Leaderboard

Engine reasemble has started!

Decided to remove door panels and look at the window regulators and such. At that time I realized that it was time to clean everything up and re-grease things. Unbelievable the amount of, what looked like, white lithium grease build up on everything that didn't need it . Here's the thing; I think it was me . Anyway, I cleaned it all up and used a silicon spray on the lock mechanisms, graphite in the lock tumblers, and white lithium (just a little) on the widow tracks. Talk about effortless to roll down a window now. I love it.

The roof is one of those panels that can be hard to get smooth and looking good. If you apply too much pressure the metal flexes and the material doesn't sand off evenly. I have found that using a little more aggressive paper and fairly soft pressure works good. Just have to be patient and keep blocking until it's right. The lower doors skins, the flats on the hood and especially the lower part of the hatch are the same way

Cliff I am not at that point yet I imagine it would be easier to install the headers after the engine is in.

It is in the driver side kick panel area, above the ECU.

Motor looks great! What piston rings did you go with?

You are fighting the valve springs and a fresh motor, so maybe you are just over thinking things. It is a little unnerving when you worried whether it's valves clashing or just that tight.

Two more cars are coming, and they might have the same distributor. If they do- I'll take them apart to assess the springs. If they are the same in dimension and look, I don't think it will be coincidental. I know it's not the best test- but it's good enough for me until I get the car running. If it runs well and doesn't operate funny, then I'll be happy with it. Currently I'm happy with how it looks- its just the internals that I need to figure out :-D I have a feeling the distributor clasps are supposed to be black though, but having them plated doesn't hurt. Can always be painted overtop :-)

This post is going to be a little summary of the weeks happenings. I have some more good and bad news from the bodyshop first: The good thing: My Panelbeater yves put the door back in for aligment and thus it still has a lots of panels missing, a door already makes the car look like - ummm - a car again Then the bad news: Someone crashed into his car (the one below is the one who hit him), so he's currently suffering from a whiplash injury and of course his recovery his priority first. Not sure what that means for my car. probably will not be worked on for a while again... The very next day my Buddy Stev visited a guy who is currently selling a lot of NOS datsun parts: He brought this little Oil pressure Sensder unit for me, but i have to check if it's really for the Z since i have the feeling my ones look more cylindric istead of this "Church-bell" design. And then i reworked the new Blower motor (See last post), to fit my needs. First removed the old Motor cover which was silver. Painted it black with some rattle can spray: Ordered some new rubber grommets which will fit since the old blower has different hole sizes. Here i have them installed together with the metal sleeves from the old blower inside: Here you can see the old insulationg foam ring and i wanted to recreate something similar. And here's my result. boaght some foam-tape and installed it. Doesn't look as nice as the original one but since it will not be visible once installed im fine with that And last but not least i had a little running-test with a 12V DC supply just to see if everything's fine. and it is - Blower motor: Completed!