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Datsun 210 trans value?

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Hmmmmm, depending on pricing I'd be interested in a trans and kit as well! Can't seem to find a good priced transmission anywhere.
 
kellysguy said:
Save one fer me Bill.
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Make sure it's the right one - don't think they match a 1500
 
from a 210? how much cutting?
 
Makes sense that a Triumph Spitfire 1500 od 5 speed trans should bolt right up to the back of the Midget 1500 motor. How's the fit in the tunnel? Anybody know?
Not for me of course, I've got the 1500 Nissan version, so the 210 trans bolts right up.
 
spit O/d works but you have to massage the tunnel to make it fit.

this is the other T-9 site

https://82.44.126.36:76/convert.htm

and we've also got experiments with a hyundai pony transmission going on. - any word there?
 
I know! Haven't done it yet, but some day. Maybe. Only the Laycock J-type overdrive fits. Even then, you need a screw jack to belly-out the tunnel slightly from the inside. Since the Midget crossmember is right where the overdrive needs to be, you need to open up that area first.

Standard procedure seems to be to open the inspection port up to the crossmember, and cut the center section of the crossmember out. Two-inch square stock will fit into the open crossmember ends to reinforce them, then you attach two-inch stock underneath the crossmember all the way across, with a "tail" extending back to the tranny mount point. (Some people weld the whole thing in, but at least one conversion I've seen bolts the crossmember in like a subframe, which makes getting the engine in and out much easier, with no loss in rigidity.)

I'd think it would have been really easy to fab up a mass-produced subframe at the factory that would have enabled the 1500 Midget to have the overdrive right from the start...I can only figure that BL was figuring on killing the Midget in favor of the Spitfire from the very beginning, and didn't want to spend a penny more than absolutely necessary on it.
 
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