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And then it makes it hard to find dee door.

Cruel and unusual punishment is over for the next few days. Mother Nature is an illegal border crosser from Canada, she's overburdening our air "Build the wall".

Okay a comma would've been best, ..."good and tight, (coma) all of the connections while your bent over." Picky, picky, picky. If your last name isn't Strunk or White back off. I'm from Alabama. I get some leeway. Furthermore sniffing my house plants makes me sneeze. You must smoke them skunks like turkey meat.

I know there is a mechanical fuel pump on but i think you are talking about an electric pump? link is a big help. thanks. I have the old rod. will take new one out and match in up maybe tomorrow.

The high fuel reading may be from the rod on the new sending unit not matching the bend of the previous, most likely the OE. I know you can touch those wires together and it will show FULL on the gauge. You may have them on the wrong terminals. The thread I linked above describes which one to what post. Hope it helps.

Those are for a fuel pump.

Well, that's kind of a bummer. The seller paid about $8,000 for 10,000 miles and a few years of fun. Not terrible, but not an investment either. In an ideal world, fun and profit would combine.

Just a nomenclature thing here - "resin" would be considered plastic. It is most likely a petroleum derived material, similar to what surfboards and boats are made from. Ultimately, the goal was to produce a product better than either wood or "plastic" alone. Wood feel, but with the dimensional stability and moisture resistance of synthetic polymers. It is wood AND plastic and better than either alone.

But Goertz still designed our car - yes?

432-R got an oil cooler as standard equipment (it was a Sports Option extra for the 'ordinary' 432) but that sat on the core support in front of the radiator, offset to the left of the car, with two 'feet' that bolted to pre-drilled holes in the core support. There were two tab fixings at the top which were screwed into pre-drilled holes underneath the top lip of the core support. There was also a factory oil cooler option for the L-series engined cars, but that was longitudinally mounted in the centre of the core support and sat on two inverted L-shaped brackets which bolted through (again) pre-drilled holes in the core support crossmember. However, the brackets you are asking about are not oil-cooler related, or fog lamp related either. They are definitely the mounts for a nascent aircon condenser radiator which doubled as re-locators for the horn units.

On my usual Yahoo auctions search, I came across this; A unused S30 wooden steering wheel, showing the original yellow brown colour as it would be from new. It seems the Japanese company had this as a sample, as it looks like (from what I can gather from clicking on the internal link) is the company restores these types of steering wheels, the S30, P510. @kats anything you heard about this from fellow Japanese S30 owners? https://www.jauce.com/auction/e1041624080

Huh? Your in a coma? 😮

I was told that the diff cooler setup on '8D-433' (the '71 Safari winner) was removed when the car went back to Japan and began to be used as a display exhibit to celebrate the Safari win at shows and regional dealerships. Probably part of an effort to make the car a little more practical (and less smelly...) and for sure some effort was made to tidy the car up a little at that time. Back in Japan the car became visibly more complete than when it finished the Safari. Then, a few years ago, Nissan's team of volunteer restorers at Atsugi 'refreshed' the car once again as part of a program intended to make the car 'safer' and more presentable for public display (liability insurance concerns part of the deal) and - in my opinion anyway - they got a bit too close to throwing the baby out with the bath water. For example, they re-upholstered the seats (in the wrong shade of fabric, grrrrr...) and touched up paintwork that didn't need touching up. They even replaced the rear license plate with a new one (grrrrr...). They had done the same with the '72 Monte Carlo 3rd place finisher some years earlier, with similar baby-down-the-plug-hole results. Its hard to photograph the diff cooler in situ unless you can get the car on a ramp or lift, but - I think - in the '71 Safari winner's case it is no longer there to be photographed.

I can't recall having seen a Works 240Z rally car *without* the Japanese market style extended seat mount brackets. As far as I am aware they all had them. Certainly all the cars that still exist have them. They would not normally be seen on any Export market cars. This seems to be another built-for-purpose quirk of the Works rally cars.

