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77 280z Combo headlight repair with new spring cap aka nibs. Shawn @The Unobtainium , I received the spring caps today. Installed them this evening, everything fit nicely and worked great! Now I have lights with the switch working perfectly. Thank you to Shawn and the folks at The Unobtainium for creating these. https://www.theunobtainium.net

Thank you so much for the kind words. We are happy to help anyway we can. Our crew are all car guys so they are very passionate and particular. We have been talking about doing some events for our customers. I will see what we come up with.

I just shipped a door glass for a 1983 280zx from the US to Switzerland. 22 pounds, mostly packing material. Box was 46x24x6. Shipping cost thru USPS was 188.00 International Priority 10 day. I was quoted 2500.00 by a UPS approved shipping store in my home town. I go on Shippo and Ship Pirate and Paypal shipping and came up with a shipping cost as low as 280.00 thru UPS. Someone is jacking up prices. I went with USPS International Priority. Hopping it gets to Switzerland without being broken. I filled out the forms online at Click-and-Ship US Postal. Super EZ. We will see....................

Due to some stars aligning, I was able to collect loads of documents for my Datsun project from various sources. Some of those documents are quite rare and some which I've been trying to find for several years now. With this delivery I've been able to close a few big gaps in my archive, and this will definitely help me to write more complete knowledge posts in the future. Let's quickly go through what I got in the recent weeks: First, I was able to obtain a 1973 Press release folder from the Geneva Auto show, where also the 240Z was shown. So far, I only had the French version, but now, finally a German version, which came with this really cool cover page: I also got some missing Swiss price lists for my collection (free download of all of them here) and the "World of Datsun" brochure. I have quite a collection of this "World of Datsun" styled advertising material, but i've never seen this one before. So it's cool to have it :-) I got a few Datsun USA Service gauges / guides, which i think are quite cool: It also came with this "Datsun Saves" Gas per mileage saver calculator-gauge. Which goes nicely with the original can and Ad: I Also got an original Mikuni USA PHH Service manual And a Box for spare needles and Jets (empty): Found another full set of sports option catalogues. I didn't really plan on buying them, but I was the only bidder, so I got them for a good price. The seller also had some other ones for sale, which had an even better price. So I couldn't resist: Speaking of Sports options: I also got a bunch of Datsun / Nissan Motorsports / Competition parts catalogues from the USA: And a few very early ones. The one at the bottom is from 1974 and came including a price list: In regard to catalogues: I also got a bunch of Japanese market parts catalogues. Left the folder version and on the right the book version. I've never seen one with the "Nissan" marked protective plastic sleeve still on it. Very cool. I also came across an export market RHD (R-drive) Parts manual book for the 240Z / 260Z. So far, I only had the folder versions. Speaking of folders. I was very lucky to find these Datsun / Nissan Service journal binders Vol.3, Vol 3. and the empty one on the right side: Those folders on the left include loose early service bulletins of various cars and general information, but also the green Service bulletin booklets. This makes my collection of 240Z Related bulletins almost complete. There are still a few missing, unfortunately: I got also a later book version with the Technical bulletins in a book, and the Japanese Z-7, which is basically the same as the green ones, just for the Japanese market. Now I think only the Z-5 is missing in my collection (And some later ones, which I don't really care about): Also got these. The left is from a different car, but the right is a similar Service bullet in new design. I know this one was also available as a green booklet. Also got some S30 related service manuals, that were still missing in my collection: On the left you see the BW35 Borg Warner Service manual for different cars. And on the right side a Datsun USA Engine analysis book: Then got a bit of random items. From top left to bottom right: - A ZX Documents pouch (Came with some other stuff) - Datsun USA Parts Name numerical number index - 1972 Warranty and Service booklet - Tokyo Motor Show 1969 original admission ticket (Where the S30 was shown to the public the first time) - A service Technician record booklet - Hayashi racing brochure The Datsun Service technician was kind of cool: It was issued in September 1972 to this technician and has several certificates and stamps of completed trainings inside: And last but not least some random magazines. Like the Car Graphic one on the left. It was issued when the RZ34 prototype was shown and has a nice story about former racing driver and Central 20 owner inside. I still have some small items which haven't arrived here, and will do a proper archive overview once everything is here, since some followers requested this. And I also have some update on the actual car project.

Thanks a lot, Alan. I Appreciate ❤️

Similar design, but my version has a metallic silver cover. Here's the page in question. Doesn't scan so nicely because I don't want to break the spine, sorry:

Hi Nils, Nice stuff! I have an issue of the NISMO 1997 Japan catalogue that lists the 'RRE72' Kayaba blue NISMO cartridge inserts and their corresponding springs: *54000-E7211 SPRING COIL KIT FR & RR. The listings states that they are for use with standard strut platforms (ie, non-adjustable ride height), they lower the car by 60mm and the spring rates are FR: 4.0kg f/mm and RR: 4.8kg f/mm. There's a note that says the 54000-E7211 spring set is essentially the same as the older Sports Option 54010-E7211 (FR) and 55020-E7211 (RR) springs. So they just have new part numbers. Actually it might be easier for me to scan the relevant page and put it up here, because there is additional data for the springs and dampers which might be of useful reference for you. Stand by...

Update for you: After driving the car quite a bit, it now starts smoothly which is great but was running quite lean. I pulled the plugs and they were very white - you can see that plug #3 looks very burned which makes sense since that was the cylinder that had the injector that wasn't fully working at start-ups. I put a fuel pressure gauge on it today and here are the numbers: Idle: 32 psi w/15 on air fuel gauge (very lean) - Cruise: 36 psi w/15 on air fuel gauge (lean) - WOT: 40 psi w/13.2 on air fuel gauge (slightly lean for WOT but acceptable) I then noticed the TPS's idle enrichment arm contact was dirty, so I grabbed some sand paper and gave it a good cleaning - the sandpaper came out black to my surprise. After that, I opened the AFM that we went through in the "tuning with an air fuel gauge" thread and moved the gear back and forth. I noticed for the first time that when turning the gear there is a very quiet click with each tooth when turned - I believe the position I had it in was in between one of these clicks. I richened it one click and the air fuel numbers are perfect now: idle - 13.8, cruise 14.5, WOT 12.8 and the car drives awesome. Just for completions sake, I pulled out the fuel injection bible and went through all of the multimeter checks it provides, and everything came out normal. I'll post another update in the coming weeks as it continues to wake itself out of hibernation. I will be checking the plug gap on all of these in the coming days too.

I also run at 34 degrees btdc at 2500rpms

Or maybe.....