New World Datsuns...

I cannot imagine studded tires in a Datsun... They already have so much road noise. Prepare.

Haha good point, but after all the work and mods I've done I don't have allot of road noise. Biggest thing I hear is intake and exhaust

I think all the por15 on the floors really helps quiet it down

Oh also, remember, studded tires decrease traction in the dry or wet. Only increase on ice.... Look for studless traction tires.

Good point, my main concern is the road I live on is really curvy and 45mph. Just not a great combo when it's 19 degrees on my drive to work lol

But is it 19 and wet or 19 and dry.

I personally will NEVER buy studded tires, for multiple reasons. The most important being, they almost never give better traction than a studless traction tire. Also, dont think because you have studded tires you automatically get better grip. Just drive defensively/slow.

I had studs for my celica, I could tell the difference in grip. They were heavy tho so I rarely used them. And defensively slow works in a car but this truck would rather be backwards lol my old Toyota started spinning circles down the road at barely 5mph. With most cars I wouldn't care as much but I wanna keep this truck out of the ditch

Well today I did allot of little things on the truck... My sterio went into security mode because a speaker wire got unplugged so I tore it apart and found the problem. Then I just kept going lol I permanently installed my vynle floors, then I fixed my clutch pin age that came apart, then I adjusted the latches on the doors so they would shut tighter. And then I really got carried away and fabricated a bracket and mounted the pull for my 240z choke cables, then shortened the cables to perfectly fit my su's. I did all this in the dark in 23 degree weather lol soo worth it

A snow pic for fun


Floors


Mostly finished interior


Choke pull mounted



Shortened cables

Jelly of the green.......




And I feel your freezing pains


That's with the heater on

Thanks dude, the green makes me feel like a bad ass going down the road lol

Is that the heat in your garage? Lol dang that's cold. I've been workin outside but if I put I heater in the garage I can get it steaming hot

Your finder mirrors look great!



620s pull them off way better then 521s....


I've thought about getting some but.. nahh.

Converted_to_datsun wrote:Thanks dude, the green makes me feel like a bad ass going down the road lol

Is that the heat in your garage? Lol dang that's cold. I've been workin outside but if I put I heater in the garage I can get it steaming hot

Yup, that was as warm as I could get the garage with the door down... But I ended up picking up another space heater today so I was 40 today woot

Thanks dude, I actually wasn't sure what I thought of the mirrors till I painted the fenders. I'm glad I decided to use them tho, goes soo perfectly with my build lol

I feel your pain lol I almost got frost bite scraping my windows at 530am the other day haha

I picked up some stud less snow tires last night so I'm gonna mount them on some stock rusty steelies and rock them haha

Then what happened?

Lol what happened then is got a new gf so the truck has just been driving. About to start more metal work on the bed tho

I have seen the truck twice this month...

So I'm back kinda, yet another new gf. This one drives the Datsun and works on trucks, basically my dream girl. So the truck has been getting more attention. I blew my old motor... Ate a rod bearing. So I called around and made some magic happen. Me and Jacob ended up swapping Jacobs L19 in last weekend! It rips pretty good, I'll figure out how to post pics soon.

Figured I'd add a link to my old Datsun thread so I can find it easy. I don't have this truck anymore tho
http://community.ratsun.net/topic/43725 ... -dd/page-7

I have your carburators. LOL.

Haha hope you put them to good use, I loved those carbs. I'm going to round up something for the a14 soon hopefully

That A14 wants a rack of Mikunis.