New member, trading for a 240sx soon

[patrickm1587]

My names Patrick, I live in NC. I have a 1972 Datsun 510 two door that I have swapped a SR20 redtop in over the past year or so. I shouldn't have ever bought this 510 to begin with, it was in way too bad of shape. The idiots that had it before I got it cut the rear wheel arches off and took abunch of s*** off, it's bad. Anyway, I put the car on craigslist and said that I would sell the car or just trade it for a 240sx, but I keep the engine. Well a guy in Charlotte, NC e-mailed me today and said he had a '89 240 that he was willing to trade. Well the good thing is, the 240sx has a SR20 redtop in it and it runs, it just runs on three cylinders. So we decided that we would just take the engines out and trade shells. Except he's leaving the front mount and radiator in his car and I'm going to leave the front mount and radiator in mine because he's wanting to put a SR20 into the 510. And we're trading a few more misc. parts that he would he would need for the swap into the 510 and vice versa. So hopefully whenever I get some time, I can get the SR out of the 510 and meet up and we can trade cars. You may be wondering... WHY?! Well, I want the 510 to look good and I want to drive it around and show it off, but it would take way too much money to get it looking good, so it would make a good auto-x car, which is what the guy is wanting to use it for. And I also don't trust the steering in the car, I'd like to have something with power steering and an air bag. Anyway, here's a few pictures of the engine, it looks good, but don't let it fool you. The rest of the car is primered gray and it looks pretty bad.

[simmode1]

Lol... S13? Airbag? Ummm... Sorry, no. But welcome to NICO!

[patrickm1587]

Oops, I meant seatbelts, I had airbags on the mind for some reason. I looked through a good bit of pictures on here and I didn't see many SR's in 240's that had top mount turbo's. Any reason why? I figure it's just because the stock bottom mount will fit into a 240 fine so people don't fool with it. With the 510, I had to use a top mount because the bottom mount will hit the steering box.