z20 HP??

[brian71'510]

i just got a 71 510...and it came with the engine and transmission out of it...its a Z20 block and U67head i think.....but im not sure what that engine came out of.. im pretty sure it was a L16 stock....I also need many many parts to get the car back togather...so any links or info on cheap parts would be great......

[brian71'510]

so no help for the newbie 2 the forum?? im just trying to figure out if the z20 engine is worth putting back in? and where i can get some parts im haveing trouble finding some parts.....

[twoeightythreez]

- Z22 - Years - 1981 - 1983 Horsepower - 98 @ 4800 RPM Lb/ft Torque - 117 @ 1800 RPMIt's a great motor....for a tractor or a forklift. The Z20 had a bit less displacement so it probably had a different cam that would let it rev a little bit higher and make about the same power with a little less torque. The cool thing about the Z series is that I bet you never thought they had that little HP huh? They can surprise you since they have torque just about anywhere in the rev band. A Z22 might only have 98 hp but it has 98hp....at 1000rpm, at 2000rpm, etc...they are engines that act like electric motors. I towed a 68 buick lesabre with a Z24 powered 720. It didn't even complain....it was just dog slow, but it still didn't even strain. Great motor for your workhorse vehicle...unburstable with stock cam (you simply will not get it to rev over 5500 under load, no matter what)

[brian71'510]

thanks...so your saying that if i want some good hp i should go with a differnt engine? so what would be a good engine that i can pick up kinda cheap and not have to modify the car????

[twoeightythreez]

It can make decent pwr with a modified Lseries head. It sounds like you already have an L-series head, so just go from there, put it together and throw it in, you can always upgrade the motor later.(any engine is better than none, right?)

The Z series will drop right into a 510, so if you want to build the ultimate Z-series motor, get a Z24 block (from a 720 pickup) and put an L-series head on it. You will have to modify the Z24 timing cover slightly, but it bolts on. The how-to is probably in this forum somewhere. The KA is nice but you do have to modify the car slightly....I think I've also read somewhere about people adapting KA24DE heads to the Z24 block....this makes for a bolt-in KA24. Search for it, I've heard of it being done.

[brian71'510]

yeah any engine is better than none.....but i just want enough engine so i can play arround in the car a little bit.

does anyone know where i can get springs for the car or if i can use springs from a differnt car?

[RAD2LTR]

You can get 510 suspension from Nissan Motorsports, or you can try Classic Datsun Motorsports. Its possible to build a monster L series engine, I have heard of long rod L20B making stupid amounts of hp (like well over 200 hp)

Will

[brian71'510]

ill check those places out.....i also need to find motor mouts and a place to get rotors and calipers with mouting brackets. Im trying to build the car kinda cheap i only paid $700. for the car. Ill try to get some pics up of what it looks like now....Thanks for the help....