coupe72001

From what I hear 240z dome-top carbies are more than tunable in the right hands, but 260z or 2" English SU are a real pig, and most carby guys either don't know how to tune them properly, or aren't interested in even trying.

Tell me about it... oh well, the benefit of hindsight.

Thanks for the replies. Fingers crossed that the crank is all good. The problem occured in 42 degree heat, so mass change/temperature may well have caused more carby madness. I recently tried dynoing the car and couldn't. At certain rev ranges the car ran so rich it went of the measureable scale. I hate the SU's and as soon as I have the cash I'll source triples from the states. Most of the problems with how the car runs have been carby related. I've spent about $2,000 trying to get them right and are not even close. Can't wait to bin them and try something different.

I have replaced the busted pulley with a light-weight billet aluminium number out of the states. The car has since developed an interesting new trick. It does some amazing low-rider style bunny hops when I try to pull away from low revs. While this might be the latest installment in my never-ending untunable SU carby idiocy, a mate has suggested that driving with a damaged harmonic balancer can put unholy forces on the crank and bend it. Anyone ever done this? What happens when you try to drive with a bent crank?

PM's away. It's all still there but is now stacked on top of another car... A sorry end to what was once a fairly tidy R31.

No bids! Reserve not met! What the hell! I know... I'll relist it at $13,500, with a reserve of $15,000 and a buy it now of $16,800. The four door that I mentioned before is owned by an old guy who lives in Geelong. He called me and offered to sell, but Im on my best behavior till the credit card has been paid off. He also has an... optimistic view of what the cars are worth, but not quite as ridiculous as our ebaying friend.

What's your budget for a 240k four door D-Limo? I know a guy who knows a guy...

Don't go back to that mechanic ever. It's about a 1 hour job max and $60 in new parts. The water pump is a bolt on. Give it a go yourself.

Actually a closer look has revealed that the (first time) ebayer has a reserve! Maybe he's expecting a bidding war. However, I don't think you really can compare this one (body good, paint faded, everything works) to Alfadog's lovely GTR clone 240k.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Datsun-240K-GL-1973...A1%7C240%3A1318 I don't have enough cash on me for this one.

I've posted you up another master cylinder and a slightly skanky workshop manual. You'll need to dig up two bolts to hold the slave cylinder onto the gearbox, and 5 (6?) bolts to hold the flywheel to the crank. Almost every other bolt should be on the car already and can be recycled. Raising the car slightly and lowering the gearbox with a trolley jack is probably the way to go. The gearboxes aren't stupidly heavy - you should be able to muscle the gearbox out and back in with some careful manouvering of the jack. Good luck!

DONT DRILL!!! I had no idea the bolt hole pattern was different - I'll post you up the correct clutch master cylinder pronto. If you need to, you can probably retain your original pedal box and just swap the brake and clutch pedals. Getting them on and off is actually a real bastardo of a job, but the last thing you want is to be drilling holes in the fire wall or anywhere else in your exceptionally pretty car. Search the classic skyline forum for a 240k manual gearbox conversion how-to from Alfadog, it'll tell you almost all you need to know. Most important is to take the spacer off the end of your crank and throw it away! Your flywheel won't bolt onto the crank otherwise. All the bits you got are actually from an Mr30 from memory. Good luck, D

I was chatting with another Skyliner who was shipping small parts for his Skyline project regularly from Japan... eventually customs pulled him up - they had flagged the high number of items going to his address. So you can get pinged for shipping in bulk OR shipping too often! If I was in Japan I'd be breaking all the goodies into medium sized lots and posting them to several friends addresses. Shipping would be slightly higher, but you'd be less likely to get savaged by customs... at least that's my theory. Maybe someone who has had experience with importing parts can shed some light... Interestingly, my mate (who doesn't speak Japanese, and has a friend translate for him), has had a real pig of a time actually purchasing parts. The Japanese sometimes have the parts, but wont sell them to him due to embarrassment about the lanuage barrier, or they aren't happy about the parts going overseas, etc. They often refuse to pull parts from a wrecked car like would happen at a wrecker here, and don't believe in discounting bulk purchases. There's some pretty huge cultural differences to get your head around before you go!

No, it's a fair call. $250 is hell of a lot to pay for mirrors, and I don't think $175 from Tokoyo-to-you or whoever is exactly a bargain either. Still, flights to Japan, shipping, customs etc all add up. Even asking for a fairly high price for JDM stuff it's hard to do much more than break even. My friend who bought back one pallatte of goodies; an stock L20 turbo engine for his C210, and the stuff in the pictures, had to pay $1000 in customs duty alone. D'oh!

Mine's actually 4.75:1. I think it actually may have been the front diff from a 720 truck. I boot up to 185km/h and then hit the wall.

There's a r180 with WRX LSD on hybridz.org. Asking US$400... go for it Ricky!

PM me for his number and you can haggle! He copped a bit of a pounding from customs this trip, so the prices are bound to be a little on the steep side. The mirrors come up on importmonster with a C210 search sometimes too, but the commission, GST and double postage make that a fairly expensive adventure as well.

Lucky someone put the engine in the boot tiger!

He's hoping for $250.

Unfortunately I think the R31 diff is a very different beast. Do like I did and find a second-hand subaru WRX clutching-type LSD centre and pop it in your existing R180 diff. Bit of fiddling round, but a diff specialist should be able to do it.

A friend of mine is about to wreck an R31 Silhouette. PM me for his number if anyone needs anything before it goes to scrap. It's in Melbourne. Its got an LSD. I don't have any photos of the thing, but I'm pretty sure it looks a lot like a fairly sad R31 Silhouette.

Err... my bad, I checked and yes they have been cut to suit a four door C210. Sorry bout that.

I swear I didn't drop it! I'd be to embarrassed to post if I did. Pics have been sent to Motor Sports Auto, the supplier, and forwarded to Professional Products, the manufacturer. It's a first as far as anyone knows! We'll see what they make of it, and what they want to do about it. I should have been an engineer, destructive testing seems to be my forte.

Hey Jason, The stock balancer split on the smokey old L26 that came out of the wrecked rally car that I bought in 2006; could have been a myriad of unknown problems there. However the performance balancer that I just broke in the pic was on my recently built L28. I had the crank/flywheel/balancer assembly machined and balanced and the bores honed and pistons machined to match deck height by Motor Improvements (engine builders in Vic)... but I never considered that I might have a mismatched set of pistons. Now I don't know what to think. I didn't recycle the pistons or crank from my L26... Could it be that I was just unlucky twice?

Sounds good to me too. When and where?