at the end she was powered by a rebuilt to standard spec ca, running a std rb20 turbo(ceramic) at 21psi,link ecu,custom inlet manifold, feul rail and a 1uzfe throttle body with tracrion control machined off, rx7 injectors, bosch 910 pump, std box with brass button clutch, r32 complete rear end std viscous lsd, i run a 12.3 with some second hand semi slicks then tried it out for drifting.
I had a heap more pictures on a laptop but when i broke up with ex she deleted them all, nice girl she was! I ended up removing the front clip at fire wall and tub framed it tieying back to roll cage, fitted s13 x meber and steering rack, increased front track to match rear and started to glass guards to match pumped rear, i ran bluebird 910 struts with custom 5 stud hubs r32 rotors and 4 pot brakes, custom rose joint bottom arms and castor rods and rose joint as top of strut for camber adjustment. i fitted the std radiator support panel and had a cut down truck intercooler with wraparound end tanks, my intercooler pipe work was about 200mm each side. When i decided to move to oz i sold running gear on trademe to a guy who was goin to fit it into a mrk2 cortina and kept shell for a year then got a mate to sell it on. Not sure what become of it.

Pics have been scanned from photos i recently found in cuboard.
I had this along time and did all mods except wiring computer while i was completeing my apprenticship as (NZ spec) Fitter/ welder (boilermaker/welder)

I now run a small workshop in adelaide mainly completing domestic structual steel, balustrade etc, i still do about 30% automotive engineering, have all gear for cams roll cages, ali and s/s tig work and have my own line of turbo manifolds(machine pipes for merge collector) identical to 6boost items but priced realistically. i will be adding a write up of 1200 sedan that am repairing at present that i bought off p plater who took out bustop poll.

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thats awesome, some serious work been done to that!

hey mate
love your work
be interested to speak to you about the s13 cross member and rack conversion as i am doing the same thing with my ute
cheers

if you using the complete xmber and lower control arms and rack then the geometry is set already, when i did mine i shotened the x member, moved the lower control arm mounts and had custom control arms, it took me 2 goes, first time i lowered it down and the wheels toed in when i jacked it they went to 0 toe. the distance from centre of tie rod ball joint to centre of lower control arm ball joint needs to equal to centre of steering rack to centre of lower control arm pivot bolt and also distances laterally equal also when wheels are facing straight. a diagram would be easier to explain.
The other problem is a std 1200 steering colume is held at bottom by steering box, with the rack conversion i made a custom mount at end of std colume that mounted to factory points on firwall and modded the colume shaft to attach the 2 s13 universal joints and short shaft, i also shortened the colume shaft as i am a big bugger and found the steering wheel to close in a ute.

sweet dude
yeah will be using the crossmember and rack hadnt planned on using the lower control arms but that sounds like the go too.
im thinking of going the s13 steering colum in stead of adapting the 1200 colum though. thanks for the info man
i may need more help once i get aroung to the actual fabrication though lol
cheers mate

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The guy who owned it last was a user on this forum. http://datsun1200.com/modules/newbb/v ... =ASC&type=&mode=0&start=0 here is the story. doesn't have a happpy ending.

Thanks for the link, interesting what become of it. Do you know if he finished the new shell off?

not sure, I've never actually met him. He hasn't logged on for two months. But I've sent him an invite to the next datto cruise. So hopefully he comes along.

That is just nuts...