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Most likely my next course of action with this Choke is open after the engine warms up, seems to be functioning correctly as far as I can tell.

So I put a re-manufactured carburetor from National Carburetors/Foreign Carburetors on my 81 210 recently, car seemed to be running great at first but needed some adjustment. Haven't been able to lean it out at all; right now it's running very rich, blackened spark plugs, smells horrid, starts right up but idles rough especially for first few minutes, poor gas mileage, black gunk out of the tailpipe. Biggest symptom is the fact that I can turn the idle mixture screw in and out all the way with no change and to no effect on the engine. Doesn't seem to be a visual excess of fuel dumping down the carb. No vacuum leaks, choke seems to be functioning normally, float level looks good, brand new fuel filter and air filter before I fired it up the first time with this new carb. Only other notable thing is that I put my old anti-dieseling solenoid on the new carburetor because the new solenoid that came with it had a single rounded electrical connector instead of the two flat type connectors that are on the wiring harness and old solenoid, so I suppose there is a possibility that the old solenoid isn't functioning, but I don't feel like that would contribute to the engine running so rich, plus there is no problem at idle cut off or with run on when I turn the car off. Looking at the service manual I'm thinking air bleeds possible? Just hoping for a best course of action and where to start first on this issue, thanks.

Right on, thank you. This is the bracket I'm hoping for....

Any chance at an A/C compressor bracket or a lower dash half?

The new re-manufactured carburetor Half way through install the other day. Took the valve cover off to free up some room and replaced the gasket while I was at it, checked the clearances, along with the rocker and head bolts. Went ahead and touched up the cover while I had it off Garage sale find to rock on the luggage rack

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Hey gentleman, just testing the waters in the parts department. Looking for a lower dash half out of an 80-82 210, anything that is in one piece. Any color, faded, scratched, whatever it may be, just something I can refinish and repaint. Secondly, I'm looking for an AC Compressor Bracket, I don't really know the years or compatibility with this part outside of my model, but it's off of my 1981 210's A15, pictures below for reference...I'm willing to pay just about anything within reason along with shipping, which would be to 76544. Mine is all ripped up but I managed to delicately place the pieces back together for the photos, welding guy at the local self service garage said he didn't think it was salvagable I can post a picture of the compressor itself if there is something that will work between it and the A15 block. Thanks for your time guys!

Yep, I'm looking to do the same, probably going to wait until I'm back up in the NW in a few months though to switch out the suspension and brakes and all that, I don't really have the time or the facilities or the equipment to do that sort of work down here as I do back home. Look up the Z iron cross wheels and swazi wheels too, those fit well too with the right tire without any modifications from what I've read. And I'm definitely going do a set of photos coming up here, probably going to stop somewhere with a nice background on the road trip home.

Right? I even picked up an old suitcase at a garage sale to throw on there just for kicks, pretty awesome. And the wheels are 14x6's off an 81 280zx, with Falken Sincera 175/65/R14's, had to order lug nuts for them though since they require different lug nuts from the stock ones.

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Much appreciated For sure, sorry I couldn't really provide a more technical answer haha

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Thanks good sir! Well I'm using it as a daily driver right now until I get back to WA this summer, so the gas mileage is a big plus, that and since the Weber was the only modification I had done, the engine wasn't running very efficiently with all the emissions missing, even beyond decreased gas mileage. I tried plenty of different carb adjustments with the Weber, from baseline settings up and down and all that from researching around the internet but nothing really seemed to show marked improvement. It was a reliable runner afterwards, and easy as hell to switch over, but I could tell it just wasn't right, wasn't running like it could/should ya know? Once I put that Hitatchi back in along with all the emissions in there today it was running smooth as hell and drove like new. All I had really done was gain some extra horsepower at higher RPMs, but my engine performance and efficiency at the low end had suffered. From what I've read it seems like if you upgraded more in your whole system, like switching out your manifolds and all that more performance oriented jazz I can't speak from experience on, you probably wouldn't have a problem at all, and you could probably turn it into a sweet little zippy car, I've seen some pretty cool projects/upgrades/builds, just don't know a damn thing about it beyond the stock engine myself. Also if you are smart about what you do with your emissions stuff, I will tell you that from experience (Perhaps not pulling it all out and capping everything that's left bare...lesson learned haha :blush: )

Alright guys, I've been lurking around Ratsun for a while now and have finally gotten my act together enough to introduce myself, so here's the long story. (I'm currently located in central Texas, but hail from Washington.) I found my little 1981 210 2-door sedan back in late December of 2011 just outside of San Antonio. Gentleman had the smallest Craigslist ad I've ever seen posted for it with simply "81 Datsun 210 Low Miles Phone #xxx-xxx-xxxx" Called him up/texted and asked a few questions, he pointed me to an expired eBay auction for it where, luckily for me, the winning bidder had flaked out. Only had 31,000 original miles on it and looked clean as hell so I went down and checked it out; bought it a few weeks later. He had the original title from the old lady who had paid cash for it back in 1981 from Austin Datsun. She had barely driven it and later traded it into one of the owners friends small dealerships where it sat for five years until this gentleman had bought it, and it had sat some more. The thing fired right up, put a full tank of premium and a little bottle of carb cleaner in it at the closest gas station, stopped at the next closest service station and had the oil changed, and drove it home about 140 miles and got a solid 40mpg. Did some basic maintenance on it: changed the fuel filter, air filter, valve cover gasket, cap, rotor, plugs, and wires, vacuum lines, etc. etc. A month or two went by and the poor little carb went out on me, I don't know what was wrong with it, but quickly failed at fixing it with a rebuild kit. Being naive as I was and not doing all my research, I tore all the emissions off and threw a Weber 32/36 DGEV on it and went along with my business. Found a couple MR2 seats for cheap, had them reupholstered along with the door panels and rear seat, threw a new carpet in there too. Been keeping up with regular maintenance since then, and finally this afternoon re-installed all the emissions along with a re-manufactured Hitatchi for my model/engine/transmission. Also got a set of 6-spoke Z wheels along with some nice Falken tires last weekend, so she is looking nice. Also today I got a center console in the mail I ordered off eBay, basically just need a lower dash half now to install back in with the rest of the good dash pieces I have and the interior will be at 90%. Oh and it has a sweet friggin luggage rack on the trunk lid haha [TLDR] I picked up a sweet low milage 1981 210 last year and it rocks, here are your pictures. Edit: Moved the pictures around on Photobucket not thinking about the links, here they are again all in one