Little bit more of an intro about me,
Just turned 17, from East Gippsland, 1st year Aeroskills Engineer apprentice for ESSO, Been racing since 14 at local clubs ( Boisdale hillclimb, East Sale RAAF supersprints) and been tinkering with dattos since i was 12
Ive been saving for around 3 years for a road 1600 doing some part time work cleaning and maintaining trucks for a local fresh produce haulage service (Lanteri)
Thanks fellas, I had an account on this site a while back but forgot the details to it :/ No nick it isnt, it is Mt Taylor in East Gippsland
Plans so far are :
Manual box
Fix a few little things( squeaky brakes, door handle linkage,bad amp wiring)
Eventually will give the body a touch up.
Specs:
Built 10/1970
L16 stocker
New carby
Steel wheels with original? hubcaps
Venetians
Auto
Basically everything on this car is in stock form.
Feel free to comment anything else you want to know
Race Car:
1968
Fully stripped
Caged
Bucket seat
Custom dash
Bluebird box
L20B
48mm Webbers
Huge ports
Lumpy cam
Flat tops
Hot plugs
Extractors
And more. I bought the engine allready modified so i dont know everything about it
New 2 1/2 exhaust with hot dog
Extractors
Lowered
Yokohama Advan 4035s
Thats all the major stuff done to it.
So my first question is.
What do i need to change for a manual conversion?
Obviously Gearbox, master cylinder, pedal box, flywheel, clutch and cut a hole in the floor. But what about diffs and drive shafts etc?
Every bit of information is appreciated
Heres a few videos of me in the race cars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1SdrDM-Z8 - 1600 at Boisdale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm7GLFn9EI8 - 280zx at East Sale supersprints( 3:44 onwards is best lap)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkFT12aRkk - 98 Wrx at Boisdale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDxbkxKox6U- Outside view of the 1600
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq5xXntjXv0 - Tragic rollover of my old 1600 when I was younger
It wont let me upload any pics of the road car that i took today for some reason so i will try later