Z432

Beautiful! The S20 architecture is very interesting.

Kats,

Some interesting non-factory variation on this engine (?):

S20 factory block paint colour was silver, and engine mounts were painted gloss black with no plating or primer underneath. Three block coolant drain plugs on exhaust side were originally zinc or cadmium plated with gold-passivated finish. Water-pump to head gallery casting hose was typical fabric-covered rubber with wire-type hose clamps.

Thank you daddz and Alan.

Yes this color finish is not original.Moroe- san has a strong polcy for this black paint.It is dualable so much he said.And plated engine mounts,not only these Moroe-san love to aplpy plating because it is dualable too.Good for preventing rust.

I wish this water side hose become braided,Moroe-san has huse collection of early parts so I think he does.

Alan,is your mail adress good ? I wanted to send P.M. for you about Z and lots of things.

kats

who cares what colour it is, it's his choice and by the way it was a mass produced car not some rare, low volume production exotic.

carrott,

Do you actually know what you are looking at?

At less than 500 made, yes I would call the Fairlady Z432 a "rare, low volume production exotic" actually. It certainly qualifies as such in comparison to most other S30-series Z models.

Alan, any clue to the total production of the S20 motor? i would think it was quite low as well.

Victor,

Rounding it up a little, there would be less than 2,600 engines that were fitted to PGC10, KPGC10, KPGC110, PS30 and PS30-SB sold to the general public. Add a few on for complete crate engines sold as 'spare parts' and then the factory race and development engines, and it looks very unlikely that more than 3,000 were ever made.

Hope that helps.