Had a look at a heavily worked L20 this morning, but after having a think about it while playing with the A series carbs and doing some sums, I've decided it makes more sense to stick to a mild L16 as per the original plan, and just make it a nice cruiser. I don't want this one to become a track car.

So I ended up buying a rear-ended and rusty Stanza instead. I'll use the L16, 5spd, engine and gearbox mounts, clutch master, slave and lines, radiator hoses and the alloy radiator - if it will fit... The rest I'll part out.
Motor and box have apparently been rebuilt a few years ago - who knows, but there was no smoke or anything, so I can whack it in and worry about mods later. Got to arrange a car trailer to pick it up tomorrow night.

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Shame your not closer, I'd be picking parts off that car.

If you can get some small ram tubes like the original air cleaner, it does improve throttle response. I had an air cleaner made up for the twin 'su's using an XC falcon air filter as a pattern. A friend made up a top & bottom plate to fit the filter, with the necessary holes to suit. I then went to either Finer Filter or Unifilter, I forget which & they already had a foam filter to suit, giving lots of clearance to the ram tubes. Sold the whole lot before getting a chance to try it out. Good score on the Stanza, you probably wont be needing to finish the air cleaner now.

Yeah, ram tubes definitely help. Unfortunately they rip you off for SU ram tubes - a single SU ram tube costs as much as a pair of them for a weber. I'll get these A14 Hitachis up and running right so I can sell them as a going concern. I'll probably make a filter setup for them. I like tinkering around with stuff like that.

Picked up the Stanza last night. Pretty happy with that deal. I might keep an eye out for a cheap B310 Sunny to swap the rest of the driveline into. I have a lead on cheap to free L20 as well. I could just about put an l series Sunny together with the parts I'll have left over!

These look like A12T hitachis, A14T hitachis had electric chokes and triangular inlets

Thanks dd. Just had a read through the tech wiki. As you say, the manifold and carbs seem to match the "A12T for B210 (1974-1975) - Extra Large Oval Ports" . I've fitted the identical (bar needle and possibly spring?) L series carbs now.
Also learnt about IMS - never actually knew what that stuff was. People always refer to them as pollution carbs. Sounds like it might be worth keeping rather than blanking off... hmmm

'bout time i did something with the Y again. I've been a bit distracted with a new car I bought - a V6 powered MR2 which is a good bit of fun :) Always liked them and almost bought a turbo import one many years ago - they've remained on the list of things I really wanted. And this one came up cheap. Real cheap. So I now have the Delica 4WD, twin turbo Soarer, V6 MR2, and the 120Y coupe. It's all getting a bit out of control lol I also still had the Stanza parts car taking up room, so I pulled all the bits I wanted off it last weekend and got the shell taken away...

Now that the engine's sitting there I want to get the L16 conversion done asap. , I've got this week off and yesterday I pulled the 120Y apart - engine, box, diff and leaf springs out, cleaned up the Borg Warner diff ready for paint.

Today I added a leaf to the rear springs - they were nice and low, but just a bit too soft. Also cleaned the springs and all the mounting hardware. Scraped all the loose body deadener off the underbody with a wire wheel on the grinder, then pressure washed the whole underside of the car. Once that was dry I painted the whole underside of the car, the diff, leaf springs etc in chassis black.

Tomorrow I've got to get it basically back together so it's ready to move to Nev's place on Wednesday with the hoist and welder to get the L16 and Stanza 5spd in there :)

stuff's happening

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block even matches the engine bay!

Did a similar thing to my old 1200 from the 90s and used the engine mount brackets off the Stanza x-member in this conversion, just lowered about 30mm. And notched the x-member to sit the engine nice and low. I'll be running the downdraught weber at first. The stanza extractors fit too :)

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notched x-member with stanza mounts welded on.
lowered the drivers side engine bracket about 30mm. Passenger side we left the engine bracket alone to help the Stanza extractors fit, and lowered the Stanza x-member mount instead.
All the fabrication is done now. Just some internal reg alternator wiring, finish off the hydraulic clutch conversion and a few other little bits and it will be running.

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