My two swiss S30Z Fairlady Restoration build thread

[JDMjunkies.ch]

What a great thread, I've really enjoyed reading it, keep up the good work, I find it fascinating what you're doing!

Thanks a lot, mate Feedbacks like These Keep me motivated

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Sorry for the lack of updates lately on the 240Z project, it's not like i've been not doing any thing, just was enjoying my EK9 in the nice weather, and had a lot of other stoff going on. Here's a little teaser of an upcoming EK9 wallpaper from a recent shooting. still need to complete a few details in photoshop.


My bodyshop man has a lot of daily-business-customers wanting to have their american cars ready for summerseason so  he's busy working on small projects currently and my car is on the backburner. Also did a lot of research and ordered a lot of parts. currently i'm awaiting 2 shipments from Japan and a big one from USA and still need to order a lot of tools and small bits to complete a few things. however, let the pictures talk:

1) As mentioned before started with the assembly of the pedal box. This is just a little teaser shot as i'll go more into detail when it's completed. still need a lot of parts and tools to get it done:


2) got these mudflaps from MSA which were on backorder:


3) I'm trying to get my bodypanels ready for paint- and rust-stripping at a local specialized company soon so i'm currently stripping all my parts. Completed the second set of doors, as well as both trunks. Still need to do the service flaps, the hood cowl, the hood and two sets of fenders:




 

[JDMjunkies.ch]

4) then made some research on rare JDM intake manifolds. Let me share my results with you. As there are many different L6 intake manifolds from japan (aside from the other brands like Cannon, etc..)
- Sanyo Kiki: Japanese brand which still exists but changed their business. Here you see an early casting version:


- SK Sports kit: Was a complete Kit sold with a later Sanyo Kiki design but also came with the carbs and everything. Quite a popular choice and i like it:


- Tomei powered. Was available until maybe 2 years ago, not now any more sadly. Design looks quite close to a lot of other Manifolds, like the datsun competition etc.

- FET / Far east trading / Kyoku-To
Here we have an early Kyoku-To Design Intake manifold (Kyoku-To = Far east)


- Later versions came branded as F.E.T and had the additional Balancer tube on top. My favourite design so far, will probably look brilliant together with the striped Kakimoto intake manifold:


- Mikuni
Famous Carb manufacturer (actually they built Solex carbs in licence) also had their own intake manifolds:


- Harada Shokai.
Looks pretty similar to many other designs but is still manufactured and probably the technically most advanced and best engineered design. I love it but it's probalby a bit too modern for my car and i somehow prefer a more oldschool design even if the power-gain is not the same..


Others: Well there are others like Datsun competition, Hayashi racing, Ohtsuka and so on but sadly wasn't able to find any pictures of these. if you have some, i would be very interrested!! get in contact if you have some pics

That's it for now.  Need to prepare a few things before recceiving my new daily car and getting rid of the old one including all the parts (already sold most of it) and so on, but i never stop thinking and researching on the Z so don't worry if updates are lacking doesn't mean i don't do anything

[240260280z]

Great post!  It is like a virtual museum!

 

FYI Passini does not like the unwanted effects of balance tubes on intakes. "The small advantage a balance passage between the barrels of a DCOE carburettor might give at idling speed is more than offset by disadvantages at other times."

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Well yeah, had some big plans this week for the Z, but unfortunately a Flu hit me and i'm lying with a cold and fever in the bed fourth day in a row. However i got so bored of laying around all the time today i HAD to do something so i decided to finally unpack that roof that is standing in my entry hall since a few weeks. Before:


And after unbolting a couple dozens of screws:




While at it anyway i decided to strip it as well so i have that done too:


Found this old matchstick box underneath the roof skin. Always fun to find old stuff:


and also removed the "pockets" for the hinges:


As soon as i was complete my favourite guy rung the doorbell. The Postal delivery guy
Thanks to golden week holiday in Japan my package was slightly delayed, but however i got some stuf from japan again:
1) A Cusco ST-Type front strut tower bar. Not sure if it will clear the kakimoto valve cover and if i will use it anyway, but i thought it's never wrong to have the parts ready in stock. Like the oldschool tubular design


2) A set of super rare NOS genuine Datsun Competition Short steering knuckles straight from the Datsun competition catalogue.


In case if you're wondering here's the description from the datsun competition catalogue:


And here is a comparision between the Standard knuckles (black) And the Competition knuckles (Silver):


More parts are on the way and im starting to feel better again so i hope to spend the afternoon tomorrow at the garage     

Edited May 8, 2015 by JDMjunkies.ch

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Great post!  It is like a virtual museum!

 

FYI Passini does not like the unwanted effects of balance tubes on intakes. "The small advantage a balance passage between the barrels of a DCOE carburettor might give at idling speed is more than offset by disadvantages at other times."

Thanks for t he input. Not sure about to which route to take yet. but i guess i will end up with something that is not the perfect performance option but more something rare JDM item even if it's not the most advanced stuff. otherwise i guess Harada would be the one to choose. but we'll see.

[JDMjunkies.ch]

While waiting at the garage for a guy to come and pick up one of my spare-engines and a transmission i decided to get some work done. Unfortunately the guy never showed up so  i had plenty of time to get some stuff done. Mainly preparing more panels for paint stripping
1) The hood - before:   


Hinges removed


done


2) Completed the second pair of doors (from the white chassis):


3) Decided to also split the fenders from the second car. as you can see they're quite rusty but some stuff like the lower cowl-panels / Corners and the headlight-surroundings seemed pretty nice, so i decided to take it apart anyway and then i can choose the best from all the single-parts and scrap the rest of them


Before:


and after:


Meanwhile i have almost all the bodypanels ready for paint stripping:


And while at the garage anyway i removed the trunk hinge mounts and rubber-pockets from the white chassis:


And decided to do a little test-fitting of the new cusco strut tower brace i got yesterday

Edited May 9, 2015 by JDMjunkies.ch

[moelk]

You are taking no shortcuts Nils! That will be one hell of a car when its finished.

You have some great/rare parts that would fit perfect on my car😉 along with the gauges i already bought from you. Keep up the good work!!

[JDMjunkies.ch]

You are taking no shortcuts Nils! That will be one hell of a car when its finished.

You have some great/rare parts that would fit perfect on my car along with the gauges i already bought from you. Keep up the good work!!

Thanks mate Hunting for rare JDM parts is definitly my favourite part of the whole restauration. So many cool things around Btw you can still buy a few sets NOS datsun competition short steer knuckles from nissan japan. i was told they had around 10 last sets in stock so now maybe still 9 sets left if someone is interrested. unfortunately nissan europe don't have them for sale anymore.

[moelk]

The hunting for parts are the most fun. I may have to ask you for help with some parts some day ( dont have any conections in Japan).

Scored a couple of genuine headlight covers a while ago in Italy of all places.

[JDMjunkies.ch]

yeah i might help you but it won't be cheap usually bought some parts from italy in the past too. there seem to be a few z's over there too

[JDMjunkies.ch]

Not a big update, but an important one: Today i got a FedEx delivery from USA, bringing  me a nice set of Tabco Repair panels:


I decided to buy them directly at Tabco because they're the main manfucturer of these. All the companies like zcarsource and MSA only sell tabco parts so why not get them directly at the source? Service was fine after a few mails and superfast shipping i had them at the door today. They may not be OEM-quality but i guess it's the next best thing you can buy at the moment. because i tried to source OEM rear quarters first but they seem a) impossible to find and if you find them super expsensive. so i'm happy with this solution and i'm sure my bodyshop guy will make them look like OEM panels when installed More to come soon