Victor,
How many participants do you need? I'm in.
I'm restoring a U20 and have purchased a timing set up at current prices.
Painful. I don't look forward to replacing timing parts in the future, but
as intriguing as the various potential engine swaps are, they aren't my
cup of tea. I 'd like to keep the U20 in the car.
>From speaking to vendors, it looks like there are no other currently
available sources for timing gears once the current stock is gone. For the
past couple of years there has been the hope that "something" would happen.
Maybe Nissan would put them back into production, maybe Nissan would
identify the original producer who would then become a direct source, maybe
a vendor would reproduce them, maybe something else would happen. So far it
hasn't.
I'm ready to have a group of us take the initiative.
Steve Landuyt
San Diego
'69 2000
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laury, Victor" <LauryV@MTA.NET>
To: "'The Dread Pirate Roberts'" <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>;
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Cc: <jamie@housemanautosport.com>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:01 AM
Subject: Timing gears and 5 speed boxes
> One-off's ARE pricey, but a "group buy" could lower the costs to fair
market
> price. I spoke to Jamie Houseman of Houseman Autosports
> http://www.housemanautosport.com/index.html several months ago and he told
> me he could reproduce our U20 timing gears for a reasonable batch price.
> This would not be too profitable for a vendor as he have to mark them up
to
> cover his time and effort, and price them out of reach. Jamie is also very
> experienced with our 5 speeds. but, instead of replacing the NLA servo
style
> syncros, he converts the box to "dog engagement". Now, I don't know how a
> "Dog engagement" box would perform on the street, or how it would hold up
as
> a daily driver, but it sounds like an option to the other choice, which is
> using our 5 speeds as boat anchors.
>
> Victor
> 70 SRL 31113136
> 72 HLS30 48255
> 72 HLS30 94071
> 65 L-320 Pickup
> Los Angeles
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Dread Pirate Roberts
> [mailto:svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 8:38 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Timing gears
>
>
> One-offs are expensive, but after looking at pics of the U20 timing
> sprockets, I can't
> help but think that they wouldn't be all that difficult to fabricate. In
> fact, one could
> probably improve on the originals. Cutting sprockets isn't a job for your
> average
> high-school metal shop student, but it ain't rocket science, either.
Chains
> are easy, so I
> think that all of the sturm und drang about the demise of the U20 is
> premature.
>
> One question that has popped up in my mind during all of the recent
> exchanges re: U20
> timing stuff is - what do the folks who race with the U20 do?
>
> Gary McCormick
> San Jose, CA
>
> John Hogan wrote:
>
> > I know this is everyone's favorite topic as of late, but I've just
pulled
> > my gears off my U20 and posted some pictures on my website. If some of
> > ya'll are inclined, I would appreciate it if you could take a couple
> > minutes and hop over and give me your opinion on them. Naturally, my
> > concern is wear and whether or not they warrant replacement. Thanks
> >
> > http://www.madgrizzle.com/Timing_gears.htm
> >
> > John Hogan
> >
> > ack! no sigfile
> >
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