picked up my new daily friday evening a 1981 datsun bluebird . the car drives great if a little under powered though that should be sorted at a later date . the engine is the L18 1.8 4 pot its not a bad engine runs sweet but it does have a rather annoying auto box behind it that seems to want top gear as soon as possible meaning that as soon as you pull away it take about 3 seconds to get through first and second and goes into top theres no wonder why these earned a rep for being sluggish .
plans are to run as is for a while engine wise and just tidy it here and there. there are plenty of little jobs to do . then at a later date fit something a little quicker and manual
the car has been done in the BRE datsun race colours and I think it looks pretty good so I will be carrying on that theme with it
here it is with some before clean up shots ;D
that exhaust will have to go apart from it looking rather silly its pretty rubbish as an exhaust and leaks at almost every joint it has a new back box but it seems to be a totaly diferent size to the wierd tail pipe that goes with it ;D
the interior is pretty good but a little tired here and there the seats will probably find their way out of the car and be replaced by a pair of bucket seats dash is pretty cool retro eightys all the way
random sparkrite leccy ignition and it works
still has its orginal tool kit and its all there how mads that
plans are to run as is for a while engine wise and just tidy it here and there. there are plenty of little jobs to do . then at a later date fit something a little quicker and manual
the car has been done in the BRE datsun race colours and I think it looks pretty good so I will be carrying on that theme with it
here it is with some before clean up shots ;D
that exhaust will have to go apart from it looking rather silly its pretty rubbish as an exhaust and leaks at almost every joint it has a new back box but it seems to be a totaly diferent size to the wierd tail pipe that goes with it ;D
the interior is pretty good but a little tired here and there the seats will probably find their way out of the car and be replaced by a pair of bucket seats dash is pretty cool retro eightys all the way
random sparkrite leccy ignition and it works
still has its orginal tool kit and its all there how mads that