'84 Nissan/toyota Sunrader Comparison?

[RHS]

Last december I bought a nissan sunrader 18' 2.4 engine, 5 spd transmission, full floating rear end 72,000 miles.. Paid $1,000. I needed a new project. First nissan I have bought. I have done similar with a number of toyotas so was curious of comparison. Side window was missing (had one in bone yard) interior needed quite a bit of work, but not much expense. To get a fair comparison had to take it on a trip. So off we went to LA from N.Central Wa state. Replaced clutch slave cylinder in Oregon, front brakes in LA. Highway 101 through Oregon & N Cal. I 5 to LA. To make a long story short. I was really impressed seemed to have better power would run 65-70 all day long at 15+ mpg, at 55-60 got 17-18 mpg.Toyota had to really work to maintain 70. Trip was 93 miles short of 3,000 miles. After rechecking the last 2 days info. Averaged 15.9 mpg-15.9 w/similar toyota several years ago same trip. Toyota was 2.4 w/4 spd , 4.10 rear end. 5 spd seamed to have better gear spacing. I do not know rear end gear ratio of nissan or if my experience was unusual tried hard to be fair. Not sure how this compares to other peoples experience.

[Maineah]

Guess you would have to know the weights of both before it would be a contest. I can tell you some thing you need to check on the Nissan 2.4 engine they had a nasty habit of grinding up the chain guides and plugging up the oil pump pickup with plastic.

[RHS]

Thanks for the info. Both were right at 6,000 lbs the nissan had larger storage box on rear bumper but toyota had 2 spare tires.