Luke's 1200 Coupe

[Bartman]

I have very limited understanding of this type of thing,
But I'm pretty sure Mark105 told me that his gtr itb set up on his L6 240k skyline has so little readable vacuum, that his ecu relies on TPS only, up until 2500rpm or so.

[luke]

OKAY, So i have actually been working on this thing as of late........
and now......sl sl sl slammed.......

first heights with 13s

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2nd ride height

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FINAL RIDE HEIGHT!!!!!!

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so go get f*%ked with your coz i delivered..... eventually.

admittedly the springs are captive but only standard 1200 ones chopped to like 195mm. but it works. will eventually take to bellamy and east for a custom spring setup i imagine.
actually have motovation for this thing now. it could maybe enjoy another 10-15mm of settlement suspension wise...... but we will see. also the fitment wheel wise is out but these images are without the slip over brake disk.

also, lewis has my seats and interior panels to recover atm.
have new seals for everything except quarterlight windows coz they are expensive as f........ (big thanks to master importer brendan for the rest!)

wheels are Enkei Apache 13x7.5 -6 on rears with a lacking 13x6 +10 front. (on the hunt for 13x7 -+0 ) tyres are 175/50r13 fuldas.

next is to rebuild s13 callipers and fit up. and attach bumpstops in the rear.
Rear end rebuilt brake/cylinder wise with all new pretty goods.
new trumpets adonized a beautiful blue
manifold getting ported thanks to the useful flatmate engineer


im realistically about 7-10k away from completion,
akaroa may be possible, but i doubt it.

[classicdat]

Wow Dude that looks sweet, great to see progress Luke.

[buzzy]

Those Apaches suit it so much! Looks mean!

[2 doors]

sweet baby jesus, that looks so cool

[luke]

itl need a touchup on the bodywork sometime wal.......... moving house repeatedly has taken a harsh toll on guards etc, and on the roof a crack was made above the windscreen, do i need the hoodling out for this to be repaired?

yeah it does look awesome! makes me excited to work on it again really.

Still has at least 85mm sump clearance and 90mm all round for suspension clearance which im both surprised and stoked about, i could actually go another 30-40mm lower all round but, i wont. need it useable etc. exhaust is the only issue i can see at this height, but eventually i will get someone to make me a wild set of stainless headers...... and exhaust setup.....

looking into boring a GA16DE block to suit QG18DE internals to stroke it out to an 1800cc na with a wild set of cams, and as QG and GA bores are spaced the same. lobes on the cam lines up the same, same with the crank. the rods and bearings are the same as far as i can tell due to lots of internet research and ringing around, it could work, found one guy so far who documented a little of his project with this..... but he said it only leaves 5mm between the bores and i am reluctant to destroy an engine, but i think he was running/going to run a turbo system........

[Kitch]

nice Luke - good progress, 2015 we will finally hopefully get that cruise in with Brendons, yours and my coupes,... better late than never!

keep it up mate, you are not far away now.

[luke]

still around 10k away i reckon.

but thats allowing maybe 4k for the engine, i could always just get it running then swap out to the flash stroked motor.

at least im actually doing things on it again i guess

[2 doors]

get it going and do the stroked motor at a later date.

[gingofthesouth]

Looks awesome and this:

get it going and do the stroked motor at a later date.

A Datsun no the road is worth 10 in the garage (and yes I understand the irony of my Datsun not being finished ).