hi guys for all who are interested i thought that i would tell you about my dato 1200 coupe. it has an A-15 with twin 40mm webers, ford laser flat top pistons, big cam (wont go at under 3000rpm), massive head work, lightened flywheel, exceedy racing clutch and is fully balanced (rev's to 8000 no worries). this is backed up by a nissan 60 series 4speed box and a 4.11 lsd for road use and a 4.8 welded for circuit racing. suspension wise i have stanza struts, lengthened lower control arms and massive 28mm whiteline sway bars front and rear that are fully ajustable it also has koni fully ajustable struttops. it has a cams aproved rolcage and sparco and recaro race seats with street legal 4pt harnesses. the motor puts out 109hp at the treads and will overtake my dad's BA XR8 UTE which is a big thing for a learner driver (but dont fear ive been driving competitivly since i was 10) please let me know what you guys think. the car was previously David Male's and i purchased it for $4200 with extra rally and advan tyres. once again let me know what you guys think and if someone lets me know how to put pics up i will gladly do that. thanks

please do put pics up. Sounds very good indeed. Would also be good to get some video Cant get enough of that a series roar.

i know it sounds awesome at 7000 just full webers. and a mighty 1500 singing its lushous song

Hey mate it sounds great.

To put photos up, go here

are you entering the hillclimb/ supersprint in december?

Cheers

i agree sounds like a fairly decent *cough* f#ckin awesome *cough* lol sorry im only 16 and easily excited

possum1200 im 16 as well but i still owe $3500 to my parents for it
to ianey im entering it in the australian hillclimb in november as well as the supersprint and hillclimb in december so i might see you there?
sorry guys i cant get the pics working but ill keep trying i think the size is to big

thats one at the july hillclimb

one at the july motorkhana


two at the july motorkhana (notice "L" plates)

and finally three at july motorkhana saddly i cannot drive it in motorkhana's and khanacrosses as john cain my engine tuner said that the webers dont like dust and because i cant completly filter all of the air inlets on the webers its now only my "p" plate car and my track car

Woody

John Cain tuned mine too and on the 16km trip into town today (for a blue slip tomorrow) it was pinging it's head off. I really need better fuel....& another engine tuner.

I'll have mine at Bathurst in November but I don't think I'll run then. Motor will still be a bit fresh and my driving skills need a bit of work before I attempt any serious motorsport.

Will be good to have a look at your car though. I'll say g'day if I see you there. Possum1200 from Orange might also come down. He should anyway.

what engine do you have in your coupe and what carbies. john just told me to run bp ultimate + octane booster and that cured the ping. on john's dyno after the tune it made 60hp at the wheels (on his dyno) what did yours make?

woody

It's an a15 (1608cc) with twin 45's. I haven't tried any of those octane boosters in it yet but I am running it (trying to run it) on BP Ultimate. I think there were a few guys on here said it was better fuel than Shell Optimax.

John has only tuned the thing to get it running and told me at the time to find better fuel (it had Ultimate in it when I took it to him). No HP figures as yet. I'll go back in about 1500km's and see what it does then.