Ive also found a perfect fit tailshaft, 1200 auto tailshaft, bolts up to my borgy diff and has about 20mm play at the gearbox end(stanza 5spd).

Well heres an update,
I have used a bare block, head and gearbox to test fit the L16, crossmember and engine mounts are currently tack welded with the fresh motor in the car now.



Moved the alternator to the right side of the motor to give more room for the clutch master set-up i have.



Also had to do a fair bit of gentle hammer/dolly work to the sump to fit over the crossmember.

Ah, you're a lucky man - I was going to head down to Lonsdale soon to get that clutch master!

Yep - interesting car eh? I wonder why the owner didn't finish it and felt the need to sell it to U-pull-it at a massive loss?

I posted a pic of it just before, its pretty well made, even has a grease nipple for the bushings and a near new m/c.

I haven't heard of that hydraulic clutch setup before. Let us know how it goes in.

Well i paid a visit to U-pull-it today, found a great radiator, aluminium, triple core and nearly new, out of a saab. It is awesome quality, also has fans front and back, might have to remove the fans and just run two smaller fans on the grill side, but i will see when its all in the car, also the rad doesnt have a filler cap, its a closed unit and you fill through the overflow bottle, which is also aluminium. All hoses are the same size and on the correct sides too, plus attached is a small oil cooler, I wont use cooler for now, but it will come in handy later.
I also found another little beauty, i was looking at an early lancer that I had grabbed the brake master cyl and booster out of a week before, but i had forgot the check valve, and lucky i did forget it, because when i saw the car today i noticed it had some kind of turboed saturn motor? Anyway this engine/box has a hydraulic clutch but strangely the cable setup was still in the car, i followed the cable to a custom remote clutch m/c that is just perfect for the a-series cable, so i will have a unmolested firewall![img align=left]http://datsun1200.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=7657[/img]
[img align=left]http://datsun1200.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=7656[/img]

Awesome stuff, xmas cheers for all those that helped, Heathbruce, cheers for the photos, they are fantastic, Pepper and L18-B110, ah and a couple for the rest too! I will try to get as many photos taken during the swap, as possible. This is panning out to be quite a simple swap, now thats confidence! Wonder if I will feel the same in a week or so, greasemonkeyed to the armpits...

Cheers guys

the stanza 5spd's speedo gear will be fine. Mine was accurate with that box.

and as heathbruce said, the senders will work fine with the 1200 instruments/lights.

There must be heaps of radiators that will fit and do the job. I used a Volvo 240 radiator, and a thermo fan off an early commodore (VB-VH) in front of the radiator. Cut down VN V6 commodore top hose and a standard Datsun 1600 bottom hose with a little trimmed off each end.

Ah, will have to do some searching at u-pull-it, $44 for any radiator, may aswell get a good one, like heathbruce said, one with factory fans would be good too. Ive seen that most newer cars have a temp sensor in the rad too for the fans to work off.

i do believe the 'rabbit' is a 'golf' here