New Zealand Datsun Club

hsepwr wrote:Looking good, Im glad there are a few more 1600s getting attention in the north island we are a rare breed up here compared to those from the deep south.

Its slowly coming together. Where are you based?

Hastings. I met you once a few years back outside brendans house after a cruise we had down here

Oh yea cool, im headding down in a couple of weeks for the weekend, would be sweet to catch up.

yup as mentioned via pm, ill organise a garage day for you greg if you have the time available

mint16 wrote:yup as mentioned via pm, ill organise a garage day for you greg if you have the time available

Yea that will be sweet. Sat is looking at being the best day for it, but let me know if its easier for a sunday mission.

As you may be able to see in the back ground of the photo of the pulley I also had to get the water inlet from the radiator modified.

I dont know how I managed to do it but I looked at it to see where I could cut and shut it, and managed to cut it in the right place. With a little work on the bench sander the two ends matched up almost perfectly.



I then had to get a boss turned up and threaded for the water line to the turbo.






Then I only had to spend about an hour rebending & twisting the factory water line to be able to bolt up in the new location.

Yea I suppose I should get off my ass and give a bit of an update.

After sorting out the water inlet and water lines for the turbo I fitted the engine (again) and mounted up the intercooler and worked out how I was going to run the piping.



then had to make sure that I could clear the radiator.



Filled in all the gaps and wahla!



Now that I had both sides made up it was time to work on the fuel tank.
I purchased an R31 skyline fuel tank complete with cradle (which I found to be useless and ended up buying an R33 fuel pump cradle from the wreckers). I then cut the approprite bits out of the R31 tank and cut a corrisponding hole in my 1600 tank.




Then welded on new fuel line brackets bent up new lines and mounted on tank.




I then got sick of crawling under my car all the time and decided ot make myself a Rotissire.

I did some reasearch on the internet and formulated a bit of a plan.

Used my skills as a quantity surveyor to work out how much steel I would need and ordered it.

I received the steel and got to work cutting it to length.



Tacked it all together


Clamped everything square and straight before welding.



Oh yea, I capped the ends of it all too.


All welded together.


Pivot boss and slide all welded.



Then I cleaned it all up and painted it.

some nice work there, I especially love the rotisserie, you should sell those

mean rotiserie looks a hell off a lot tidyer than mine maybe i should spend more time on my rotiserie aye hahahah .............well done man car is lookin good