avi
31st January 2016, 03:15 AM
Hi all,
Lovely to see the venerable Datsun still has a large community of enthusiastic fans. As a former 260 LWB owner,
it's easily understood.
At 17, i purchased a decently maintained '87 Y60. Highly capable but agricultural beast intent on making me broke.
180km per tank (210 if driven gently) does that to a college student!
Thought it was the dog's bollocks, though.
Tuned it in 1998 when purchased by adding all the go faster bits i could lay my hands on. An RB25DET replaced the anaemic 2.8L straight 6, plus some JDM
5 speed gearbox/clutch combo and Nissan Gloria rear brakes coupled with front R32 Nismo stoppers. ICE was a complete Nakamichi and Infinity job, making
my Y60 the baddest Nissan Patrol in Malaysia. That was now completely hopeless at hard-core off roading (No more low range, DUH).
Come to think of it i may have inadvertently invented the Porsche Cayenne.
Forward another 17 years and i no longer drive a Nissan Patrol. The Y60 destroyed in 2000 due to a mixture of over-exuberance, a snapped accelerator cable and an overhead bridge support.
I'd love to get the latest 2016 Nissan Patrol/Infiniti x80 but it costs US $200k in Malaysia. So i bought an Audi Q7.
Lovely to see the venerable Datsun still has a large community of enthusiastic fans. As a former 260 LWB owner,
it's easily understood.
At 17, i purchased a decently maintained '87 Y60. Highly capable but agricultural beast intent on making me broke.
180km per tank (210 if driven gently) does that to a college student!
Thought it was the dog's bollocks, though.
Tuned it in 1998 when purchased by adding all the go faster bits i could lay my hands on. An RB25DET replaced the anaemic 2.8L straight 6, plus some JDM
5 speed gearbox/clutch combo and Nissan Gloria rear brakes coupled with front R32 Nismo stoppers. ICE was a complete Nakamichi and Infinity job, making
my Y60 the baddest Nissan Patrol in Malaysia. That was now completely hopeless at hard-core off roading (No more low range, DUH).
Come to think of it i may have inadvertently invented the Porsche Cayenne.
Forward another 17 years and i no longer drive a Nissan Patrol. The Y60 destroyed in 2000 due to a mixture of over-exuberance, a snapped accelerator cable and an overhead bridge support.
I'd love to get the latest 2016 Nissan Patrol/Infiniti x80 but it costs US $200k in Malaysia. So i bought an Audi Q7.