For those who are now a little nervous about rod bolts etc, here is my engine....

I brought an old A12 motor to do a "see what happens" Turbo project on...

This motor was stock as and stuffed, the person I brought it off tried putting a turbo on it and had NO idea. He tried a Nissan RB20 turbo with a down draught webber and still had full advance on the dizzy...

When I pulled it down it had been running lean, detonating, melted pistons and scored bores. My Brother had an old sunny motor that had 380,000ks on it, I took the pistons rods AND old bearings out of it and put in my motor.

The motor received a hone (which didnt get all the marks out) old pistons, rods, BOLTS, and bearing shells, a gasket kit, rings, NO BEARINGS, thats it.... NOTHING SPECIAL!!

A friend gave me a small TD04 turbo, I made some manifolds, fitted an oil cooler, a stromberg carbie and tuned it.....

It makes 70kw at the wheels (130-140hp), 16lbs boost from 3500rpm to 7000rpm, gets treated like I stole it and is still going, I have taken it to the track about 5 times and still hasnt blown up or even blown a head gasket!!!

The pistons, rods, bolts and bearing shells are nearly 30 years old, the block etc is older, it had a $150 dollars spent on the engine itself.... do we need to say any more???



This is a STOCK A12 Datsun motor, 7000rpm (power falls off at 6200 bcos std cam), 16lbs boost, 130-140hp.... and were asking are they reliable.....??