The last week of august this year I picked up a 65 1500 basket case . Floor boards rotten, drive train not installed, previously in an accident for $1000. I had always wanted a 311 and this fit my budget. I know the car will take almost a year to complete because I can only work on it on weekends as it is in my dads shop and I travel a lot for work so weekends I am not even around. I also knew I wanted a high hp, screaming rev NA engine to go with it and increase my pleasure of driving the roadster.
After looking around for high hp NA JDM engines I came across the black top 3sge beams motor with the 6spd trans from the Altezza 200 RS and was really intrigued with the sound, the revs and hp it put out for a 2.0 NA (210hp almost 170ft torque) which is not too shy from what an sr20det puts out ( I am not dissing the SR20, I thought about a sr20de swap extensively before deciding on the Toyota motor) relatively cheaper and available. Only problem I could not find anyone who has done this swap before, but many people have put them in AE86's so there's a little bit of information on the motor out there.
4 weeks have gone by and I have completed some minor floor board and shell repairs, modified the chassis, fitted the motor and trans and made mounts. Currently I am acquiring the necessary parts to get the engine running and after that I will put my focus back on the body.
Any info or comments are welcome, Please don't bash on me putting a Toyota motor in my Datsun. If the Datsun was not so far gone I would never do such a swap but almost 90% of the car will not be original. THANKS NEW YORK for SALT and RUST !!!!!