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Yes, I will reply with some pictures Friday or Saturday

Congrats on the excellent sale! It was very well done and deserved a good price. Don't spend it all in one place 😉

My experience has been that headers tend to leak more often than the cast manifold. A high quality header, maybe not... I just don't think they're as dimensionally stable as the cast mainfold

I wasn't really looking for specifics... I thought it would be an interesting anecdote if a survivor Z like this could be found for a reasonable number. After watching BaT, cars like this bring, sometimes, serious money. I thought it would be encouraging to others who might be looking for a car to validate that nice cars are still available for a reasonable price. That is why I asked

My main heat source in the shop is an overhead forced air closed burner propane unit, but it stirs up a lot of dust. I can probably get the heat up, keeping it warm would be a problem until it's out of dust. So your just letting your overspray settle where it wants? No forced air movement? No concerns about the open burners and paint fumes going boom? C

Disappointing...

Its been slow for me for a while. On my phone I get a blank white page for a minute or more S8+

Super!

Chris, I'm sure its colder there than here. How are you heating your space, maintaining heating, fresh air? I'm stalled on paint because of low temps C

Your best bet would be a law enforcement search if you had the VIN number and were friends with a cop

Could you provide a ball park on the cost of a car like this? After looking at cars trading on BaT a car like this should have been fairly expensive...

Pretty Car

Harbor freight has little assortment boxes. I bought three a viton assortment, a nitrile and an EPDM?

If the vin on the firewall and the vin on the shock tower match the title, I would work on getting reproductions for the other locations

I have found if the jamb side latch is too far in towards the interior, the door runs out of room before the second latch engages. Sort of a compromise between the door sealing good and being able to get the second catch

Says it fails but not which side of 13.5 or 15.4. So it could be too high

Thats probablythe thing I hate most about body work! The assemble, disassemble, reassemble, disassemble ...

So I took the block and rotating assembly to a local machine shop about the end of August. He finished it right before Christmas. I picked it up a week ago. Stock bore and stroke is 85mm x 86mm. We punched it out to 89mm. I sourced the pistons from Dave Rebello I believe they're KA's turned down They sonic checked the block after boring. I was told the minimum would be 0.0100". We are well within that. All line bored and balanced Everything has a witness mark so we can reassemble the way it was balanced Crank was turned 0.010 & 0.010 es w The challenge now is getting bearings. I have the rod bearings now but am having trouble getting the main bearings. I made another order the other day because the first order got delayed. Many places were saying end of April for bearings!! Evidently freeze plugs are hard to get too. That is why one of them is steel and not brass. Any recommendations on engine paint? Not super obsessive about true Datsun blue but would like it to be close.

With the door open, can you manually latch the mechanism to the second position?

Probably not easy. I would think a good heat gun would be the tool of choice but the car will need to be painted afterwards due to collateral damage... It's also possible you could use a flap disc on a grinder but exceedingly dusty and you would need to take precautions for your lungs and drift

I agree, I struggle to view these cars in light of the current market. I have bought and sold many Zs for a few hundred dollars. Many of them running cars. I suspect when it comes to the $70k bidding, that the car is viewd as cheap at that price point. So there are plenty of bidders willing to buy at that level. It tapers off until the auction gets closer until closing. My guess $120k, wouldn't be surprised at $150k

@kats So nice to see you around here!

What kind of mechanical skills do you have? An engine rebuild is really not that hard if you have the right reference materials

Used a lot on firearms

The push rod looked pretty long in the Russian booster. Did you get that to work out?