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WOW !!!!!! That rail looks terrible/horrible !! I literally screamed when i saw that!! How can this come that bad without the floor getting bend? wow! Btw, you did a nice job on getting those dents out of the floor! Can't wait for the pics of you putting in a new set of rails!

Yes.. about the over engineering... haha.. i think that the '90's Nissans were the best nissan ever made! These days i think they only make crap hahaha... (In comparison..) just like the rest! It does not matter what you buy, everything looks like it's made to brake down.. not only cars.. What?? you say? your phone is 8 years old??? that's a antique!! come let's buy a new one!! (Btw.. my phone IS 8 years old and on it's 2nd battery...pfff.. Still working fine, as long i avade all updates!! .) (Pfff.. means sigh)

Before i opened this ad.. i betted with myself it was the one with the puppets and the wife from the dollhouse, yes!! It's rarely seen.. I like to ad.. In the 90's when this car was a few years old i sat in a '90 car in 1994 and it was half price... at 80000 guilders it was made from unubtanium.. as you guys say. It was the most expensive japanese car you could buy overhere. (The Netherlands.) Then in 1997 i bought one! it was a non turbo From the USA.. it had about 100kmiles on it but drove perfect.. after 6 years i sold it and in 2007 bought the real thing.. a 300zxtt from 1992! It was the one with everything on it.. first driven by a ceo of nissan and later it was a directors car of a nissan dealer.. then 10 years in a collection and then it became mine.. Now after 15 years of ownership and 27000 km's i can say this: I will never have a more perfect car then this.. what you say? the costs?? I can tell you that besides the fuel and insurance.. IT DID NOT COST ME MORE THEN €2500 THESE LAST 15 !!! YEARS!! ================================================= (This includes new battery's, set of tires, brakepads and oil chances and MOT's! and a new type2 ptu (something every 300zxtt got for free in the early days from nissan.. i bought one for €25,- 😉 The even better thing is... when i want to sell it now.. i probably get a few times the amount i paid for it as i see the price skyrocketing.. (Finally lucky for once haha..pfff...) The shiny object... (still after 30 years working clim.control and NO extra fillings needed! unbelievable.. secret? i let it run EVERY month for at least 20-25 minuts.. thats very important! It's very good for the valvetrain AND the aircon stays FIT!!)

It took 10 years before i could sit in a 370z..!! Never seen one overhere!! (350z was also scarce) I guess it's gonna take a lot of years before i see a Z of 2022- ... as they are not exporting them to europe GRRRR....

My local painter could/can still order that kind of paint, it's from SPIES HECKER permacron. (I had NISSAN TK3 blue pearl metallic paint.)

Over 20 years ago a friend used some waterbased paint on a oldtimer.. then he did not want to drive it because the paint chipped easy due to little stones i guess.. the paint was very soft.. i don't know what the waterbased paint is these days but the colormatching should be no problem. I think the oilbased (what i used on my 280zx) is still the best way to go on the oldtimers. New cars are all waterbased paint i think? (Maybe that's why they are all like oranges!!) Paintwork these "robopainterdays" i find completely S .#%&^$#%^$$. H .^&%#$%^$$. I .&%##%^% T !!!

I'm not much away from home i guess.. and when i am i take those codes i need with me on that specific trip... don't need 200 of them! I also have a system in website passwords that i'm not gonna tell here haha.. Exactly! 😉

Yeah that's a problem, better take off the whole card.. when you brake a tab there it's easy to replace! and you can then get to those tabs more easely also! It can be a lose wire or a defect switch or a motor connection,, but i don't think it's the motor as it went down well.. the glass..

I thought that the horns are original a very dark green? (Or is that only on a 280zx euro..?) I painted them black.. ( I also took them apart completely because they didn't work very well and it has to be very clean inside before you use the one center screw to "tune" them..)

