Victor Laury
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Oops. this IS the engine bay of Adam Corllola's FJ-20 powered BRE replica 510. Notice John Morton's Autograph on the Fire wall? I know this car well. -
Ok, I know I'll be changing my clutch soon. So I took my flywheel that was off my L28 motor from my old Z to Top-End Performance for lightening and surfacing. Bought a "HD Street Performance" clutch disk and cover from them (some Japanese brand). I feel it's wise to replace the flywheel bolts instead of reusing the old ones. I asked the guys at TEP, and they said "get them at Nissan" "all L motors use the same bolts. My reseach found the contary though, -------------- all 240 up to 11/72 use 12315-21001 bolt all from 12/72 including 260/280 use 12315-A8600 or 12315-U0600 and both of these supersede to 12315-42L11 -------------- Now, I'm confused, I have a flywheel from a L28, that was fitted to a 72 4 speed. I'm installing it to an L24 also with a 4 speed. Which dam bolts do I need?
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Revolution Competion Wheels have a fitment in 14, 15 and possibly 16''. And, Since they are GB, you wont have to pay for shippment across the pond like I did.
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Carl Beck wrote a Buyer's Guide, http://www.zhome.com/Buying/1stGenWhatToWatch.html
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I thought that all the drills were left twisted south of the Equator. or was that the toilet bowls? I can't remember! I do know they go around the round-a-bouts backwards in Australia. Crazy man!
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Absolutley not a joke. Lowes may not have them, but my "Small Town" style "Mom & Pop" hardware store keeps them in stock for people like me.
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I thought it was Arboreus Polyureathanus, but it's been 25 years since my last plant taxonomy class. I cleaned mine up well. I sanded the rim lightly, no stain, the many coats of clear clear laquer, hitting it with 400 grit between coats. The center got a chemical strip, a 220 then 400 sanding, Spray can primer, 400 grit sanding then spray can semi gloss black. It looked flash! but it might not hold up as well as the plastic clear coats. I allready have a chip in the laquer finish. I did the shift knob in laquer too. Now That looks awesome! Nissan went the extra mile when they chose flame maple for the knob!
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If I learned well from Master Alan, This particular clock does not need the separate "control box" or aka "oscilator" that the early model rallye clock (2 knob clock?) requires. This clock is know as the calender clock and is from later model cars (77~78?). I'd really like to find out the output of this oscilator device. I'm sure it could be duplicated. It would be nice to install my early rallye clock. It's not doing me much good sitting on the coffee table. It's only a good conversational piece when Datsun nuts come over. Other than that, It's a good dust magnet.
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Pull the Valve cover and rotate the engine to TDC compression stroke one #1 cylinder. Both cam lobes should be pointing up. Remove the dizzy cap and note the location of the rotor. it should be almost (2 ~ 16 degrees) to the #1 spark wire post on the dizzy cap. If this checks out your ignition timing isn't the problem.
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Mike, is it possible to remove the alternator mount from the engine block? If you can get to those bolts, you can have the whole thing out where you can extract the broken bolt on your bench.
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This sounds exactly like my expirence with the crudded up gas tank. the rust flakes would gather around the gas pickup tube and the car would lose power, then die. The filter would catch some particles, but not enought to clog the filter. After resting the car for a couple minutes, the gas would back flow, pushing the flakes away from the pickup and I could drive off for anouther 5 minutes. What a freaking hassle. I resolved my problem by pulling the tank and taking it to the Gas Tank Renu shop.
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"yeah, that's easy for you to say, you drive a...
Victor Laury replied to go z racer, go's topic in Open Chit Chat
ZZZZZZIIIIIHHHHHHAAAAADDDDD!!!! -
I'd stick to fiber, IF you can remember not to pull into the parking curb! The paint is cracking off my new urethane dam .... Dam!
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"yeah, that's easy for you to say, you drive a...
Victor Laury replied to go z racer, go's topic in Open Chit Chat
I dissagree with George. Screw the grim facts of life! This show has purposly insulted us. I call Holy Jihad on the TV show "The Shield". -
If it's not an electrical problem, You may need a new tach. Datsun tach and speedo gauges use a dampening oil between two plates in a chamber. The viscosity of the oil transfers the spin from the signal plate to the needle plate, smoothing out the needle's travel. Somtimes the oil "Disappears" (I don't know how or where it goes), and the gauge gets very "Jumpy" indeed.
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I'm needing the same info. I've got my flywheel at Top End Performmance for resufacing and lightening. TEP is selling Dankin performance clutch. Don't know if that's better or worse than the Centerforce models.
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Your local hardware store will have a product known as Goof-off. It's a Naptha based cleaner that may cut the undercoating and not the paint
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Fairlady Roadster sighting in WA. OZ.
Victor Laury replied to Mr Camouflage's topic in Australia & NZ
Enrique, We're waiting for you on the roadster list! It would be hard for me to pick which car I love more. My Z is sleek like a 60's jet fighter. The roadster is built like a bulldog. My Z is smooth, the roadster is Solex powered, cam happy rude. Nothing beats the turn-in, razor sharpness of the roadster, but the Nismo springs beat you to a pulp. But, if you were to drive it on a tight mountain road, you'd know love too. I have room in my heart for both. Well, maybe room for a 510 as well. -
Even though the collectorcartrader allways seems to have quite a few, I don't see hardly any 240/260's on the road. Lots of 280's and even more S130's. Most of the 240's I do see are parked under a tree, no longer gleaming Fairladies, just tired old ladies. When I hit the lotto, I intend to take a few of them to a spa!
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Look anything like this? 1970(?) Opel GT
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Ola Jorge, (I'm from Los Angeles) Jack up the axle and that will raise the angle to the tie rod and the bolt comes out - !Si, no problema!
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I've been Trying to talk Les out of the one he has for two years.
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They only came in one color - Black
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Notice, They have the "Now Hiring - Sales Reps" on thier web page. Anyone down in Orage Co. need a job?
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No matter how you do it, you need lots of data. I have a log book and enter into it religiously. MPG varies from 23 ~ 10. Average 15 MPG - But I have a very heavy foot.