I did;nt know the 510 was such a popular car. I traded my 71 chevy van,
for a 71??? cannot remember the actual year, Datsun 510, tudor. After
driving that 510 from Needles Ca. to Los Angeles several times and back, the
engine finally gave out. It was smoking like a smokestack. I should have
put the car in the yard with the 2000 roadster. As it was, I gave it away.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronnie Day <rday@airmail.net>
To: shifty <shifty@well.com>; Datsun Roadsters
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: she's alive!
>>Also put in a new water temp sender. I don't know if the sender for the
>>1500 is different than the 1600, but I still get no reading on the gauge.
>>I'd like to hook up another gauge. Any problems using an aftermarket
>>gauge on a postive ground car?
>
>Congratulations, Leigh. Looks like a number of us are getting our toys
>running again. I hope to get one of the 510's on the road in the next
>week or so. Regarding aftermarket gauges, I like mechanical gauges as
>opposed to most of the electrical gauges I've seen. Most electric gauges
>seem to have a scale that covers only about 90 degrees of the dial
>whereas mechanical gauges usually provide a 270 degree swept area. Much
>easier to just glance at the mechanical gauge and see if it's generally
>in the correct range without taking your attention from the road to
>actually read the gauge.
>
>In fact I've seen a lot of racers use bits of tape outside the dial to
>mark minimum and maximum desired readings. Sort of borrowed the idea from
>aviation (I think) where some instrument faces are color coded with
>acceptable ranges. I think this is where the term "in the green" came
>from. Probably more than you wanted to know.<G>
>
>AutoMeter and VDO both have several gauge series that might compliment
>the OEM panel. If you don't have them, I'd suggest getting catalogs from
>Jeg's and Summitt. Good information and prices, too.
>
>FWIW, Ron
>
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>Ronnie Day
>rday@airmail.net
>Dallas/Ft. Worth
>'71 510 2-dr (Prepared class autocrosser)
>'73 510 2-dr (Street Toy)
>
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