Yeah I,m sure a ca or sr will have heaps of h/p and be great to drive, but it depends on what your trying to do with your car. Yes my car is an a series, it will have better weight dispersment and will corner better than a ca powered car and therefor will be faster.

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I am lucky enough to own 2 datsuns. One A series powered and one CA powered. I'll give you one guess as to which one is more fun.......

To the OP
Thank you very much for posting up the actual weight you have removed. Very few take the time.
Matty

why not just remove the a-series and put a real motor in, you dont have to worry about weight then :)

Yes it seams a shame to add all the weight back on after removing it, will add more h/p and look out for lighter wheels..........

14" tires weighed more than 12" tires even back in the 70s.

You don't want any part heavier than it needs to be... use magnesium wheels, like Chromadora. They are lighter than factory steel wheels.

Looks like I,m going to have to add more h/p.....

find some light weight jap wheels and remember your not going to ga anywhere fast with 12inch wheels :)

It's the same with brakes though, to go better ya realy hafto go bigger (heavier), but ya just got find the happy medium.. Like there is no point having 380mm disks and 6 pot calipers on a 700kg car when 250mm disks an a good 2 pot caliper will pull it up as hard as the tires permit.

Yeah guess that is the price you pay, I brought them because I thought they would look good on my car. I did,nt weigh the tyres befor they were fitted but I would think tyres would weigh more than they did in the eary 70s. The guy at the tyre shop said that a lot of steel goes into them now.
It just seams a bit dissapointing after taking off 25.5kg to put it back on to have a flash set of wheels...

Its the price paid for more rubber, If posible (i.e. will fit over brakes, affordability)you might want to go 13" or 14" in a similir rim? I hav some 13's that weigh 4.2Kg's and some 14's that wiegh 5.0Kg's. obviously thats without tires, I recon tires would probly double them figures rughly?

The term here is 'unsprung weight', makeing your suspension not hafto work so hard to keep full contact with the road