HS30-H

You mean in the two last photos ( "71 Saf." )? Surely you are looking at the original glovebox door knob opening, which is a moulded recess in the dash panel - same as all stock showroom models? Or are you seeing something that I'm not?

Hi Zedrally, I'm still awake ( and working..... ). No rest for the wicked..... The dash / Halda pics I posted were from two different cars; the '71 Safari Rally winner, and Aaltonen's '72 Monte Carlo car. One RHD and one LHD. Halda positioning seems to have been different in just about every single Works car!..... The personal choice of the navigator who first used the car might have been a factor ( although the main Halda units were usually fitted in Japan ) but they seem to have moved about a lot. Generally speaking, one was usually sited in front of the gear lever and the second either on the glovebox door or on the top of the dash. Here's a couple of extra pics of the 'accountants' side on the '71 Safari Rally winning car. Dig that extra under dash map shelf made from a plastic can.....

Pics of the special front bearing cap needed ( showing the two tabs that stop it from slipping / spinning ) and Halda units in two Works rally car dashes:

Bit late with this reply, but maybe better late than never? The Halda drive tubes were fitted to the Works front struts specifically to drive the Halda units fitted to the Works rally cars. Measuring distances covered was ( still is ) extremely important in stage rallying, and the navigator in a rally car would certainly not want to rely on the readings from a stock mileometer that took its readings from the transmission - for obvious reasons ( wheelspin........ ). Nissan's Works rally cars were usually fitted with two Halda Tripmaster units - with drive taken from each of the front wheels. A drive cable was fitted into a specially-modified front wheel bearing cap, with the inner cable passing though the front spindle and feeding though the hard tube which was attached to the rear of the strut. The normal split pin on the front bearing was deleted and a tab washer used instead. A picture saves a thousand words, so here are some pics of Works setups to illustrate:

S30-00002, not HS30-000002. :classic:

From the HS30 'R-DRIVE' parts book: *47471-E4101 HOSE-MASTER VAC, MASTER VAC SIDE ( up to 06-72 ) *47471-N3000 HOSE-MASTER VAC, MASTER VAC SIDE ( 07-72 on ) *47474-E4101 HOSE-MASTER VAC, ENGINE SIDE ( up to 06-71 ) *47474-E4102 HOSE-MASTER VAC, ENGINE SIDE ( 07-71 to 06-72 ) *47474-N3200 HOSE-MASTER VAC, ENGINE SIDE ( 07-72 on ) Hope that helps.

bemmerguy714, Just to clarify ( in case you didn't realise ) - this car is 'S30-00002', and presumably 'S30-00001' did also exist - but ( theoretically at least ) so did: *'PS30-00001' *'HLS30-00001' *'HS30-00001' Apologies if you realised this, but I thought it worth mentioning. Mr Harigae has certainly got a good claim as being the "S30-series Z VIN-number-bingo King" This car has got to be saved. One day it ought to be part of Nissan's museum collection ( when they finally MAKE their own proper museum, that is ). Talk about the 'missing' engine could be tempered with the mention that this car would not have had its L20A engine number stamped onto its engine-bay VIN tag from the Factory. There was no facility for this on the Japanese home market cars; they only had the chassis number stamped on them. Which means that a suitably early L20A engine block could be sourced from a mid-1969 Cedric or Gloria and nobody would be any wiser. All this car needs is a pinch of pragmatism and a whole lot of time and money spent on it. Ganbatte Harigae san! Alan T.

