I’ve been hunting for Datsun parts again recently and found some cool stuff that ended up with me. Yesterday i visited a nice guy. He was one of the two founders of the East switzerland Datsun Z-Club back in the days. I originally went there to pick up this beautiful two-sided Datsun sign: He told me he picked it up from a dealership in Vienna (Austria). It needs a bit of TLC. but it’s definitely one of the coolest Datsun signs i have seen, with the multicoloured 3D shape, nice mounting bracket and so on. While there anyway, i bought myself a few other items that he had up for…

Recently i started researching a bit into the 240Z / fairlady Z fuel system topic and decided to write a knowledge post about some details. For that i found this “240Z / 260Z Fuel system “Modificaiton plus” book very useful. I know it’s widely available online in digital form, but i found a cheap printed copy, so i decided to get it for my archives: The book is about a special “V-3 modification” programme that was executed in the US of A in the mid 70ies. Along with this i also ordered some NOS parts from nissan (mechanical fuel pump block-off plate / gasket / bolts) for a little project…

Over the past weeks i collected a bunch of S30 related books again which were missing in my collection. Let’s ahve a look at them from top left to bottom right. 1. The japanese “gods of Fairlady Z” magazine, which covers all kind of special Japanese Fairlady Z cars. My favourite part was the LY engine details. 2. Japanese “Racing on” Mook (Magazine book) edition 504, which covers the Nissan Z cars in race and rallye sports back in the day and shows the car and some of the details. there’s also an interview with racing legends like Pete brock among others. 3. the Datsun USA Collision estimating book. It’s…

During my recent work at the front fender areas, i realized that the corner where the headlight buckets go on the driver side must have had a hit at some point and the panel was slightly bent backwards: I started to enjoy bearing metal panels with a hammer recently, so i got myself a proper hammer and dolly and started to hammer it straight. Worked out pretty well and i’m happy i didn’t have to pay a bodyshop for another 30minutes of work. While doing bodywork anyway, i thought it’s time to test-fit the rear bumper. I didn’t want to mess up my NOS bumper mounts (i’ll save them for…

In the last three days. i was in the Netherlands to attend a very special Z-related Event, together with a big bunch of great Z-Enthusiasts from all over the world. I will make a separate detailed post about that event very soon. While i was there, i met a lot of old and new friends and got many many cool gifts, which i would like to share with you. In fact i brought home so many unexpected gifts, that i was fearing they wouldn’t let me enter the plane with the many bags of “Hand-baggage”. First, a bunch of very nice Memorabilia from S30.world. More on that topic and project…

Recently i found that a seller in Japan was selling three of the Sports option / Competition / NISMO heat shields for the Mikuni triple carbs. which is there to prevent heat from the exhaust manifold going to the carbs / intake. The price was super fair and they seemed to be without corrosion, so i bought two of them just to be on the safe side: The thing with blind online-buy’s is you never really know what you get. In this case they looked good. the silver one had been welded previously, but nothing that can’t be cleaned. The strange thing was however as soon as i touched it,…

Found another hour to work on my car. and one thing on the to-do list was the rubber mud flaps that are installed inside the fender in below the metal mud guards. Another little detail that is missing on many cars, as they have been simply removed and not replaced on many cars over the year: Here we go: On the LH fender (Similar to the RH one). some previous owner “cleaned” the Fender emblem holes. which was a common practice back then. On the RH side i tried to drill the holes based on some measures i had previously made, but it proved to be not 100% perfect. so…