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I hated to speak out of turn but I keep up with my heroes and felt confident in saying what I said.

Finally got around to installing a set of JDM tail lights (thanks HR369) after freshening them up a bit. Also freshened up a calendar clock I obtained from Greg as well and put that in my instrument cluster with a few "details" done to match the instruments.

I visited Rebello yesterday to get a tune up on my motor, just to double check my own settings and give the new motor a good once over. The best way I can explain Rebello is gruff. He's a no bs kind of guy and that attitude can appear abrasive at times especially if you only talk to him on the phone. His actions are to provide good service and advice. Expect the motor build to take longer than expected especially if it's race season. The motor is balls to the wall and this is the fastest car I've ever driven, including some exotics I had the chance to rent. I can't complain about the results. I should have replaced or rebuilt the harmonic damper with the motor and Rebello should have informed me of that but he probably assumed I was a pro. That was a combination of my ignorance and Rebello assumption. On a personal level I hear Datsun spirit is a pleasure to work with and I would have considered buying my motor from them but Rebello is in my back yard so that tipped the scales in their favor. Sent from my SM-G930T using Classic Zcar Club mobile app

I just installed a pair of DEA part number A2401 from Rock Auto and I'm not impressed. I had every single one of the problems mentioned above and then some. Here's my product review: The threaded stud out the back was longer than stock, and way longer than necessary. Not that it really causes a problem after installation other than leaving a bunch of extra exposed threads out the back of the nut to get rusty and make it harder to get apart again in the future if ever necessary. But what it does do, however, is make it so that you have to jack up the engine just that little bit more before you can slip the mount into place. I cut off the excess with a hacksaw after this pic, but here's the DEA and the OEM mounts to compare: Next, the DEA mounts have extra rubber molded onto the top that interferes with the location of the U-shaped bracket. A little hard to tell from this angle, but you can see the corners of the rubber don't let the U bracket sit all the way down flush like it should: I trimmed off a little of the rubber with a razor knife, and although not perfect, it fits a lot better than when I first tried. Note the angled edges of the rubber along the bottom: And (no surprise), I also had issues with the locating pin and had to modify it to get the mount into place. I filed it as Siteunseen described above: And then after getting the mount into place, As zKars described above, I discovered that the metric bolts that hold the engine bracket to the mount didn't thread into the new mounts. The original mounts use a M8x1.25 bolt. but the DEA mounts have a 5/16-18 thread. Not the end of the world... I had to go out and buy a new set of bolts to use, but it would have been nice to know that before I smeared the first couple threads trying to get the original hardware to work. Lastly, even after getting the new English threaded bolts to use with the mounts, getting the bolts started was a royal PITA because the holes didn't line up well. I had to loosen up everything including the bracket that bolts to the block and still use a pry bar to wedge the parts around just to get the first couple threads started. In the end, they're in, but it was a wholly unsatisfying proposition. I know "you get what you pay for", but if I ever do this again, I won't buy that brand. Might have been easier if I didn't have the trans mount in place and could get more movement of the engine in the bay to get things to line up, but doing it one side at a time with the trans mount connected was a bietch. Not impressed.

I've just about had enough of cleaning, scrubbing, prepping, coating and painting BLUE stuff for this Z project. I am having a little bit of trouble trying to remember where it all goes. Am I close?

The race is over and congratulations goes out to the 240z teams. 4 golds and one silver. Check out the gallery I put together here.