Tommo, don't get too hung up on urban legends and stuff. The truth is that the R200 diff was always available in a very wide selection of gear ratios in the Japanese market, and clutch type LSD units were also available to be specified as dealer options ( especially in the snowier northern prefectures and Hokkaido ). The 4.375 gear ratio 'long nose' R200 was first seen on the 1973 Fairlady Z432 ( replacing the 4.44 ratio 'R192' ) and this came from the Factory with a clutch type LSD. The 'long nose' R200 was used on umpteen different domestic models of sedan and sports coupes, as well as lorries and pickups, with ratios from 3.1 up to 5.1 - so the 4.375 gear set ( or the whole diff ) could have come in almost anything from the Japanese home market. The LSD unit could have been specified as a dealer option on this very diff you have, or have been bought and fitted afterwards - either from a Nissan dealer or from Nissan Sports in Japan ( later called 'NISMO' ). There are many possibilities. I have bought and imported many of these over the years. Essentially, the standard-fitment and dealer-specified option LSD units and the Nissan Sports / NISMO units were very similar ( only detail differences ) and all were made by Fuji Juko anyway, with the main differences between them being the clutch packs and breakaway torque settings. If yours is behaving as though it has a very low breakaway torque setting then it might need a clutch pack rebuild with a few extra shims / friction discs ( depending on how you want it to behave ). Follow jmortensen's thread link for some useful and informative pointers. Good luck, Alan T.

Hi Kats, I don't know if this will be of any help, but in my experience of the UK-market Export HS30 models they seem to have used a mixture of both the WASO and VOSS types of key........ There does not seem to be any strict pattern to it as far as I can see. I went through my pile of old keys ( spares for cars I used to own, as well as keys from cars that I have taken apart over the years ) and there is a mixture of both types. The Nissan 'R-DRIVE' parts book for the Export HS30 model seems to confirm this. In fact, the page from the 'R-DRIVE' book for the Export HS30 model appears to be exactly the same as the page from the HLS30-U parts book. All the part numbers and data are exactly the same, as well as the illustrations. I have scanned the page and attached it to this post. An interesting little snippet about the Works rally cars; Nissan made these cars in small batches, and usually the cars in each batch had identical key sets. The thinking behind this being that a lost set of keys would be less of a disaster if everybody had the same set.......... Cheers, Alan T.

[sheepishly] Oh dear, This magazine collecting lark can get out of hand..... Here's a shelf full of NOSTALGIC HERO and OLD TIMER in my 'under-the-stairs' stash.[/sheepishly] Alan T. ( Always willing to trade some duplicates for other mags or books ).

I've just got back into London after being away working on location for several days. A big thankyou to all those who expressed concern. Myself, my family and my friends are all safe..... It was quite surreal to hear about all the events that were unfolding so close to my home whilst I was around 100 miles west of them. As MikeW knows, the bomb on the Underground train near Russell Square was around half a mile from my house, and the bus bomb was just a short walk away from that ( virtually outside the front doors of my bank.... ). When I got home this morning, I had to take a few detours around streets that are still cordoned off as part of the forensic investigations. Sadly, it seems as though the death toll will rise further as the true scale of the destruction in the Russell Square to Kings Cross Underground incident is revealed. Once again, my thanks to those who expressed concerns. Alan T.

*25750-E4100 COMP. SWITCH, parking lamp. The photos were taken from this thread: Parking Lamp Switch thread Just saving the photos in an "archive" without any context or any of the data that went with them, seems to me to be second-best to useless...........

I have taken a few photos, made some measurements and dug out some hopefully relevant data. See it here: Option Struts and Springs Cheers, Alan T.

Enrique, I don't think that even Nissan themselves would claim that the cars they happen to have in their collection at Zama form any kind of definitive 'list'. Quite apart from what cars they have in their whole collection, certain cars from the Zama warehouse are often out on loan for display at dealerships and events all over Japan. But if you didn't see a '260Z' in there I wouldn't be surprised anyway; Japan only got the 'RS30' for a couple of months at the very most before they were all recalled to the Factory to have their engines changed and their VIN prefixes restamped. They went from being 2600cc 'Fairlady 260' RS30 models to 2000cc 'Fairlady Z' S30 models - with the Nissan 'hamburger' silhouette stamped over the changes to the VIN numbers. The problem was emissions-related. At that time, Japan had probably the most stringent new emissions regulations in the whole world. Nissan just couldn't get the '260Z' to comply, and recalled the lot. The whole thing was swept under the carpet - er, Tatami mat. Japan never got any 'ZX' S130s either. They were all plain vanilla Zs, Z-Ls and Z-Ts. Regarding this poll, I would say that focusing on ALL the different S30 / S31 models would make it long enough - even without all the S130-onwards stuff. Alan T.

