The 510 Realm

I have some EV and TDI to Datsun/Nissan adapters ready to ship but have a customer saying the dowels are different on his KA trans than my adapters. I used a 280Z and later a 510 trans from MikeY to confirm my patterns. Has anyone run into the different trans dowel pin thing? Looks like the KA uses ...

The XJ is the family wagon, big turbo, big exhaust and a stage 4 tune. Goes like stink. The JKU is our daughters, bone stock TDI pulls it around nicely and gets almost twice the mileage of the 3.8L gas engine. Our "road trip" vehicle is an 08 Dakota with a Cummins ISB170 and NV4500 5 speed...

I know this is a very old thread but in case anyone else stumbles upon it like I did there is now an adapter to put a VW TDI into a Datsun/Nissan.
http://gastodiesel.tdconversions.com/

Address is here: http://www.canev.com/contact.php
My last two swaps using the 1.9L TDI diesel.

Yup, a lot of good times in both those cars.
The first one actually towed a Boler trailer on our honeymoon.
Speedy Lou!
Doing good, trying to retire so I can get back to the important things in life... cars.
Stop in any time.

I now have a transmission adapter to swap a VW TDI into a Nissan/Datsun.
Should make a fuel sipping street screamer. Maybe my 280 will be a test bed.
http://gastodiesel.tdconversions.com/

A few people are starting to use the batteries out of the Leaf and I would think they will be a very cost effective way to get lithium until the auto wreckers get used to handling them and a good recycling system is in place.

I will ask my customer if he can post a build thread. Our web site is http://www.canev.com/ and for the last 25 years we have been converting "stuff" to electric. The last year I also got the diesel bug and started this web site: http://gastodiesel.tdconversions.com/ I still have a 1976, 2...

WOW, thanks MikeY for dropping off the parts 1/2hr after this posting!
Now I can get that EV adapter built.
It would have been the mid 80's when I stopped racing and sold all my Datsun stuff.

I used to be a certified 5-10 nut and have had over a dozen of them in the past. Now that I need a simple bell housing pattern I cant find a trans or even a dust shield in my junk. Anyone in the Parksville area with a trans from an L series I can borrow for a few days? Here is one of my cars from ba...