Datsun Fairlady- how many in OZ?

[Paddington]

there are two fairladies sitting for sale in a caryard on High St, Northcote (Melbourne)

[Banzai]

The latest issue of Unique Cars has an article on the best Fairlady mechanic in Australia (and possibly the world). Lou Mondello is based in Moorabbin, down in Melbourne, has built the engines in almost all of the fast Fairladys in tis country and takes the occasional trip to Japan to work on the cars there.

He did my latest engine rebuild. The car used to be 180hp pig to drive around town. Now it is easy to drive and has almost 200hp.

[Banzai]

Found this little potted history/review of the Fair Ladies on a US site:

http://www.valvoline.com/carcare/art...=res20011201dt

[Datto-Zed]

New on the ozdat classifieds:

Datsun Fairlady 1600 datsun fairlady 1600 1965/66, red with black interior, simmons mags
Car Identification: 451FFC
Price: $10,000 Location: Highgate Hill, Brisbane QLD
Contact: Nathan Schwartz
Email: nathans@brandandslater.com.au
Phone: 0407070179

http://www.ozdat.com/classifieds/view_image.php?image_id='2208'
http://www.ozdat.com/classifieds/view_image.php?image_id='2209'

[Datto-Zed]

Another 411 Bluebird for sale. This one looks damn neat. Someone wanna lend me $2500? :D

http://www.ozdat.com/classifieds/vie...'2235'
http://www.ozdat.com/classifieds/vie...'2236'
http://www.ozdat.com/classifieds/vie...'2237'
http://www.ozdat.com/classifieds/vie...'2238'

[Paddington]

The latest issue of Unique Cars has an article on the best Fairlady mechanic in Australia (and possibly the world). Lou Mondello is based in Moorabbin, down in Melbourne, has built the engines in almost all of the fast Fairladys in tis country and takes the occasional trip to Japan to work on the cars there.

He did my latest engine rebuild. The car used to be 180hp pig to drive around town. Now it is easy to drive and has almost 200hp.

I bought that issue for that article.

the two cars are still in a caryard sitting there. one of them has dropped in price too by $500.

[dat2kman]

Silvia and 1600 Fairlady are a pushrod motor. In stock form they put out 96hp at the flywheel which was good enough to give the car a top speed of 105mph (almost 170km/h). Without going up to a 2 litre H-series block you would be struggling to get more than 130hp out of it. I have seen a H-block car pushing about 175 hp.

2000 Fairlady is SOHC. In Aus spec it had 150hp at the fly and a top speed of 124mph (200km/h). 0 to 60mph took 8.8 secs and the standing quarter was 16.1 secs. That was faster than the V8 GT Falcon (1967/68). Thanks mostly to one mechanic in Melbourne (Lou Mondello), with not too much work you can get over 190hp out of it and still have a perfectly streetable car. By the time you get to 200hp (147kw) you need to be on Avgas or have an almost undriveable street car. Last time mine was dynoed it had 98.6kw at the rear wheels. The motor responds really well to an increase in compression. I'm taking mine for a run down Western Sydney Dragstrip this week to see how it goes. I can let you know.

The secret to the U20s power is the cylinder head. It was pretty similar to the later FIA heads for L-series Datsuns. The FIA U20 head was better again thanks to ports that were more of a straight line to the valves. Most engine builders look at a U20 head and say it won't work and all have been proved wrong. About the only improvement you can make to it is to fit slightly larger valves and cc the combustion chambers. I believe (but Nissan won't admit) that the U20 head was developed/copied from the Prince Skyline GT motor. Both are basically the same as Meredes Benz of the time (Prince was a licensed copy) and look remarkably similar. This was also the time that Nissan took over Prince.

In another thread on these forums someone pointed to a Hillclimb in Qld. I looked at last years results when three Datto 2000s were competing (in three different classes). Over 150 entrants and all of the dattos were in the top third outright. Best was about 20th outright (Jason Lea IIRC).

In the USA where they used to compete in a class with Porsche 911s, the top Datto teams regularly beat the German (and British and Italian) competition which really pissed Porsche off.

The Dattos annihilated all comers in Japanese sports car racing in the late 60s but were finally overtaken by Datsun Z432s which had better handling and more potential in the S20 motor.

Hi Banzai, It's Jason Lea, I just found this thread, and thought I'd put in my two yen's worht, The Datsun 2000 I use for racing is an original 1968 model, using all original mechanicals, as well as some Datsun Competition parts, It is now prudicing 234 at fly at 7500, and 181 ft/lb at 5500, this is possibly the most powerful U20 motor in the known worl, Yes, it gets rebuilt every 50 hours, and is not at all easy to drive, but boy it is a lot of fun..
If any are interested in more info PM me.
jason

[Shifty]

dude you just dug up a 3 year old thread.

[Mr_Meaner]

Fukn noobs!

[Shitbreak]

It was worth it though, good read.

[260BC]

Unashamed plug - you get to see all the old Dattos at the classic Japanese car show in August, for details go to Events here http://www.zcarclubq.org.au

Last year a Silvia and several sporties turned up, as well as some disreputable PF'ers

[Lobster]

Hi Banzai, It's Jason Lea, I just found this thread, and thought I'd put in my two yen's worht, The Datsun 2000 I use for racing is an original 1968 model, using all original mechanicals, as well as some Datsun Competition parts, It is now prudicing 234 at fly at 7500, and 181 ft/lb at 5500, this is possibly the most powerful U20 motor in the known worl, Yes, it gets rebuilt every 50 hours, and is not at all easy to drive, but boy it is a lot of fun..
If any are interested in more info PM me.
jason

I would like pics.

Kind Regards
Lobster

[Cameron_Datto]

If any one has a 4.375:1 Diff Center or CW&Pin for a Fairlady Iam after one ,

Regards Cameron
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[dat2kman]

Some pics as requested

I would like pics.

Kind Regards
Lobster

So what if I reply to a forum thats four years old, If I did'nt, you, wouldn't get to see these! And yep, it passed the Mustang, the Marcos and the V12 Ferrari.
BTW they are Watanabes!
Hope you like

[lumpy]

So what if I reply to a forum thats four years old, If I did'nt, you, wouldn't get to see these! And yep, it passed the Mustang, the Marcos and the V12 Ferrari.
BTW they are Watanabes!
Hope you like

I like!