Paul,
The Datsun should be quieter. When you tested it, did you have a shift
boot installed? When I first drove my car w/o a shift boot, I heard all
kinds of noise that is usually muffled by the boot. I usea boot for a
1500 Midget.
Standard gear oil is fine.
The clutch travel is very short and abrupt. This is my only gripe about
the conversion.
First gear:
Datsun 3.513, Ribcase 3.2 -> the Datsun is 10% shorter. With a 4.22 diff
and 145 tires, I thought it was rediculously short. It was too short to
build any kind of speed, you upshifted to 2nd right away.
I now have a 3.7 diff, which is a little on the long side, but still no
problem with 1st. I now run 165/65 tires which are even smaller than
145-13s, so that offsets it a little. I feel a 3.9 would probably be real
nice.
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