Hi - apparently Australian Stanza cross members,struts and rears bolt straight into Australian B310's. Maybe I have been away too long but I can't recall a NZ Stanza. Has anyone got a photo of one and if they exist how many are around?
My real question is related to NZ B310's - do the components of the NZ Stanza bolt up to the Sunny? If so I feel an L series conversion coming on.

I think it will hold true that:
Stanza = A10 = USA Late 70s 510

Chris

Is this the stanza that everyone talks about

Stanza

I dont recal ever seeing one in NZ. Maybe theyre just rare and Im too young. If thats the case its still not much help

yep, thats the one. Also got marketed as a Violet GT / GTS, or as a 160J SSS. Not to be confused with the earlier, rounder violet or 160j!
Available in coupe form they are a thing of beauty.
They were rather uncommon in NZ for reasons unknown....

Erol had one here

Errol currently has three stanza coupes, one really good, one really rare (SSS coupe) and one really ready for wrecking.
See here Datrats stanza coupes

The only A10 I've seen in NZ was a 160J SSS coupe in Hastings. Isn't an A10 stanza basically like an L-series powered B310?
These Stanza strut discussions used to confuse me too. They sound awfully similar to my B310 sunny struts. When I bought new inserts for them a few years back, I used the A10 inserts from the Monroe Australia catalogue. They also have the same wheel bearings, makes me think they're either the same or very similar. Which also makes me think that yes, maybe you could bolt a Stanza Xmember into a B310 sunny and have L-series power. L-powered sunnys have been done many times and is apparantly a very good conversion

Looks like you might be staying in AUS a bit longer!!!

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Kind of. Very similar layout of suspension. But ... they are bigger and heavier than the B310, which is the succesor of the 1200 (B110).

They really are the the size successor for the original P510, because the Bluebird series grew to be a big car, then Nissan needed one that was in the middle. Though technically there was the 610 and 710 series side by side for a while. The A10/HL510 was the direct successor of the 710, while the 510, 610, 810 then 910 was the bluebird line.

Hope I got that right.

The Stanza A10 floor pan is the same as the sunny B310 and the stanza rear axle bolts straight in the only difference is the radius rod lengths.
Cross members are the same with different mounts. The struts are the same, sunny just uses smaller discs and calipers.

The main difference is in the body above the floor pan and the wheel base that is 60mm shorter on the B310.
A10 = 2400mm wheel base
B310 = 2340 mm wheel base
A10 track is 50mm wider than the B310 as well.

there is a datsun 160jsss for sale on trademe.com at the moment