Years of 8000+rpm came to an end... I opened the motor due to dropped compression on NO2, kept driving the car for 3 weeks (i do about 90km a day)till I had a spare bottom end ready to go, was expecting a cracked ring but was a touch confuzed as there was no blow by or anything... car ran 100%, plugs looked fine, just much lower comp on NO:2

Opened the motor to find this,,, one nicely bent rod, and its been bent like this for some time by looking at the carbon ring on the bore... hats off to Datsun! even as a mech engineer, i was never expecting somthing like this due to how well she was still going, Piston was 10mm below deck!

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