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Thank you Patcon, and Carl. Kurosawa san was born in 1940, He still drives his cars including a Honda NSX! I wish everyone’s happiness and good health for the new year. Kats

The dual webers can be a challenge to get tuned right. I would go to twin SU's. I suspect your carbs are very rich which I found to be the case when I had a car running dual weber downdrafts

Take a guess... 5 letter word that starts with C and ends with A.

I have been doing loads of small things over the Christmas holidays, and also got many deliveries of recently acquired stuff. Let's take a closer look at what happened in the past few days. First, I got various deliveries of Books from Japan fore some nice holiday-season reads: But then I thought i should better do some actual work on the car. So I installed the passenger seat: It's actually the first time I can sit inside the car since 12 years or so. The reason I installed this car, was to figure out which route to go with the seats (OEM or aftermarket) and find a suitable solution for installing my Autolook seats into the car. So I have ordered some parts and hope to do some final trials in a few weeks, when the parts arrive. Speaking of Autolook, I got various small deliveries of random cool stuff which I bought recently... One of them being an Autolook sticker set, including two of the original Aluminum plate reproduction stickers that go on the back of the seats. Then I also got this 1982 Nissan Motor Co / Datsun Suisse SA Image brochure, which is quite cool. It has loads of interesting pictures and information about how they operated back then and I have used many photos from this brochure for my History post about Datsun Switzerland. So far I only had this brochure as a Scan from a friend, but after a few years of searching, I finally found an original Printed one. Some random Datsun (Switzerland) and Safary Rally Stickers: And various Datsun Spare-parts stickers. The left one is a Swiss one (German and French) while the other ones are international ones. I like the evolution of the "Spare parts dog". If you look closely you can see how the names slowly transitioned from Datsun to Nissan from left to right. (Cap and pants of the dog, and the Logo on the Sticker) Speaking of cool Parts. My man Stefan found a NOS hood release cable mechanism. And gave it to me. Very nice find: And then some work again: decided to install all the heater / Blower components. The reason was that I wanted to install the original Rally clock oscillator box: On JDM RHD cars there are two factory installation points in the passenger side of the fire-wall. Thanks to Alan for giving me the reference photos: I wanted to install / mirror it in the same position on my LHD car, but wanted to ensure that it actually fits there, when everything is installed. Which it does: So, I got my holes drilled. (Ignore the shady primer-work...) And got the box fitted. Nuts will go on the other side (not where marked). It will look straight when the insulation is in place. This is the position in the rear, just behind the battery tray. I will ensure that the body shop will weld proper nuts in place. Also, ignore that third hole (I believe some previous owner drilled that hole to install some aftermarket Audio gear). And then, I got some parts again: A set of Fuel tank straps by Revive Jalopy, including the J-hooks. I prefer the ones from S30.world, as they come with the complete installation hardware and rubber insulators, but they're out of stock, currently, but should be in stock back again, soon. And just to end the old year, I found another one of these missing tools for my Datsun tool boards. That's it for 2025. I have recently bought some rare and cool stuff in Japan, and I'm planning my next steps of the build, and hope to be able to have good progress in the coming weeks.

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year! Welcome 2026

Happy new year!

Marty in 1999.... Time for another visit Marty! Carl B.

There is a recent thread cataloging the thread sizes in the manifold, I believe...

Slightly over full oil level doesn’t cause oil leaks. Sounds to me from what you’re describing is a rear main seal at the crankshaft. Common issues on older cars. Requires dropping the transmission, clutch and flywheel to change that seal. I’d be more inclined to investigate where the coolant is coming from. Hopefully it’s a heater hose or connection in that area. A lot of research ahead. Clean everything off and watch for leaks as the motor is idling, .

Hi Kats - Your Friend looks far to young to have driven in 1969! Great to see you Enjoying The Ride. Happy New Year! Carl

That's very cool!

Yesterday, the postman delivered a big package from Japan again. This time with a load of cool documents. The first one (Bottom right) is the Race and Rally preparation manual. I bought this one for a friend, since I already own one. But it's always cool to see those. The second one is a combined S30S(A) / GS30S(A) brochure for the standard Fairlady Z / Z-L and the 2by2 versions. See also Color samples at the bottom right: For whatever reason, one of the Japanese lots included a US-Market 240Z Brochure. Not something I would usually buy, but since I didn't have it in printed form yet it's cool to have it anyway. From the Japanese market again, I got this Fairaldy Z / 240 Operation manual, which also includes the Z432 versions. These are particularly useful to find some details of the interior for my knowledge posts. This is the later version that also covers the ZG and other HS30 variants (the early versions only covered the Z / Z-L and Z432): Then I got two of the Japanese marked fold-out Fairlady Z sales brochures. It's basically a brochure on one side and a ZG Poster on the other side. I was buying one, when a second one was included in a Lot of documents. Once I got them, i realized that i already had one, So now i end up with three. But, I intend to frame one as a Poster and I realized that there are different versions. Both the Material (paper-weight) and print is different: For me no doubt the coolest item is this Nissan Racing school brochure: With the Checkman Sponsored GTS-II Works car on the back. Especially this version of the car with the "Batmobile" rear aero. I just love everything about it. The sponsoring, the aero, the livery. Another Magazine was the "Nissan Graph" Customer magazine from April 1985. Which also included some racing school details. I'm working on a knowledge post about this, that's why I started to collect some information about it. One general 1971 Japanese Nissan brochures also included the ZG: And the general lineup on the inside. I guess this magazine was issued at a Car show in 1971 or at the dealerships? It also included some cool drawings of the 216X Concept car: Another similar brochure (without date) from Nissan Tokyo, which again shows the ZG and some other nice cars: On the inside you find the lineup from that time, but with a regular Fairlady Z and Z-L shown. Another cool book is the J's Tipo Fairlady Z Archives (002). J's Tipo is a Japanese car magazine, and this book is basically a collection of all their Fairlady Z related stories from various years, compiled in one book. After I met Morita san, the Author of the Fairlady Z Story and History books, in Japan recently, I had to get "Volume 2" of the book. I've owned Vol 1 for a long time, but never the second one, since it wasn't so relevant for the S30. But now I had to get it :-) Then i also got this Jack and tool stowage reproduction Sticker from Germany. I had this Genuine Datsun Parts sticker for a long while and always wondered how I can present it. When I found this piece of Aluminum sheet, I got the idea to make a sign out of it. So I cut the aluminum. And then put the sticker on it. So I ended up with this cool sign. And found a good little Spot for it: I also found a nice place for the NISMO sign, but it looks a bit small on this big wall, next to the huge Datsun sign. I have some projects planned for the next week and hope I can get back working on the car itself, so stay tuned for some updates, soon.