Bruce Palmer

Yep, 1600 roadsters, 510s and Fairlady Zs anything with 1 1/2" carbs. Won't even bolt up to anything else.

Okay, as part of our on going 24/7 customer service program I just talked with Steve and he told me to tell you what he told you yesterday. "RICHEN THEM UP". Go for a big adjustment taking those nozzles down a couple of turns and see if it's better. If it's not quite there keep going. If it's blubbery back it off a little. Pulling the choke on is doing the same thing as lowering the nozzles bacause that's what it does is lower the nozzles. That's why when you push the choke off it goes back to spitting and popping (LEAN). Just take 'em down to where they start to get happy and fine tune from there.

Matt, Were you able to talk to Steve?

Here, I'll make you all a deal. If you don't want to go to all the hassle of doing a car that you'll lose your hat, arse and overcoat on, just sell me the beater with a couple of shoe boxes full of hundred dollar bills buckled into the passenger's seat. I'll bring a trailer and a check and hustle right back home to make sure the check is good. Guaranteed I'll pay 80% of what's in the shoe boxes. That's better than most whippings you'll take and you don't have to spill all that sweat doing the work..... Cheers

I'm stunned! Someone want to help me out here?

HS-4s are 1 1/2" throats, HS-6 are 1 3/4" throats which are equivalent to the 46mm Hitachis.

Nate, Tell us that you are doing your car for yourself and not what ding might pay you for it. You owe it to yourself to set out and wring $30K out of your car when it's done and the buying public be damned!! My first Datsun I bought for $2500 back in 88 and everybody said "it's not worth it". My response was "not worth it to whom"? They all said "you couldn't sell it for that" and my response was, ready for this? "Aint selling it"!!\ The minute you start looking at the value of your ride based on what someone else says it's worth, you are then playing someone else's game. Just saying....

WOW! Why would a Z that was only 18 years old be ready for a rotiserie bring back? You guys north of the border must be tough on cars.....

Salem is a long ways to drive on untuned carbs...... You'd be surprised to learn how many cars are driven for ever with poorly tuned carbs. Anway, we sell the Uni-Syn or Steve could set them for you. This is what I call a major crisis od minor proportions.... Call me if you want to take care of it.

WOW! I think there is going to be one lucky buyer around shortly.

Yep, www.philbingroup.com 503-287-1718 in Portland. Ask for Mark. They can also do "done" distributors for under $150 bushed, recurved (in the case of the electronics) with new advance plates and everything ready to plug and play.....

Before you do that take the end of the arm loose from the advance plate inside the distributor housing and doing the sucking thing, see if it moves. If it moves, it's okay and your problem is more than likely in the advance plate in the distributor. There are three ball bearings held in place by a retainer that that allows the top plate to rotate on the bottom plate doing the advance deal the vaccuum diaphram controls. We see many aged distributors where the little ball retainers have come apart allowing the balls to escape often time wedging between the two plates showing up as an advance that doesn't.........

As your bouncing around allows, sounds like a good time to reach out and touch base with some of those east coasters don't you agree?

Pull that drip rail stainless, drive a new car under it and reattach.

Let the vouching begin....... Dave Patton is the real deal, there kids, and will be a real tangible benefit to the forum here. Datsun boosters like him don't fall out of the sky everyday, so use his knowledge and pass on your needs.

Tell me more about these windows on your carbs...... For the Hitachi SUs we sell a JUST SUs dvd that will be a big help for you de-bugging your carbs if they ar Hitachis.

Take a fuel line loose at the float bowl. Hold the loose end in a jar. Crank the motor and see what happens in the jar.

Ron, Great stuff........

Oh, so this is drag racing. Thought, there for a minute, you were up for some real racing. Carry on......

And I'll bet any number of them are complient with carbs too. Might have to install stock (lean) needles but then later........

Bet you a lunch that by installing synthetic oil at this late stage, you'll soon find it leaking from everywhere. Don't do it.....

I see an Arizona plate yet a radio station sticker starting with W which is for stations east of the Mississippi river. Where has this old gal been living, do you know? What do the bottoms of the floor boards look like? Oh yeh, and you need carbs........ Nyuck nyuck!!

This is actually an "SU" SU needle rather than a Hitachi SU needle. Someone did the research early on and identified the SM profile as a profile that would over come the weakness of the stock needle. "SM" is merely the nomenclature for that particular needle. Means nothing, unless you want to buy into "Super Modification" or some such..... or, "search me" or..... We could start a contest for the most creative name for the illustrative SM.....

We can supply SMs or stock needles. Whatever floats your boat. Steve roadtested a set of stock needle carbs on the 280 he had at Canby the other day. Having been running a set of SM carbs prior to that he said the stock needle setup just didn't have the snappy performance of the SMs. That was the first time in a long time that he'd had that direct a comparison of the 2 different needles. Carry on....

I walked through impound Sunday after the race group with a bunch of Miatas and noticed quite a bit of wrinkled and crinkled sheetmetal. Those boys wring more out of those poor little cars than is really there.