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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:36 pm 
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Hello everyone and Happy Holidays.. We've been burning the candle at both ends the past two months to get the Bob Sharp Tribute 510 completed and ready for the 2014 events.. I'm really looking forward to seeing you all this coming year and enjoying some really great times.. Please check out the progress on Facebook, and I'll be certain to keep everyone posted as the final stages of completion take place. Dave Levinson, Philadelphia



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:39 pm 
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Who's doing the engine for this Nickel car, Dave?

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Good to hear from you Frank! I build my own engines.. The Tribute car will be an L18 SSS engine using the 219 casting head that was supplied on JDM cars and through Datsun Comp Dept.

All the specs on the SSS engine are identical to the 240Z.. Flat Top pistons, 1 1/2 inch intake ports, closed chambers, 1.65 intake valves , 1.29 exhaust, and duel SU carbs 38mm..

I do most of my own machine work and all the set up and assembly.. The SSS Head I'm using was my fathers original head from our 1972 510 that he bought brand new.. So I grew up with this head.. I'm also using my fathers original gauge cluster with Factory tach, and his Racemark steering wheel..

We're getting real close now to final assembly, and I just linked in Scott Cole of RDZ Motorsports to the progress so he can show Bob Sharp.. I think they're going to be happy with the results!! Happy Holidays guys, Dave

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Any guesses on compression, cam lift/duration, and expected outputs yet?

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Yes! I'm going streetable with the car, so no Full Tilt race engine this time around.. I want to be able to run pump fuel, so we're keeping compression at 9.5:1.. I'll be using a Datsun Comp L9 cam with .490 lift and .275 degrees duration.. I Modified my SUs from 38mm to 40mm with M66 Needles in them from the 2000 Roadster carbs.. I expect for a hot street engine I should be putting out around 150hp on a 1950lb car.. Good enough to make parade laps with the Z cars look good! ;) I haven't locked down my event list yet for 2014, But I've been invited by the ZCCR to come up and spend some time with them this year too.. I'm thinking I'll try for at least one Watkins Glen, two at Lime Rock, Pittsburg Vintage Grand Prix, Tom Cotter Annual Party in Davidson NC., and at least one outing at the New Jersey Motorsport park.. If other dates come up and I can make them, I'm sure going too! ;)

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By all means, don't miss the NJMP if you can help it! Those are two wonderful new tracks and you'll thoroughly enjoy them. LRP, of course, is one of the fastest courses available in the East, so bring lonnnng differential gears for that (you already know that, having spent a lot of your youth at LRP).
You might also consider Virginia Int'l Raceway at least once.

Regardless what the numbers are, it's all about power/weight. With what you quoted, your 510 will be every bit the equal of a good street Z.

Not quite as pretty, but every bit as fast. 8)

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Well, it's looking so good now it makes me want to cry.. I can't stop looking at the car and dreaming of driving it this coming year.. We put in a bunch of late nights working during the day and then doing second shift at the body shop to complete the paint work, not getting finished till 3am some mornings and back to work at 7am.. We just finshed up the third stage of red base coating and gave the 2 top clear high gloss to our tribute car this Thursday. My painter Bobby Phillips is going around the car now, doing the final compounding and buffing,and I should bring it home this coming thursday for final assembly.. Keep us in your prayers, Happy Holidays,, Dave Levinson


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Forgive me, Dave ~ each time I zee a perfect, freshly-painted racecar, something sick inside me pictures egg-size rocks bouncing off the windscreen and other cars nerfing it and tearing up the side panels. :? Forgive me.

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lol, I hear you Frank! I'm already going nuts every time I go over the body shop and see a spec of dust on it, I think it's a chip!! While the base coats were on the car, I found several chips that my painter had to touch up before we could clear coat it! I'm starting to calm down a bit now, and I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that she'll never be a concourse car, and I need to take it easy.. There will be imperfections.. I'm not spending 10k on a paint to show it at Pebble Beach!! lol ;) It's a retired race car, brought back to life to enjoy driving again and Honor my Hero!

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When it's done, you can arrange to have Bob sit in the Business Office and take pictures of him in it. That will be a grand reward for all your effort. :wink:

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lol, Absolutely! As long as he can still fit in a 17 inch.. I'll have to tell him one less piece of pie over the Holidays!! ;)

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He's a few pounds visibly thinner each time I see him. He's a big guy, but his years of hard driving in 100* cockpits, wearing Nomex suits all summer, wrestling steering wheels thru 3-G turns always kept him skinny and muscular, like all professional racedrivers. A few years ago he decided he wanted to go back to his former weight (which was actually too low for his 6'3" frame) and started working out or something. Today we have to twist his arm to make him eat any junk food.

He'll fit in there.
Your problem might be getting him to come out.

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That's ok too! I don't mind him enjoying the Tribute car as long as he wants too.. We might even upgrade with a fuel cell and get him to try a few Vintage sprint races! ;)

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What year was the original car, please?

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I know the car I'm duplicating is the 72 510 in it's first R/W/B paint..That's when the Datsun Dealer logo was on the quarter panels.. Before 72 the car was all red with Block style 33s, and in 73 they added the BSR Flag to the quarter panels.


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