|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
71.92.195.90
1970s Datsun BRE 510.
Follow Ups:
I had a 1970 Datsun 510 as a kid around 1977. It was a great car and I did all the work on it myself including valve rocker arms (solid lifters) with feeler gauges, distributor cap, condenser, points, plugs, carb rebuild, brake cylinders, brake lines, shoes, etc.I didn't own a timing light so I would advance the distributor cap until the engine pinged when accelerating, and then backed it off slightly. Done.
I loved that 510, until I rolled it.
I replaced the 510 with a 1971 240Z in British Racing Green.
Edits: 11/18/15 11/18/15
A Beetle split rear-window in bush land with wet muddy ruts, which were the cause, and yet turned it over and drove it home.
Volvo 142S ex-rally car, gravel road, dark.
The 510 / Datsun 1600 was a great car, and a great target for doing up.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Datsun and Mercedes, I remember the valve train assembly's looked to be exactly the same.
My 1974 buddy's older brother had a 510 that would run away from my TR4A and another friend's MGB.
Buddy's boss had a 4 door one. For some reason there were no doors on it, ever when I saw it (or was in it).
My friend drove it (HARD!) that way for probably half a year, can't recall whatever happened to it, maybe his boss eventually wanted it back. My friend loved driving the snot out of that thing.
My buddy had one painted yellow w/fender flares, mags and lots of other goodies. I drove a stock one and didn't have to slow down from 60 MPH to take a cloverleaf exit off the interstate. Very cool
ET
Love that little car.
A bit like the japanese bastard son of an unholy marriage between an Alfa Giulia 105 and a BMW 1500 Neue Klasse.
Around that time in the UK the great Spike Anderson was building this thing:
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19286/lot/428/
The remarkable thing is that during its active live this car covered 175000miles including 60 races and 20 hillclimbs, always being driven to and from the races!
The car you posted is a 240Z, a car I really liked back in the day (was never really into the B210). I always recall reading a hot rod mag that dropped (IIRC) a 350 Chev motor into it, did up the interior nicely... can still see that car in my head. It was gorgeous.
Both cars used for racing and both have the same L-series engine although the 240 has a 6 cylinder version.
Swapping a SOHC straight 6 for a pushrod V8 would be one of the worst crimes one can commit on this car IMO.
I slightly misread your post, somehow thought you inferred they were basically the same car.
As for an engine swap, if one can do it without adding much if any weight, I think it's great. Are there other (maybe better) methods to get reasonable power (FI of some sort)? Of course, there are always alternatives.
There is no way one can swap a 2.4L straight6 for a 5.7L V8 without significant weight penalties.
These of course would have an equally significant impact on the handling which is undoubtedly negative.
It'll go quick in a straight line but I wouldn't want to try cornering in it with a V8 fitted.
As Colin Chapman said: If you make a car more powerful it'll go faster down the straight but if you make it lighter it will go faster everywhere.
Btw Datsuns tuned by Spike Anderson regularly beat works Datsuns on the track.
Not to beat a dead horse on an audio forum (it is the inmate section though... :)), but most of what I've read say the all aluminum LS engines weigh as little or less than the cast iron block straight 6 Datsun motors. Many swaps done, and most state the motor is less, and that you can achieve a 50/50 weight ratio instead of the factory 52/48.
I get your point, nice old classic 240Z, pity to tear it apart. To me though it is just a car. If I had an original collectors car that I liked to drive I'd do so all the time, regardless of what that would do to the value. I buy cars to drive them. Tear apart an old 240Z and throw a great motor in it, why not.
that was OEM in the Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser. And much shorter. Enabling you to put in power steering. Bigger radiator.FWIW...
Hey! A least we aren't posting about religion or politics.
8^)
Edits: 11/19/15
Now I'm being anal, but the LS1/6 5.7 motors are actually 346CI. Sorry, had to. :) 3.90 x 3.62 vs. the old 350 Chevy motors at 4.00 bore and 3.48 stroke.
They are pretty darn light though, yes sir.
Post a Followup:
FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: