dutchzcarguy

btw..i don't see any blue or orange circle.. 😟

You can make one out of a inner tube of a car tire! I used those on more than one occasion. Ah.. it's from the aircon. thats why i had never seen it..

Nice work Ferg! I'm almost that far with my 280zx.. A leveler for taking out (and in) was a good buy i think. You can level the engine much more precise. What is that big copper? bottle with the 2 copper tubes on the right inner fender for? oil catch can?? i've never seen such thing..

It must be fotoshop.. of the 240z striping and "240z" letter and numbers.. I think the owner was just looking with fotoshop how the "sporty lines " look on his car and unintentionally used those pics in the auction.. the wrong left side.. The right RIGHT side..

resurrected classics is selling this part for 600$... (i see now that texasz sayd it too.. here's a pic of it..)

So...whats wrong....very wrong about this picture ??? can you "smell" it ?? (Pic nr 1 on the bat listing of this car.)

Right, thats why i wanted one, just for daily drive.. As the dutchies are the tallest people in the world.. (i'm 6foot 4 about...) i prefer the 2+2 because there is just a bit more room behind the wheel.. I never sat in a s30 2+2, i do fit in a 240z s30 though.. ones i sat in a s130 2 seater... i did'nt fit because of the high seats i think the re was not enough room for my big head.. 😮

Wow.. i did this last saterday on my L28 and i used a liquid sealer to seal the pan.. Also torqed the little bolts with just 10-15 Nm as they don't need much and you can indeed distort the pan easely. I did ask myself what it was now i know! Thanks!!

I assume you have it on the bench just connected to a battery? and when you connect the fuel meter it starts bouncing? then that meter is faulty.. does the fuelmeter normally work when in the car? (i assume your fuelmeter is not connected to anything when on the bench?) I would look for another set of meters and test it..

Yeah but you mean the top pic.. (in the lower one, (that is taken from the other side.. it's the lower one 😉 )

Ah.. thanks,, very 1980's i've read.. (goooogle'ed it yep!!)

Yeah, most people don't realise that a elec fan to replace a standard mechanical clutch fan needs a lot of juice!

Maybe it's a good idea to use a little bit of coppergrease as anti-seize.. (as copper is a conducting material.) (One could measure the conductance between a plug with and one without some coppergrease and report back here what the difference is! I'm curious what it would be.. measure the resistance with an ohm meter between the foot of the plug (where normally your plugwrench go's) and the enginehead after you have found out what the resiistance from the leads itself is and substract those. Preferably use a micro ohm meter if possible..)

mmmm...eh... we Euro's have NOT A CLUE where this is about? Fill me in captn.. it's a cartoon character???

I'm not sure he has a 280z rail.. or the 280zx rail. (As i'm busy with my 280zx engine, have some pics.) Here the 280zx rail.. upper=1982-1983 (i think US version not sure) and lower is 1979 (euroversion.) Here the upper is the 1979 280zx rail... euro version.. i'm sure..

As it happens i have a reserve 1973 240z engine laying apart at the moment and looked at the cam.. it has a big A on the BACK (!!) nothing else.. Another new old stock cam i have is a so called slalom-cam and has big lobes.. that one has Datsun and a partnumber on it and the word: brown. it was in the 70's a original datsun special cam. (new in box.. what's left of it.. cam is as new..) EDIT: the letter is on the back ofcourse.. not on the front of the camshaft... silly me...

Could it be that that Z is upside down? you started with the z upside down and took a bit off of the left lower .. ? If i look at a imaginary vertical line the original Z sign is shorter on the upper horizontal line (on the left).. this one is not.. Hope you know what i mean.. Also the foot of the z is normally longer on the right as shown above.. sorry am i nitpicking? 😟

No..no... it's TATFAW

NICE! I did a simular wheel in mahogany (left pic!!) in 2007 till this day a shiny wheel! I layd 7-8 coats of varnish on it to make a deep shine, you made a nice wheel but i would have made it a bit deeper and not as wide (if you know what i mean.) There are pics of my wheel in another topic about steeringwheels..

2 ! M8 bolts? (front hook.. look carefully at it in the pic.) not enough? it does not weigh a ton! I bet i could lift the whole front of the car on those hooks.. (in fact i did this to reposition a car on my (4post) lift..) and eh.. if i see the questions you ask these last days i think your a guy age 18? and it's your first car?

I got a spare but overhere they are like 1500 euro easy in good condition...

Normally the engine has some pick up points front and rear.. like this one.. (L28 of my 280zx) A balancer and a hoist is very handy and don't cost a lot of money.. be sure that you fit them to a beam that is strong enough to support the load of the hoist.. (i got myself a giant H-beam that easely can manage the weight. (over a ton.)

Wow... i to have scrapped a 240z that was better then that!! It was a car with a original Dutch license number so it was all it's life here in NL.. But those are often also the bad ones because of the weather.. How is it possible that a Z has such a bad cowl? was it near the titanic?? (as wal280z sayd..) or in the rain? (In Tampa florida???? it's not a Florida car then..) I would like to see the rest of that Z-car? Pics? They must be of a very good car otherwise it's not worth the work you will have to correct this mess..

I think it's sometimes wise to check a good working system, then you get some experience with electricity, especially when your not much of a electricien.. Get yourself one of those clamp-ampèremeters, they are so handy, you don't need to open the circuit just clamp them on the cable you want to know the ampèrage from! I fear that your systems seems to work again but the problem will come back.. (if you did'nt find the culprit..) keep (at least) one eye on it...

Floor replacement (240z) complete with all the reinforcements.. and 280zx fenders etc etc.. also did a steeringwheel.. the one in the little pic on the left of this comment!