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I just sold one of my 78's for 8000$ and from the looks of this graph on recent sales they are going up. Searching Auctions for Datsun 280Z | Keith Martin's Collector Car Price Tracker If you're looking at it from an investment standpoint don't invest 20k into 1 car. Buy 4 5000$ cars and keep them stock. 240z prices appear to be flat on the other hand. Searching Auctions for Datsun 240Z | Keith Martin's Collector Car Price Tracker

be very wary when you see a newer looking "nissan" parts box on ebay. i know there are ebay sellers out there that have a nissan box but put aftermarket parts in them. ive bought rubber items that don't last long and start falling apart very quickly.

You need to do step 4 now and take it to a machine shop and have the bolt extracted. You were planning on removing the timing cover anyways right? Im not sure what you're trying to do here. Why don't you just pull the head and take it to a machine shop and have it pressure tested?

what angle are you looking at it from? to get a true idea of what the color looks like it should be flat and facing you and preferably outside under the sun. fluorescent lights inside the shop change what the true color looks like. did they mix the paint using a formula or did they computer match?

I replaced my heater core hoses a few years back with the rubber non braided type. I thought that was it for another 10 years or so but i got a big surprise when i heard a hissing noise and then tons of steam inside the car. This night really sucked. It took me 2 hours to travel 30 miles. It completely drained my radiator and i only had a lunch box with a dr pepper and 2 ice packs. You can't imagine how expensive a tow is at midnight in hawaii. So i improvised. First the dr pepper went in then i poked holes in the ice packs. Its semi liquid but helped a little. 2 mph in the emergency lane and i finally reached a little shopping center and drained some stinky koi pond water. Anyways, fortunately i live in a place that is warm enough to not need a heater so i just bypassed the heater core altogether. I was reading a few threads in the past about looping to bypass the heater and how bad it was for the coolant temps in the cylinders in the back of the head. So i plugged everything off. The lesson learned here was to replace the heater core hoses with the braided type that last 30+ years.

if you're going factory nissan parts the hard parts to find new are the expansion valve and compressor. The expansion valve is no longer available at any dealer for quite a while. If you will settle for used parts then there are quite a few available on ebay or other zcar websites. The hitachi a/c compressor was used on other cars. Don't limit yourself to just the datsun part number. 80's and 90's subaru's used a very similar hitachi's. I used a mjs170 from a 300zx. I had to change the high and low pressure fittings on the compressor but new hoses had to be built anyways. Condenser I used was aftermarket parallel designed for R134 An idea i was toying with was putting the zx evap into a s30. Its bigger and would have better cooling and the expansion valves are still available new. Lastly, if you don't like tinkering with cars then i recommend the a/c kits from vintage air or msa.

this lip here is another common are for water leaks

this is an old thread but there may be others out there still looking for these.1978 Datsun 280z Black Pearl Sap Decal Stripe Kit | eBay user banderson1971 on ebay is selling them for $299

reproduction radio faceplates could be made easily with 3d printers

wow for 1300 bucks someone could probably gut the original radio and update it with state of the art bluetooth and satellite radio

dupe post......

if it were me i'de give them a call back and cancel that order to repair after finding out i already had a good radio. i had one of those seeking radios from i think it was #43 car that was totalled. there seems to be a pretty good supply of those on ebay. i've bought several and there is one on there now.

those spot welders make a much cleaner weld than mig.

if that passenger side window has been down all the time its been outside, i'de say swiss cheese floors too

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Someone got a great deal 334 bucks for a set of wheels and tires

its how the body/frame shop i worked at back in the early 80's did it except the tools they used were more refined.

take a piece of 2x4 wood and pound a nail in it. jack up your tire place the nail tight up against the tire and spin the tire to score a line in the tire with the nail. set the car down so its level and roll it back and forth a bit then measure front and back. i have cut down tie rods in the past. it was on a rhd rack that was brand new never used datsun. to this day i don't know which datsun it went to but the inner tie rods and outer were very close. grinding 1/4" off the tie rod end made them identical to my 280 tie rods.

here is a side by side comparison. i'de bet the cooling is way better with the zx but fitting it is another matter. plumbing should be able to use zx copper lines. i purchased this one off ebay for 25 bucks. they can be had for cheap.

L3N71 VS 3N71 one is more dished for the larger torque converter.

any year up to 1981 will work. 3N71 jatco's all used the same flex plate. in 82 they went to a locking torque converter L3N71 which has a different flex plate