RetroMat
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Nov 29, 2004 23:36:18 GMT
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What happens when Ratdat and friends have got all their old Datsuns fitted with more modern Nissan engines?
Hmmm...prickly subject. I think there will always be at least one original example of each car. The whole Japanese mod thing is something most people appriciate....the japanese themselves are pretty hot on the idea.
To be honest logical engine transplants suggest that the cars should have the extra power they deserved!
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Nov 30, 2004 14:19:49 GMT
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I don't really forsee it ever being a problem having a modern engine in my 510. The SR20DE which I will be installing shortly has as much aftermarket support r9ght now as motors such as Pintos ever had and I think it unlike they will fall from favour in the near future as they are just too popular. Check out www.sr20forum.com ...just that one SR20 forum has over 10,000 members! Certainly in ten years time it will be easier to get SR20DE(T) parts than it will to get stuff for the original L series engine, which by then would be over 40 years old. The chances are though that there may be an even better engine that comes along by then ..if so I'll be using it ;D The original L series that was in my 510 is highly tunable and has huge performance market support... but not here in the UK. If I want to build a hot one then everything has to come from the US and Oz, which makes it far too expensive to bother with. Why spend a fortune trying to extract power from an elderly high milage engine when I can have something that does the job better for less money? Also, I could build a 200bhp L series but I'd have a cammy, not paticularly streetable and thirsty engine whereas an SR will do it whilst remaining totally smooth and economical. My SR20DE has done just 45,000Km from new and complete with gearbox, wiring, ECU, AFM and everything else cost me £80. Stock it gives 160bhp. I don't think you could get that power cheaper. It gives me a much bigger budget to spend on performance gear to bring it up to 200bhp. For the same money I could barely buy a set of side draughts, manifolds and a cam for an L series. The other factor, especially with 510's is that you can buy so much stuff to help with modern engine swaps. You can buy kits to install a 200SX SR20DET or CA18DET. My SR mount kit cost about £90 and I could even buy a header designed to fit the SR20DE in a 510  No matter how sought after the current crop of modern Nissans may become, there will always be cars for spares and engines available just as there is with old cars now. There will never really be a shortage of donors for me or other Datsun modifiers simply because there are just a handful of us and the cars are so rare, modified ones will never be common, ever. I have no doubt, just as 510 fans in states have moved with the times and cosen more and more modern running gear for the cars so will we should the need arise. |
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1962 Datsun Bluebird Estate - 1971 Datsun 510 SSS - 1976 Datsun 710 SSS - 1981 Dodge van - 1985 Nissan Cherry Europe GTi - 1988 Nissan Prairie - 1990 Hyundai Pony Pickup - 1992 Mazda MX5
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Nov 30, 2004 14:24:52 GMT
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Thanks Eddie! Glad we've got that one sorted out. I suppose it's only the same as BMW people putting M20, M42 and S14 engines in old 2002's, and folk cramming current 4.4 v8's into e30's!  |
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