Alrite, so i've decided on the S13 brake upgrade. Since there's more than plenty of them here at a few of the wreckers.

I was wondering about the bracket for the caliper. I was told Kev Rowley makes them. Can anyone help me out with that?

Your car is probably a Canadian spec car.
Check the ID tag,or the engine emissions
tag under the hood.
Canada didn't go to the metric system
until the mid/late '70's.So you could still
have a speedometer in MPH.

- Doug

Yes, it's a shame Nissan did that, calling two different model lines with such similar names. Take a look under the hood, your chassis code is not 310. It is B310, it follows B110 and B210. That much makes sense at least.

it's messy the thing is called a 210, has a 310 chassis code.

why can't they call those other things F10's or B11's

Yes, the 1981 Datsun 310 is a front-wheel-drive model.

The car in your avatar is a Datsun 210 - a rear-wheel-drive model.

310's i mean my model, since it's called that.
the 1981 whatever model.

is a 74 a b210?

YES, even in Canada


does it use the same ball joint as the later 310?

Dunno much about Datsun 310s, those are front-wheel-drive cars.

But the 1974 B210 used suspension from the PB110. 76-78 north american models used bigger suspension (same as Datsun 610). 79-82 models (Datsun 210/B310) used the largest brakes, and suspension shared with the compact-sized "new" Datsun 510.

Significantly larger than 1974 B210 brakes.

the core question is:
on a canada model, is a 74 a b210? if so does it use the same ball joint as the later 310?

why - does he need the 310 radius rods and lower control arms and ball joints to do this conversion?

never thought of that. will have to get looking online, and make a trip to ye ole junk yard


I'd just rather be safe than sorry, seeing how my "wet" weight will be jumping up around 400lbs or so, after the motor swap, diff swap, and the like. Don't want to skimp on the brakes, and have that be the down fall of the car!

my input here. I put a sway bar on the rear axle, and it handled like a dream! (my 1200)