okay call me crazy, but i too like the look of 12" rims, plus when you put your foot down and dont get tracktion you get to leave a big cloud of smoke :) I wonder if there is a way to put the 120y rotors and brake onto the 200b stut tower. Sure you cant stop as quick but you can always adjust your driving style. From what i can see, it depends on your front end as to what strut tower and rotor you can have. The 120y front end has a completly differnt lower control arm compared to the 180B/200B/240K. I cant see any easy way to make the two fit. The 120y standard one is shorters too and has a differnt bolt pattern when the ball joint bolts to the bottom of the tower. A 120y front end is too weak as the engine mounts break and plus i dont think the ca18 would fit on them. My other problem is i want it low but having 14" and 13" means moderfying the gurads, which is hard to get real nice. I just pucked up a straight as 120y for $700 from the wreckers and dont want to touch it with a hammer

White sedan,

They were on an early Sunny (round headlight model). I'm guessing thay were the stock ones?

They definately weren't the better looking late sunny ones because I've got those on my coupe.

Damn, I should have taken a pic.

Rodger that folks, thanks for the clarification.

Right

Will have a look at those fins when I get back home tommrrow. (so over work right now!)

About the cooling fins, I didnt think that they were that high, but Ill look tommrrow.

Rock on...

mt latest project car isn't rusted out, it just spent 5 years with no doors on it... the rust on the inside of the firewall is just surface rust - I should have killrusted it before I put it together

only really bed area of rust is the spare tyre well... it doesn't exist any more

apart fro that it's all good! andthe really rusted out car (the sunny) isn't going to be a problem anymore, as it no longer runs...

anyway, back on topic - the struts in it are off my March '77 120Y (The Defect)

I was going to use the struts and calipers form the stocky struts - but the seal and rubber bits were perished and I didn't know what they were - they DID clear my 200BSX alloys thouh!

I will be using the struts from the stocky struts though as I think the shockes on them work as the coils have been cut (the coils are going too - different diamater coils fleft and right)

those struts hissed when I pushed them unto the wheelarch so I'm hoping they are good...

not wanting to spend $250 on monroe inserts

I still have the ORIGINAL struts out of the Defect III (current project) as the shockies still work on them) as it's only done 130,125 kays they are stil filled with oil!

but they are early model struts as TD3 is a July '74 120Y

have to see what Pheghm (so called because it's that gross green colour that 120Y's were painted) has under the front of it...

that's another 120Y I have to retreive...

Reuby i think what tyrie was talking about was the fins part of the casting on the calliper themselves that catch the cool air and cool the calliper not the backing plates he ground them down as they increase the height in the caliper

reuby_tuesday, the fins are the ribs that run across the back of the calipers. As for the backing plates they are ok to leave off (might upset the transport authority), better again cut vents in the backing plates to direct air onto the disc, dont know if it would make much difference though.

Tyrie

the cooling fins that you tak about, are they the backing plates that sit between the disk and the axle??

what bit did you trim?

I was actually considering actually leaving them off.

Which steelies TnPshow? My partner hates her 13" 180b hubcaps, if I can fit the original 1200 hubcaps on her car again she would be very happy and have an absolute mint set that were on her car originally.

Certain 13" steelies have a 'double lip' so that both 13" and 12" hub caps fit.

Sounds odd I know...

I was at a wrecking yard which had a Sunny with 1000 coupe hubcaps fitted!

Yes - they were DEFINATELY 13's.

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Hey mate I have r31 rear brakes too, had to trim the fins a bit but I'm running 13" jellybeans with 180B hubbies.