1972 Datsun 510 Build Project

[@jimhiscott2918]

OMG. I had 2 510's in 1984. A 69 and a 72. I was 19 years old living in Newport Beach Cali. One was my daily. The other I built up pretty sweet. .530 BRE cam with correct lash pads to keep those darn rocker arms flat lol. Fender Flares, L20B and I picked up a SSS head from a racer in Riverside cali. 200 sx 5 speed transmission swap. You know how we did it old school🤙. Dual 44mm Weber side drafts with a Canon intake manifold. I cant remember the header i used? Mallory distributor and a bunch of other stuff. Im 54 years old now and have cancer. Im building one last compact ride. 95 honda civic ej1 Si coupe. I am in the process of going all out this time. Boosted. Doing it all this last time around. I extremely enjoyed your video. Brought back a ton of great young memories. Thank you🙂 PS. I met John Morton and Brock at Riverside Raceway in 1981. My father brought me to the races. John's Championship winning 510 was there on display. Thats the day I fell in love with the 510. I was 16 years old......

[@林尚文-y2g]

Awesome ! I love this machine with MSD spark , excellent

[@gimp7298]

Beautiful build.............gosh, I miss my 510......thanks for video

[@pablocespedes9585]

This BRE replica looks very good, actually one of my very few Datsuns that I like! These engines are bullet proof, they are Mercedes Benz copies after all. In the hands of experts these things were fast!

[@marcryvon]

Not the whole engine, just the head. Another small Japanese company bought the rights from Mercedes but never used it as they went belly up. Datsun bought the said company thus putting their hands on the heads design.

[@john-1964]

awesome job, credit to the team who resurrected this part of motoring history, big thumbs up..

[@SmR8008]

Now this is a nice looking car. It's nice to see so much effort put into a car that is being used, as opposed to some trailer queen 😊

[@sicks6six]

nice workmanship, wish I could see more cars like this on the road,

[@BabakPA]

That’s beyond gorgeous and awesome! Thank you very much for the video! I will dream about this car tonight I am sure!

[@klobucarpa]

Now this is a tougher gig than building a Camaro. Especially fixing the rust.

[@LuisCruz-rj1fu]

Sexy 510 I remember the good days went I used to see them 👌👍💯🤩✌️.

[@deniscortes9200]

DATSUN 510 ONE OF MY FAVORITES. NEVER OWNED ONE.

[@richarddoire2872]

What an awesome project.

[@3rd-eye-neenja563]

Amazing job! It's worth building upon the original engine and doing a period correct restomod ,,,these cars along with Z's are skyrocketing in value

[@shawnmcgill]

Beautiful

[@leonedoronero9394]

Thank for video.. This is my favorite old car

[@weremodel]

Nice post. My son and I have a 1971 2 door. Someday.

[@marcryvon]

Please, protect and rust proof it NOW ! I'd twish I still have MY Apple Green '72. Had to sell it to afford college. :-(((

[@weremodel]

@@marcryvon It has been a 26 year project. College, family, career etc got in the way. Addition to my sons house. There is hope.

[@marcryvon]

@@weremodel Keep the flame alive. Every 510 is worth it. I was stunned that new body panels are still available ! I'm an oldes gearhead now, but everytime I see a 510 resurrected, I daydream. BTW, I have no son, but I wish that you and your son bring your 510 back. I would. A dream I'll never be able to do. Have wet eyes now...

[@weremodel]

@@marcryvon I am fortunate to have a great stepson.. Been with his mom for 39 years., taught him how to drive a stick and what the relationship between cam and crank. Mom taught him English. I feel your pain. I lost my

[@marcryvon]

@@weremodel Man, do I ever envy you ! We could not have children. At the time, we said to ourself "oh, well, we'll make the best out of it".We lost ourself in our "careers". Oh the emptiness of it all. Now, I'm 66, and man, does it ever sadden me. Nobody to share my experiences, my tricks, teach to drive a manual car. How to do Bondo... Anyway. I went on your web site. You do great, detailed work my friend. I"m sure that you'll do a fantastic job on your 510. Keep your dream alive !

