It's easy to convert your dizzy to pre-smog but it'll have to come out of
the car. Just swap the cam, springs and weights (although I have weighed
smog and non-smog weights and found no difference). The springs however are
different.
I too, have had problems getting my old stock 1600 to idle smoothly at 700
rpms. I was able to do it but preferred a slighly higher idle speed for a
variety of reasons including having more alt output when my electric fan
went on which dropped my idle speed a bit.
I can't get my stroker to idle anywhere close to 700 and it likes to idle at
about 1100 with the cam I have installed.
It takes patience to install the dizzy correctly. One tooth off wouldn't
allow the alignment of the rotor to the correct #1 position when the engine
is at TDC in my experience but I have been wrong before.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Hoovers" <audela2@cox.net>
To: "Roadster Mailing List (E-mail)" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:32 PM
Subject: '64 1600 is running...sort of
> We got the '64 1600 somewhat running. After a lot of troubleshooting and
> help from list members, we swapped out the distributor and lo & behold, it
> fired up, although it idles WAY too high. We tried setting the timing to
0
> (the previous distributor was pre-smog, this one is a smog distributor)at
> 700 rpm but when it gets down close to 0 it starts sputtering & dies.
We've
> installed a different set of carbs so we have to adjust those too, but
until
> we set the timing the Roadster just heats up real quickly.
>
> Is it possible the distributor is off by a tooth, as we've seen described
on
> the archives? We're hoping not, because it seems awfully complicated to
get
> it in right.
>
> Charlotte & Leonard Hoover
> Phoenix, AZ
> '64 SPL310 1500
> '64 SPL310 1600
> '73 240Z
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