra's ubtil I sort my shed situation out.

Today I'm goint to fire it up. It hasn't been started for over 3 years. Luckily theres a POS mazda blocking the driveway preventing me from taking it for a drive. If I'm lucky I might have enough time to have a look at the brakes.

did it start?

No glory this weekend. Two batterys dead, and old mmate didn't bother picking up the mazda body so I can't jump start it. So I organised the spares and cleaned out the boot. Found it has pretty much the entire tool kit, even the wooden screwdriver. I might just buy a new battery anyway, I'm going to need one.

Looks like a solid little beast, Well Done Don.