Smog exempt was a poor wording choice. What Stan meant was, They were not
installed on cars going to countries with smog laws (USA after 68). They
were installed as original equipment on all 67.5 - 70 SR roadsters shipped
to the Canadian, Australian and the home Japanese markets.
----- Original Message -----
From: datsunmike <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 3:51 PM
Subject: smog exempt????
Pat,
Are you sure they were smog exempt???? If they were smog exempt Roadsters
would have been shipped to the US with the Solexes installed as in other
countries. They were a dealer installed option here. It was because they
couldn't meet whatever emissions standards were then in effect that US cars
were not shipped with them. Only 67.5 cars were shipped with Solexes as in
68 many regulations regarding safety and emissions came into force.
Why dealers were able to install them I will never understand but I guess
there were loopholes in the regulations. I do know headers were supplied in
the "trunk" of either the Z28 or Shelby Mustang but could not be installed
by the factory because of emissions.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
To: "STAN CHERNOFF" <az589@lafn.org>; "Chris Robertson"
<ckrobertson@hotmail.com>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: why no vacuum adv with Solexes?
> I think that the absence of the vacuum on the Solex has to do with why
they
> are Smog Exempt.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: STAN CHERNOFF <az589@lafn.org>
> To: Chris Robertson <ckrobertson@hotmail.com>;
> datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, February 12, 2001 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: why no vacuum adv with Solexes?
>
>
> >Chris,
> >
> >There is no ported vacuum connection on standard roadster 44PHH carbs.
> >
> >Stan
> >===========
> >
> >At 09:25 AM 2/12/01 -0600, Chris Robertson wrote:
> >>Why does the U20 with a solex setup use a distributor with no vacuum
> >>advance? Is it because static timing is set to 20 degrees? I would
think
> >>that it could still benefit from more advance at high rpms. Gordon?
> >>Amyone?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Chris
> >>_________________________________________________________________
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