The filter ends up inverted with a slight tilt backwards. You get oil everywhere when taking off the old filter & can't put oil in the new filter because it runs out. I don't think you can rotate it any other way as I reckon people would be doing it already.

Is there an upright filter as in can be filled with oil before start up like the A series?

nice progress Harry! is this a keeper? any plans for rear lsd style grip?

As they say in the rag trade, 'Suits you, Sir". As for oil filter clearance, I've used the Z37 oil filter on my L18 Sunny for exactly the same reason. They match up to the diameter of the opening nicely & the O-ring sits in the middle of the landing. The right angle bend is from the Bluebird & is removable & probably can be retrofitted to the L16. You'll soon be cruising the coast, just in time for Winter.

I don't know if any of them had the vertical filter standard. The Gregory's manual I have for Stanzas shows horizontal filters and they used a late square light model in their pics. This one I had was an early round light Stanza.

Had to trim off the corner of the engine mount rubber to clear the filter after modifying the mounting bracket.

Nice harry. Don't all stanza L16 have vertical oil filter?

some pics....
notched x-member with stanza mounts welded on.
lowered the drivers side engine bracket about 30mm. Passenger side we left the engine bracket alone to help the Stanza extractors fit, and lowered the Stanza x-member mount instead.
All the fabrication is done now. Just some internal reg alternator wiring, finish off the hydraulic clutch conversion and a few other little bits and it will be running.

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block even matches the engine bay!

Did a similar thing to my old 1200 from the 90s and used the engine mount brackets off the Stanza x-member in this conversion, just lowered about 30mm. And notched the x-member to sit the engine nice and low. I'll be running the downdraught weber at first. The stanza extractors fit too :)

stuff's happening

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'bout time i did something with the Y again. I've been a bit distracted with a new car I bought - a V6 powered MR2 which is a good bit of fun :) Always liked them and almost bought a turbo import one many years ago - they've remained on the list of things I really wanted. And this one came up cheap. Real cheap. So I now have the Delica 4WD, twin turbo Soarer, V6 MR2, and the 120Y coupe. It's all getting a bit out of control lol I also still had the Stanza parts car taking up room, so I pulled all the bits I wanted off it last weekend and got the shell taken away...

Now that the engine's sitting there I want to get the L16 conversion done asap. , I've got this week off and yesterday I pulled the 120Y apart - engine, box, diff and leaf springs out, cleaned up the Borg Warner diff ready for paint.

Today I added a leaf to the rear springs - they were nice and low, but just a bit too soft. Also cleaned the springs and all the mounting hardware. Scraped all the loose body deadener off the underbody with a wire wheel on the grinder, then pressure washed the whole underside of the car. Once that was dry I painted the whole underside of the car, the diff, leaf springs etc in chassis black.

Tomorrow I've got to get it basically back together so it's ready to move to Nev's place on Wednesday with the hoist and welder to get the L16 and Stanza 5spd in there :)

Thanks dd. Just had a read through the tech wiki. As you say, the manifold and carbs seem to match the "A12T for B210 (1974-1975) - Extra Large Oval Ports" . I've fitted the identical (bar needle and possibly spring?) L series carbs now.
Also learnt about IMS - never actually knew what that stuff was. People always refer to them as pollution carbs. Sounds like it might be worth keeping rather than blanking off... hmmm