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I should like to examine said blower in person before you reassemble it. I'd like to get a handle on the lubrication system so as to plan out mine.

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I used some outfit in Lismore st. (can't remember what they're called, but it cost me $10 to the get the aluminuim rear cover of my R200 diff clear powder coated.

yes. I rate it fully.

What do you reckon the rotors out of the blower are made from? I always thought mine were a funny colour. Seeing yours out in the open makes me wonder if they're made of some non metallic material?

I have a manual, but no scanner. The library should have a haynes manual for the Datsun sunny. many of them were A15 powered.

Wise move doing that to the floor. When we made the gearbox Xmember for Chris's shove-it, the floor required extensive reinforcement. The factory pan was as flimsey as hell.

Safe R brakes can make you a cable if you take them the old one too.

"Nismo-capri" has a TPI off a 3.9 falcon on his pinto. If you were prepared to shell out for an ECU of some kind you could adapt one of those to your manifold. Then you'd be able to run blowtrhough (With intercooler) with max reliabitly.

My car is poos again. Doesn't look good for me. Oh, and I just remembered it's my aniversary. So I probably wont be allowed out anyway. Fuck it!

My bad, I meant to say "Ive not done it to a ford". Damn brain fade! It has been pretty reliable, But I drive it like I stole it which has killed a few motors. Yeah I've done a few improvements to the motor. And ddropped the comp with an off the shelf "head saver shim".

The "hard" break in method is really only the go if your engine has moly top rings. Old school Iron rings actually prefer the "conventional" method. (moly rings are intended to break in fast, and require a finer hone, whereas iron rings take much longer and require a coarser hone)

Thanks Ryan! Your photography is brilliant!

I've NOT done it to a ford, but I've done it to my non crossflow datsun. All much of a muchness really. I have an adapter to fit a 32/36 weber to an S/C14 if you're interested? (I have the carb and a ramflo too)

What do you need mate?

Did you isolate the tapping noise you detected Si? This thing would have to be a starter for 1st friday of the month meet yeah?

Thats a good looking set up Simon. I love the turbo manifold especially. Although having blowthrough efi is underutilised if an intercooler is included. Are those manifolds hard to obtain? I'm fairly certin that a subaru leone central locking solenoid would be just the ticket. Yes it would leak back out through the supercharger. (which I think Simon already alluded to) Given that many engines can draw air through a supercharger which isn't being driven, having (say 18psi of) boost pushing again the blower outlet side whilest it wasn't being driven it would turn backwards and bleed off precious boost. (read horsepower)

I still have many of the parts form the VG coupe that I rolled. As well as shitloads of bits from all the vals I've dismantled. I think I sold my last spare offset booster. I have piles of front rotors, but most of them are worn fairly thin. (They changed the iron they used when the model changed to VJ and they wear down shitloads faster than the VH and VG ones do) Back in the 90's it was quite commen to use XA falcon discs. I think you need to change one (or both) of the bearings to suit the falcon hub, and turn a bit off the OD of the rotor as they're of a larger diameter than the val discs. That said I've never done it personally, and XA shit is just as long in the tooth as val gear now. So it'll likely be just as hard to find/worn out as most of the Val ones.

with a bit more warning NZdatsun could have shown them how it was done.

Just bring the dirty bogan 'coon Chris.

What happened to you and Stu(?) Sam? You fullas missed an epic day.

You know you want to mate! You wouldn't be looking at running huge boost old an antique (lol) like the 202, but the instant torque delivery that a supercharger offers would be like adding another 4 cylinders. I know that If I could get an efi manifold off the shelf for my car it would have been injected as well as blown long long ago.

I didn't actually sit down and think about where said vaccuum signal might come from. (hence saying like a BOV) But yeah, I'd lean towards having things electrically operated too. Nice to have met you Simon, shame it was so dark, I couldn't get a proper look at your engine.

Here are pictures from the NZdatsun.com 2010 Akaroa cruise (Blatently copeid and pasted from NZdatsun.com)