I have a set of the E7220-type Rally Struts in one of my garages. I will go there over the weekend, dig them out and take some photos / measurements. What I can tell you for sure at this point is that the fixed-platform Rally Struts had very long tubes on them ( a fair percentage longer than the standard or adjusrtable-platform struts ). They were used with long springs, and the combination gave a pretty tall ride height and a lot of potential suspension travel. Looking at the period pictures of the Baja car I must say it looks like it would have been on these long Rally Struts, judging from its ride height. The numbers and the dates would tend to point to the car using the Rally Struts originally too. Those adjustable Ampco struts you posted pics of look similar to the later style. I have some Ampco adjustable-platform Sports Option ones and they too have the silver metallic foil labels. I shall have to photograph them and see what they say. I have some Atsugi adjustable-platform Sports Option items - but they certainly have different labels ( although they are also foil ). The majority of true 'Works' gas rally struts I have seen were made by Tokico, and the competition department at Oppama used red Dymo tape labels on them, giving useful data. Some of the the later ( 260Z ) types had green Dymo tape labels. I love Dymo. Have those front struts in your pictures got Halda drive tubes in them? I can see red caps. Are they on both sides? I'll take some notes / photos when I am at the garages over the weekend. I'll also try to dig out some Works strut / damper / spring data from my records. Maybe some of it will match up with what you have. Cheers, Alan T.

You can see details of all the cars - in all the classes - on the Goodwood site I linked to in my first post. Go to the main page, then click on the 'LIVE' ACTION tab, then the 'Event News Live' tab and look at ( for example ) the 'Saturday Practice Times - Combined'. 'Street Fighters' class had cars such as a Triumph Dolomite Sprint, BMW 320 Turbo, Toyota Supra GT, Vauxhall Firenza "Baby Bertha", Jaguar XJS TWR racer, Rover Vitesse and Gp.A BMW M3. Please don't take it all too seriously. Goodwood Festival of Speed is primarily a fun event, and there is more emphasis on 'Demo' runs than any serious competition. Most of the F1 cars for example turn it into a burnout and donut opportunity to wow the crowds. I think the names of the classes give a sense of the fun element, and the groupings do not always make complete 'period' sense. Hopefully NickH will chime in on this thread with his own impressions, once his feet come back down to earth...... :-)

Sorry, can't do that. It's against my religion Can't you delete some of those later models to make space for the brothers and sisters of the '240Z', '260Z' & '280Z'? Probably too late now. Don't you just hate whiners?

I can't vote. I have two first-generation S30-series Z cars that don't feature on the list......

Found a site with an action shot of Big Sam at Goodwood: Action shot

The NZ Herald article states that the accident involving the Z happened at Kerepehi on the Haruaki Plains on Sunday ( 26th ). The accident involving the British tourist happened "....on State Highway 1 between Cambridge and Hamilton on Thursday" - which would be the 23rd.

Some 'bonus' pics from Goodwood....

'Big Sam' - the well known 240Z race car - was invited to participate in the 2005 Goodwood Festival of Speed here in the UK. Owner ( and classiczcars.com member ) NickH drove the car up the hillclimb course, and was rubbing shoulders with some fairly legendary names. I was there on set-up day ( Thursday ) and official practice day ( Friday ) and managed to take a few static pics. See them here: Big Sam - Goodwood 2005 See more information about the event at the official Goodwood Festival of Speed site: Goodwood Festival of Speed Cheers, Alan T.