I thought you said you had one?
yes they are like the l series box. BUT as well as the A series bellhousing, they have a shorter input for the spigot bearing than the A series gearboxes.
While all the 63 series dogleg boxes were hydrualic, so were ALL A series boxes, from LHD datsuns. Get under your car, and see if it says "60" or "63" on the side of the gearbox.
According to what I've read at
http://www.datsun1200.com, the 63A dogleg gearbox can withstand 200bhp. That being said, I've done some pretty unholy things to 60 series gearboxes, and never broken one. Although, my brother once borrowed my worked A14 powered sunny to go to the shop, and when it came back he'd shawed the roll pin on the selector fork for 1st and 2nd. Easy enough to fix though.
A mate of mine spoke to some "expert" who claimed that the H pattern 60 boxes were stronger than the dogleg ones. Sounds like BS to me, (They have the same size internals)but I will conceed that they are a wee bit newer. I've never been able to break a dogleg 60 though. And I make more torque than most A15's too.
Whats the A15 like with a blower?
FUN!!!!!!!! It has fabulous torque. There is ZERO lag. By the time the pedal touches the floor, it's making max boost. (7psi)
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