Matt Berry
Club Member
Where did you get the Mishimoto rad? Love it!
Glad to be of service You are the young blood from the next generation keeping the marque interest alive so deserve all the help, support and assistance you can get from us old..er timers. Your car is looking good and can vouch for the Mishimoto radiator upgrade as completely worthwhile. I kept mine silver and had to laugh when someone dissed it for not being painted black.
Those carbs look beautiful! Have enjoyed watching the parts come in as you post them too, must be looking forward to fitting them
Where did you get the Mishimoto rad? Love it!
Looks beautiful woody! Lovely car.
Where did you get the NOS interior handle? I need one of those!
How long do Z Therapy take to turn around a pair of carbs ?
Some really nice stuff there - I've been talking to Z Therapy for about three years now about getting mine done - but not polished - I have the new needles from them and the rebuild kit which I have used.
Funnily enough, I'll be soon taking the ali rad OUT of my 240 to put a recored original IN ... ! I bought it from Mike in the US last year and it needs to be installed, as I'm trying to return the car to stock as much as I can!
Your write-ups are always interesting in so many ways. Keep them coming please.
After all this work is done you should notice a huge improvement.
Hope you get to Le Mans and back in it - a good shake-down.
Moving onto the gearbox mount itself we were surprised to find it looked nothing like we expected given the age of the car and after some investigation and confirmation from Richie appears to be an automatic transmission gearbox mount. Looking further into it there are no manual mounting points so I'm assuming that the car was more than likely an automatic from the factory that was converted in the US during its lifetime? This being the case I wonder whether the pedal box has also been swapped to accommodate the clutch and center console non original due to the auto transmission shifter? I'd love to hear from the Z aficionados who will likely be able to advise. I believe we are now proceeding with a full custom mount to suit purpose.
...the engine was opened up to check tolerances and make some adjustments when it was noted there was some slack in the timing chain when rotated backwards so it was decided to install a new kit.
That looks like a stock E4100 manual transmission crossmember to me.
What does he mean by "no manual mounting points"?
Remind me, what's the build date of your car again?
Edit: OK, I can see it's a 1971 build. In which case that transmission mount would be the correct factory original type for the car.
Edit 2: So actually a 9/70 build and "1971 Model Year" in US terms?
Thank you for stepping in to clarify Alan, I was hoping someone with your knowledge would be able to clarify. My speculation was based upon the below diagram I found, I assumed that from the diagram and other mounts I've seen that all manual transmission mounts bolt onto the chassis horizontally rather than vertically as is the case on my car and also per the automatic transmission mount below.
The car rolled off the productive line 09/1970 (HLS30-10603) so was lead to believe I'd have a different type of mount? I'd be really interested to know more....
I think the key point there is that the Automatics continued using the E4100 style mount after the Manuals had switched to a newer design.
Either way, with your car being a 9/70 HLS30 it would have had the E4100 type mount whether it was Auto or Manual. And being 9/70 production, it would - if indeed it was originally an Auto, and I'm not convinced that it was - it would have been one of the first Auto-equipped HLS30s.
I think this page from the factory parts manuals is most relevant:
I'll throw my wild speculation out of the window then as there are no obvious signs of a conversion either. I think I'm right in saying there is no way of tying the gearbox to the car in terms of serial number to see if its original to the car? It's only the engine and chassis that share those?
Unfortunately there's nothing on the car itself code-wise to identify what transmission it left the factory with. The original sales papers of the car would identify it, but you probably don't have those.
However, as there wasn't much variation in the HLS30U (north American market) models - stock spec was either F4W71A 4-speed or (from 9/70-ish on) the 3N71A Auto - it would be one or the other.
What transmission is in it now? If it's a 5-speed B-type it would have been a later private fitment and all bets are off.
Unless you can see any obvious vestigial evidence of Auto to manual conversion, I'd say it was originally F4W71A-equipped and that the crossmember/trans mount is the original E4100 unit it left the factory with.