dutchzcarguy

Yes, they are Hitachi's, a lot of people mistake them as they look alike. I've got a nice story about those! Our King had his own garage with at the head a master technician.. That technician Jan de J. came one day at 93! to me to buy a ReVox Tapemachine and saw the 240z standing on the driveway.. As he said that's a nice car i asked if he wanted to see the engine, offcourse he reacted and i showed him what's under the hood.. He pointed at the carbs and he said AH.. 2 BIG SU's that's nice and i had to correct him.. No i said these are improved SU's! They are Hitachi HJG46W! Also called roundheads.. you better avoid the flatheads hitachi (HMB46W) carbs as they are very difficult to tune.. There are some differences between the SU's en these Hitachi's.. what they are, i don't know as i never had some SU's in my hands! ;-) I'm sure these differences are in the details..

Are they SU? They are Hitachi's! so.. name them as such..Thank you.. Hitachi made these under license of SU.. but they are different then su carbs so they are not su they are japanese hitachi carbs. I'm sorry is i sound angry but i'm tired of correcting.. all the time..🙊

I'm the only madman in the Netherlands that drives a datsun 240z on wintertires in the Netherlands hahaha!! Get LOTS of thumps up 👍 with these cars especially in the winter! (I did/do this just because putting in a new floor in a 240z is much easyer than in a 300zxtt! 😁) My 240z is ready to take another restore now after 25 years of (Mis)use.. haha.. The dealer wants to buy that one also haha.. we'll it's for sale as i'm to ill to take up another restore. I'm left with the almost ready 280zx restore..pfff.. (May buy me another cabriolet or something in the future.. who knows..)

Hi Mike, Yes i think that's why my car is one of the very few that's worth the money as it was for 5 years at the Nissan dealer. A CEO has had it the first 6 mnds and then the director of a big nissandealer in Breda the Netherlands. then it was sold with some new tires to a collector who cept it under a cover for 10 years The dealer drove it for 51000 km and the collector for 10000km so i bought it in 2007 (Time flies!!) with only 61000km on the clock! Now after 18 years it's around 89500km. I got all the paperwork also from the suspensions of the roadtax in ALL the winters after it came out of the nissan showroom !!! (Driving without roadtax in the Netherlands will get you a giant FINE (about 3 times a years cost of roadtax so about 3000-3500 euro!) so i never did that.) I think it's a gem that can become ALOT more worth ... Remember this car has never seen winter as on www.rdw.nl and with the licenseplate number you can see a damn long list of all the years it was suspended. It did drive EVERY summer for a 4-8 monds period. And i let it run every 4-6 weeks in wintertime to save the airco system.. The airco worked till the car was 31 years old! Kudos to Nissan for the excellent cars they made in the '90's! I got the stuff (and equipment) to fill the airco as it is not leaky but i haven't done it yet as now i only need to start the car every 2 monds or so.. This car still has it's original 1992 exhaust and always been under it. (I drilled 2 water outlets in the rear dampers that keeps them dry and helps A LOT! IF ANYONE WANTS THIS CAR.. NOW IS THE TIME AS NEXT WEEK THE DEALER IS COMING TO SEE IT.. (He's a busy guy and postponed it) The car does not have to go but anyone that wants to investigate can mail me at martzedcars@outlook.com (or send me a PM!) FUNNY: The car only ones left me aside of the road.. i looked up on google and it said: IF your nissan 300zx stops working it can be the powertransister for what NISSAN had a special new part that costs nothing.. I was ofcourse to late to get it free, but i found very easely a new type of powertransistor unit that's now in the car. A good friend of mine repaired the old one (i tested it and it's good!) and it's now under the seat as a backup! Haha.. Thanks!

I've got (as some of you know) one in silver, next week the nissan dealer comes from the other side of our country (thats a small 250km haha) to look at it and buy it back haha.. we'll see! Mine is a 2+2 in silver from 1992 with leather and alcantera. only has a registrated(!) 89500km on it.. full history. (Totally original, NO power upgrade or other modifications! radio is put back in 10 min. as it has the original connectors on the new radio. (I took them from another radio so the wiring is orig!)) now for sale in the Netherlands.. (not even cleaned for this picture!) Prices are (also) high overhere.. this one? 40 grand.. yes that's euro's..

I know KONI makes brand new shocks for the 280zx, I don't know if they also make them for the S30 series? But they do for the S130. Does anyone know? (I got a nos set they are numbers 1801 and 1802 i believe)

Yes, and you do this after you torqued that particular bolt.. not all at once on a sunny afternoon when you feel like painting them all at once haha.. But.. if you make a stripe, you can ALSO see what moved! 😉

What use has this "paintjob" ?? If the bolt has moved a 1/4 round.. no one could see that.. this totally misses the point of doing some paint on a bolt or nut.

Sorry if i sound a bit of a critic (a$$hole.. ) but i think you missed the resoning of the yellow paint on the bolts.. It needs to be just a little stripe of paint that indicates if a screw has come loose after some time.. not thowing a lot of paint on some screws..🙈 Just a stripe or a little blob.. It's function is that your sure you installed the bolt to specifications AND that you can see on a later inspection if anything has moved! I hope you can take my criticism.. lately more and more people 🙊 can't.. (I'm just here to learn some english and teach others some things in exchange. 😁)

I don't think you can just copy them out of stainless.. as there is some spring (Hardened?) steel In those anti-squeal shims.. (That's why they can rust a little bit) The anti-squael would not work..

Yes, it's bakelite.. sand some out of that hole in the ashtray, collect the material you sanded off and mix it with some polyester, use this to make the hole in the ashtray. Maybe you have something else made of black bakelite and use that to make the polyester black? Perhaps there is a kneadable substance that you can get black, or make with the bakelite. (I know of BISON has a kneadable 2 component material that gets very hard and is dark grey.

Did you also take the corners off of the pads in a 45 degree way? that stops most squealing..

Hahaha, perfect man you are.. in your own topic on page 37 I SAID: THIS : But your topic is now so damn big you don't know yourself what everybody said! I don't know .. but it sure makes ME Twitchy!! 😁 (Yeah i know it's only me that does not like pertronix under the hood! The only place for it is in the BIN!) Patcon and Mark Maras 2 But stop with this STUPID Behavior! It's very ANNOYING and it helps NO one!

Pertronix.. my Favorite Brand... to throw in the bin! (New and old..) But ... just my opinion so carry on..

Are you sure you sent that to the right person? 🤣 (just kidding!) About 8 years ago or so i forgot my username and typed martzedcars (as that is a name i use here in my country for mail) but it should have been the dutchzcarguy and now in one of my topic's about my 280zx is that name still visable.. what i mean to tell is.. it was years ago also possible to use another name. (Also i remember i read something about changing the username only once, so you have max 2 names.. that went out of the window when i saw "someone" here used a 3th name.. anyway.. things change over time i guess.. Or.. i think it has to do with the fact that he has moved to another country and has now another computer-adress. (IP-adress) and that makes it easy to change name(s).. )