[@Mianhuaquan]

Beautiful car congratulations guys

[@endeavour2127]

Beautiful work! Very well done!

[@gibthekid]

Japanese E30...Well done!

[@lollipopcandy1705]

Beautiful...my dream car

[@garageratz612]

Top notch!

[@mikedambowic5862]

JUST AMAZING🤯 CRAFTSMANSHIP ,ALLWAY LOVE THE 510

[@LocoporlaVelocidadOficial]

Hey guys... Great job!

[@tootightconcepts747]

That one turn out nice

[@ilhamrahmad4276]

Nice..nice... and nice....

[@owenfalconer9398]

Awesome job love the work and time you put in to get the job done the right way

[@guillermoorozco467]

Awesome job Thanks for sharing Like how u keep clean shop...

[@BruceschultzAU]

Awesome work guys

[@rafaelguijarro7105]

Awesome build!!!

[@edawg5149]

Beautiful. clean. Nice work on the 510

[@MindDezign]

Love the 510's

[@ScooterBob69]

I'ma just put mine on a trailer and send it to ya ....... Good grief - what a NICE job on the old Dime!!!

[@josealonso1987]

Estoy sorprendido. Este es mi carro predilecto. En mi juventud a los 18 años mi papá me regaló un 510 del 1970 , y siempre tengo bellísimos recuerdo de este auto. No hay en el mercado, pero compre un BMW M3 2004 que es algo similar. Desde Puerto Rico exito.

[@Sirskibumsalot]

I had 5 of these back in the 80s and raced the shit out of one , my 2 door 1970 .....Bought 2 of them for $20.00 bucks ....Ha ! i spent a lot of time in the garage wrenching on it and used parts off the others .....it was a fun time !

[@marcryvon]

It's 2 AM as I watch this for maybe the 5th time. And I still have a bone. At 67 Y.O. Thanks guys, appreciated !

[@tomlepski8306]

"And I still have a bone", you mean boner?

[@steviep9270]

Gorgeous

[@dannychiguina3962]

Beautiful DATso guys 🤙🥃🥃

[@Joe11Blue]

When rust repairs take as much as time as it would to build an entire replica from the ground up.

[@philjean8125]

very nice i had two and a truck when i was a teen back then you could get them for two to 500 dollars maby do a truck next

[@mauricioramos5097]

CHULADA,TODO MUY BIEN

[@mrp510]

I would have tried to find a better shell to start with...but yeah..awesome job.Great Car.

[@marcryvon]

510s are becoming rare, victims of the tin worms. Sad.

[@jamesooten3659]

Datsun's early line-up was plagued by bad metal. You were lucky not to suffer thru-body rust before you got the car paid off. Back in the day, you could only get a 3 year loan on foreign built cars. Most of these cars rusted off the road, rather than having a catastrophic mechanical break down.

[@joaquinalbertoliralira1598]

chulada de trabajo

[@cbearabc]

I had a 510 and that car could due 90 all day up hill and dawn hill's on h.y .17 in Canada. It just blows me away how, it just rolled over those hill's? And than later I read about how it won the pikes peak hill climb over all winner you know hard that is? Its just crazy how hard that little car could pull. I never max out that 95 h.p. motor, it always same to have more to give? It was Japanese mini Copper but much faster.

[@fozpringle1]

Epic. I would have gone sr20 but thats just me

[@marcryvon]

He wanted a BRE reproduction so they most probably tweaked the engine bores and head as the BRE. The carbs are exactly what Peter Brock installed at the time. The only thing I'd change are the wheels. Too modern. The original BRE had the 240Z diff and rear axles, Much stronger than the 510 ones.

[@gibthekid]

Quit talking, get busy and show us what you do...typing opinions doesn't count

[@fozpringle1]

@@gibthekid everyones entitled to them dipshit

[@marcryvon]

@@fozpringle1 Yeah, for sure. Go ahead and drop a dumb LS x in a Ferrari ! If you can afford any, bimbo !

