Careful, thinking has been known to result in great discoveries!
There is a thread happening as we speak on our Ozdat Forum here in Oz, about
the availability of the Gilmer type drive for Nissan L series engines.
I've done a litle searching and can't even find who or where Gilmer is!
There are some pedestrian Nissan engines that utilise a toothed belt for the
OHC drive as well as driving the sidewinder water pump so there is a source
of pulleys and such which are OEM.
Whether any of them will adapt to your engine is ??
I'm wanting to do a similar conversion to my VG30 project but it is looking
like a custom jobby at the moment.
Of course if the water pump/alternator and whatever else is connected to the
toothed belt siezes, just imagine the calamity and destruction which would
result as the crank pulley tries to rotate the car :(
Regards,
Graeme Suckling
1965 SP310 - under construction DSOA Member # 112
1971 P510 4 door - daily driver, original owner.
1972 PL510 2 door - VG30ET on Autogas.
1973 HS30/240Z - re-building to 2004 specs.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4290669159
Adelaide, South Australia.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Mike/Chris
Clothier
Sent: Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:08 AM
To: ROADSTER LIST
Subject: Just Thinking.......
Has any one on the list ever tried to swap the original belts and pulleys
with the newer cog type pulleys(with teeth) and one belt. Possible,
impossible, improbable or what....??
Mike
Norco, Ca.
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