New Zealand Datsun Club

glad to hear it mate, nothing better than all your time and effort paying off like that. now get out there and enjoy it

course it will go in the morning, your a clever bastard and fussy to boot, cant imagine you putting it together wrong. good to see it back on the road

It did start in the morning and the day after that. Pppphhhhhheeew. All is going well, but it is taking all my strength to drive like a nana. Its so embarrassing driving a car of super coolness at 70kms down the motorway! I can feel it wanting to go faster but I cant. Its like being cruel to be kind.

untrue!
The old wives tale of being nice to a fresh engine has been dispelled long ago. You need to do lots of hard pulls from from 2000-4000 rpms in 3rd and fourth gear during the 1st 20 miles of driving. Load the rings up to they work hard against bore walls while the hone pattern is crisp and raspy to wear the rings in to the shape of the bore.

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i had a freshly rebuilt A15 in my b310 years ago and i didnt do huge revs in it but i gave a few good bootfull's, well more than a few ae and she's still as crisp now as it was back when it was first rebuilt, so i agree it is a bit of a myth

The old girl is still tikking along. The Rakia cruze was fun apart from the over heating. I got a hand held GPS unit over the weekend. It has a function that gives you your speed. At 50kms on the gps equals 60 on the speedo. You guest it at 100kms the speedo equals 120 on the speedo. It was the over heating that was slowing me down on the Rakia cruze, honest.

Time for a bigger radiator by the sounds of things mate. The stock radiators have always been inadequate for me. Although if the cooling fins are still nice and tight, you may just get away with having the tanks removed, and the cores rodding out.

Im just planing on getting having the top tank replaced, and the cores cleaned out. I will then be able to mount my electric fan and peace will be resored to the world.

I took my 5year old son out in the datsun on saturday. He paid me out for NOT doing a skid out of the garage. Now let me explane. Our garage is at the bottom of a slopping section. It's good to get a bit of momentom out of the garage to get up and around the right angle corner. It's also a shingle driveway. I have had to tow myself and others up the drive. Warrick (2 doors) holds the record for the most times stuck in our drive way, each time with a differnt vehicle might I add. So when we came back I looked at Ben and said shall we do a skid. He being the chip off the old block said YEH! So how could I let my boy down. So we hussed it up in the garage (I don't think I would ever be silly enough to do it in the kitchen!). There is nothing like the smell of burning rubber on a saturday morning. So that is the first burnout out of the way in the old girl, the first of may I hope.

sweet story man. glad to see the kids got the bug to