anyone running a water-cooled turbo come up with a u-beaut set-up for their heater and coolant hoses? i'm not happy with my first attempt at it (braided steel hoses secured with hose clamps just looks sh!t ).

also where the heater pipe exits the firewall on the passenger side, i had the mother of all t-junctions which just looks sh!t too. i'm thinking about brazing a threaded section onto the copper heater pipe, and then fabricating up a 'small' t-junction to screw onto that.

oh yeah and i need to come up with a neat set-up for the heater tap and a t-junction on for where the heater pipe exits on the driver's side too.

thoughts, opinions, pics?

that, and i'm bored at work

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1971 Datsun 1600 - Z18ET
1996 Suzuki RGV250 VJ22
1996 Suzuki RGV250 SP VJ23

I have Brand new fix for your heater tap.

Genuine Nissan, part, you will even see the original Nissan box, I would prefer to keep the box and the part number to myself if you don't mind.

I searched god damm soo many microfishes, and parts catelogues, for all makes and models of cars to find a fix for the old bloke I was helping out a couple of years ago.

Bring me your old one, I'll swap the brackets over in about 30 minutes.

(being very carefull to keep one good clip out of the two to put it all together again that is)

The clips are just soo brittle.

I couldn't find any spares for when I thought I would get some just in case.
The bit it clips to is a funny diameter, and most clips found were wrong size, or not springy enough to actually work.

You will have a brand new factory nissan heater tap running the 1600 factory bracket/controls to open the tap.

Top photo shows the heater tap we all know, just with brackets facing wrong way, inside out, and on the wrong side.

Your controls go on this side.
I remove all the brackets and give them to you as a keep sake.

Probably the down side this is my last one and it cost me $55.00 + GST way back on 30th July 2004.


It retails for $73.96 + GST direct from Nissan.

You can have it for cost.
I have built these and sold them as a core exchange in the past.

Customer sends me theirs, I use their brackets, a little carbon grease and mail it back registered post for $150.00

I saw a propper Datsun 1600 one sell for $260.00+US about three months ago.

Any how Guppy, I owe you one, so yer let me know, I'll do it for cost price + a crowny or two while I am working hea??

I am really hoping you do not have a Japeneese Plastic heater box, with the totally different tap altogether.

I havn't found a fix for that, eccept to buy USA Z ones.
Remove all the brackets of a dead wagon one carefully with die grinder.

Remove the Z ones the same.

Then cold bronze (I call it) the old bracket to the new heater tap core.

Could probably stich tig it, dropping it in icy water after each tig movement.

Got to be sooo carefull doing this, as you could cook the rubber diaphram in the heater tap assembly.

USA 1600's had the Jap plastic heater box assembly, Nissan Japan ran out 5 years ago and USA E-Bay sold a brand new wagon/Japaneese heater tap for over $300.00 US

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1970 P510 SSS sedan
1971 P510 wagon + spare shell
197? 180B SSS Coupe
1981 910 SSS with Z18et, Leather interior

That tap looks very much like the XY falcon heater tap I used on my car. You can buy them from rare spares or any other Ford aftermarket place.

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1971 Datsun P510 SR20DET 276 rwkW
2005 Mercedes AMG E55 350 kW
1969 Datsun P510 L20B EFI 95 rwkW
1975 Ford XB Fairmont GS Wagon 179rwhp
1980 Escort Van SR20DET unfinished
2002 Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa 185hp

if that's the case, there's some serious money to be made by anyone who's got old heater taps lying around and can swap the brackets over. unfortunately i don't have any

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1971 Datsun 1600 - Z18ET
1996 Suzuki RGV250 VJ22
1996 Suzuki RGV250 SP VJ23