Ps... my secret number is NOT 22 😉 it's much much bigger... 😁

80 Plus? I counted over 350! then i stopped but there were more.. AS a EX.. securitysystem -guy... i always said and still say: NEVER ever put all your secret numbers in a computer!!! It's asking for trouble !! A piece of paper what you hide on a secret spot is much safer because no scammer can read that on a computer! You can think it's save on a computer... IT's NOT !! ANYthing on a computer is in there with zero's and ones! and everything is .. in the end... readable, how good your safety is does not matter, if i can read the harddisk i can access ALL your Data.. SO.. 1 NO secrets on a computer, its not safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 a piece of paper, and when your number is 3491 make a number in front and or after it say: 22349122 You only know that the 22 is fake! Make it a habbit!! Put 2 letters or diggits in front and rear.. think of your own number you want to use... then.. even is someone finds your piece of paper can't work with it! Good luck ! 🙂

Eh..? No? Not on 280zx's.. but i think you refering to the 260z that were still build for europe from 1974 till the 280zx came in 1979! Then Yes! There were still carbs then on the 260z's (So the 260z's were here for sale from 1974 till 1978 between 240z and 280zx.. the 280z was never delivered official in europe.. all 280z are grey import.) What the head number was on 260z i don't know for sure but the E88 comes to mind, no idea if there were N42's on 260z's? On the 1979 280zx there was a N42 head. You can read about it in my restoration of a 1979 2+2 slickroof datsun 280zx thread i think..

In Europe we had the N42 Head in the 1979 280zx.. original..

As those gearboxes only came in early european and i guess asian models, there are just few.. Maybe @kats can help? I've had a 1972 240z orig. Dutch import and that one already had the Fs5c71b not the a.. I never opened a Z-car gearbox.. I'm not going in there haha.. why do you think i stocked up on gearboxes? 😉

Maybe these Vogtland ? I guess they are in many colors available, look for the name in the middle of the spring..

I think, as i sold some copy cats of those fenders.. (The "famous" Black Dragon ones..) the originals from NISSAN are north of 1000 dollars easy.. A PIECE... Last year i sold some and had the same problem.. There are no copy's OR originals for sale for some time now..

Looks like a ballbearing (in this pic) left from the 271070 number... is it for lubrication? or what is that? i see it for the first time.. does anyone know ?

The round washers are used in the fuel lines in and the air out.. but.. I know that there are 2 DIFFERENT needle valves used in our HITACHI'S !! (not SU!!) maybe someone can elaborate about these.. one is longer than the other and has to go in the front carb? or in rear? and where can i get those? (I have a small problem with my 240z haha, i hit the carbs with a little hammer before i start it when it's not used for over a week or so.. i first gonna put in a new fuelpump.. (no..still no energy to do that..) I think it's also a fuelpressure problem that the carbs stay dry.. after that i will renew these valves when a new pump should not do the trick!) Btw.. i see 8 washers or is the last one rubber? Those paper gaskets can be made out of paper you buy at the autopartsshop..

I think he is reffering to the rail just in upper third of the pic.. thats a strip that holds the brakelines.. Man.. you must like that car.. i would bring it to the wreckingyard, after stripping it.. There is a massive amount of welding needed.. pff.. 🙈 Do not forget to brace the chassis/car when you take big parts out of it, otherwise you end up with a car where no door or other part will really fit!!

The hinge on the pic seems to be a type2? the first type hinge 240z had a smaller spring and other latch mechanism i think??

Good idea. as he @Dolfinz not jet did that.. after you click on your name you have to click: ACCOUNT SETTINGS and THEN you see that list and click: signature! Put in type and year of your car and your good to go!

I would bring them to a reman. shop.. there should be one in your neighbourhood?

One can? I used about 8 or so! but i have done ALL parts and cavity's sometimes more than once.. that damn car is NOTGONNARUST !!!! Hahaha 😂 I even had to alter the weight in the paperwork... NO just kidding! 🤣

He says it's a 280z engine but he is mistaken? that would be a N42 engineblock or so? the F54 was the later 280ZX after 1980 engineblock?

Btw, i just took a look and it's called: "Teroson ML" that was used very effectively on my 280zx.. the floor/chassis was almost completely in perfect order.