Datsun 120Y 0-100

[marty351]

Hearing that bov reminds me of this;

[Swordie]

120y was a tough, simple and economical car. My Mother had two. I learnt to drive in a 120y.

I had two 180B's. They handled well and cheap to run when i had no money. I could also tune and do servicing myself. Just needed a couple of tools and timing light.

[The Yeti]

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Originally Posted by marty351

What's the difference between a datsun 120y and a datsun 200b?


There was no 120y wagon

I beg to differ my good man

I owned a 120Y (bother) wagon for 3 weeks bank in the early 90's

Absolute belter of a car

[FalconXV]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9gZQVYaIY

Bon apetit ;)

[FalconXV]

[kaniSS]

51kw lol.

[Sioso]

[Mechan1k]

Originally Posted by Sioso

Looks identical to my neighbours VT SS. His is still really clean for its age as well. It gets babied.

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[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by Sioso

Odd looking Datsun.

What was the quickest HSV model in year 2000?

[KBC]

Haha the good old 120y, fond memories. The manuals used to go all right but if you wanted bloody slow drive one of the autos!
Back when I was a young tacker I could get mine off the clock past 160km/hr.
2nd gear in the wet was a power house with the 155 tyres haha.
I could not kill mine even doing compression lock ups etc. One time I dropped it back to 3rd at 140km/hr. When I did that it started running on 3 pots, I got home let it cool down and pulled the rocker cover and there was the problem. It had bounced a push rod, loosened off the rocker pushed it back in and away it went to terrorise the streets again.

[OzJavelin]

Originally Posted by Sioso

Reminded my of my VY SV8 .. sounded good .. would rev out hard .. but doughy off the line. It was a good car though.

[pauljh74]

With a determined driver, they could get moving. I remember 5 of us squeezed into an auto 120Y and my mate doing 120km/h in a residential street. He put some genuine fear into us at future times - 6 of us in an XF ute and he was driving on the footpath at one point in the backstreets, the other was an XC Cobra - 351 and a 4 speed. Why the hell did we get in? He was passing cars on Maroondah Hwy in Blackburn like they were standing still.

My sister had a late 70's Corolla - 1.3 litre with an auto. One night I was coming home, it was bucketing down, a right turn at a small roundabout and I floored it coming out and no wheelspin. It had a traction control system, it was called the engine.

[falcon_bandit]

Originally Posted by KBC

away it went to terrorise the streets again.

that sums up the 120Y i had being my first car, i was determined to push it to its limits, however low that limit was

use to love throwing the thing around corners to get a chirp from it, until my mates who were trailing behind me one day, let me know everytime i performed this awesome manoeuvre the car would go onto 2 wheels and nearly tip over unbeknown to me haha

[MrZ]

My first car was a 2.0L Honda CR-V and I reckon it was almost as slow in the 0-100 dash as that 120Y.

[roddy1960]

When I was a kitchen hand as a 17 y.o first job one of the chefs owned the ugliest coloured 120 Y it was possible to have . Greeny , mustard colour . two door fastback coupe' .
Bloody hell it did some kilometres though because after he moved on I saw him still driving that 120Y several years later. Great little car they were. Our neighbour Dave didn't have a 120 Y but he did have at least 15 trouble free years out of a vinyl roofed 180B. Actually a really nice car . I can't recall the last time I saw a 120Y or 180B.. Cheers Rod.

[Sioso]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

When I was a kitchen hand as a 17 y.o first job one of the chefs owned the ugliest coloured 120 Y it was possible to have . Greeny , mustard colour . two door fastback coupe' .
Bloody hell it did some kilometres though because after he moved on I saw him still driving that 120Y several years later. Great little car they were. Our neighbour Dave didn't have a 120 Y but he did have at least 15 trouble free years out of a vinyl roofed 180B. Actually a really nice car . I can't recall the last time I saw a 120Y or 180B.. Cheers Rod.

I haven't seen one in a while either.
My mum used to drive us around as kids in her pale blue 180B 4 speed with a white vinyl roof, it also had the travel rack fitted to the boot.

[malazn mafia]

Originally Posted by Pedro

Correctomundo. the very early Datsun motors were a copy of the Austin A 40 power plant. The British motors were notoriously weak in the bottom end and ran bearings as a matter of course. The Japs built a strong bottom end into them and presto - a reliable motor.

Now if only some Chinese discovered the Barra motor and started producing then in the same manner