71 Datsun 1200
 

So heres what Ive been putting together... Took this over from Doc Holliday a few years ago...Hope ya'll enjoy

heres a few more

Welcome and your car looks very nice. When do you plan on making some runs?

Soon, very soon. Hes trying to light it for the first time tonight.

Thanks!! im trying to make it to a track day this saturday...nothing like making it down to the wire! Im just hoping I dont run into anymore "unexpected" delays lol I cant wait to piss off some neighbors tonight if I can get it lit:lol:

Nice, luv the old school race rotaries.

Its gonna haul ass.

Right on, we need video of start up and passes.

^ so demanding.....

^^also one of him changing his undies after first full power run , hope im not asking too much :lol:
Good luck hope you make it out for a rip :nod:

You got it guys!

Looks great man! Nice Turbo B.T.W. Good Luck

looks awsome. i always loved the 1200

Well guys here it is 1:00 am, things didnt go so hot...Looks like we have spark, and fuel, but couldnt get her to light tonight. :banghead: Back to the drawing board. Looks like Ill have to wait til next track day for some numbers...Oh well looks like Ill be forkin out a benny for a bitchout fee! :icon_tdow

tow start that bugga haha

It finally runs.......

That it does! Unfortunately we had to drain all the coolant out of it, dry it out then it lit..... HOPEFULLY it's not what I think it is..... I'll get a vid up soon I hope

Oh no, sounds like a blown water seal. You'd best just gift it to me... ;)

Seriously though, beautiful car. Can't wait to see some vids of this sucker running!

Thanks man! I should have things ready (fingers crossed) for the next track day on may 7th....we'll see

Not if it has a bad water seal....... jus sayin :(

Uh oh, I hope I'm not the guy that jinxed it. :blush:

So no bad water seal...just too frickin cold out trying to light off e85 and just flooded the shit outta the motor! Got her running in a rushed attempt to get to the track again!
Got enough street passes to do some good shake down and off we go!
Make one pass, (actually a half pass) and end up with a cracked rear housing :(. now time to pull it all back apart...
F M L!!!

This is what i call a bad ass build.I like it.....ok look at my username............

I like your signature even more :egrin:

What set up u are running. From what I can see on the picture it looks like a Blowthru. Holley running a bws400 turbo . Did it lean out that's why u cracked a housing?
Thanks Julio

Yeah its a holly 600 blowthru with a BW s475. Im running it on E85 also with an air-water intercooler setup. Pretty sure it went lean and cracked the iron...Im tearing it down as we speak and should have it back together soon.

I am trying to get it ready to make the BOTI event in Las Vegas in Oct. You gonna be there Julio?

Well I'm going to be running the same set up but I'm going with 650 Blowthru demon carb, my turbo. Is. A bws475. But with a t4 1.10 rear. I want to go with e85 also. Maybe u can give me some
Info on the carb conversion .pm if u want , If I I'm not ready by then. I sure'll be there to show some support,
Thanks julio

So I had a carb guy do the work on it, but he milled the baseplate, made the carb for boost reference. changed to solid floats, he opened the ports made the carb flow more like a 630-640 instead of 600. I also believe he changed the boosters to it too. Im honestly still learning about carbs, Ive always been an efi guy so Im still getting familiar with them. Ive only made a few pulls on the car, not even a full pass yet so I unfortunately dont have much to share yet.
Ive been having a hard time with getting the timing dialed, and playing with the jetting, and still trying to play with spark plug choice.
I can tell ya that at 10 psi really only letting er rip to about 6500 rpm's on the street, the car is an animal and i havent even reved through half of 3rd gear yet. Car is still breaking up at higher rpm so Ive got some dialing to do.

Sounds good , so what can u tell me about the motor what ports,compression,
I'm sure that 1200 gots to pull real hard that's about the lightest shell u can go with. I actually had a 69 1200 but that was a while ago. , I'm now trying to finish the starlet.
I Hope u get all the tuning sorted out. U should post some videos when u get the car running. I'm sure a lot of us would appreciated
Thanks Julio

its a half bridge s4. BDC did the porting. its got 3mm seals.
Looks like I might have to put together a stock s4 engine together....plates cracked right by the dowell pin. Ill know for sure here the next couple days :fingersx:

We almost have the same set up , I'll be running a half bridge , even though I'm way behind. , maybe we can help eachother. At least with the tuning , if nothing goes wrong I should have the motor in soon. But still need a driveshaft and installing all the gauges and redoing the exhaust. , And all the intercooler piping. , well keep us posted on the progress.
Thanks. Julio

yeah not too many people are running blow-thrus so its been hard to get info when I run into snags... Im always down with sharing whatever I can so lemme know how your progress is too! If I dont hurry up and get off my ass and get that motor pulled apart, you might be done before I am!!

Great build, I would appreciate a bit of info on the blow-through if you are willing to share.

I have no problem at all sharing info...god knows Im gonna need someones help on here one day too! lol Ill gladly share anything I can. let me know