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Re: [Spridgets] Datsun 5 speed on eBay

To: "Andy Webster" <a_d_webster@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Datsun 5 speed on eBay
From: rrengineer@dslextreme.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:10:00 -0800 (PST)
Datsun Tranny on Ebay right now at $355.
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2


Andy Webster
> There is always the toyota 5 spd conversion... more butchery involved..
> but better ratios.. Dellow in Sydney Australia makes the "kit"...I use
> that word loosely coz it's really just a bellhousing.
>    Not as straightforward a job as the datsun... but if you can be
> bothered, it's a nice drive and you only ever need to use the clutch
> for standing starts!
>   still plenty of toyota 5 speeds too...even though they go into just
> about anything over here... V8 guys go for the steel Supra box, 6 & 4
> bangers go for the Celica & T-18 Corolla alloy boxes.
>   the toyota overdrive is .86:1 compared to the datsuns .82:1, but the
> ratios from 1 - 3 are better sports car ratios than the datsuns.
>   Andy
>   Brisbane
>
> Charlie <shelden3@pldi.net> wrote:
>   Wow.
> Makes me feel like my 200.00 find last winter was worth while! I'd been
> searching for a while though locally. Seems most had been crushed
> according
> to the yards as anything more than 10 years old was wasting space.
>
> Charile
>
>
>>> I would already have Listed!!!! LOL There ARE more!!
>>
>> But the supply is dwindling fast. Face it, there was no other socially
>> redeeming value to a Datsun 210. Many of them were not 5-speeds. Most
>> have
>> been crushed. The Morris guys are after them, too. This one had a mere
>> 40,000 miles on it. No, I would not have paid that price, but the day
>> will
>> come when we will think it was worth it.
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