Decrease the value of your Datsun with these simple steps...

[thisismatt]

Paint your engine bay some non-body color, preferably matte black.

Primer the exterior, regardless of bodywork status. Rattle can primer is best.

Rewire the engine bay and/or interior for no apparent reason.

Cut up the dash for a high quality head unit, like a Dual.

Cut up the doors instead of using kick pods. Pyle speakers only sound good flapping around in oem door cards.

Change door mirrors at least three times. More speed holes in your doors = faster.

Paint the exterior with all trim & weatherstrip in place.

Put a fuel cell in place of the spare tire well. The higher it sits the better.

Nobody likes bumpers. Throw those in the trash.

 

Feel free to add your own helpful Datsun appreciation tips!

[john510]

What about adding those bolt on flares to a perfectly good body ? or drilling holes in a hood so you can add pins ?

[Burabuda]

+ hood locks

 

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[Ratwagon1600]

Paint your engine bay some non-body color, preferably matte black.

Primer the exterior, regardless of bodywork status. Rattle can primer is best.

Rewire the engine bay and/or interior for no apparent reason.

Cut up the dash for a high quality head unit, like a Dual.

Cut up the doors instead of using kick pods. Pyle speakers only sound good flapping around in oem door cards.

Change door mirrors at least three times. More speed holes in your doors = faster.

Paint the exterior with all trim & weatherstrip in place.

Put a fuel cell in place of the spare tire well. The higher it sits the better.

Nobody likes bumpers. Throw those in the trash.

Feel free to add your own helpful Datsun appreciation tips!

Sadly, in my time I believe I have been guilty of all of these sins.

 

Removing those useless pieces of interior trim which hold the carpet in place is another one I will have to admit to.

 

Also, how about fitting a 5 speed gearbox and not bothering to measure where the gearshift lever will sit, just use an angle grinder to cut up the transmission tunnel (what the heck, the carpet will cover the hole).

 

Throw away the OEM hubcaps, they will never be worth anything.

[Z-train]

Raising the front to where it's almost level,negating the NLSV and making the truck dangerous in a hard stop.

[datzenmike]

Rear spoiler

17" rims that are worth more than the car

Rising sun hood

200 negative rim offset with grove cut in tires from the body.

Coat hanger antenna

Three different makes of bald tires and one non radial.

Yellow inner headlights.

Missing trunk lock.

Strip of torn headliner hanging down in way of rear mirror.

Vice-Grip shifter handle.

Box flairs.

[Mattndew76]

excessive bondo in any place using 80 grit to sand it sorta flat with unidirectional sanding lines. Paint over it and its done. 

 

Ooooh don't cut out the rusty floor just weld a panel of steel right over the top of the old shit.

[datzenmike]

then fiberglass over it...

[Mattndew76]

I see we have bought the same car :D

[Chuck Most]

Optional- pop riveting new metal over shitty old metal instead of welding.

[john510]

Rear spoiler

17" rims that are worth more than the car

Rising sun hood

200 negative rim offset with grove cut in tires from the body.

Coat hanger antenna

Three different makes of bald tires and one non radial.

Yellow inner headlights.

Missing trunk lock.

Strip of torn headliner hanging down in way of rear mirror.

Vice-Grip shifter handle.

Box flairs.

Hey,i like yellow inner headlights

[datzenmike]

Serves no possible function. It's a form of stance.

[Burabuda]

not just for cars

 

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[Son_of_a_Datsun_Guy]

Please, push on any panels your hand fits on to move the car around... leaving fist sized dents in the previously unmolested tailgate. 

 

Don't buy a windshield with a tinted sun shade strip at the top. Instead, paint one on with what appears to be roofing tar. 

 

Remove rear panel in wagons, use as a drug smuggling space. Found a dime bag in my car with 30+ year old weed in it. 

[MikeRL411]

This is getting to be fun!

[Ratwagon1600]

Forgot this one (and yes I have done it!).

 

Crushed beer cans to use as body filler/strengthening for rust in rear quarter panels.

[HRH]

I did paint my 510 with 16 cans of Kubota Orange rattle can and it was awesome.  It took a long time to mask everything appropriately.  For less than 50 bucks, it was all one shade of orange.  And I got high for free!  :D  It looked pretty good, from 20 feet.

[INDY510]

buy a pack of sawzall blades

act on stupid ideas

suck at welding

be under 28

and broke

hack it

drink

cry

[a.d._510_n_ok]

.....wow.....for once I am not guilty of any sins. I do run a Dual CD player though. it was cheap, has USB ports, my OEM radio was dead and my dash rotten.

 

personally, I kinda dig the inner yellows and a rising sun hood (or other body panel) done well is a thing of beauty and it's FREAKIN' paint so you can always sand and shoot over it!

[flatcat19]

Throw away your OE mirror to replace it with a Broadway/wink mirror. 

 

 

Sunvisors are pointless at this point too. Toss 'em. 

[wayno]

I have done half the things on the original post on this thread, but it doesn't really matter, as I am not selling my truck.  :fu:

[Jester]

Sounds to me like everyone here should just sell their Datsuns and just drive a fucking Prius. Don't do anything to it, it might offend someone else and their "style". 

[Seeker > 620 KC]

Use an undiluted engine degreaser so every bare piece of engine and suspension metal turns pumpkin orange to match the Datsun body paint, and so every piece of pot metal and aluminum grows fuzzy white oxidization.

Oh, and and save the $7 for a new valve cover gasket. The slick has yet to reach the diff.

[Alec 720]

Sounds to me like everyone here should just sell their Datsuns and just drive a fucking Prius. Don't do anything to it, it might offend someone else and their "style". 

 

Don't be a idiot lol. Prius's are already broken. And can't be fixed. 

That is why everybody owns Datsun's they fix them all the time but at least they can be fixed by almost a dummy.. not quite that simple but close enough. 

[Dolomite]

Most of the shit people are bitching about are things that make a car a ratsun to begin with. If I do body work and cant afford to have the car painted, what am I supposed to do, leave it bare metal so it'll rust? I flat black primed the body with a chrome sonic boom, it looked better than the 5 colors it was when I bought it. It had no tunes so I broke some unspoken rule about putting a CD player in it. Oh damn, I ruined the car by putting in the 240sx seats and zx 5 speed into an already l20 swapped car. Oh wait, I'm OK because it's my fucking car and I could care less what someone else thinks about it and I'll paint it purple if I feel like it. Wait a minute, gotta go older some purple paint.