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Anything a-series rocks. I had a 77 b210 in highschool up here in michigan and that was in the 1996. I had the twin hitachi carbs and the gx comp head with double valve springs and a mild cam and motorsports headers on it. It was an a15 short block that my uncle had laying around since his days has a datsun parts manager it only had like 15 miles or so on it. All I have to say is 7500 rpm all day long kicks ass especially when hardly anyone knows what your driving. By the way I still have the motor and the 5-speed Jim
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Will it clear w/out the vacuum booster? Or you can try something like this: http://www.bryanf.com/510/brakes.htm looks slick (probably expensive).
No, it won't clear even with the vacuum booster removed. There isn't room for either in there. Thanks very much for the 510 link. That Tilton setup looks like just what I need. Ain't gonna be easy or cheap though...
Anything a-series rocks. I had a 77 b210 in highschool up here in michigan and that was in the 1996. I had the twin hitachi carbs and the gx comp head with double valve springs and a mild cam and motorsports headers on it. It was an a15 short block that my uncle had laying around since his days has a datsun parts manager it only had like 15 miles or so on it. All I have to say is 7500 rpm all day long kicks ass especially when hardly anyone knows what your driving. By the way I still have the motor and the 5-speed Jim
Jim,
Thanks for the note. Wow, a B210 in Michigan? That's just as unusual as me having mine in upstate, NY. You rarely see any left in the salt belt areas. Did your b210 rust away and you saved the engine and trans? Did the twin SU's clear the brake master setup?
Of course the carbs cleared the master cyl ....Thats what they had stock in japan for the a12 gx motor. I had separate k&n filters on each of them. Its like very old school jdm stuff. The cyl. head had absolutely no smog hook ups and the ports were about 1.5 times larger than the stock one. I remember when I got the car and the parts my uncle telling me about the head which was still in the original datsun box from japan that some guys would give they're right arm for that thing and I was like ok what ever but now i understand. Unfortunately after 2 years of driving the b210 a piston cracked and I had to get another car. My uncle asked if he could take the car back which he sold to me for exactly $1 and build a circle track car out of it. Which after doing alot of thinking I let it go which I deeply regret today. So while I was driving my new 91' sentra him and his friend set out to build it for the 4cyl circle track class. But after they stripped the car down and stuffed a cage in it and got it about 75% done they changed the rules and wouldn't let anything other than domestics race. So i got the car back which had nothing street legal left on it like lights and windows and yanked the motor and tranny and anything else worth keeping and sent it to the crusher. I would have kept it but I figured that trying to find all the parts would be harder than just getting another car from out west. Sorry for the long story.
It brings back alot of memories.... Theres nothing like hitting close to 130mph in a b210. Jim
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Of course the carbs cleared the master cyl ....Thats what they had stock in japan for the a12 gx motor. I had separate k&n filters on each of them.
Yes, but don't forget that the cars in Japan are RHD. Naturally the carbs would clear the master in that case. Anyway, thanks for the story. It wasn't too long. I enjoyed it! I'm willing to bet that the reason your A15 cracked a piston is because of detonation from insufficient octane. The Nismo GX head works out to far too high a compression ratio for today's pump gas.
Good call on the right hand drive. But none the less I had plenty of room with those carbs. I don't think it was the compression since the a15 had stock
pistons with like 8.5:1 compression and even with the gx head it should have been fine since I always ran 93 octane. But hey maybe I got some low octane somewhere and the little beast couldn't handle it. But now its rebuilt and ready for a new car. I really want another hatch back hopefully I can locate one and then not only have the motor but also put some z brakes on it and set it on the ground with some suspension thats worthy of the
motor. Then I will kill some of the newer rides at the track with a lowly
pushrod 1.5. Jim
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Good call on the right hand drive. But none the less I had plenty of room with those carbs. I don't think it was the compression since the a15 had stock
pistons with like 8.5:1 compression and even with the gx head it should have been fine since I always ran 93 octane. But hey maybe I got some low octane somewhere and the little beast couldn't handle it. But now its rebuilt and ready for a new car. I really want another hatch back hopefully I can locate one and then not only have the motor but also put some z brakes on it and set it on the ground with some suspension thats worthy of the
motor. Then I will kill some of the newer rides at the track with a lowly
pushrod 1.5. Jim
Sounds great Jim!
In case you'd like to see really nicely built B210, you could check out Will's car in the UK HERE When you get there, click on "gallery" and then on "B210 (the 180Y) turbo". Now that's a cool B210!
Jim,
You had the GX head and intake sytem on your old B210, but did you complete the package with the dual outlet A12GX Euro exhaust manifold on it too?
Nope I had the even better Datsun/Nissan comp. 4 into 1 header with 2-1/2
exhaust which pretty much erased my low end torque but up around 6k rpm and beyond it made plenty of power. Jim
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Nope I had the even better Datsun/Nissan comp. 4 into 1 header with 2-1/2
exhaust which pretty much erased my low end torque but up around 6k rpm and beyond it made plenty of power. Jim
Thanks for the reply. Years ago I had that beautifully designed chrome Nismo header too. I never ran it on the street though. It was on my B210 Honeybee drag car.
Check out that custom tunnel ram intake and Rochester 2 bbl. carb off of a 400 small block Chevy Caprice.
Jim
Anyway, thanks for the story. It wasn't too long. I enjoyed it! I'm willing to bet that the reason your A15 cracked a piston is because of detonation from insufficient octane. The Nismo GX head works out to far too high a compression ratio for today's pump gas.
Jim
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