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I worked on polishing a valve cover today.

Hey Andreas! I'm sorry, didn't know!:O Still very happy with the quality of these, can highly recommend them!:) I'm actually still a bit unsure about the colour! I love the (original) blue, but don't want to end up with "yet another" Devil Z Replica. That's why I'm pretty sure I'll be going with anthracite. Thank you!:) Hey Patcon! Found the thread I guess you're referring to!:) They actually mention 280zx rotors, but for a rear disk swap, which I'm sure utilizes the original rear 280zx rotors, whereas mine are pretty sure front ones!:D I think I'm going to run full stock for the first restoration iteration, maybe with some upgraded brake pads, but the once on the car are basically new, so are the rubber brake lines. Would be a shame to through them directly away. Hey Bart! Maybe you want to come to Frankfurt am Main next year, the guys in the German Facebook Group are planning a meet then!:) This is Tim's thread!:) Hey Rossiz! Thank you! Yeah, I got lucky! Just some work under the sheet metal under the hatch and under the windshield gasket really! Hey Munters! Thank you!:) Where from Swiss are you exactly? I'm originally from Überlingen/Lake of Constance! And do you know Nils from Schaffhausen? You can find his progress on JDM Junkies! Okay, next two progress posts!:) Suspension removal and disassembly "As I said a post before" I’m tossing the idea of completing a task till the very and and just update you guys on the progress so far! The complete suspension components are removed quite long ago and most of it is already fully disassembled. Let’s get you up to speed! I don’t have that many pictures, but you’ll get the point. Here’s one of the front suspension still assembled to the car, already took the brakes of though. Aaand it’s out: Also took a nice explosion view of the front suspension disassembled: The rear suspension also dropped right out: Since the axles and hubs are not yet disassembled I didn’t take a picture of the disassembly progress of the rear so far! Wasn’t able to geht the U-Joints out of the axle, and the spline in the hub was not willing to get out yet as well… Don’t really have the space for a press, but maybe the only option. Or do you guys know another great option? And ablaze! One picture of the old bushing removal at least! Since I’ll be going with upgraded sway bars from suspension techniques the original front sway bar is for sale! Hit me up if you’re interested (Once again for the European guys only)!:) Engine disassembly Right ahead on this one: I won’t fully disassemble the L24 engine. It ran great when I bought the car, no reason to fiddle with it, since I’m planning to build a performance L28 after the Z is finished but still am going to keep the L24 as a night stand or something (:D) because of the matching numbers, no reason to rebuild the L24. I will however check valve lash, but the head will pretty sure stay on the block and it will only get a clean up and fresh coat of paint. Oilpan and valve cover will get a coat of black powdercoating, the latter one in wrinkle structure. Without further ado, here we go: This is what I started with: Keen eyes might have spotted the cracked area in the valve cover. If you have a spare and are located in Europe hit me up!:) After I got rid of all the wiring and plumbing I removed the intake with the carburetors as well as the fuel lines. Next to go was the exhaust manifold and I just took the upper coolant inlet with it: I noticed something strange about the exhaust port on cylinder 1. Had some weird deposit in it. As you can see, the other ports were perfectly normal. Same thing on the exhaust manifold as well: My worst idea was a coolant leak in the head gasket into the 1st cylinder, but I never saw white smoke from the car when I test drove it. Any ideas what it could be? And if it’s something to worry about? I also checked the spark plugs for irregularities, but the spark plug from cylinder 1 , the one on the left, looks just like the others. That’s as far as the engine is disassembled for now. Plan is to only remove the oilpan and valve cover for powder coating, but leave them on for now the protect the innards of the engine for now. I also think a new waterpump was installed not long ago! If anyone’s interested, the exhaust manifold and warm air inlet thingy are for sale as well as the fuel rail setup (in Europe: ), I already ordered a full race stainless steel exhaust and manifold from Sean from Zstory!:) That's it for today guys! There will be two more blog posts tomorrow, then you'll be pretty much up to speed on how far the progress on the car is so far!:) All the best Fabian

We've always known how smooth a inline 6 is and Mercedes Benz is going back to the future with this announcement. Given the relationship Renault/Nissan has with MB for the smaller 4-cylinder engines, might we hope to see one of these new monsters in a Nissan product? We can always dream of what might be! http://jalopnik.com/mercedes-brings-back-the-inline-six-with-408-hp-and-mar-1788404634

Installed a new Black Dragon front bumper on my 73......much better look!

I'm thinking he's out of California? And that's part of the LLC name. Just a guess though.

Sorry to possibly confuse the issue, but I have E31 heads here that have both the short and long bananas. I don't mean a mix, all long or all short. The long banana E31 is from HLS30-164xx but the short banana E31 I cannot pinpoint as to build date or original VIN. I wish this marker could be more conclusive. Perhaps it does apply to early heads, but not later ones. Just a guess. Any others with this experience?