Hi all.Im from New Zealand and have had a Zed and ZX fetish since i was 13.

Ive owned a few ZX's over the last 10yrs or so,and love them.Always wanted a 240 or 260 but never had the money or was never jhonny on the spot when i did have it.

Recently i met a nice guy through the NZ datsun site and he had a JDM 77 fairlady Z for sale(260z),i got it for a song i think.It has a G nose whic was a bonus.

Im currently stripping it down for a good rust removal,which it has very little of,being a panelbeater/painter for near on 20yrs,im surprised:cross-eye

This is the second JDM Fairlady Z ive owned,the other was a 79 with the ZX shape but the l20e engine,and this 77 is alot straighter.

SO its going to also get the better spare l28e i have sitting in my garage,and maybe a stroking is in order for it,since the restore will take me about 4mths or there abouts,thats something i need to learn about as i know little of engine rebuilding or modding.

Anyways,cheers for having a site for the freaks among us and all the newly addicted

Bonus G nose, that aint bad. Is it a 5 piece one?

Stroking a L28 isn't for the faint hearted. If you dont know much about engine building and are planning to do it yourself, you might want to leave it to a professional engine builder, But I'm all for having a go yourself (I do) so dont let me put you off.

Theres a few sites that tell you what you need and how to do it.

At least LD28 cranks are easy to come by in NZ. Theres one on Trade me for $150 at the moment.

I hear bolting the turbo gear off a L20ET onto a L28 is a cheap alternative for more horsepower.

Heya Mr C

That G nose looks to be a 2 piece from what i saw today,its in pretty good shape,nothing a bit of fibreglass wont fix,but man id love to get my hands on the last panelbeater:finger:,in some places there was a half inch of bog,for no reason other than to fill the space from his shitty attempts at plating...urgggh ,took it back to steel on maybe 30% of it,just have to worry about finding window rubbers now as i didnt want to risk taking out the glass,so i just cut the rubbers in the back,nd willtake out the dash and screen then its a bare shell inside.

Yeah i know theres alot of work that i could never do,like crack test the head and block (sonic testing on block also),custom head gasket...but i can manage most the bolt on stuff.Ive only ever stripped engines down not build em back up.

You can use the turbos from a L20et,but they are pretty small,and id rather justify the conversion with something a bit bigger,like a z31 turbo.Ever since this drifting started getting popular,the price of nissan parts went right up,,wonder why.

I know the stroker will be expensive,being that i wanted to go to SU's and boot the EFI on the 260,and turbo the ZX.......

And so it begins

By the way Mr C,how do the 240K's drive??

Never did get the chance to drive one of them years back when we were importing them.