FoRdSUN521

btw, it has 19" of front wheel travel (stock 6") and has 16" of wheel travel in the rear. and from left feild the ford 2.3 engine was a dog in the 3500 lb ranger but when you put it in the 1900 lb laden weight datsun 521.....God Damn that little hustler goes theres nothing you can do to that L16 engine to make it compete with a 2300 modern fuel injected engine i am sooooooooo happy with how my vision turned out. all my friends thought i was crazy when i started the project. they were like "1971 datsun truck.......... why?" now they are all jeleous. haha:cool:

the steering geometry was the trickiest part. i made i little jig with a piece of tubing that fit snug on the pitman arm splines before i cut the cross member out of the ranger frame. then i cut the crossmember down to fit in the narrower datsun frame and set the ranger steering box in the jig i made to locate it for the custom steering box mounts.:eek:

no its a datsun frame. i cut the front crossmember out of a ford ranger that has the suspension pivots and motormounts and shortened it to fit in the datsun frame. so it does have ranger front suspension.. i go offroading in the desert and mexico alot. the datsun front suspension would never take that abuse.

all these parts are left over from my build. the truck had like 70,000 miles so all this stuff is in pretty good shape L16 ENGINE. needs head gasket. good core. complete. i think it has a aftermarket a/c its huge 5-SPEED TRANS. worked perfect when removed from vehicle COMPLETE REAR END. drum to drum. worked perfect when removed. INSTURMENT CLUSTER. in great shape. 70,000 on odometer if interested e-mail me or PM me. SBRoffroad@hotmail.com im in so-cal i need to get rid of this stuff so no reasonable offer refused

heres a vid and some pics. tell me what u guys think::confused: vid pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/9220916@N04/