kinetict Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Just picked her up yesterday. With about a whole inch in my garage left So far have taking the seats out and unhooked a non stock stereo and the plastic from the steelies engine wise it looks like there is no compression from cylinder 3 and low compression 2 and needs new seals real bad 1 Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Sorry, but that is not a Honey Bee, it is a KB210, a B210 Coupe. Looks nice -- what kind of wheels does it have? Quote Link to comment
MicroMachinery Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Jealous. Love me a b210. Welcome to the madness. Quote Link to comment
RedBanner Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Love them coupes man, looks good, leave those hubcaps in the wall mart parking lot. Ive never gotten one with intact trim down the side. And pics on first post. welcome. Quote Link to comment
kinetict Posted December 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Topic title corrected. thanks for the knowledge. I found the original Chilton and owners manual and all the titles since the first owner. im the forth Also why are there so many ratsun members from the NW? Quote Link to comment
Laecaon Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Well the owner of the forum lives in Washington. Datsuns thrive on the west coast since we have less rust. And the west coast was easy to get cars to, just put them on a boat and they land at all the port towns along the west coast. Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Ratsun started as a Seattle web site, now is the most popular Datsun site in the USA. Quote Link to comment
JAS Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 What a way to spend a wet NW winter, building up a Bee for summer. Love the B210 coupes the most, i spent about 6 months (winter) putting mine together... Should garage it for winters, but love it too much ti not drive it. Take care of it, it looks to be real clean. Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Looks good with the Aluminum Cross wheels from the Z-car. Quote Link to comment
fisch Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Welcome! Nice bee you have there! Lookin forward to some daytime shots! Quote Link to comment
dat521gatherer Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 Cool. I have one of those. I could have sworn I seen that on craigslist a few days ago.. Your location is close to me. Here is my 75 b210. Quote Link to comment
kinetict Posted December 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 yep it was on craiglist been busy with it the last two days. should have a big post post with pics later. very nice car by the way Quote Link to comment
king bee66 Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 those hubcaps are no bueno Quote Link to comment
kinetict Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Just so everyone knows, the hub caps were the first thing i removed. So i stripped out the interior and the seats. Took off the hood and hatch. Im amazed that the car is so easy to work on. Going to pull this guy this weekend this was the passenger seat. Does anyone know what kind of seat it is? the bottom box fits right on the rails. Quote Link to comment
king bee66 Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 its a later year right? looks like it has a cadi, Quote Link to comment
KELMO Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Nice score, my wife's mother had one just like that..bought it new, but was an automatic and would barely get out of it own way :lol: I'd love to have one of those. Quote Link to comment
kinetict Posted January 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 So I know I have been negeting my thread. Have tons of pics. All the interior is redone and the car looks pretty damn good, on the inside. Pulled most of the engine apart and came to this So i know the cylinders and the valves aren't suppose to look like this but what probably happened? Should i save it? Or get a different engine? And could i fit a L18? Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 So i know the cylinders and the valves aren't suppose to look like this but what probably happened? Should i save it? That's the "safe" thing to do. And could i fit a L18? That's the "fun" thing to do. :cool: Based on some preliminary measurements I took awhile back, it looks like if you swap your engine crossmember out for one from a 510, the L16/L18 should be a pretty straightforward swap. I've thought about putting an L20b in mine, just haven't pulled the trigger yet... :P Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 My guess is detonation (pinging) caused that. The pistons look like they are OK. The valve seat in the head looks ruined. If the compression on the other cylinders was OK, I would change the head and keep running it. Quote Link to comment
dat521gatherer Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Lets see those interior pics, I currently have the dash out in mine to fix a few things. Quote Link to comment
JAS Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Thats not detonation, either something got dropped down the intake or your valve seat(s) broke, I swapped out my old leaded fuel head for an H89 unleaded head. Helped alot, especially shaved and high compression. Look for a 310 A14/15 head for it, get the intake and exhaust mainfolds too, they flow better. Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Thanks. Good to know what caused that. By the way, all B210 heads are unleaded (no leaded fuel required). The H89 is a great head, as it is a performance head. It has closed chambers for maximum quench, hence maximum power. It also means high NOx pollution so they weren't used in USA. Quote Link to comment
JAS Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Beg to differ, my daughter has an H89 head on her 210, and got one off a local pick/pull last year... They are domestic. shaved it, now have to run 93 octane... but the output shure is the better., and the exhaust sounds real throaty. Look at my gallery. Quote Link to comment
JAS Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Oh yea, how i know detonation? I detonated the pistons going lean with a vacuum leak with that head and compression ratio. Its hard to detonate a stock engine, tell tale of detonated engine is the ring lands are broke/burnt/degraded holes on the tops/sides.. Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 my daughter has an H89 head on her 210, and got one off a local pick/pull last year Good find for her. A lot of these heads came over in the 80s and 90s on "used Japan engines" -- by the thousands. So you can find them in USA. Quote Link to comment
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