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My '73 pistons aren't valve notched like your's. Maybe a European, N. America thing? I would highly recommend new nuts for the TC rods. They're one use locking and I can tell you from experience and many other's experiences I've read, reuse of the old ones and they'll eventually come off. Small price for 2 new pinch nuts and peace of mind. Looks good. 👍

You have a 1973 240z engine L24? YOu know that these engines have flattop pistons that just come above the deck of the block? there was a service newsbulletin telling that these heads of a 1973 are different so watch out.. Btw.. Your a student? (I have never seen a student with the money for a restauration of such a car) .. have you thaught this through? Don't think "ow it's easy" .. There is a firm here in the Netherlands .. it sells 240z wrecks!!! for 10-15000 euro.. and about EVERY part needs to be repaired or renewed.. There are a lot of people that look through a pair of pink glasses at their cars but don't realise that these resto's cost a LOT of money. (I hope yours is not as bad..) ≥ Datsun 240Z (bj 1971) - Oldtimers - Marktplaats.nl I always tell people if you want a good reliable car you have to invest the money for a new car.. otherwise you will have a lot of brakedowns and exasperation. (irritation to the MAX!)

Playing with Les Paul! That's almost as cool as playing with Freddy Fender!

That thought had occurred to me, but if the ignition has been there for some time but the change occurred recently, it seems less likely. I'm thinking OEM cap replacement and coil wire replacement would be a good idea. Look for tracks inside the cap indicating arcing or heat.

Attempting logic: What causes melting? Heat. What causes heat in electrical systems? Resistance. Why is there too much resistance at that particular point in the system? My guess is that electricity cannot flow as designed past that point, so the point of resistance is the cap. Possible causes...? Bad cap causing resistance. Spark plug wires causing resistance. Something inside the distributor causing resistance. Too much voltage or current coming down the wire to the cap, so the system can't pass it along. That's all I have.

Today i got a few interesting documents again. Let's start with the Z-specific stuff. An original Toolkit bag packing slip / Content slip: I will use it to make a nice replica for my original toolkit (which came with some missing tools and without the toolkit. The one above came from an original "final spec" European 240Z and is different to what i've seen for Sale in the USA. But it might be possible that the slip has changed over the years and that later spareparts came with a different slip. Picture below shows one for sale in america by zeddsaver.com: Then i got an original 1982 Datsun Switzerland catalog: Not really interesting for me, but it contains the 280ZX and some other nice cars and i will use it for my datsun suisse documentation (coming soon). I mainly got it because it came together with this nice piece: The March 1972 geneva automobil Salon "Newspaper" Called the Datsun "Red spot" It's of course all about the cars, but it also contains some nice figures and facts about datsun switzerland (more on that coming soon), Some of the cars, the racing efforts of Nissan / Datsun, The nissan switzerland / FMG Warehouse, etc.. And also advertising for some of the cool apparel you could order from them... A pretty nice piece of datsun switzerland memorabilia...