thanks andrew, its good to join the brigade. and boy is it a sleeper, the paint is very faded and old looking you woul be very hard pressed to pick it. i followed your initial build very closely and was convinced by your site to give it a go. i wouldn't be too worried about your figure the number you have is either wrong, or something is wrong in the motor. then again, all a dyno does is measure resistance, and can be pre adjusted to any figure. i`m sure she's a beast mate!!!

yeah Andrew that would be good....I have just arranged with John Taylor to pick up his little blue khana cross coupe which the sump guard would be good for....

Sounds awesome dude.
You are going to have lots of fun humiliating people in real flash cars with a poor old datto.
gotta love a sleeper

so what are you doing for brakes / suspension lagwagon??

the rear end i was lucky enough to buy from a guy who had written his sr20t coupe off. its a shortened hilux lsd which uses 30 spline ford nine inch axels, which in a 1200 should be unbreakable! leafs are shorter or flatter or something? which lowers it down quite a bit. it just uses rx4 rear drum and i bought new shocks.

the front end i sort of created myself. i took an r31 strut, and cut the spring perch off (the diameter of the spring is far too big to fit up the 1200 strut tower) and while i was at it chopped out about 2 inches from the actual length of the strut to accommodate some koni yellow shocks which i picked up cheap and had rebuilt (which is also cheap to have done). so the front end stiffness is adjustable with a little knob. because i had them rebuilt, i asked for the soft setting to have a hard rebound for goodweight transfer when i go to the drags. the springs are just some pedders lowered made for a stanza which i modified. it is just running the standard r31 vented disk and caliper. both of which are huge for a 1200.

i'm using a 120y booster and new master cylinder which was quite a task to fit! i bought new nolothane bushes for the whole front end, and the swaybar is 22mm.

How much was the front track increased with the R31 struts? I've got a set sitting here and was thinking about using them. Also what steereing arms and tie rods did you use? Thanks. Wagon sounds great, by the way!