Orange 1971 1800SSS Bluebird 4dr  750,000 Yen

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★H510★ Bluebird 1800ss ★MT★L18★

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Yellow 1970 Datsun 510 2dr

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1970-datsun-510-38/

Silly tree...  Stop getting in the way of my shots!

Here the cars are exiting turn 12

Now back at the top of 9

That Escort in the weeds had a Kamm tail and a matching Kamm front - if there is such a thing!

At the top of turn 9 I believe

The above photo was the first in my stack for September 10, 2023 at The Ridge Raceway.

See below for more.

Hey!  We're in 3dr place!!!  🤣 🤣🤣

A bunch of pics from turn 8

Quick shot of turn 1 - the track must have gone green.

Jeff loves racing these guys...

Turn 13 - "The Corkscrew"

Full course yellow!

Now a few pics from Turn 15

Front straight

Swamp thing is looking pretty beat at this point.  Auxiliary cooling unit in place of the headlights and apparently Jeff said he found a way to fold the front spoiler under the car...  That poor thing has sure taken some damage.  It's nice that we can just bend it back in shape unlike the fiberglass counterparts.

On 1/31/2024 at 12:21 PM, carterb said:

Too cool to not list here!

 

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1993-nissan-silvia-s13-3/

 

Sold for $35,750 on 2/7/24

To be continued...

This is Aaron Suchy's team.  He used to have a really nice 510!

Okay kids, we are less than two months away from our first race in 2024 but before we get you updated on all the K24 progress over winter, I thought I'd share some pics of some of the cars we raced with last September.  Because - well - race cars are awesome!

Here are some from turn 12 at The Ridge

This team apparently has Phil and Steve Mahre for drivers.  You might remember them as Olympic medalists in the 1984 winter Olympics!

10 minutes ago, datzenmike said:

If stored out of the sun they are ok.

 

I've used them on every Datsun 510 I've owned during winter time.  I might have bought them new in 2007 - I don't remember.

I'm in Seattle though, so define "sun".  : )

When Jeff and Paul changed the clutch for me, they recommended that I service the driveline soon.  And also the front wheel bearings.

I took care of the bearings when I did the head gasket but I needed another opportunity for the driveline.  I finally removed it a couple weeks ago and took it to Drivelines NW for new u-joints and balance.  It came back very pretty but put quite a dent in my wallet.  $250 for this work now.  Nothing is cheap these days...

And finally - instead of maintenance - I took the opportunity to UPGRADE the car.  N510 chassis have 4.3 something rear end gears and the engine is really singing on the freeway back and forth to work so I thought I would swap in a stock 3.9 rear but Jeff said I was being silly and I should put in an LSD instead and he was of course correct so I grabbed a 3.7 R160 LSD.

The stub shaft bolt head had been sheared off!  What the heck!

Then I remembered.  I was running that rear end in Granny with a faulty CV axle set up and the axles bound and ground the bolt heads off while driving.  I will have to deal with that later.

So I grabbed another one that looked nice and clean.

And swapped in the stub shafts from the stock rear end I just removed

Insert rear end here:

More betterer!

I got some advice from the bluebirds list and filled with Royal Purple 75/140W synthetic oil w/ friction modifiers.  At $25/qt it must have some magic too or purple food coloring is the most expensive food coloring in the rainbow!

It drives awesome and I am happy and you are up to date!  : )

Work finally slowed down and Christmas break provided an opportunity to take care of that head gasket leak.

Upon removing the head, I found that the bolts by the firewall must have been torqued by a 3rd grader...  Just a tad more than finger tight.  It's *possible* I could have just torqued them down and got back on the road but I was committed now...

First to get rid of the JDM rust water

I left the intake and exhaust in place and just lifted up the head with a crane.

Head looks decent - may need new valve stem seals next.

Block an pistons look to be in good nick too!

Gee, can you tell where it was leaking?

All back together now and no leaks and after flushing the block and radiator 3 times, the coolant is even *slightly* less orange.  : )

Typical Electroimpact Datsun car show!

Skyline sighting

1971 1400DX Bluebird 4dr at work

Summer turns to winter

More snow!

My snow tires just don't seem to handle this like they should

Oh...  Perhaps it is because they are over 16 years old!

Well...  Put is on the list...

Summer isn't very long in Washington but it sure is beautiful!

That's Paul's old 2002 WRX beside Slowpoke.  He got a new Lexus lease car for work so I bought the WRX off of him for a little summer fun and winter duty.  Thanks again Paul!

Then one day...

*BANG*!!!

Lost the new muffler on the way to work!  But it hung on long enough for me to get to a parking spot and remove it from the hanger.

Looks like I get to try welding exhaust for the first time.

It broke at the base of the old weld

New weld functional but not pretty

Almost back in business!

Look ma!  No leaks!

My clutch had started slipping by this time so I found a replacement clutch kit.

The clutch kit was easy to find.

The time to replace it was not.

My life was consumed by a huge project at work and my brother lost his life to cancer on May 25, 2023. 

He had asked me to be his executor before he died.

I can tell you that even though 150,000 people die every day on this planet - when you try to conduct business on behalf of one of them - the institutions you are required to interact with behave like my brother was the first person in history to have lost his life.  So stressful!

Work got even more intense in June and caused me to make a trip to the UK in July.

While I was away, my friends Jeff and Paul swapped my clutch for me.  I can't tell you how huge that was to come back from the UK and have that taken care of and off my list.  They have my sincere gratitude!

It looks like even though I have an L18 bottom end, it was still running the L14 clutch.  Have you ever seen such a tiny L-motor clutch disk?!

180mm

And no life left that's for sure!

Bluebird parking only!

Took some pics and dimensions for a friend to reproduce this sticker for his Bluebird

It looks like I have not posted in almost a year.  A couple things have happened since then...

We had some beautiful winter days

And lots of snow!

Spring time brought the true source of my water leak...

Using a mirror, I could see the seepage between the head and the block

Not a pretty sight and I kept having to top up my radiator every month.  No apparent leaking into the cylinder but you can see it has no trouble finding its way outside the block.