[Healeys] Arizona Hundred

[Patrick and Caroline Quinn]

G'day

If anyone is interested in the connection between Austin and Nissan there is
an article at:

http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/austinnissan.html

I wrote it a few years back. I will say that there is a question of the
extent of involvement of Albrecht Goertz in the design of the Datsun 240Z.

There is a strong connection between Austin and Nissan, to such an extent
that Nissan was making Austins under licence.

The Nissan straight-six was not derived from any Austin engine, but from the
Prince engine that first saw light of day in the Prince Skyline GT. Nissan
later purchased Prince and developed the engine for the 240Z.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia 

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Alan Seigrist
Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 8:11 PM
To: Oudesluys
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Arizona Hundred

Kees -

The Datsun 240/Fairlady motor is a different Datsun only design, but the
manifolds will take SU 1.75" and 2" carbs.  In the 1980s in California it
was impossible to find HD8 carbs from the local autojumble because every
Datsun 240 hack had pilfered the BJ8 carbs.  It took me at least 3 years of
searching until I found the set on my BJ8.

Actually the old Datsun 1500/1600 was a Datsun design motor also, I believe,
but the gearbox mounts were designed to fit up to Austin/MG gearboxes.

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
'64 BJ8


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:

> As it already has got a non standard engine it would be a nice car to drop
> in a RoverV8 or a Nissan/Datsun straight six engine (which is possibly
based
> on the Austin straight six as Datsun originally assembled Austins and
their
> later own designs had a close technical resemblance).
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL