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Picked up the new Stroker today....my good friend Eiji buttoning up new engine. He’s amazing! Now to put her in the green 72.

Jacob Silj just joined! Welcome JACOB! It looks LIKE you've worked on these cars BEFORE!

There was a factory Datsun race team in the USA? Who knew?

I remember having to pad my turntable to keep the hum and skip caused by too much bass and too much volume. Our neighbors hated me, old farts.

I'm thinking of a combination of the two. They could have put that old mechanical sound on the beginning of CDs. Perhaps now one could add it to streamed music.

@siteunseen At least one of the questions has been settled in the churning cauldron of symptoms and trivial facts that I call my brain. I was almost positive that it had to be too lean when it was cold, but then that creeping doubt set in. @jalexquijano Good job finding that loose clamp. We could have beat our heads on this cold sputtering problem for a long time and not gotten anything except a headache.

Told juh. Those things are tough to get right. I made marks on mine so I won't have to go through that again.

@jalexquijano OK. If the engine is cold, fire that baby up and see how it runs now. Take it for a ride and report back. I'm on the edge of my seat. @siteunseen Tick Tock, Tick Tock. As the official timekeeper, how much time do I have left?

It looks like I'll be parking my car at the BF Goodrich tent in Vendor Village.

Free is a good deal at twice the price! Hope to see you there.

I have removed my doors and disassembled the hinges from my 12/71 car. The spring has an ID of 0.815", OD of 1.077", free length of 2.082" and the wire size is 0.129". McMaster-Carr part number 9620K31 is close with an OD of 1.031", ID 0.781", a length of 2.5", with a wire size of 0.125". It will need to be cut down length wise and ground flat. The larger problem is all the pins for the interleave ends are worn, not to mention that all the pivot points in the flat bars are badly worn. The pins are quite a bit smaller than on the later hinges. At this point I'm going to get new springs from Mcmaster-Carr for these hinges and see if they will work OK. Pins will just have to be what they are. I have a set of what are supposed to be 1973 hinges also, that I will rebuild to put on the car. There is a modification that will need to be done to get them to fit, you need to grind away some of the metal on the hinge (see the photos). This will allow the hinge to set correctly and not hit on the door structure. The orange hinge is the 12/70 hinge, the white is the '73. it's ground off at about a 45 degree angle from the mounting surface.

Picasso with both ears! Can't wait to hear THAT one at ZCON.

In other news, I decided to experiment a little more with the clear powder coat. I will post pictures soon, but I think I have it figured out and the results look promising!

Bias tires? So that's where black wall and white wall comes from. Prejudice tire manufacturers!

This week I get stuck in to do the final alignment of all the panels and start the body filler. It is a slow process, but if I want it done right I need to take my time and keep plugging away at it.

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that's the same plugs since float adjusting? #4 still looks bad. A proper valve adjustment may clear that up but after adjustment you'll need a new set. I know you get tired of buying plugs but you've spent sooooo much money on fuel pumps. Now your floats are right time to buy one more set. Sucks but that's part of the game.

Could be #6 was tested first. I retest the first cylinder when I'm done and usually find the C. R. has gone up a bit.

Ok, ok - the 50mm (missed off the sentence) dual-pipes that were (from Nissan) and still are (from Fujitsubo) commercially available are better suited towards the smaller cc engines (S20, L20 and L24) than larger. There probably are but you're saying that you don't know of them ? An E and D-Type have twin pipe systems (admiteddly the D(Type are VERY short) but both they have ridiculously short primary pipes compared to an L-gata and both are DOHCs. So why is it that headers and lines are so 'drag' biased ? Only motorsport competition open (read affordable) for most owners ? Thanks for the info - and so, again, a small cc, high revving engine...presumbly the pipe diameter was scaled up because : a) it'll match the combustion chambers' demands b ) it could fit under that model of car How big is 'big' basing the sandard diameter at 50mm ? I think you missed the point - Alan was talking scaling up - not me. Re importer - of course but relevant here because they were quoted AND are the N-American official importers : nice to see the extra model-specific info in there - good customer-advice. Interestingly, the RHD Legalis image shows two seperate resonator pipes as per the Spirit Garage version whereas that listed on Whiteheads' page is of the 'H' crossover design. Yes, they do work but you're comparing the incomparable : a modern '90s, DOHC, variable valve timing, high revving engine to a relatively lazy SOHC conceived in the mid-60s. I don't think that packaging is such an issue within the JDM which is for where all of these parts are destined. Do you believe that the new Fujitsubo offers more performance over the previous model or simply easier to fit around bigger diffs and with much better cround clearance which would (for me) be enough of an advantage in itself ?

Hmmm, I think you may be on to something there. 160` is kinda low. @jalexquijano Is it still overheating in traffic?