JohnVander Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hey Everyone, I purchased Icehouses' sedan a while back and am slowly restoring and hoping to transform it into a La Carrara Panamericana contestant ( http://www.panamrace.com/ ). For the near future I just want to make it into a clean little runner I can teach my son to drive in. It's funny that I have a B series Datsun again after all these years because my first car was an 77 F10 (in 1986). "> Some body work has been done to the car since the picture was taken, the next steps are shock replacement, a suspension bushing refresh, carb rebuild or Weber conversion, new exhaust, and a full motor tune. I also have a 5speed that I need slap in there, plus I'd like to swap in some smaller wheels. - John Quote Link to comment
sedition88 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Welcome to Ratsun. Nice little car Quote Link to comment
darc510 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Welcome! That is a very good looking car...looks like there is not too much work left before its ready for paint :) Quote Link to comment
NOTES... Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Im liking these 1200 more and more... Maybe that will be my next Datsun when i get one again... Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 The lighter a car is, the bigger the bang when you add a few hp to it. This is the weight to hp ratio and (guessing here) but the 1200 weighs what 1700 lbs or so? So an A14 is 60 hp? ... this works out to just under 30 pounds per hp. My Dart was 10 lbs per hp and low 14s in the quarter. If you were to swap an L20B (90 hp) in, this would drop to under 20/hp or a whopping 1/3! Quote Link to comment
JohnVander Posted December 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 It's really a fun car to drive, my car had an A14 swapped into it by a previous owner and it moves out even with the motor being a little tired. If you get on http://www.dailylister.com/ you'll see that there are some still out there. Quote Link to comment
JohnVander Posted December 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 I also purchased this motor for it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94r3CxFfOls but want to clean the car up before I put it in. Here are the build specs: A-15 .080 over 11:1 compression 279 duration cam (232@.050) and .460" lift The cam is installed straight up and is ground on a 106 intake centerline with a 108 lobe center ported/polished A-15 head oversize valves (40mm intake and 32mm ex) Nismo Header MSN 6A Ignition Box Elec. Ignition Redline Intake with a couple 40 mm DCOEs 30 venturi 45F9 IDLE JET 130F11 MAINS 50 ACC JET JE full floting forged pistons in the engine and I can provide those specs to you if I can dig up the spec sheet that came with them. The engine has ARP head and main studs along with ARP rod bolts. The engine was balanced. Installed a tilton 10 lb aluminum flywheel with a centerforce clutch The carbs were sold before I bought it so I'd like to do a setup like this on it. Quote Link to comment
fisch Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Great post, great car, great engine, great vision for the carb set-up. This thread has much win. I love a 12hundy with a hot A on it. They sound so tough in such a small package. It really is a coin toss for me as to which I like better, the 1200 or the 510. Quote Link to comment
banzai510(hainz) Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Vander I remeber when Jeff had this car. He was lowering it the day I was over there. Its runn a Matchbox dizzy which is good . It was wired up using the point coil and ballast so just leave that stuff alone thats wire. But if you wan you could bemove the ballast and put a MSD Blaster 2 in there and hook it straight up. But i assume you no this already. Motor was really greasy but it ran good. Got good gas milage Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Welcome John. That was my car, I swapped the A14 into it. Then sold it to Jeff. Here is a pic from the day I first got it, and towed it home. Hainz, Ballast resistor was bypassed when I put the A14 in. I left it bolted to the fender though. Quote Link to comment
JohnVander Posted December 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Wow! I didn't expect to get history on my car thank you! Fisch I feel the same as you on the 510/1200 comparison, I went with the 1200 because of it's uniqueness and light weight. GG, how long did you have the car before you sold it? What else did you swap into the car? H165? Any B210 suspension parts? I've had those questions since I bought the car from Jeff. Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 When I bought it it had no engine. So I put the A14 in it. Also it had no seats, so I put B310 seats in it. I did swap the wheels which are now on my car! So at the point I sold it to Jeff, it was all stock except for that. I bought it to save the 1200 from the wrecking yard. Glad to see it continues to survive. Quote Link to comment
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