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A 280zx has a analog computer, it computes an output signal from many different signals it gets from de sensors to run the engine.. but it does not have a actual ECU.. (I'm glad it has not!) this system was and can be still reliable. (an ECU has a clock signal and a processor, this can not be found in any 280zx..)

Hi Stick, not to worry you but, I've had 2 t-top cars.. if you put one front wheel on a wooden block about 6 inches high... with the hood open you'll never get it shut because of torsion of the whole chassis.. especially the T-bar cars are bad. The lock go's 2" out of line! (I had this when the car ( a 1980 280zx tbar 2+2) was only 11 year old and in perfect condition.) It's the reason that i'm now restoring a 280zx with slick top. Welcom here Stick, if you need answers, here is the place to go i think!!

Last week the new screen came in from Germany... I take it in the box to the painter. Yeah fool me ones.. ?

HAHAHA... yeah Danny's SLOPPY WORK.. You should see his work on my engine hood.. Everyone could see he had no interest no more. After his girlfriend had dropped my windscreen in the home i could pick up the pieces en come en get the car.. paid him (partly) in advance for paint i will never see.. also had to buy a new windscreen .. Till this day they still won't admit that she just dropt my windscreen, they say they never seen one.. oh my mistake… I (Bart and me went and got them in his Van..) I never bought that heap of parts just for that perfect windscreen! Now i'm on the 3th screen! pfffff…… The next guy… who's gona drop this one…. illl Shoot!!!… (Just kidding..)?

I did'nt know what the top of the 4 speed version was but seems high... the Original euro (Netherlands) version with the FS5C71B gearbox was rated at 205km/hr. For the RPM's… my 240z engine is totally Original (thats with all stock parts!!) and rev's easely up to 7000 if i let it.. (although the red line is at 6500)

Thanks Jim, I'm fighting fatigue as you know. these days… eh nights...i only sleep a few hours a night and thats exhausting.. but i will finish this mother******* ….. car!!

Yup! Jim, As you know i'm busy with a 280zx.. so i can use some more money for the painter.. (I just added here on my 280zx story a LOT of pictures with some comments CHECK IT OUT!) I could clean them up for you and send some pics if you want.. (i know you want... ? )

It's November 2019. The zx was for years in a heated garage. Bought me a new battery and a new windshield.. This month my car go's to the pro - paintershop… i hope haha (oh are all those painters people were no good arranggements can be made ??? If i say tomorrow at 10 i'm there at 10! (sons of ….grrrr) The fuel was prepped with some stuff the keep it from clogging.. i putted in the battery after a check for lose cables (the dash is not in..) Then i started the car, the fuelpump started but no starting engine.. then the alarm made itself known.. AH.. that's it.. somewhere here has to be a switch.. i switched the alarm of and.. turned the key.. Yup!! it started right away! 20191107_145039.mp4 Some pic's from the work this year... rear spring. Cleaned but not perfect.. If someone knows a way to paint this fabric.. it's called "tricot" would be nice to paint it a bit darker... rear bumper, lots of dents taken out.. a week of work every afternoon…. cleanup for paint.. hinges.. TAKE A GOOD LOOK.. at these.. Original hinges and no whear on them !!! had good maintanance!! Creative people don't have junk laying around, they just surrounded by a lot of new ideas! My painter tried to weld… he shure can't.. (Danny's kaaiwerk = Danny's sloppy work.. i all deleted it.) New tools.. Front skirt. Hinges rear boot lid. Get the horror out. Rust off before new paint. Original parts… like new.. An electronics engineer doing metal work. Not bad... Checking over and over the edge in the plating. Making it smooooddeehhh…. The as new rear wishbones some colored ground paint in rear wheelwell Lots of new parts.. Rear wheelhousing , part of fuellines.

After a good look, i think they are the right / same parts. just photographed from an different angle!

