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

Some gratuitous body shots of SASSZ!

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

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....

What numbers are you picking?

So I can play along...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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