thatdirtykid

Lucky for the buyer, not only the pallet is included but also wood screws to hold it to the roof!

This was a Ratsun car back when I got my b210 and joined here. Sad to see it regressed. If I powered up my old laptop I could post some pics of this build when it was "fresh"

Love the project! I also have been lusting over Dajiban for a long while. Not sure why I never paid much attention to the non datsun projects part of the forum, this place seems to generally match up with my eclectic tastes well.

B210 check in! Been daily driving my B again this summer. Man I missed it. Life has been hectic and it needed a little work. I have a new summer toy which means no funds to buy non US spec bumpers like I had planned to eventually do last 9 years... I put the front bumper back on so I could tow it to the new house last summer (previous owner has tow bar mounts welded to it, they pulled it near 300k miles behind an RV). I decided to mount up the rear bumper again. After taking off the bumperettes, drilling the absorbers and pushing them in nearly 3" I don't hate the look. I am not sure I will drill the front as I would trust the tow bar (get out of jail free card) even less... I will post pics of the rear mounted back up after the bumpers and grille get the fresh coat of paint they got prepped for yesterday. Seats! I have had some Prelude sport seats I wanted to put in this car as well as some out of a less torn up 78 B I picked up ages ago. The prelude seats were going to go in when I weld the floors, well the floors haven't gotten worse so I haven't gotten to it. Those seats are destined for my other project now anyways. So, in effort to make room in storage I put the '78 seats in. The rails mount a little differently between 75 and 78, so I had to flatten parts of the 78s shell so there was clearance for the slide lever. Well I got them in to find myself sitting a solid 3" lower than before. @6'2 this is something I should have done a long while ago. Its wild what 3" can do, the wheel feels so high now and I am not used to having a blind spot. Pedal angle is way better and I can actually heel toe a little easier now. And if I ever get the auto/rally-X bug I can fit with a helmet on now! I am considering mixing up the direction I take this car with the Celica in the garage now. I have been itching to build a baja bug for a while but have no space for a 3rd project car. Considering a mild safari build on the B210. Probably no body cutting, not cause I am worried about being able to go back to stock, but because I love how the car is now and am not sure I am ready to commit to giving this up. I will share some pics soon after parts are freshened up. May even throw on the "fancy" headlights with led turns I got from 5280Datsun 9 years ago (along with the seats, spare grille, bumper trims, and other misc parts). Could free up the openings in the grille for some projector driving lights or something silly.

I am running a weber 32/36 on mine. It's an older OG Italian one with manual choke. I already was comfortable working on the DGV webers since my first car was converted to one. It runs about the same as the OG, maybe a touch more power at the higher end but its minimal and the car isn't built for speed. I love the simplicity of the weber and the car starts just as easily as ever. You will have to figure out what to do with a bunch of vacuum lines and some emissions stuff. I cannot remember exactly what because though I only recently replaced the stock carb I deleted the air pump system on my car ages ago. You will want to route vacuum from the intake or carb (my weber doesn't have a port) to your distributor and take care of your breather from the PCV valve and valve cover. Lots of lines can be plugged. Make sure you keep the hard lines for the fuel system, while it looks like you can improve on some routing or anything there is a restrictor on the return line and if you bypass it you will likely have too much fuel pressure, or hardly any depending on how you route the return. If you haven't found it the tech wiki at the Datsun1200 page has a wealth of resources unlike any one place I have found for any of the other cars I have owned aside from maybe some sources dedicated AC VWs. Blows the doors off anything I have found to help navigate Gen1 Celica ownership... What makes you think the carb needs a full rebuild or replacement?

Pretty sure the B210 springs/perches are narrower than the 280zx. I cut the perches off my B210, shortened the spring 1.5 coils and used collars on my 280zx struts. I dont remember if this is a requirement but I believe it was, probably as mentioned in the thread I found here over 5 years ago.

Post up some pictures. Something to keep in mind when sizing tires/wheels is that you can always gain a LITTLE fender clearance upfront when doing the 280zx front strut swap. the front track width narrows by about 10mm each side if I remember correctly.

Sounds like a good plan, I wish I could run 13s sometimes. Are the Hayashis one of the 13s that fit over the ZX rotors?

1975, and yes they will fit, but as far as my datsun project goes right now seats are a lower priority so they are not installed yet.

I will be mounting some 89 Prelude Si seats in my B soon. The driver seat is fully adjustable including bolsters. They are in near perfect shape. Thank you mildy wrecked but beautiful Si in the pick n pull.

How I went the last couple times.

Yup and thats if you can bid on it without a broker. Theres another $250 if you cannot.

Decent looking 210 on Copart. this could be had for under 1k. https://www.copart.com/lot/40447196/?resultIndex=17&totalRecords=30&backTo=%2FwatchList%2F&query=*&displayStr=My%20Watchlist&viewedLot=40447196

Holy bickering. Input regarding the mismatched wheel choices. Its a drift thing, less for style than it is function. When you are switching wheels/tires a few times per event, especially on the rear, its easier to have multiple sets of same/similar size/offsets with the next set of junk tires on it than have 8+ matching sets on a budget. A lot of street styles are and have generally been loosely based on cars in different race. That said, some I will never get.