Gday, Im starting to plan my next project. Once I've finished the Sunny and bought myself a ute, I want to start rallying. I want a car that has IRS, so a 1600 would the first choice followed by a 180b. My budget would be around $5000, including the initial price of the car. Depending on what happens, my plan at the moment is to use the L18 out of my sunny so theres a big expense out of the way. I can get all the bodywork pretty right so, so basically the killer expenses are going to be the cage, suspension, driveline components, incidentals (seats/harnesses, terratrip ect.)

So basically, for around 5k, would i be able to make a resonably competitive rally car minus the cost of a relatively grunty engine?

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Cheers,
Tristan.

Daily - '85 XF Falcon Spak Wagon (that I don't care about)

On going project - '79 L18 Powered Datsun Sunny, Twin 45's

Basically no.

Unless you want to wait years and years while you collect parts for as cheap as possible it will be quite difficult to build a competitive datsun for that sort of money.

Why do you want IRS? There is a few problems with the datsuns semi-trailing arm design which are not easy to rectify with PRC rules.

1600 - no way, just to hard to get body bits for these days.

For $5000 you would be MUCH MUCH better buying a car, you should get somthing quite ok for that money... not a world beater but a good starter car.

It definatly will work out cheaper to buy a car.

What sean said.

I wouldn't worry about being competitive yet, just get a car to learn in and don't be too worried about smacking it into a tree.

Dave

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USA Daily: 2014 Nissan GT-R, very minor modifications for the track
USA Project: 1978 280Z, minor suspension upgrades, VK56DE conversion in progress. SOLD
AUS Race Car: 1973 240Z, L28ET, Autronic, GT35R. SOLD
AUS Project: 1972 1600, 3200km old S15 SR20DET, ground up rebuild. SOLD

Yes, and don't go and wreck any good Datsuns while you are learning

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Richard... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqM9_Wq-TKc

L18_B310...

I plan on selling my SSS PRC3 car in the near future.
I want to fix up a few things and give it a good dyno tune then sell it for investment funds.
It had only done 3 logbooked events before I bought it, and none since

If your interested pm me and we can discuss it more.

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1975 P610/180B SSS ex PRC3 Rally car (parts car)
1974 P610/180B SSS (parts car)
1972 P510/1600 Currently sitting untouched
1977 P610/180B Wagon Daily Driver

I have been autocrossing a Mazda RX3 for the past two years..... So I want to take things a step further, so local club rallying would be the next step (on dirt)

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Cheers,
Tristan.

Daily - '85 XF Falcon Spak Wagon (that I don't care about)

On going project - '79 L18 Powered Datsun Sunny, Twin 45's