Now i looked at them, these are different, but are peaces for a 240z bumper? can someone explain what these are? part numbers are on the 3th pic. N3300 in the partnr. says it is a 260z or a superseeding nr. for a 240z part? After a cleanup they will look like new.

If i'm not mistaking i've got a set of those. AND in next to new condition.. (saw them years ago on ebay for 200 per piece.. in rather old condition!) i post some pics.. in a minute.. they look alike… not sure..

I like the long G-nose.. but the front is already very long.. Haha.. yeah.. few summers ago i was on the german highway with Bart from Bartscooterservice @bartsscooterservice driving my red 240z and a audi came aside, the man behind the wheel looked like: what the hell is this?? We where going 160-170-180-190 kph and the eyes became bigger and bigger from the audi driver.. at 205 it stopped.. then he took his car in front of mine and 215 was the max we drove!! Haha.. ask Bart, he was even more shaking then my car i believe hihihi…. just kidding Bart! ?

I prefer the Allen-bolt. Let's make it: an inbusbolt! More on the subject, My feb 1971 240z car does not have the strap, also the mounts are not there.. I ask myself don't they have one ( the early cars?) Is it why my car shakes so much when going over 200kph? (Last summer on the german highway, around 210 on the clock… totally Original engine! ? ) Got the feeling.. any moment it's going to take of!!

Hey Captain, i can't deal with english hardware on a Metric car!!! … I hate it! ? …. btw... isn't that hex head called an allan key? or is that tipically English to call it that? I've never heard of a SHCS bolt? what does it stand for? ( when Volvo made the p1800 there were also english bolts and things on it for a few years because they made them in England! normally a Metric swedish car..) EDIT... haha.. SHCS.... google... says : a socket head cap screw…. pfff.. we call it (Dutch) a: "inbusbout" haha.. a bolt with an IN(side) hex-hole... simple…

Yes, 26th z is right. throttle return damper, as memory serves my right... this is a smaller one as on the euro version originaly was.. it's the first part that stops working and people throw them away, because they are not really working most of the time.. (therefore you see them rarely)

Nice car for that price.. it has a big hole in the hood but who cares! If you sell the Z of the hood you make a profit hahaha !! BTW... your name sounds very Dutch? You (or your family) have Dutch Roots?

ofcourse.. dummy me.. the ser.nr. is on the block! just under the headseal..

Pictures could help a lot.. but i think your having a 280z or 280zx block.. 2753cc , The serial nr is on the head, near the headseal.. where it says N42?

I remember making one out of a inner tube of a car tire.. it works very well. ask for a punctured inner tube at a tire shop, they got them laying around!

Like these.... I was looking for a pic. of my E41 with the 2 inlet parts but found these.. now on my 240z for over 20 years.. restored 2007.. (got a set but it's for a Original 240z euro engine i've got.. lying around…?)

You want a set of HJG46W ( also called round top) carburators? The standard (easy to tune) Datsun 240z carbs? (I do have a used set for 500 euro.. but i think to expencive to ship.. from the Netherlands... btw.. were is santa paula? (sounds californian..USA?)

??? …..……. Sorry i did'nt know i was speaking Spanish? ? 4 front and 4 rear bumpers complete! i think 1 set has the bumperettes/bars you guys (american's) call them? If your thinking about buying them.. one set of bumpers, the shipping alone is around 400 dollars, (pure guess..) IF they want to ship them at all!!

I "found" 4 of them on my garage attic.. But here in the Netherlands no one wants to pay up for them so they stay were they are as i payed good money for straight ones.. (different types for EU and US. cars.) A nice new chromed ORIGINAL bumper costs overhere about 400Efor a bumper and 950E for anew layer of chrome.. (copper/nickel/chrome.) In total i got 8 bumpers left, they are 240z and 1 set i know is 260z.. chrome is not perfect but on the outside they are not rusty.

Would more likely be a 1989 car… ( the 300zxtt came out late '89..)

What a scammm...