IS THIS FRO REAL ?

11,000 RPM TACH.

Dude claims it's for a first generation or first year fairlady Z.

Also saw a boost guage that went were the clock would go for a '70-'78 Z. Saw it about 4 months ago and it looked like it came from the factory.

Haven't seen another one before or since.

It was cool looking almost like a rally clock with an Orange needle and read something like 30-0-20 Vac boost preasure os so.

Anyone has photos or reference on that boost guage aswell?

Heres what the owner said of it, "VDO turbo boost gauge, it was fitted to work in the stock 240z dash with no mods..... (were the stop clock is at).You need to replace the plastic vac hose."

ANY info ARIGATO'D

~Z~

i don't know about the tach. it looks like a good aftermarket one, though.

the boost gauge is aftermarket. VDO mad the gauges for euro cars, not for japanese cars (correct me if i'm wrong)

Why would their be a factory boost guage for an S30? There was never a factory turbocharged S30.

Why would their be a factory boost guage for an S30? There was never a factory turbocharged S30.

thats what I thought, but it looked exactly like a boost guage version of a rally clock.

It had the same black plastic shroud that surrounded the glass lens, same writing, same font style, indication needle, same everthing. So I was scratching my head for a minute but Dude said it was for a 240z.

May have been after market but it was diffinately in the same style as a Fairlady Z.

240Zdog on ebay was the seller of it but the action link no longer has the pictures and zdogg don't have any pics either I belive.

Who was VDO though, I'd like to get one those guages if I can find the exact one.

~Z~

The tach looks like an aftermarket unit fairly well fitted into the stock housing to me.

I think someone watched Spinal Tap one too many times.

For those that don't know what I'm talking about, here is the exchange about amps:

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.

Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

Marty DiBergi: I don't know.

Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

The Marty DiBergi version:

http://www.classiczcars.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=11896&cat=3069

The tach looks like an aftermarket unit fairly well fitted into the stock housing to me.

Good catch, Arne! After looking again, I notice the lack of turn signal indicators.

Good catch, Arne! After looking again, I notice the lack of turn signal indicators.

HAA HA

Nothing a blow torch couldn't handle :bandit:

And thyanx HS30 for that wonderful thread!

I didn't know that tach was out there, and those dots are a cool idea.

Peak power and peak torque, I wonder why that idea isn't done more often.

Speaking of which, how is your 432 turning out?:classic:

~Z~

There are turn signals !

If you look on both sides of the number zero you can see two small squares, one on each side. ((underlined in blue))

Also the makers stamp on the back looks like it says ~K~ and ~S~ for ~Kanto Seiki~.

The stamp looks similar to the one on the back of my 1973 Skyline Speedo also made by Kanto Seiki.

So if it wasn't installed on some sort of Nissan / Datsun, it was diffenately made by an OEM supplier ~Kanto Seiki~. Only if some one could read the Kanji writting on the wrapper maybe we can get more information..... so I guess I'm going to class

~Z~

I recall seeing something pretty similar in a Honda S600 or S800 years ago.

Still might not have been OEM though!!

Newb from Japan. Been here since 1988.

The Kanji/Katakana says S30 Zenki You (For Use with the S30 Early model)

11,000 Taco Meta (Tachometer)

15,000 Yen