IttyBittyDat

This poor little guy needs a new home. I bought it to harvest the bits I needed, and now it's ready for it's next racecar adventure. Interesting links in the CL ad to the BaT sale and original build. https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/cto/6507795190.html

Duh...re-reading the article I see the editors swapped the side shots on the stats pages. Perhaps this was a continuation of Van Vulkenbergh's "Can't hardly tell them apart" theme of the article...

From the tone of the article, it looks like the deliberately induced typo "Ter" was the author's 70's bell-bottomed jeans wearing, long haired, dope smoking hippie writer way of being journalistically tongue-in-cheek cool by changing 'tell' to 'ter' , thereby aping the way some Japanese pronounce the letter 'L'. While I enjoyed reading SCG back in the day as a bell-bottomed jeans wearing, long haired, dope smoking hippie teen, (please don't tell me Mum) the writing style seems quite sophomoric reading it in 2017. :D BTW, both the Datsun and the Toyota's styling still looks quite fresh some 46 years later, versus today's origami-creased or jellybean lookalikes.

Nice color! Nice stance! Me likey.

Nice score, Morrisun! From the looks of it, those gear sets might have been REM treated also. Either that or the guy had OCD, a lot of spare time on his hands, a stack of fine grit emery cloth, a tub of Never-Dull metal polish and a box of polishing rags. Probably the latter, considering the finish carpentry storage boxes. :-)

Matt, that is some nice work, though I find the idea of routing cooling water thru the rocker box a little out there, even for you! :rofl: Please do send along a set of 4 of those neato-keen carbon fiber side scoops when you bag those!

Little hard to tell from the oics, but are the new rotors vented, or solid? The project is looking fine so far - keep up the good work!

FTG, Make sure and use a thread checker on those larger than life front studs. Sometimes folks replace the OEM 12.5mm x 1.25 studs with aftermarket 1/2" SAE fine thread studs. The threads look quite similar, and they will even allow you to start threading a metric nut onto the SAE stud...until it cross threads and buggers up the threads. (this is an "ask me how I know" topic, btw) Also, if you go back to OEM studs, they may not fit the hub as snugly as they are supposed to due to the aftermarket studs having a slightly larger shank and reaming out the hub hole a bit oversize. ARP makes some darn sexy racing studs that are 12.5mm x 1.25 (for a Subaru) that have a nice tapered end and they may fit the oversized hub hole that the 1/2" studs left. (I'd post a picture, but I have only a few years left to live and can't waste my time trying to fumble through the pic posting procedure here. :-) ) Cheers,

How did this little golden guy from California wind up in a holding pen surrounded by a herd of battery powered pick ups and an electric RAV? I'll take the Toyota RAV EV, thankyouverymuch.

"Oh, and find an intake. The parts search continues..." If you're going the 32/36 Weber downdraught carb route, your parts search may be at an end! I have an A14 oval port intake manifold that has been ported to within a millimeter of its life to ~36mm x ~30mm and it already has the Weber carb adapter on it. BTW, finding a NOS GX head in original packaging is a unicorn find - finding it for $100 dollars is winning the lottery on top of that - jolly good show!

Since I'm still in spring cleaning mode, these might as well go to a good home also: http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pts/3728735189.html When I'm wearing my 3 layer firesuit, my fire-proof plum coddlers, and my Nomex Depends, my butt is too big to fit in them. However, if you drive in street clothes (or drive naked) these will fit just fine - just don't try to bring "Big Kim" Kardashian along for a ride. :sick:

That's my CL ad...still have the rims. (dropped the price)

SOLD! Thanks for all the enquiries and interest! Ratsun rocks!

Not too pricey if one considers that all the bits are there to do the install, even the throw-up bearing. :rofl: No more haunting Pick A Part to see what comes in the yard. (been there, done that, many, many times...) Its basically a bolt-in behind an A12, A14 or A15, and is stout enough to handle a hot-rodded engine, along with the freeway friendly overdrive. But you guys know that, so I'll stop preaching to the choir. :thumbup:

Looks like the old guy at Old Guy Racing Enterprises Inc is doing some spring cleaning! http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pts/3747889763.html