banzai510(hainz) Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) I see Blue and that what Spec pressure plates look like . BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edited February 2, 2021 by banzai510(hainz) Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 50 minutes ago, banzai510(hainz) said: I see Blue and that what Spec pressure plates look like . BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep. It’s their signature color, except the ‘knockoffs’ which is what I think I have here. Or they just happened to like blue too 🤷🏼♂️ Quote Link to comment
Stoffregen Motorsports Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 I think you're going to regret installing that solid pucked clutch disc. In my experience, either a solid center OR pucks, but both is tough. Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 29 minutes ago, Stoffregen Motorsports said: I think you're going to regret installing that solid pucked clutch disc. In my experience, either a solid center OR pucks, but both is tough. I imagine so. It was a misclick as I was looking at their stage 3 and stage 4 setups. I had decided on the 3 which is a sprung center 6 puck but ordered the wrong one. The stage 3 apparently is not available-zero stock so I will run with it and decide what to do later. This guy is really easy to pull anyway so not a big deal either way I suppose. 1 Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 3.70:1 gears installed 😁 Super happy with mesh. Backlash fell in perfect first try 🧐 1 Quote Link to comment
Stoffregen Motorsports Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 That's a good pattern. Right in the middle on the drive side. What diff is that? Toyota? Not an 8 inch... 1 Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 14 minutes ago, Stoffregen Motorsports said: That's a good pattern. Right in the middle on the drive side. What diff is that? Toyota? Not an 8 inch... Datsun H190 1 Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Swap complete sans the driveline that didn’t get finished 😞 I also have to come up with a way to move this I’m probably going to use the bracket and rod end in the previous photo to do a relocation like this, except moving the shifter 10” rearward 2 Quote Link to comment
FrankRizzo Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Cool. Does your knuckles hit the dash when shifting into 1, 3 or 5? Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 3 hours ago, FrankRizzo said: Cool. Does your knuckles hit the dash when shifting into 1, 3 or 5? Absolutely 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2021 Driveline is finally done! got to drive it for the first time, again. Well worth the troubles and the cost. Was able to hit 70 in 4th without even realizing it, or fearing the driveline was going to explode from vibrations because it didn’t like being moved to the left side by a massive amount. Started working more on the shifter relocation setup as well. Should work well, hopefully, and with minimal mods allow me to use my console again. Here’s to hoping anyway! Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 2 Quote Link to comment
5t341tH Posted February 11, 2021 Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 Very cool. What are you gonna use to cover it up? 1 Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 2 hours ago, 5t341tH said: Very cool. What are you gonna use to cover it up? I’m hoping I can make the stock center console work somehow. If not i’ll have to find something that works. Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 This is how the holes are going to be filled. Nope to see if I can make the console fit without hacking it up too badly Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted February 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2021 had to clear everything out of the shop because the owner decided to sell the company to a larger conglomerate 🤦🏻♂️ anyway, packed everything I wanted to keep/give away into the truck and trailer. There’s gotta be 5 engines of various sizes in the trailer 😂 pulled like a champ though. Plenty of power to move it along although because the tires are probably 30 years old I kept it under 35. we’ll see what the future holds. For now it’s just a holding pattern... 2 Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted April 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2021 New carpet. The ‘kit’ didn’t fit well at all but luckily I was able to make my center console fit with minimal modifications to cover up the hack job required to trim everything down. As much as I hate to speak bad on a fellow Datsun guy, I would recommend avoiding buying a carpet kit from Left Coast Datsun. He’s a nice guy and offered a refund if I shipped it back to him, but losing $75 to ship it back, plus no longer having any sort of carpet at all was not in the cards so I made it ‘work’. It looks much better in photos than real life 😞 you can see the disgusting overlap where the rear was 3” wider than it should have been. This is after cutting over an inch off the front of it 🤦🏻♂️ nice corner huh? Other side is exactly the same. Quote Link to comment
Ben_upde Posted May 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2021 Haven’t done much working on her, but been driving it and enjoying every moment of her so that’s about the best case I guess. picked up a drone today so played around and did a little, VERY beginner video shoot of her in the driveway. Hope it doesn’t hurt your eyeholes too badly! 2 Quote Link to comment
5t341tH Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 good stuff. Love how that shifter works. Very ingenious 1 Quote Link to comment
FrankRizzo Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 On 4/8/2021 at 8:06 PM, Ben_upde said: As much as I hate to speak bad on a fellow Datsun guy, I would recommend avoiding buying a carpet kit from Left Coast Datsun. He’s a nice guy and offered a refund if I shipped it back to him, but losing $75 to ship it back, plus no longer having any sort of carpet at all was not in the cards so I made it ‘work’. It looks much better in photos than real life 😞 +1 You are lucky it was just a carpet! Chuck and Left Coast Datsun completely fucked up my coil over conversion. It took over 9 months, check out some of the 3rd grader level weld pics in my thread. What was semi welded cracked in less than 50 miles of driving home and it was lucky everything did not just fall out on the 405 freeway home. I had to pay twice to get everything sorted. 1 Quote Link to comment
flyfish Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 File a complaint. https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/long-beach/profile/electrician/left-coast-datsun-1216-768653 Quote Link to comment
sick620 Posted May 8, 2022 Report Share Posted May 8, 2022 do you know jason or rory or fernando or any of the other local datsun guys? I live in meridian (moving to payette soon) so I'm here local to you... audi swap is awesome your skills to make things work that are not supposed to is amazing.. Love this truck... Quote Link to comment
JackRT Posted May 30, 2022 Report Share Posted May 30, 2022 New here so please be gentle. I'm looking to get my first 620 project. Great to see lots of cool builds around here. 3 Quote Link to comment
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