cheers. I've always like the uniqueness of 120Y coupes. Lowered on wide wheels transforms them I reckon.

I've moved the radiator across 80mm - Heaps of clearance to the alternator now. It puts the radiator in the right place for the Stanza hoses, which is what I should've done in the first place... Just need a new top hose now.

Looking at that centre console, maybe you should find one of these, a Datsun 1200 ute centre console, but not at this price. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/DATSUN-120 ... 806a19:g:mIQAAOSwtJZXWhPX
It would give a little storage space & maybe even cover that plate. I was looking at the Sunny centre consoles & they have the same problem as the 120Y one. Lucky for me I have some stumpy's, so I wont need to cut the tunnel or the console.

or maybe get a B210 long console? I haven't seen one in my country, but apparently they used in Japan

3 stumpys came up for sale on Datsun Classified on the weekend! lol 1 stumpy skyline and 2 Stanzas...

Hard to see in my photo, but it's already got the long B210 console. Had to cut about 3" more out of it for the shifter. I reckon I can make something up to fill the middle of it. Or make a new one - There was a mob making centre consoles 30yrs ago - they used to advertise in Street Machine magazine. I had one in my first Datsun 1200 sedan. They were just MDF with some foam glued over it and trimmed in black vinyl - wouldn't be hard to make something like that.

Thank, I get it now

Since the shifter is farther back, you had to cut a new hole in the long console. Now I have some idea of what this "mystery console" is, looks like they used a 1200 shift boot

yep, that looks like the same console modified to me. Looks pretty good too.

The Stanza top hose arrived yesterday, just needed to be shortened about 10mm. Now it's all done! Drove it to work today to celebrate completion of the engine conversion and give it a good test run in traffic. It idles nice and lumpy and drives well - cool old school cruiser basically done now. I still want to fit the twin Hitachis, but that can wait a while - I'll enjoy driving it as is for a while before doing any more work on it.

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It could be just an optical illusion, but it seems to me that the top hose is slightly squashed in the curves. Maybe a little more off the front section connecting to the radiator to ease this. Isn't the choke connected? Does that mean it has an electric choke, or somebody removed the mechanism, or simply that you don't need a choke in tropical Queensland.

Sounds to me like you've put together a pretty good car. Gives me the motivation to get working on the old Biegemobile & fit it with the L20B with 86.5 mm pistons & a 76 degree cam, & a R30 Stumpy box & a H190 diff with LSD centre & the...But it's just above freezing & there's always the weekend.

I see what you're mean in that 2nd photo, but the top hose is OK. Must just be the way the shadows fall on it in that pic.

Choke is there but not connected, and like you say it's not really needed here in QLD - we're all rugged up because its only hitting about 20degrees - bloody freezing! This one is running pretty rich at the moment anyway. I probably won't worry about this carb, leave it as is until I get around to the Hitachis.

You've got some goodies there for the beige Sunny! She'll be a good thing

Had a bit of daylight left when I got home, so I de-choked the carb and leaned the idle/low speed out a fair bit. Much better now :)

Also bolted the stock steering wheel back on. When I was driving it around yesterday, I decided the deep dish rally wheel really didn't suit the character of the car.