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Thanks Chas, i'm doing my best to keep it in good condition. In the fall it will go to the paint shop, to have some spots re-done, and the rear hatch deck ( common issue ). How are you doing lately? Gr Bart

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It can be saved, but you will have to cut up half the car, a good body guy with patience can do it. The rear wheel arches have been modified wrongly before, look closely, the lines are all wrong. You will find horror on that body ones you strip it down, if you ever want to. It's a low vin worth saving, it's not like you start finding these everyday

That's better then it ever came off the factory 😀

I would be interested to for an early 71 sign me up ( my car has lots of 70 features, so who says the 71 could have 3 different plugs wires in 1 year... mine could have had the late 70 left over from factory stock, they put on early 71's, that was the practice back in the day...

Yes. I think at that point you think whatever...

He finally seems to have started on the 5 speed 😄. Let's be patient.. I pulled the 240Z out of winter storage VERY late this, year, just weeks ago. Winter stayed very long... It's still 18c during the day, for the time of the year it's cold.. I replaced a fuel line and filter in the engine bay, and in the summer I will do the valve adjustments again. Some basic stuff. Clean up the engine bay. Last week I had a kind of sad request... some guy my parents know, was dying of cancer, and one of his last wish was to see and drive in a 240Z, so who am I to refuse that ? Was glad I could make his day.. 🙂 Some pictures of that...

Naah, i used their parts to for my rebuild no problems. It's more the machine shop... I got a good one, he measured the bores first, and every piston seperate, also with my v8 , he found in both seths pistons that where off, and I had to send them back... the set for the ford v8 where very expensive pistons, and 1 one still out of round... out of the box. A good shop is everything...

I saw that happening to a guy who visited my shop with his motorbike few years back, he was bragging about his new tires, but then I gave a look, and saw the direction was wrong lol, he was quite pissed 😉

Looks like the typical wrong jacking up of the car. The floors don't look bad at all from the pictures, why did you replace them , or was their hidden rott we can't see in the pictures?

Let some good shop do the engine !, and rebuild the head also properly, horrendous valve clatter ! A proper shop will replace these and polisch the cam, or replace the cam, this will stop the rattle with proper valve adjustement.: Datsun 240Z 260Z 280Z ZX 1970-83 L24 L26 L28 Valve Cam Rocker Arm | eBay My L24 is silent, no rattle can, it's a common myth L series rattle, but that's BS

NO, you can't see bad rings on compression readings, the oil can be building a film and still give compression.

could be burning oil yes, the bores should be bored/honed TO the new pistons, not other way around. 10 or 15w40 is better to use on these engines. white could also be coolant, but that has a distinctive smell to it

Petroleum jelly in my opinion only makes it worse, wd40 works better then

I like the old 30s Datsun cars Cats ! Very cool 😃

yeah the 5 speed. Well I searched the whole internet couldn't find anything, few synchros maybe big bucks, rest is all gone. I found a shop in Australia that has lots of spare parts for it. But then I found a second 71 A by real luck, from a z garage here in the netherlands. The guy sadly passed, I was just in time, he was clearing up his shop everything was for sale.

Later type B 5 speed ... I have the 71 A rebuilded now, complete with the driveshaft and 3.90 diff going in next year, and have a spare 71 A to, so how rare are these then ?

Maybe because it's been at Jays Garage it's now worth big bucks 😜

The door panels and the seats.... 😞 looks like the door seals are to thick to, bet it's a slammer

YES, because it was new, and all soft and flexable😄

usually shortly heating the grommet with a heatgun helps making it soft, so you can put it in

Yes, this is the old style, I have them to on the z. It works but the clearance needs to be absolut minium or else vibration... Back in the day they used to do a lot of finish balancing to get most out

I got huge problems with E10 in my work ( scooters, mopeds )... carbs get killed with it, and it eats anything rubber ( fuel petcock, hoses ) Valves clogg up etc. Here in the netherlands it's since oktober 2019, the first year had huge problems with customers, now mostly everybody knows to put normal gasoline ( super here ), which is ethanol free.. I heard Germany wants to stop with E10 and go back to normal fuel.

Hey it's part of a classic getting gassed 😂 Seriously though, I'd go with the above advice, I think it's coming from the rear, sucking it in, when you open up the windows.

Higher octane number fuel, you can advance the timing more, before it start's knocking. In modern cars there is a knock sensor, that does that automatically