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Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:59 am
by Nickle Eye
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.
Nickle Eye
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:05 am
by S Allen
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.
Steve
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:51 pm
by wgb1
And yet another joins the fray. Keep the roadsters coming. Welcome to the forum Nickle Eye.
Walter
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:15 am
by fixitman04
welcome, where in sd are you
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:32 am
by Nickle Eye
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?
Nickle Eye
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:35 pm
by dbrick
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....
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:47 pm
by fixitman04
could be arranged....have vg30 will travel!
as for the carbs...il let you know when i get mine running.
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:53 pm
by ppeters914
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....
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.
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:02 pm
by fixitman04
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?
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:11 pm
by spl310
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!
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:25 pm
by fixitman04
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
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:21 pm
by ppeters914
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.
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:52 pm
by fixitman04
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....
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?
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:45 pm
by spl310
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...
Re: Hello from South Dakota !
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:27 pm
by fixitman04
we will have to see what the machine shop says about my u20, if is saveable it will go back in. if not......???