1976 280Z Restoration Project

[Captain Obvious]

Awesome! I'd love to make a pilgrimage to his shop sometime.

[wheee!]

Some gratuitous body shots of SASSZ!

[grannyknot]

Mark, I can't remember what engine you're putting in your beauty,  I don't want to hunt through 78 pages.

[wheee!]

I keep telling myself it will be the numbers matching L28 that was in it to begin with, albeit a little refreshed and cleaned up with new billet fuel rail and shaved intake.
Now that I am going with an engine management system, I will be adding a wilder cam, flat tops and possibly a head shave and bore, ported head and intake, custom exhaust.... and so it goes!
I will definitely have an L28 in there, just not sure how wild it will be. A lot depends on what’s left in the bank after the body is done. If I win the lottery, I will be calling Dave Rebello....

[Patcon]

What numbers are you picking?

So I can play along...

[wheee!]

Well let’s just go with “original” parts. The PO lost the engine bay plate before I got the car, so I assumed the plate would have the engine number on it. The PO did confirm that the car was all original parts when I got it.

[gwri8]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think 280's had matching #'s with engine blocks and chassis, thus the blank on the engine bay plate. Mine is blank also.   240's did and I'm not sure 260's did.

[siteunseen]

What number is above the brake booster? The vin#? Can't remember. 

[wheee!]

The VIN is over the brake booster. I wasn’t aware the engine block number was blank on the 280’s engine bay plate!

[gwri8]

Well, It's not exactly blank.  It just says L28.

[Zed Head]

I think that they stopped in 1977.  I have a numbers matching 1976 car, but the engine is in the garage, not in the car.  It has the engine from a 1978 car that did not have the engine number on the ID plate.  But the engine has a number stamped on it. 

Short - my 76 has an engine serial number on the ID plate, my 78 parts car did not.

[grannyknot]

2 hours ago, wheee! said:

If I win the lottery, I will be calling Dave Rebello....

and Derek at Datsunworks for one of his DOHC heads