New Zealand Datsun Club

Stock engine rebuild?
What headers did you run with?

Really like what you’ve done with this coupe, I can remember when it was black and in chch. Think I have some photos of it in my old school photo album.

Is the drivetrain stock?

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Swann insurance info

Evening team, The club is run by volunteers who all have family’s and dogs and stuff so their time usually runs out at the end of their monthly catch meeting and organising club events. I’ve found that I usually end up paying club fees at nationals, I’m assuming, due to it being easier for club orga...

Took Ute for a WOF today. Failed on a few things which i wasn’t shocked about. 1. Tail light lense faded and needing replacing or use yellow bulb 2. brake line at strut seeping, 3. Loose steering box, suggested rebuild 4. LCA spacers needing cert 5. A14 motor needing cert. 6. F/L wheel bearing nut n...

Heck yeah this thing is cool

Wow you don’t muck around! Stock brakes?
Keep progress pics coming

Well the Ute made it to nationals in Cromwell. It was a massive mission to get it there. Bert ended up travelling down to chch with Ange, Olivia and I. So he and I ended up pulling the gearbox back out and removing the sandwich plate. Turns out I needed the half plate as there still wasn’t enough mo...

Massive weekend and thanks to the committee for making it such an excellent one!
2,085km of travelling,
Epic yarns and epic cars.
Damaged transport trailer on way home but we arrived safe
Here’s to the next one

Have had some pretty big nights working on this. I’m pretty new to a lot of what I’m doing so it’s a lot of watching YouTube videos and reading my Haynes manual. Sourced some headers from SW Motorsport Australia. They cost me $530 landed. They turned up in 3days which was pretty impressive. I had is...

Gearbox in. Ended up sourcing a longer/standard assembly and the fork with the longer hook. Hit the usual issues with the reverse switch hitting the tunnel. Also the drain screw is the male half inch which now sits way too low. Need to find a female internal 1/2 inch screw. I’m assuming I need to ge...