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Old 03-06-2023, 09:05 AM
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Steve, looking like you are doing something similar to what I would do if I had my S30 Z car time again, though I would go naturally aspirated and multi throttle bodies. I assume you are using a modern ECU with the 36-1 trigger wheel on it? Wasted spark through individual coils or a trigger in place of the distributor to home it? I would love one of our old Z cars back, it had an insanely high compression L28 that ran best on Avgas back when you could get it, 98RON unleaded was just about enough and with a modern ECU (It had the original Hitachi twin SU clones on it) and a fuel composition sensor, flex tune it to be able to use E85, 98RON or anything in between with knock sensors to keep it safe. When I finally get my race car back on track, I have fitted an Emtron KV8 ECU to it for the same purpose basically MoTec function without spending MoTec money.

Bob, I reckon that would be maybe a 77 not a 67 I used to have the car below, a 71 240C coupe (P230 series) which was the body shape before that one of yours (The P330) In typical Nissan/Datsun style there was also a 260C with the L26 engine put in the P230 body, and I believe there was also a P330 280C with the L28 in the car you have, before the 1980s brick shaped 280C came along. I really wish I still had the 240C, it was a very cool car being a pillarless hardtop (Though it had the body rigidity of a bowl of custard) and now worth silly money as they are so rare. Any that come up normally sell for telephone number money and get shipped back to Japan! Rubbish angle photo taken in the late 80's and literally the only photo of the car that I have, you would reckon on a car that I liked, I would have taken more photos of it. My dad rebuilt it in 86 having bought it from the wreckers after a crash, and I have seen three others in all that time. They only bought in about 120 of these back in 71. I bought it from my parents and sold it back to them too, for the red Z car in the second pic, which I also really wish I still had. The blue one was the insane compression ratio car.
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