panchovisa
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Does anyone know of a source for new pads for the Hurst-Airheart 4 piston front and 2 piston rear brakes that were sold thru the Datsun competion catalogs of the mid to late '70's? Or does anyone know of a source that can replace friction material on my worn pads? I am putting the race brakes back onto my streetable C-Production car and want a semi-metalic pad that will work cold and wet for street and still perform for auto-x/track days. Thanks in advance, Pancho
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One of the best engine compartments I've seen. I want those strut braces! -
I believe that origional (read old) Minilites were all magnesium. Panasport made very good copies (under liscence?) in aluminum. Minilite may now use aluminum as standard with magnesium being "available". One way to tell magnesium from aluminum is that "mag" is very pourous (air is lighter than even magnesium) with many fine closely spaced air pockets. This is more noticeable on machined surfaces where it can't be confused with casting texture. Another way to spot "mag" is that real mag wheels must be painted (clear, or color) to seal the wheel to prevent air from escaping the tire. This may be done on inside, and/or outside. I have "mag" wheels on my car and they are extremely light. With 12" wide race slicks my 14"x7" Sterling mags weigh approximately 18 lbs.
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Looks like it will be a true beauty. -
greyghost, They are Sterling magnesium wheels. They were made in Argentina in the early '70's. They were very popular on big bore racers (Vett's, Stangs, and others) until the 3 piece modular race wheels appeared (BBS). These are probably the only ones ever on a Datsun. Sorry, but you can't get them anymore. If you are really interested I will be putting on new wheels (Jongbloed 3-piece 17x13 and 17x10!!!!!) and tires this spring and I could part with these. They are 14x7, stock Datsun pattern, and weigh 11 pounds each. -
I saw P.L.N. win his 1st Trans-Am about two weeks earlier at B.I.R. Just smoked everybody by a mile. Have you been to R.A. often? -
Just imagine what the start sounded like! -
Love these old race photos. Looks like Sharp has some understeer, Fitzgerald is drifting, and Parkinson (?) is cutting the corner. I've got a bunch of old slides from Road America and Brainerd I need to scan. -
Flairs were made by previous owner. I just tried to smooooooth everything out. Hardest part was getting headlight buckets blended in to look like nosecone on a rocket. -
The car was raced by Dan Burch from Albuquerque, New Mexico. If anyone has photos of this car I would be very interested! He went to the C.S.P.R.R.C. national run-offs 4 years at Road Atlanta. So someone from the southeast may also have some photos. -
Dash is aluminum covered in genuine artifical leather (naugahide). I removed a few bars from roll cage to make it possible to have two seats (not shown in photo). Fire system is Halon, and is activated by punching handle in center console. Nozzles up by dash and back by fuel cell. -
Mallory knob is adj. rev control. Tach is mechanical, driven off back of camshaft, with tattle-tale needle. Fire nozzle is visable by gearshift. -
Photo was taken in fall and oil cooler did too good of a job, so I had to block off cooler. Also shows boxes to hold and aim repositioned headlights. -
Never could get plug wires run nice, so I machined lexan and bent over hot-plate. Wires do not arc because lexan is dialeltic. Plug wires never go onto wrong plug. -
Made the vent puke-tank from BMW windshield washer bottle. -
Couldn't get factory balance tube to look clean, so made a tubeular version. -
Tried to keep everything to four colors. Black, silver, red, and blue. Everyone has silver headers so I went with blue like old F-1 Ferrari's of the sixties and seventies. -
Full race engine out, replaced with streetable version. -
Driveways are to be avoided. -
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I've been checking out everybodys rides, just registered and thought I'd share some photos with you guys/gals.
