Pan in the arse for mr. Berk.

 

Maybe that top `drain` is for a turbo?

you know the rules right? You have to turbo your motor now that your oil pan supports it. 😛

I dont make the rules i just point them out.

Jeff, you have to build the engine now, bring it up to the potential of that nice pan.

Grannyknot,

In '86, the second owner installed the pan as part of a spare-no-expense overhaul. Since then, many of the parts were removed due to various reasons. The triple Webers, Recaro seats with 6 point harness, red high-pile carpeting 🙂, racing cam, and now the 5-speed are gone. The PO did invest in a new 280z engine (bored 20 over, new pistons, polished, balanced) and I'm almost positive it is still in there. Most of what was originally done is listed in a dot-matrix printed summary 2 1/2 pages long dated 1987 at 51,000 miles. The third owner hardly drove it and when I got it with 74,000 miles, the Centerforce clutch and flywheel were already shot. 

I don't know if I can bring it back to its glory days, but I'm going to make an effort at it.

Jeff

So the second owner was racing / autocrossing the hell out of it...

14 minutes ago, cgsheen1 said:

So the second owner was racing / autocrossing the hell out of it...

From his documentation, it looks like PO2 took really good care of it. PO3 bought it for his son 😏, enough said.

On a side note, my neighbor across the street recently purchased his college-age son a 26-yr old 300Z twin turbo. At least it's an automatic so he can't do too much damage to it.

Edited May 21, 20213 yr by Jeff Berk

Wow. Absolutely no reason to install that type of an oil pan if you're not racing... But I guess a lot of people spend money for no real reason.