This is what I call an "Epic Build", the one thing that has truely perplexed me with my 25 year love affair with S30 2 seaters is why would they make a car with styling that is timeless, physical dimentions that make it handle like no other car can equiped with MacPherson struts at the front and Chapman struts at the rear (yes most people think that they have MacPherson struts all round but there is a difference!).
And then equip it with an engine that is serverely let down by the design of the head? Single overhead cam is one thing, but it's not even a cross flow?!!! When so much of the car is a forward design for it's time (even though strut suspension was a compromise), why would they settle for a head design that is way behind the rest.
The '432' was cool to say the least, and yes the American market would need a larger capacity engine, but to restrict it in such a way was just incredibly short sighted.
Thank god Derek is doing something about it because I don't have the 'conections' or the '$$$' to get an S20 engine or an OS Giken exravagance.
I was seriously considering an RB26 build and if power and performance was all that I cared about then that is probably the way I would go, but it is my honest opinion that the best engine for an S30 is a Nissan L2X, twin cam 24v crossflow head with a modern 4vcc design.
Keep up the brilliant work Derek, I can't wait to see this in action, and I know I'm not the only one.