Please don't give me any grief over the fender mirrors. I got them for free and I put them where I could see them easily.

So we moved our shop and I had to stop working on the car for a while. During the Christmas holiday I got a go at working on the 1200 so I started fitting everything to it. The door weatherstrip was actually easy and fit well. I got the kit off of ebay from Thailand. Initially was kind of worried, but it seems to work out pretty good. Fit fine.

I had the door locks fixed and the tumblers changed to a new key so I hope locking and unlocking the doors works out better than before. I had deleted the trunk badge and the rear datsun badge, but kept the DATSUN on the rear quarters.

So far everything fit good, I only wish the bumpers I had were worth a darn. I have two sets and put on the best of the two, but I might pay the money and have the bad ones fixed and re-chromed down the road at some point.















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Still filthy and haven't given it a good bath, but it is definitely closer to being out on the road.

Unfamilia - CA anything is pretty much rare here in the US. The CA18DE motors only showed op non-turbo in the pulsar and for the most part folks bought those cars with GA16 motors. I have only seen a couple CA18DE motors in the US. All rear wheel drive dual cam CA motors have to be imported. We did get the CA20E and the CA18ET in the s12 200SX, but that's about it. The funny part is how we DO have lots of parts available here.

As soon as I'm done cutting and buffing this car I think the process of getting it road ready should go faster. Still lots of work to do. Doesn't look like the best, but I hope it turns out tidy.

Beautiful. I'd love to own this car in the US

Looks nice in lhd. Must be rare in the us for CA conversions

Nice!

So I've been spending some time trying to get this car back out on the road and finally got to the point where I could paint. Not professional, but I'm happy with it. (suppose I might not be so happy when I get it out in the sun) Anyway, Finally got color on the car. Kind of a custom color using Scion Envy Green over black to make the color more of a medium green. Will let the pictures speak for themselves.










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So in the world of updates, I finally drove the 1200 after it has sat for over 3 1/2 years. I can't believe how awesome it feels to drive it again!

I made sure I got some pictures up. First is the CA18DE installed and wired




Next is the interior. In the Left hand drive cars with the automatic transmission tunnel, the accelerator pedal sits closer than the column than the maual trans model. To offset this the auto brake pedal scoots over to the left a bit too. I used a stock clutch pedal with a little kink, and cut the auto pedal so I could fit the pad on it and that spaced them apart enough to comfortably shift with my big feet. Also pictured are my aftermarket electronic gauges and my SAFC-2 that I used for the AFM signal conversion and the cool gauges it has.










I also assembled the front body panels so now body work can be wrapped up







Definitely moving right along now. Again, I thank you guys a thousand times for all the help, especially since this car is so rare here in the US. I just can't say thank you enough.

So I got some interior spots painted and decided that since the rest is in primer to go ahead and get the car running before finishing the paint and body. So yesterday I got the dash and wiring laid out, heater hoses connected and today I got the harness all plugged up and was able to fire the CA18DE I put in. So excited! Will take pics of how I ran the harness and where I put the computer. Tomorrow though, ugh...

Saw some on Ebay or was it in classifieds here or Ozdat