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Japanese company. Try searching in Japanese: https://atk.co.jp/rebuild/

Any chance of correcting this thread title's 'J30' to 'S30.world'? Might help future searches...

ECCS was first used on the 430-series Nissan Cedric in Japan (June 1979). ECCS stands for Electronic Concentrated (Engine) Control System. Electronically-controlled (via an ECU) injection was introduced on a 230-Series Nissan Cedric 'EL' model at the 1970 Tokyo Motor Show: Nissan was actively using a system ECGI (Electronic Controlled Gas Injection) back in 1971. Nissan group affiliate Diesel Kiki licensed the Bosch D-Jetronic system patents and re-engineered it to use with double and triple sidedraught throttle bodies on competition cars:

Here's another great S30.world article, this time focusing on the development of the 'Euro' spec Datsun 240Z, exploring the circumstances which necessitated its creation and the people behind it. It includes some - precious! - original hand-written development note documents which we are privileged to have access to after all this time, thanks to our fellow member @kats Very nicely put together and written up by another of our fellow members here Nils @JDMjunkies.ch Tip of the hat to Florian at S30.world too. This is a topic not often acknowledged let alone discussed, and yet it is a fascinating window into a significant part of the S30-series Z's family tree. Recommended reading: https://s30.world/articles/european-spec-datsun-240z

As far as I understand it (and I've seen the same thing on several different makes of old cars) they act as a spring/damper, which has a positive effect on the sound quality and also insulates the mountings from high frequency vibration when the horn sounds. But they certainly have an air of late 1860s rather than late 1960s, so I empathise with your curiosity.

It's quite hard to pin a current market value on a 432 or 432-R, but - in Japan, where the majority of them reside - they can change hands privately for stratospheric (in S30-series Z terms) figures. The 432-R is often valued at three or four times that of a 'normal' 432, but there's a limited data reference as so few Rs are sold 'on the record' and in public view. Japanese buyers and sellers can be very secretive (most individuals are circumspect with regard to their personal financial circumstances) and quite a few of these cars have been owned by people who are now of senior age, coming to the end of their safe driving life. That's a situation that can be taken advantage of by younger family members, friends and/or people in the old car business. @kats can tell you of a case late last year where a genuine 432-R, owned by an elderly gentleman, was bought at an unusually low price (by somebody in the right place at the right time) and was very soon being 'flipped' at a three or four times multiplied figure. Sad that the elderly vendor didn't get a more honest buyer. I feel that it's important for these cars to go to good homes, which I guess is not always about money. And that's something we can also say about this 'PS30-00218' for sale via Takeey's. It may well have a cloud over its authenticity (which all hinges on whether it's chassis number has been altered or not...) but it exists, is an attractive car in it's own right - nothing wrong with a 432-R 'tribute'/'replica' - and as long as any new owner knows exactly what they are buying, and the price paid reflects that, then OK. It just needs to find that 'Mr Right'.

Hi Steve, This is a well-known - perhaps I should say somewhat 'notorious' - car with some er, baggage... I have it down in my notes as having a "re-stamped" (re-engraved?) firewall chassis number, and there has been a fair amount of gossip about the car between interested parties over a few years. I have photos of the car from when it was for sale in 2018, so it's been knocking around ostensibly 'For Sale' for a good few years now. The website you link to is actually for a somewhat parasitic forwarding company, hoping to get in on the sale of the car and the shipping/handling thereof and taking a margin from both seller and buyer. Best to look at the car with the actual seller, well-known Japanese old car vendor 'Takeey's' based in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka prefecture. Here's their website: http://takeeys.com/index.html ...and here's the car for sale (price = 'ASK'...) on the Takeeys official site: https://www.goo-net.com/php/search/spread.php?baitai=0600834&area_cd=15&goo_car_id=700060083430240917001&ef_flag=1 Chassis number 'PS30-00218' is a genuine chassis number, but - more specifically - it is a known and official chassis number for a PS30-SB 'Fairlady Z432-R', the very limited production super lightweight variant of the 432. Genuine 432-Rs are on another level in terms of rarity, desirability and market value in comparison with 'ordinary' 432s. However, there are question marks around this particular car. You will note that Takeey's are not claiming it in writing as being a genuine 432-R. They are selling it as a '432', which it almost certainly is. The question is whether a standard 432 has been 'sexed up' with many 432-R specific parts and details and has - nefariously - assumed the identity of 'PS30-00218' which was a genuine 432-R. We can spot many 432-R specific details and parts on the car (console delete, trans tunnel-mounted ignition switch, plain vinyl trans tunnel cover, spare wheel well delete, 100 litre tank, etc etc etc - there are too many to list) but only a genuine 432-R would have the super lightweight type bodyshell with its thinner gauge sheetmetal. Almost impossible to fake that. @kats will be able to tell you much more than me, and perhaps a little more diplomatically!

