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240Z: Chassis straightening, loads of small parts delivery
Today i have some very good news, some not so good ones and then some good ones again. The very good news: The bodyshop started working on the car in full force. And they seem way more professional than the previos one. Not that he was really bad or so, but you see those guys have a different approach of working. Before they even plugged in the welder, they decided to measure through the entire chassis and compare them to the original drawings and check if everything is straight. And now the bad news. It seems it’s not. According to them, it once got a hit front left, and the…
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240Z: Body panels delivery to the bodyshop and next steps discussion
Soo, on friday i got a call from my bodyshop that they want to start work ASAP, because they have already an epxensive Pre-WW Bentley scheduled for fall and want to complete mine until then. So how am i to turn them down? I prepared all my bodypanels in stock, and also made an inventory to make sure nothing gets lost. it seems that not much of the original metal will be left at the end. but honestly, i give them many items just as reference or for “in case” I packed everything into my In-law’s transport bus And spent quite some time at the bodyshop to discuss some details.…
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240Z: EU R-Drive Parts manual + LH Wheel tub in and more
Soo. today i have some big news. but let’s start with the usual deliveries: 1) Something i’ve been searching for a while now. Well Actually i’m looking for the LHD L-Drive but this is the closest i found so far: an UK R-Drive manual: For those who don’t know the L-Drive / R-drive is a Parts manual folder, but due to it’s size it has the most detailed drawings and some additional informatino which is difficult to see or not existent in the microfiches, parts booklets etc. So my experience is that these are the most detailed parts books availabe (outside of NMC of course): Looks like your usual parts…
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240Z: A rare competition adjustable 240Z Suspension for sale?
Recently a friend asked me if this suspension which he found for sale in Japan could be the real deal? But let’s start at the beginning. Those who know my Suspension knowledge post (i have a bigger update on that planned soon), might know that Nissan / Datsun sold a set of adjustable “Competition” / “racing” / “Sports option” suspension kit: I don’t think they ever sold many of those and so they are extremely rare to see these days. so when the set from the first picture showed up, we had to investigate. The sales ad says it’s for the S30Z but the seller is not even sure. He…
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240Z: M-speed competition miror, Air vent intakes and Posters
I’ve been collecting parts here and there again lately, and a few weeks ago i got this Mspeed Japan NISMO competition / racing mirror replica: There are two versions and this is the “solid” one: It uses the original stalks to install it in the car. here’s a comparison of all my mirrors: 1x OEM IKI, 1x OEM Everwing, 1x Mspeed Racing: You can seen the original ones were quite worn: So i gave them a little cleanup and a plastic refresher rub: Here’s the other side of the competition / racing mirror replica: Then i got a set of 240Z Air intake vent pieces. those who go right from…
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240Z: Details about a 240Z Rallye fuel injection “experimental” setup
Some of you more geeky readers might know that Nissan used to experiment with some electric fuel injection system in some of their works rallye cars. I’m no expert by any means, but i recently stumbled on this article of some guy who found an original set, and thought it might be interesting for some of the readers. Click to enlarge the pictures for full size view Here’s a photo from the very control box in the Datsun 240Z at the 1973 monte carlo rallye with the Drivers Tony Fall and Paul ester (Picture Jos van der Aart). Note the tape on the knobs to protect the drivers from changing…
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240Z: 1973 & 1979 Service Data & specification booklets
Recently a Datsun Friend introduced me to the “Service Data and specification” booklets, which i was unaware of before. Naturally i had to investigate, and luckily i found one for sale online. Strangely i have only ever seen the earlier versions in a mixed english / Spanish language print so far. However when i checked out my friend’s DSSA parts lot recently, it also included a bunch of 1979 version booklet in german: The 1979 version only includes the S130, so the following pages are from the 1973 version with some pictures of the S30 stuff. The booklet’s intention is for the Datsun workshop mechanic to have an overview of…
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240Z: Datsun Suisse SA Triple Weber setup and 1973 test report!
The recent lot find, constinsting of many datsun Switzerland items, also contained a very cool one-off thing: A set of triple Weber carbs complete with Intake manifold and linkage. But the really cool part is that it came including an internal test report by Datsun (Suisse) SA, indicating that this very setup was used by Datsun Suisse SA (DSSA) to test said setup on a company or employee Datsun 240Z. The hand written notes are written on a DSSA “Internal report” sheet. something rarely seen alone. The date noted says June 1973The text on the front says (transleted loosely): Test performed on 240Z, with 9’806km on the odometer Triple webers…
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240Z: A rare Datsun Suisse parts & Documents lot
A good friend of mine just recently sent me this photo and said i need to visit him ASAP, he got hands on some cool stuff. Who i am to turn such an offer down? Especially the boxes, martketing material and stuff made me a bit curious. it’s not usually stuff to be found at dealerships or at collectors, but only at the Import Company Datsun Suisse SA, back in the days. And that’s exactly where these parts come from. A former employee of DSSA took home random stuff which they wanted to scrap at some point, due to lack of space or some other cleanup. He stored the parts…
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240Z: Rare early two-button Rallye Clock scored!
Today i managed to find something nice and rare. Something i have been looking for for quite a while and recently one popped up for sale: An original Nissan “two-button” Rallye clock including the oscillator box in excellent shape: It consists of a the clock itself including the wires and two buttons. On many used items for sale online the two buttons on the stalks are missing, but this one is completey as it left the factory: And the adjustable oscillator box:, which sets the clock signal for the clock. also note the “up” marking on the box: A while ago i got this aftermarket oscillator box From japan on…
