yeah they're also more likely to get blamed for the tire smoke coming from the area as well

nah you should just keep the big one, and drive near commodores and skylines and stuff

no one will ever suspect the little datsun

For those of you who are interested, my sedan is now running reliably and I'm having a ball in it. There is still plenty of stuff I'd like to get done to it but the basics are there and it's keeping cool and has enough grunt to scare me every now and then.

Here's a couple of pics.






And here's my two exhaust tips. At the moment I only have the one muffler in the system and it's freakin loud with the full 3 inch pipe so I made this little pipe to keep it quiet. It loses heaps of power but at least it doesn't attract too much attention.

Fixed the box today, it looks like it was a combination of the selector prong coming out of the selector shaft slots and then the little tab that stops you going from 5th down to reverse seems to have jammed over to the far right.

I've fixed it and nearly got the car back together but am too nervous to drive it to the nats now because i won't have any de-bugging time.

Fortunately I have filled my track position so I won't be too badly out of pocket.

Are you able to drop the motor enough without disconnecting the lower control arms?

I had the same issue with my stumpy box... while going down the main straight at philip island... somehow i managed to get it back into the selector hole and went out for some more runs....

Then a few weeks later I got stuck in reverse and had to reverse about 2km home (around traffic lights was the scariest). I pulled it apart to find the selectors in reverse and the little key thing out of the selector hole.

All the best with it, lets hope its an easy fix... I know what its like lowering and raising the engine to get boxes off in a 1200... PITA!

It's a stumpy 5 speed.

I got the box out tonight, it's a massive effort as some of you might know seeing as you have to lift or drop the motor to get the bloody thing off.

I'll split it tomorrow and have a look at what's gone wrong. If it is a simple fix I'll think about banging it back together but chances are it'll need some expert attention.

Atleast the Datnats got me motivated for a while and I actually made some progress.

I also had a taste of what it's like to drive a CA1200 which is something you all MUST do once in your life!

what box u running the CA or r30 stumpy.

spewing .... take mildmans offer and get him onto the job asap !!!!!

Thats sad to hear mate hopefully you can get it sorted by fri