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Hello from South Dakota !

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I picked up a 69 2000 a few years ago in Washington state for a $100.00. It was stripped down but complete. It was originally from southern California and shows 48,000 miles on the OD. It has been in storage in my dad's garage here in South Dakota. I recently moved back and my dad and I fired her up this morning. We sprayed some two cycle gas in the carbs and just fired her up a little. I'll take some pictures this afternoon.

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Welcome Nickle Eye. We seem to be getting a lot of new members here lately. That is great! Good luck with your project and looking forward to seeing some pictures.

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And yet another joins the fray. Keep the roadsters coming. Welcome to the forum Nickle Eye.

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welcome, where in sd are you
67.5 srl-311-00407 u20
desperately looking for a 67.5 body that is rust free... id settle for any low window tub
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I'm in a little town on highway 34 in eastern SD called Fedora. I've got family up there in Grand Forks. I was actually born in Grand Forks. We might have to meet up. Didn't figure there would be many of these roadster in the dakotas. Are you any good with these carbs?

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fixitman04 wrote:welcome, where in sd are you
Nickle Eye wrote:We might have to meet up
Careful, Nickle Eye, He may just show up with a VG30 engine, a torch and a shoehorn.... :D

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could be arranged....have vg30 will travel!

as for the carbs...il let you know when i get mine running.
67.5 srl-311-00407 u20
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fixitman04 wrote:welcome, where in sd are you
Nickle Eye wrote:We might have to meet up
dbrick wrote:Careful, Nickle Eye, He may just show up with a VG30 engine, a torch and a shoehorn.... :D
fixitman04 wrote:could be arranged....have vg30 will travel!

as for the carbs...il let you know when i get mine running.
AFAIK, VG30 doesn't use carbs. :smt017
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glad you are confused, answered two q's with one post
but, you can carb a vg30 with a vg30-i manifold from a truck , but why?
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Didn't Nissan once offer a performance oriented carb manifold for the VG30? I always thought that a pair of the Porsche 40 IDA3s would be sweet on a VG - the stacks sticking through the hood of course!
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not that im aware of, the scca cars of the 90's were injected.
if they did id love some info on that... but not on anothers welcome thread.



nickle eye as you can see we car guys get easily sidetracked welcome again
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fixitman04 wrote:glad you are confused, answered two q's with one post
but, you can carb a vg30 with a vg30-i manifold from a truck , but why?
Yes, I understand you can, and I believe I've seen a pic, but figured we was all talking stock VG30 w/ FI, that's all.
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dbrick wrote:
fixitman04 wrote:welcome, where in sd are you
Nickle Eye wrote:We might have to meet up
Careful, Nickle Eye, He may just show up with a VG30 engine, a torch and a shoehorn.... :D
damn dave you got me thinking again......what to do with that extra vg that i have.....my frame is empty in my garage, how hard could it really be?
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fixitman04 wrote:damn dave you got me thinking again......what to do with that extra vg that i have.....my frame is empty in my garage, how hard could it really be?
If you go VG on that car, kindly ship up the original U20 and ship it down to me...
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we will have to see what the machine shop says about my u20, if is saveable it will go back in. if not......???
67.5 srl-311-00407 u20
desperately looking for a 67.5 body that is rust free... id settle for any low window tub
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