i totally understand now...but i have a question...



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Good on you Brad!

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green200b - aka Alistair

The fleet:

Australia:
'80 200B GX - the green200b - hibernating
'81 RX-7 - 12A extend port - daily
'74 RX-2 - 13B bridgeport - cruiser

Europe:
'93 200SX - CA18DET - tourer

huh? is your car made of feathers?

seriously mine weighed 980 without spare tyre 1/2 tank petrol very light weight seats and non turbo sr. whats the deal? maybe the guy at the weigh bridge al ready adjusted for your weight on the ticket?

spill the secret man......

yeah i think mine was 1018kg, not sure if that was with driver or not

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LAGWAGON gracefully retired... LAG 510 - the next generation

A few things to that may help with the weight savings are the Sparco seats weigh only 6kg each, rear seats removed, CA's weigh only about 140kg. SR's about 155kg and L18's about the same as CA's. The CA18det also have a bunch of very heavy brackets on the intake side of the engine. These are not needed and were thrown on the scrap pile instantly. The car was also taken back to bare metal and only a very small amount of bog was used here and there. I only bought 1 small tin of bog which I still have today. 2ltrs of primer and 3ltrs of paint was all it took. It had 4 paint jobs on it when I acquired the car. All the small things count. Like no carpet underlay etc etc etc.

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1928 Model A CC Pickup

I have been told the 69 had thinner panels than the later 1600s, not sure how true that is though

Possible mate. I was also lead to believe Jap delivered cars came with the panels galvanised and the Aussie build cars were not galvanised?????????


I have owned 2 69's and 1 70 and 2 71's. I'd have to say that having to repair rust on all of them before the rust was the worst on the 70 and 71 models I owned. That could have just been the luck of the draw though. Would be good the know the nitty gritty of the manufacturing process for these cars.

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1928 Model A CC Pickup

I don't think anybody galvanises panels?

And electroplate priming only came in around the time of the bluebird (910), not sure why they still rust so much!

Your car sure does sound light. Leigh's mate had a 1200 sedan with CA18det and stock brakes, suspension and H145 diff that weighed in at nearly 900kg with driver.

My 120Y was 1000kg without driver haha

Yeah, I was amazed at the weight of you car Brad. My 1600weighed in at 1080 with a full tank and me not in it. It was 1160 with me in it. So perhaps my weighbridge was crap, or yours is crap? I haven't got a back seat, nor a powersteering pump/air conditioning pump either. So not sure.

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1972 Datsun 1600, S14 SR20DET Engineered (204rwkW @ 17psi.)
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Don't know mate.. Don't really matter too much though

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1928 Model A CC Pickup

hay brad, do you have any pics of your RB25DET fuel pump in tank setup or can tell me how you did it? cheers mate

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-1969 1600 SR20

hay brad, do you have a close up of you bov set up? so you have fitted the bov on the hotside and plumed it back into the hotside?

what dump are you useing?

cheers mate

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Hi Jasol sorry mate I ditched the intank setup as I was getting a bit of serge on the track. It would be fine for the street. There is a thread on Ozdat that has pics and info. Do a quick search.

I will get you some pics of my BOV setup in the next few days. Cheers Brad

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1928 Model A CC Pickup

Some pics of the car as it is from the last Jap cruise.

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1928 Model A CC Pickup