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When I owned this motor last time, I never really new what I had. Now I do. I recently got in touch with the guy I bought it off 8 years ago, thankfully he was a friend of my wifes cousin. Anyway, he and his dad bought this as a crate motor from NISMO in Japan. Motor, carbs manifold,extractors.It has a 1/2 rally cam, it's balanced and match ported.They used to do circut racing with it at Wanneroo Raceway here in Perth. Anyway, today I took it to the mechanic who used to tune it during it's race days and I also drove it from Kalgoorlie to Perth (600k's) once a year for this guy to service it.Unfortunately he shut shop 3 years ago(after 30 years) and is now retired, but is willing to do my carbs when required.That's what he did today and I reckon he loved each of the 2 test runs. Thankfully at 63 he still has the magic in his fingers for tuning as this is still the rocket it used to be and he's got it running beautifully.

Now that it's going great I'm taking it off the road to begin the body overhaul. When i post it next it"ll be white with gold mags."Let the sanding begin"

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post-44326-1219301560_thumb.jpg The original car motor was in.

Yeah gtrfan, that's what I did . Paid $2200 for it in 1997, sold it for $2000 in 2002( whole car ) and bought the engine package back 5 months ago for $2800.But after seeing the carbs pulled apart yesterday and now knowing they're still in really good condition I don't feel so bad about the 2800 as it was still a cheap source of H.power and that 6 cylinder/ weber induction sound, well I love it.

It's L28 factory bored to 3.0ltr N42 head on N42 block.

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Gtrfan, I just tried ringing Rob who I purchased the car off in 97 to find out when they imported it, but no one home. I'll ring a bit later and post the info.

Looking forward to going on cruises with the local club here in Mandurah and heading to Motorplex for Wednesday street racing

Golly!

What a ripper!

Ive always been tempted to go tripples.... but tuning has always turned me off.

I have seen a EFI conversion on the webbers though, managed by a megasquirt

Top stuff, try and get a vid clip on you tube or something so we can hear it

Very nice!

I'd love to hear more about the triples and the 3.0 overbore. Was the weber tuning/rebuild expensive? Are they a standard piston from another car, or something special? Does it go like the clappers?

Good luck with the body resto. I am hanging out to finish painting mine white/black, but it has rained every weekend in Melbourne for about 3 months! Stupid wintertime.

Drew, the whole thing was built by NISMO, a crate motor from Japan.Carbs and inlet manifold came with the motor along with tuned length extractors The overbore to 3.0ltr had already been done by nismo. About a year before I sold it I had new rings and gaskets put in, otherwise it's still the same pistons (flat tops) and internals it came with some 12 possibly 13 years ago. Even the carbs have the same original parts. If you look closely at the carb pic, on the manifold between the 2nd and 3rd carb you'll see jap writing.I should take a better pic and post it so someone can tell me what it says.

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