New Zealand Datsun Club

Yeah I heard they were all pretty shabby there and left when they no longer can drive. Love that green one with its window sliding into the boot

I have had some question's about the brakes, so I thought I should share a photo.

crustywhip wrote:Yeah I heard they were all pretty shabby there and left when they no longer can drive. Love that green one with its window sliding into the boot

yea cuzzy kane did u see the photos of the wagons i saw when i was in mexico?
i also have a video of me jumping on the roof of a 710 sedan drinking strait tequila and smashing out the windows while a mexican is pissing on it.for a laugh.

this blue 2door one needs a few touches,its formula is all wrong.im sure it could become a head turner with the right understanding.

abe froman wrote:I have had some question's about the brakes, so I thought I should share a photo.

No way are they OEM. thats a after market hat with AP calipers and discs?(or knock offs).

Been a while since I posted an update,

I decided I was going to cleanup the ugly corner of the engine bay were the battery is located. I decided to relocate the battery.

Here is a dark photo of what I started with.


I got my spot weld drill and removed the tray, there was not much paint under the tray and a little surface rust.


I removed the rust, welded some holes, straightened out the well and sprayed a couple coats of primer.


I blocked out the primer ready for paint.


Fresh paint !


For more access to inner fender well I removed the radiator, this seemed like the perfect time to replace the water pump and remove the overly loud clutch fan.



Going back together with a couple upgrade's


All I need to do is repaint the radiator and put it all back together.

That engine bay looks 100% better now. Is that the Futo Fab alternator adjuster? It looks very nice.

broke wrote:That engine bay looks 100% better now. Is that the Futo Fab alternator adjuster? It looks very nice.

Thanks, as for the adjuster I don't remember were I got it. It is homemade and been sitting in my tool box, it is off an older project.

Finally got my new front marker light's, a set of 140J light's to replace the US spec one's.

I have not put an update up in a while so here go's.

Here is what the car looked like last time after all the upgrades. US spec 1974 Coupe bumpers, 140j grille, rear finally lowered.


But it still was not the look I wanted, so I started looking for more international body and trim parts. I found a set of fenders and a NOS front panel in Japan. I worked out buying all the parts the hard part was getting them shipped to me because of there size.

Here are the parts,




I know these parts are common for a 140j in NZ but are non existent here in the US. It then took a good 5 to 7 months to get them shipped to the us, it was do to there size that it was so hard to ship them for a descent price.


While trying to get the parts out of Japan this happen !

From this ( 1974 US spec )


To this


Thanks to my New Zealand connection at least the rear of the car was looking WAY better, but I was still missing something.

This is the first time I have seen your thread, and I like the result. Very nice.
Parts are always expensive from japan, but guards, getting them to arrive in good shape would be very difficult and expensive I would imagine.

How do they even ship/package a guard?

Looking real clean.
That's a good looking J