Something else caught my eye in @kats photos, namely this dangling 6-point plug (pictured), presumably taped to the steering column of the '73 car. I'd imagine it's designed to plug into the ignition switch in place of the standard harness, and potentially make the car drivable in "hobble" mode, or at the very least, to bypass some of the wiring in order to debug something engine-related. I also had one of these in my car, taped in the same location, with a bare-bones collection of stand-alone wires leading to the fuel pumps, and I believe the starter and alternator (and perhaps more - I'll have to reconstruct my notes). I was fairly certain at the time I removed it that this was something wired up by a prior owner, and not original Works, based on what appeared to me as haphazard wiring. Seeing this dangling plug in the same spot on the 73 car makes me question my original assessment. I've often heard "dual wiring harness" being used in descriptions of Works cars, but I always assumed that people were referring to the 2 fuse boxes, and not the presence of a "redundant wiring harness". More study will be required- any further thoughts?

@kats Thanks for the scans. The steel plate on 8D-433 shades our view of the differential area. Without a clearer photo, it would be hard to tell what is in the cavity between the tank and the differential, where the diff cooler is situated on my car. As to the extended seat brackets: that detail is also present on my car (pictured). I don't know if these extensions were also present on LHD Euro delivery s30s, so I can't speak to how uncommon it is. The rubber mats were carefully altered to accommodate them.

In keeping with the vintage look of the engine bay, Rod converted the 3-row stock radiator to a 4-row. It should be as a efficient as the modern aluminum ones. The tip of my finger was used for reference of depth. Noticed the stock radiator in the blue car in comparison to the #187. The radiator element goes all the way to the edge. Some of the fins were bent putting the radiator in. That's almost unavoidable. I'll straighten them out when I get the car back. It'll give me something to do on my days off. We decided on the plastic fan in lieu of the metal one. That will be restored and stored away.

Apologized for the sequencing. I should have posted these before the others. Rod lined it with the vapor barrier, rubber barrier for acoustic shielding, and threw the old jute back on.

Suspension components were powder coated.

Panels were painted separately and jams were painted before the panels were put back on.

Happy Holidays to all! It's been awhile since I last posted. Here are some updates. Final alignment before the panels were taken off for paint.

I have found a frame from a local (N. California) Datsun parts guy. Thanks to all who have responded! --Jayhawk

Like Zed Head says…I would definitely recommend new or remanufactured rockers to break in a new cam. Delta Cams does a great job remanufacturing old rockers. You want a smooth surface to break in that cam. You probably can reuse the lash pads, but I would check the wipe pattern always……just to be sure.

This was my truck saturday morning heading to duck hunt.....in SC!! Just not right, it isnt supposed to get this cold for this long around here. Tons of broken pipes all over the upstate. Luckily very few issues for us. I feel for the families that left for the holiday and came home to a flooded house.

Hi, I looked at magazines in my room and I couldn’t find any clear pictures of the diff oil cooler installed on other Works cars. There is a picture of 1973 Safari Winner car’s fuel filters and pumps, and hand written diagram! By the way, I didn’t know the 1973 Safari Winner has extended seat brackets like a Fairlady Z series even that car is LHD. Is it unusual isn’t it? Note the steel protector underneath of the diff, the picture is 1971 Safari Winner. It has straight floors, unbelievable for the car won the toughest rally at that time. Kats

Not willing to re plant the seeds of rust on the Z, So I dug out the Honda Trail.

You are both correct but you are splitting hairs within an incomplete definition, IMO. There are many ways to process wood, similar to our thoughts of processed cotton or wool. In the manner of manufacturing a wood steering wheel, Izumi used a processing know in the industry as "oriented strand". Oriented strand lumber products have been around since the 1940s. Similar to high pressure lamination techniques, the oriented strand process allows tighter tolerances and strength to a reinforced product like the steering wheel. And, the end product is seamless. Great welding photos of the metal rim and spokes!