Sounds like fun! You certainly won't be short on power!InTheRough wrote:Greg, I'd be interested in checking out your 2000 sometime. I'd love to have you come by and check out the project once I start making some headway.
According to Google, the LS1 weighs 497lbs while the Datsun 1600 weighs about 350lbs. You could be correct about the balance but I will be adding quite a bit of weight and modifications in the rear as well. I will obviously have to modify the rear frame for the axle, add roll cage, relocate the battery, relocate some of the electronics, adding small sub, etc. I plan on building this to enjoy the drive, not just for racing around.
Besides, I will need another reason to come out to the Peninsula now... I went to my favorite Chanterelle mushroom hunting woods that I have hunted since 1989 only to find it had been LOGGED OFF this past summer. CRAP! I was so devastated. It looked like a bomb had gone off... I walked along in a daze... all the beautiful areas we used to walk through, finding fungus gold, then blessing my co-workers with care packages of their favorite mushrooms, making an amazing mushroom soup, etc gone forever. Nothing but broken sticks and mounds of dirt. Heck, Chaterelles are $30 a pound in the stores, and we used to get pounds and pounds for 2 months from this high producing yet SECRET spot. Anyone else here who hunts mushrooms or similar can relate. It's very hard to find places that nobody knows, especially when the commercial hunters are out in droves.
I guess all things change. My only choice is to start over and see if I can find a new special secret place next fall, but they are few and far between... kinda like the '67 2000s that have shown up lately!