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Indeed, it translates as "Fog Lamp Switch" and other factory literature identifies them as being an extra-cost showroom option.

That's what's known as confirmation bias. The "empty hole" was designated for the optional E4100 fog lamp switch, as I have already pointed out. The E4100 fog lamp switch - literally - could not go anywhere else. The design of the switch alone dictates that. Sorry for the "single comment in a forum" (hopefully you can't see my eyes rolling....). I'm writing this after you have posted a couple of old threads - active several years before you joined the site - which discussed the factory fog lamps in some detail, with a fair chunk of the posted data coming via Yours Truly. I suggest you spend a little time actually reading and understanding it. There's gold in them thar hills... But he is - of course - mistaken. The other option is that he knows full well that the factory fog lamps were offered in markets other than the Japanese domestic and - get this - he's trying to sell you something. It wouldn't be the first time that somebody stretched the truth a little - or didn't manage to tell the whole truth - when telling us about these cars. Does "Made Expressly For The USA" ring any bells...? Here's a scan of a page from Nissan's 'R-Drive' Export market parts catalogue C-0010R. The components are - just like they were in Japan - listed as 'Option' parts: We could - indeed we have, back in the days when this forum was a little bit more engaged by matters historical than in reading spark plug runes - discuss many other monkey tail appendixes and "mystery" (to some more than others...) holes and fixtures on these cars that are there for a very good reason. As for the factory Fog Lamps, the component parts existed, the wiring was there in the harness to run them, the mounting points were pre-drilled in the front bumper to accept them and the indentation and doubler was there on the dash to accept the switch, from October 1969. Yes, they moved the Cigar Lighter up there later. Doesn't mean that they wanted it there all along. I think the problem here is that you have come up with a theory and are now engaged in shaping evidence so that it fits. Sorry but your 'F Knob' theory isn't even going to float, let alone fly.

That's a rather bizarre take. By implication, you therefore think that the original position of the cigar lighter - as seen on the cars at launch - right next to the ashtray was some kind of compromise? That they were just itching to put it up above the hazard warning switch in '69 and even reserved a space for it there, but just couldn't get it done for a couple more years...? Have you been sneaking a peek through the patent Beck-O-Scope? Nope. The reserved position for the optional E4100 Fog Lamp switch was above the Hazard Warning lamp switch and the wiring was in the dash harness behind it, ready and waiting.

But that's not what is being discussed here. The yellow marks were applied on the production line to show that a check had been performed, that's all. Nobody was checking them for movement anywhere after that. Tell-tale markings - as used on race cars, for example - are a different thing. Usually thin stripes or dot points on adjacent components that can be quickly checked by eye. Like this:

No. It indicated that the fastener had been torqued to spec on assembly and checked. Nothing after that.

Won't win any prizes for photographic excellence, but here's an E4100 NILES early-type Fog Lamp Switch in its correct location on one of my other cars:

That particular car has an S20. There's a pump between the 100 litre main fuel tank and a sub tank, then another pump between the sub tank and the engine.