L20

[pantah]

When I was taking a lunchtime stroll today,I walked past a mechanic who was working on an L20 with injection......was a nice looking car with 95000 on the clock. ....... Any 2 litre versions in Australia? Did any 240z 's come with fuel injection in Australia?

 

Notice this car has pollution gear on it ,too.....was a 1975? model I believe......

[Riceburner]

I have a 77 260 2+2 Jap import which has an L20 but it's falt top carbs with pollution gear. I would guess that the injection is from a 280zx as the emissions carbs are sh@#house.

[pantah]

The guy assured me that the car originally came out with injection......I guess they had,and still do have a lot of variants in Japan that we never see in Australia....

The guy was pretty interesting.He also had a very nice white Honda s800 in his workshop....

[NZeder]

The chassis code on that L20 with EFI should have been S31 and yes that is how they left the factory - there are a few here in NZ all JDM grey imports - I have had one in my garage for a few months too before Dad collected it (it was his after all) it now has a new home here in NZ.

[Riceburner]

Well there you go, I'm certainly no expert. The L20 rev really easy, I had mine out to over 7500 when it was going, was really smooth.

Gotta like the little hondas, they look very cool in the race livery.

[lbs1969]

Not sure about the L20, but like the sound of the S800 - any pics of that one - there was a fantastic S800 at Hanging Rock in Feb of this year - a red one.

[Mr Camouflage]

Actually its an L20A. The L20 was the mid/late 60's version that first appeared in the Cedric. (Also there's the L20B, but that's missing a couple of cylinders  )

[pantah]

I didnt get any pics of the Honda.I will endevour to do so next time..........This bloke had a few Z1's for you bike fans......

 

[Zedman240®]

A member on this forum (but hasnt been seen for quite a while; Stavros) has a JDM 260Z 2+2 with an RB26 but previously to that had a injected L20A engine. What was strange was the module for the distributor was in the passenger side footwell and it had a range of different brackets and components I have never seen on any Australian models. He also has big polished F90 17" Simmons wheels..anyone seen him lately?

[AussieZed]

I owned a fire-engine red 1977 Fairlady (260Z shape with L20A EFI motor) in New Zealand seven years ago. Looks like a 260Z but doesn't actually have that written on the car anywhere - all the badging was Fairlady. It was a sweet little car - revved freely and matched the performance of my 280Z (which was a lot heavier - and a piece of S$#T for the record).  There are also Fairlady '280Zs' with the L20A EFI motor in the 280Z body. I owned one of those at one point too, but it was a horrible under-powered thing, and I ended up swapping an L28 into it.

 

Funnily enough my Fairlady had been imported from Japan to Australia in the early 1990's and apparently had turned out for a number of track days in Melbourne (the previous owner had pics). Don't know if anyone in the club remembers it? It was then exported to NZ in the mid 1990s. I sold it in 2003 when I moved to Canada, and it is now under restoration in Dunedin NZ.