L-series engines were factory-fitted to B110, so it is indeed period.

Id pee my pants if I saw your car too tinman lol

Imagine all the questions I get when they think it's injected then say,"where's the injectors?" When you say Lpg they say why bother or wtf?

The L gets bonus credit in the times if efi and turbo conversions too I think

I am loving the idea of a mild L series over a ca18det now, Get to keep the period thing going, and I love the look of a good polished L series, I'd love my engine bay to be a 4 banger version of this one day.




Plenty of skids to be had with efi/turbo, but tbh a 700kg car with bullsh1t power is alot to handle, No safety in high speed accidents (another reason why I am going with a roll cage), and if it ends up anything like my skyline, skids on the highway at 100 are not my thing anymore. A car I can strap around the hills without burning my brakes for every corner and something that makes a cool N/A sound will be the bomb for me.

Hoping to end up with getting the L20B ported, mild cam and raised compression with twin webber DCOE's/extractors as an end result.

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Dave Homer is the fastest guy in the country with those things and had very highly developed and record holding NA and turbo engines. His under 1600 record at Mt Cotton with the NA G13B is 48.04. I ran 48.3 the one time I took the 146rwbhp L18 1200 coupe there having not run there for a couple of years before that. Would certainly have expected to go quicker if I went back a couple more times. But anyway, there was only a few tenths in it. Shows that handling and braking aren't really compromised by the L series conversion.
To back that up his 10.8second 1/4mile turbo G13B engined Swift with 237kw atw which holds the record at Mt Cotton for over 2L was a tenth slower than my 230rwkw Datsun 1200 coupe there. He spent a couple of years getting his setup right and used tyre softener. I did 3 events on the old 2nd hand tyres that were on the car when I bought it. Comparisons don't get much fairer than that. The CA18 turbo 1200 was heavier than a L series 1200, so again there's no need to worry about handling or braking with those engine conversions in a 1200.