"From what we know of your car it sounds as though you have already have a good, standard A12 in there" teretonga

Well I'd thought that I'd let you know what was wrong with my engine at the moment, I've got a bearing noise and an excessive amount of smoke at times, neither of which bother me too much.
A new engine is what I'd decided I needed, but I was expecting more like NZ $3-400, if I get there and look at it and it doesn't seem as good as he advertised it I'll pass, and stick with what I've got. Maybe go for an A14 when I get home, I know that the wreckers yard had one from a ute with cross member and 1 month warranty for $400. I guess we'll have to see...........

Well this will be my last post probably for a couple of months as i'm going back home to the stone age! The plan is still to install the engine on the way home, tomorrow morning actually. So I guess wish me luck (oh and thanks for all the good advice in the last 8 months or so)

im a chch person so repco butler auto mar super cheap auto spares would be good might be able to help with engine swap

Hello again guys well the swap had some interesting complications!
I could tell you all of them but it would bore you all to tears!The car is going better than ever now thank god, I think we performed the slowest straight swap ever in a 1200! It took 4 of us 15 hours to do it! The key things to this were, different engine mounts, forgetting the spacer between the block and the fuel pump and therefore wondering why our carb was leaking.
Drove the 400km back home wih no troubles, all I need to do now is tune it..........
Because it is running so well, I'm now looking down the extractors, dellortos, exhaust road again, so it anyone has any tell me!
ps rally-a-coupe Butlers charged us $22.45 for a carb gasket kit, which it turned out we didn't need!

Since then I've had a few little complications, the temp gauge no longer works, it's a gauge problem and not the temp sender, we think!The top of the radiator developed a leak so i was running an unpressurised cooling system for a while, hopefully not too long!Then developed an intermittent stalling problem, eventually found out to be a loose connection on the coil, after replacing everything electrical apart from the distributor!I got a CD player the other day to power over the top of the 3700 odd revs I'm pulling for hours at a time on the way to uni!I'm getting towards completing my Datsun 1200 apprenticeship, all I need to replace now is the diff and the gearbox and that will pretty much be the whole car!

Did you ever go down the exhaust, side draught, etc. route if not, I have exhaust bits available.