[@frankmick4900]

Ide give my left nutt to own a stock original 510 these days. No for resale, just to drive :)

[@8319dino]

waooooooooo felicidades

[@victoko1]

hello how thick is the floor plate?

[@hunkydorian]

I loved my 510 and would probably love another one. But why don't I ever hear about people dropping the 2-liter engine in it? It's the same engine, isn't it?

[@rodchristian1363]

Cast crank is difference Rally boys used to fit a forged one for 200b donk

[@dannybordelon2494]

1960 Ford, i have a 60 Galaxie Town Victoria 4 door, no pillar post between the windows, must be 7 feet of open area with wing windows opened on a HOT day no need for A/C.

[@andrewbehn7593]

Hi from Australia, could you tell me what interior heater model and make you added, it doesn't look like a 510 although fits perfectly thanks Andrew

[@DiegoRamirez-yc9mg]

Que suspensión trae atrás ??

[@colonelcatastrophe4821]

Beautiful build guys,those datsun's were what all my buddies drove or wanted to be driving on mulholland back in the 80's-90's! I had a 71 mk1 mercury capri and I spanked em;)

[@towallomeesgel1703]

What is your Capri worth now..?

[@moreofjosem5363]

Towallomee sgel hahahaja

[@vinnieangelo2888]

nice!!

[@jamestorres5582]

Ooooof . Nice

[@oribesalinas1395]

disk brakes kit, where do you found ? i need for my 71 510

[@omegamanRA28]

I would've thought u would paint the underside, engine bay and inside, before you painted the outside. Nice job though...great old school example of a car.

[@psavel274]

Nice BMW euro smilies. Better than the stock shit. Good looking 510. I'm guessing you're an SCCA guy?

[@LoveAffair-17]

I wish you covered more of the engine, what was done to it

[@mannypadilla9964]

Hello what roll bar is that?

[@koreboredom4302]

That's amazing how'd you get RTX to run on My Summer Car?

[@wellingtonmercez5320]

parabéns belo projeto ousado perfeito show .

[@geronimosss1]

Great DIY Where is the country?　510ｃｏｏｌ

[@hugoguerrero865]

How much can you selll it ones restoured ?

[@jamesooten3659]

My 1st car was a 510 2-door like this one. I started on the re-build when I was 14 back in the summer of 1977 & didn't get finished until the summer of '79. The body on mine was almost as bad as yours, and that was only 5 years after being manufactured. The metal in all the early Datsun line-up was for crap. Yours must've been a garage-kept California or Nevada model. Otherwise it would've been a pile of rust chips. I have a question that has always puzzled me about the 510. Mine had a independent rear suspension with a limited slip differential. There were U-joints on either side of the rear end gear housing & it reminded me of a Corvette rear axle. A lot of my friends said it either came from a 240Z or a GTR, but to me it looked like it came from the factory that way. I only saw one shot of your car's rear axle. Before you started the re-build, did your car have independent rear suspension or a solid rear axle? You've built a really beautiful car. It reminds me of my 510. I painted mine that same blue, but a solid color scheme without any stripes or lettering. That was a great car, fun to drive. You've stirred up a lot of nostalgia here. Thanks for the memories.

[@marcryvon]

The 510 came from factory with independant suspension/rear axles. A rarity then. Thus 6 U joints, 2 on the drive axle, 2 on each side of the diff and 2 more on each rear wheel hub. Being a stupid 18 years old, I had all of them replaced in very short term on my pristine, '72 Apple green car, red light dragging on every occasion against Toyotas or even 'stangs. Oh the financial pains ! Had to sell it for college in 1975. Bought another one in '77, with a burned out clutch from girly training, 4 door, yeacky light yellow but hyper cheap (400$). Had it for 3 years, upgraded with mags, Pirellis and a mandatory Stebro exhaust. A blast to drive. Ended up giving to my kid bro for 50$. He totalled it in a too spirited drive and almost killed himself and a friend few weeks later. I still long for my mint,original Apple Green 2 door. What a car ! And a proud one at that after John Morton's win at Laguna Seca over Alfas and BMW 2002s ! A legend was born. And rightly so !

