Adam is a certified Puerto Rican 😂👌🏻 this car is definitely the average Puerto Rican mans weekend car 🇵🇷😭

No surprise that john drove it 4 hours lmao, such a legend 😂

Seeing Adam bamboozled by a solid axle made my day

The "wheel hop" you're feeling is more likely axle wrap, which occurs because the diff is, as you said "floating" there are no arms that keep the differential from rotating which causes the pinion angle to change when the leaf springs compress. A simple fix would be a pair of Caltracs, however depending on what you plan to do with the car, drifting, drag racing, or track driving. You may want to look into a parallel 4-link with a watts link or track bar.

Felt like an old LZ video. Probably my favorite video in a long time. Sweet little car man. Glad to see you happy and enjoying it.

If you want to keep the leaf springs, look into traction bars (also called slapper bars sometimes). 4 link or even just ladder bars would be the way I would go with it though

Dunno about anyone else, but I enjoyed listening to Adam and Collette chatting to each other. Maybe, I'm just weird. 🤷‍♂

So are we just gonna ignore Matt Fields corvette in the background?

The genuine joy is amazing. All the amazing cars and this gives Adam this much joy is one of the many reasons him and Collette are 2 of my favorites

As soon as I seen the muffler/tip, I had a feeling it was a rotary. I'd personally swap the rear end to a four link. Would plant the tires so much better and more adjustability. But, if you're wanting to keep the leaf springs, get a traction bar setup. I'm so excited to see the content on this! Good find Adam!!!

I'm probably more excited for this series than any others you've done. The car is cool & we'll finally get a legit collab with both of you guys.

Dude, that rotary chop and the revs are so addictive.

Welcome to Datsun life! You picked up a solid little car! The front steering slop is likely because of the drag link. I'm not sure if you can grab a drag link for the 1200, but if you cant look at the 620, 510, and 610. Datsun was really good about parts interchangeability much like the later Nissans.

I think it’s cool how when FD comes through to Orlando, your compound is now a spot for teams to stop by and fix a few bits before the next round or store the car for the time being

That Datto 1200 Coupe will give you lots of smiles. In Australia that rotory swap is very common in those cars. Fit old school Tramp-Rods to the leaf-springs to stop axle hop.

For wheel hop, look into Calvert Racing's Caltracs Traction Bars, and a new set of adjustable shocks to dial in your ride quality. At least these are a good place to start. Excited to see where the build goes! I was for sure thinking this was going to be a shell for an Australian style Blower Burnout Car build!

Thank you Adam, seeing this car brought back so many great childhood memories growing up. My dad had a baby blue Datsun 120Y here in South Africa and that was our family car growing up. It took us on vacations, visiting family, it took us everywhere, until sadly it broke down and my dad was no longer able to fix it.

To get rid of that axel wrap (wheel hop) the easy way would be traction bars which act as kinda a lateral bars that you would find in a 4-link but to completely eliminate the wheel hop especially if you plan on putting more power to it definitely go with a 4 link which will also allow you to use coil overs.

I really hope the two of you do this together. It would be such a treat for all of us 🙏

This is 100% by far my fave car of yours already! Don't think I've smiled as much watching any of your videos as this. Mega light + Rotary = Awesome