Hi Rick:
Yes - the "Type A" 5spd. is basically the same as used in the Datsun 2000 roadster { FS5C71A}

To use it in the Z you have to change the bell-housing, tail shaft and tail shaft housing. It is also commonly referred to as the "Monkey Motion" box, because of its shifter mounting and linkage. The Type A 4spd. and 5spd.'s were used in 70/71 240Z's. That was followed by the Type B transmissions used from 72 though 83 {FS4W71B & BFS5W71B}

The "W" indicates Warner or Brass Synchro's, where the roadster and competition transmissions used Porsche or Steel Synchro's.

Interesting that the snychro's were invented and patented by Warner - then licensed to everyone in the world. Because of the long and often loose linkage used in the rear engine Porsches - constant pressure was applied to the brass synchro's and they wore out pre-maturely. So Porsche started making them out of steel for longer life. But everything is a trade-off - and the steel synchros made shifting harder, and transferred more wear to the gears themselves...

FWIW,
Carl B.

OK, Thor ~ today is Monday; don't forget to go to Brussels to pick up your Z tomorrow!

Frank

(and please take your camera!)

I'm sure "pick up Z" is on the top of his to do list Frank, but he'll appreciate the reminder!! What a great Christmas gift!

Phil

I've just picked up Landcruiser plus trailer in Bavaria. We will start at 2 am in the night. The first meeting with my zed is so close now. Huuuhhhh!
I hope he stood snow and cold in the last days with dignity...


Thorsten

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Germany
1971 240z (HLS30-16506)

Godspeed Thorsten

We are all holding our breath here! Tell us as soon as we can exhale again!

A point of honor!

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Germany
1971 240z (HLS30-16506)

The suspense is beginning to grip us now....................
~K&R~

Poor Thor probably hasn't slept in days!

May the celebration begin.. Good luck Thor.

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Bob Sharp Racing History Memorabillia Chairman / VP of Marketing
RDZ MOTORSPORTS / CONSULTANT
RDZ MOTORSPORTS PROTOTYPE
Black 2007 350-Z
67 Camaro Custom
Orange Late 71 240-Z Sold and sitting in a Doctors Collection

Colin Foote Never Forgotten!!

What a wonderful Christmas present! Can you imagine unwrapping THAT box and finding a nice shiny 240Z inside?

WOW!

Best wishes Thor!

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John Taddonio
1970 240Z
1977 530Z
1984 300ZXT
zcarnut@hotmail.com
FB: Zccr zcarclubofrochester

I feel like I've been reading a great story and we are finally getting the last chapter....of this book anyway! I am sure the will be more.

All the best Thor!

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Keith Hultmark
2009 370Z Touring - Sold (5 years owned)
1993 300ZX - Sold (5 years owned)
1976 Porsche 912E. #163 of 2200 - SOLD (3 years owned)
2018 BMW 330i GT xdrive daily driver
2004 BMW Z4 3.0i ….it is a Z

We need web cam coverage of this event!!

Phil

Gosh Thor can you imagine going for a cruise on christmas day.
Awsome, long as there's no snow and the roads are dry.
Have a Great holiday pal. and don't forget to up date us with some shots.

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Bob Sharp Racing History Memorabillia Chairman / VP of Marketing
RDZ MOTORSPORTS / CONSULTANT
RDZ MOTORSPORTS PROTOTYPE
Black 2007 350-Z
67 Camaro Custom
Orange Late 71 240-Z Sold and sitting in a Doctors Collection

Colin Foote Never Forgotten!!

Dear friends,
thank you for all your greetings and wishes. What a wonderful community!
It has happened a lot during the last 24 hours. The most impressive experience took place in the early morning in a huge warehouse in the Rotterdam harbor. The sullen customs official asks me to push the Datsun quickly out of the hall. Do push? Why? I want to go. Short discussions, then the approval. I reach for the key alliance. 14 keys. So is it? I spontaneously decide on one, put him in the ignition lock, turn timidly, it is he. Direct hit! Chance? Ignition. No reaction. I pull the choke, renewed ignition. Again nothing, but I feel that 240z wants to say something. I briefly wait, turn the key the third spot. He jumps, groans first, then he is there fully. What splendid sound with which he welcomes me, in addition this smell. I reach for the steering wheel, feel: this is the start of a unique friendship. I drive the first metres in the hall with shaking hands and think: You have made everything right. There can be nothing better on four wheels. It has lasted long. The dream is finally true.

It was a murderous trip: 19-hour journey partly in the step tempo, snow, ice rain, crosswise standing trucks. There is only a thought: nothing will detain me here and Toyota Landcruiser is, fortunately, of the same view. Arrival in the early morning around 8 in the harbor of Rotterdam: Camp-Number 5044. I go somnolent to the office, present identity card, customs documents, copy of title. What I want here, one asks me. My Datsun. Datsun? Clutch to the phone. Nobody knows here about a Datsun. What? Sorry? My heart slides in the trousers. Men excitedly browse through documents, then there rings the phone: we have found him. Hall 5, behind on the right with other import cars. We drive with the Landcruiser. Luckily a hall, a roof over the head, the Datsun did not have to survive nearly 14 days outside. Thank God. But: where in this huge big building is “behind on the right”? I trip excitedly over a paper role. All the same, further! There behind stand cars. There he must be, but I do not see him. I go closer. Something orange flashes, there he stands. I go, stretch my hand, touch the roof. Can all that be true? I had studied over and over again the photos, but all that no comparison. What car, what radiation, what character. You already know the rest.
The return journey was in spite of the missing sleep and the strain a child's play. Over and over again the look in the rear-view mirror. Is the trailer still behind us? Arrival in the evening in Ottersweier. My woman jumps out of the house, the children behind, I have infected them long ago. Sorry! We cannot catch it: he is there really, a new member of the family, quite a special!
The trip goes on shortly. The Datsun remains in the trailer. I bring it on the 25th to a friendly consultant to Bavaria who looks after homologation and licensing. Next steps: a bodyman and varnisher. Then ma be in two weeks, I hope, he stands for the time in our garage. How I have been glad about it!

Here some Photos of what I told you above.
Thorsten

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T. Link
Germany
1971 240z (HLS30-16506)