[@jamesooten3659]

@@marcryvon I bought an apple green body w/axles for only $100 (which included delivery home) that had been wrecked in the rear for the front clip, whatever wasn't bent or broken that was in better shape than mine, & to upgrade my interior. Nothing like those days. Teens could buy a fairly reasonable ride with a minimum wage job & still afford to repair it & do the upgrades with that same job. Now teens can't get enough hours, won't work, & have been priced out of the market to buy their 1st car. Have you seen the video of the guy who crushed his '69 Dodge Charger after 6 months because no one would meet his asking price? He was asking $8400 USD for a supposedly all original, numbers matching car, but every panel/door was a different color & panel alignment was virtually non-existent. I can remember when muscle cars sold on the used lot for $1k-$1200 because no one wanted to buy cars that had been thrashed. Me, I couldn't wait to buy my 1st car. It was my ticket to a bigger world & my 1st step to independence. Nowadays, given the choice between a fixer upper 1st car or a new smart phone, today's generation would pick the phone. Many have no interest in even getting their driver's license. What a weird paradigm shift our culture has taken just 2, maybe 3 generations later.

[@luisguivas2696]

will you give me some info about the disc brake that you used on the rear axel ,thank ahead ....

[@robert23497]

The 510s look awesome to me and are very light which is always good on track. Im a fan of the American v8. Im sure that the engine in this car would fall short of my power expectations but, i would still like to know.....peak power and torque figures and at what rpm? What does it redline at? What engine platform is it? Did ya build up the stock block or......have a custom block machined from billet aluminum? Just curious. Anyway, i love the car and im happy to see you are out racing it. Hopefully, you will kick some ass at your local historic racing events!

[@marcryvon]

Sorry Vance, but you definitely do not understand vintage race cars ! The BRE 510 was the underdog at the time, fighting against established "serious", factory backed cars from Alfa, BMW, Fiat etc. John Mortons, a low key driver and shop handyman, took Pete Brock's engineered "also ran" 510s to proper dominance, pushing Alfa to cheat on fuel cell size, thus no refueling stops. John is to this day one of my all time racing heroes. The prototype underdog winner !!

[@ramssiva62]

Datsun should bring this model to India

[@ivanbarton4475]

From what car is that diff from?

[@sparetire7067]

I have some of those front fenders if you know anyone that needs

[@towallomeesgel1703]

Are you in Southern California, if so what city?

[@sparetire7067]

@@towallomeesgel1703 torrance

[@towallomeesgel1703]

@@sparetire7067 Are they steel, if so are the fenders flared?

[@sparetire7067]

@@towallomeesgel1703 fiberglass bre flare fenders also have factory dual carb setup complete and a cyl. head freshly done

[@towallomeesgel1703]

@@sparetire7067 I wanted factory steel fenders. I just sold my fully built L-18. Carbs / 5-speed for a sr20.. (Thanks anyway)

[@ولاءالفتلاوي-غ1ظ]

جميل يا جميل

[@marcryvon]

Aaaah,ولاء الفتلاوي , what ??

[@marcryvon]

What ??

[@lordraiden4036]

крутая шаха

[@towallomeesgel1703]

All that work and you turned it into a BRE..?

[@marcryvon]

So ???? A legend is a legend.

[@southhillfarm2795]

The quality of the metal and rust protection of these old Datsuns was so bad that it would rust in the deserts of Arizona. Surprised anyone could find one that wasn't completely rusted out.

[@Shehzaadable]

impossible made possible

[@huitzilopochtliazteca2113]

Te lo compro

[@finetuning6728]

related to fiat 131?

[@marcryvon]

What ? Absolutely not. Maybe same shape, but the Datsun was bullet proof. The Ital crap crap... not so.

[@glennthompson4166]

Want to sell it ??? ...lol.

[@raffaelecozza2412]

Copia della 131 abart

[@raffaelecozza2412]

Abarth

[@diipadaapa7809]

Datsun 510 made 1967 -1973. Fiat 131 production started in 1974