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On yahoo jp auctions there is a s20 valve cover with 63 bids so far. Price is up to around 3000 usd. A used s20 cylinder head recently sold for 7600 usd. Thats over 10k just for the top end! Anyone good at casting replica aluminum valve covers? any on alibaba yet? http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e160912991

I removed the drain plug. if yours is frozen and you can't get it out, you could try blowing the remaining water out by using compressed air. They may look good from the outside but mine were rotten from the inside. You could try sticking an ice pick into them to see if its about to rust thru if this is your daily driver. when these things go it empties the radiator fast. carry a couple litres of water in the car just in case.

I just went down this path you're going. I replaced just 1 and soon after another one popped. It popped in a very inconvenient place too. Lesson learned: If 1 is bad the rest are not far behind. Also, after you replace them they may leak a little bit. Don't panic and rip them out again because sometimes it takes a few heat cycles to seal completely. The hardest ones to replace are on the intake manifold side. On my 280 I had to remove the intake manifold to get to them. If you're going to keep the car forever you might consider going with brass. Seeing that you're up in Alberta i'de see what everyone up there uses. Rumor has it that brass doesn't pop out in extreme cold. But thats internet folklore.

Pay close attention to those roadside signs that say "Next gas 500 miles" edit: park your vehicles close to your motel room as possible so you can keep an eye on them. i always took out the coil wire overnight at motels in crummy towns.

For those of you that think the 280z has battering ram bumpers, take a look at those behemoths. Does this one have the amc 360 or the 351 windsor? Definately a more powerful car than the delorean and the body is fiberglass so no rust. Those tail lites look like 280z tail lites. Not a bad looking car for 3k. That one may be an ex-police car from arizona. edit: do NOT mix beer with ebay.

Just for the record it does fit the later version of the calendar clock. To be more precise, it fits the niles calendar clock. Screw fit perfectly too. And yes you are correct about it not fitting the earlier calendar clock made by citizen. Well it does fit but its a very loose fit and the screw is smaller on the citizen. If anyone is interested in buying the later clock, its on ebay now.

yea thats the one. It's on ebay too. better looking than the vette inspired one and cheaper. Neither talks about chassis reinforcement to compensate for no roof. Death trap?

This fairlady has been sitting in this warehouse for years. The seller says its in excellent condition with no rust. Supposedly because the cardboard boxes inside the warehouse absorbed all the moisture. In any case, it looks like its been there a long time. Price at this time is 6700 us dollars. Car has the power window option but has no paperwork. Engine is said to "not work" mileage 76k kilometers I would love to export this car to the usa. This is a rare opportunity because most of these cars were left outside to rust. My mother in law has a 2 car garage in japan. Perhaps I see a new hobby when i retire at the end of this year.

That was a poor mans corvette before they jacked up the price to a real corvette price. One man roll cage give driver lots of leverage to make passenger behave. There is another one on ebay now right that looks better than this one with no roll cage at all. I think the price is 8k.

+1 vote for full dash cover

damn, a kameari stroker crank just came up for auction today. Current bid price is the same as i paid for the LD28 .. Too many parts, too little time. Lots of heavily modified cylinder head up for auction there. Prices are cheap but most are bare heads and I don't know the quality of the work. What kind of compression would this head give? http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d163918636 maybe next year i will reserve a whole suitcase to cylinder heads. Those cat cafe's are for hardcore city dwellers that see only concrete day after day.

Picked up a V07 stroker crank to throw in the suitcase. Anyone want a 10,000 rpm Fairlady 432 tach? they're only 650 bucks . That oil pressure gauge I posted in this thread that has the strange scale is from a 432 also. Was watching a video on youtube that was taken in the Hot exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant. There are people that drive there to feed the many stray dogs and cats that were abandoned after the earthquake and nuke meltdown. They drove past a nice 370z that was abandoned in someones driveway. (Not this video but another on youtube). What a shame all the nice cars that were undamaged but left behind and are now highly radioactive. The radiation meter on his dashboard as he drove was beeping very loudly and several times hit an level so high an alarm went off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9iJ3pPuL8 I sure hope this stuff im bringing back wasn't scavenged from this area....

You can't find which ground wire? the one on the top or bottom?

It was for a prince S20 but im afraid there aren't too many people running/building those in north america. I'm afraid it might become wall art. Good to know on the welding. I'm wondering how that metal wears compared to the original forged metal.

actually one of these cranks is about 20 kilo's and with the weight of the suitcase, its almost at the weight limit for a checked bag. 25 years ago? hmmm..1990.... the only car i can think about collecting is a skyline or rx7 of that vintage. I do like the little K class cars especially the little pickup trucks. But gawd, those things would never pass dot requirements.

To help pay for my trip i usually bring back some JDM stuff in the suitcase. This trip i picked up some brand new 280z hood vents, calendar clock and 260z jdm tail lites. Has anyone seen one of these? I've never seen an oil pressure with the scale that this one has. Would this crank be salvageable? The rust pits look pretty deep. If you engine builder guys out there think its fixable, I could fit it into my extra big suitcase.

I was recently working on my 280 and had to remove the efi harness off the engine. When I put it back I didn't tighten the ground good enough and it ran rough at higher rpm's. Fortunately for me I knew everything was good before I worked on it. Just checking connections narrowed it down real fast. What surprised me was the bolt to the ground wasn't that loose. I wiggled it and tightened it more. In the 17 years of having my 280, the hardest thing to find and fix was the bad fpr. It had a small leak in the diaphram and when i shook it i could hear gas sloshing around inside.

L6 block with that KA24 head that those guys on hybridz were talking about cobbling together. I imagine somewhere in Japan there is an old rusty skyline with an S20 engine sitting in someone's yard there. You ever watch that youtube guy's channel wasabi cars? He has seizures when he sees a collectible car there just sitting and rusting. But no matter how close it looks on the exterior, your charade is up when they see its LHD T&A auto built a tribute car. Love that name btw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8wLza2I1Y8

I think Kats would probably have the best guestimate on the Japan market. The rest of us can only dream of owning one. Someday I will be able to afford to buy some of those 432 badges on yahoo Jp auctions for my 280.

I had never seen a JDM L20 ecu before and was surprised to see this little adjustment screw on the side of it. I asked my wife what the kanji meant and she translated it to say "be careful with idle adjustment" I think something got lost in translation there somewhere because you can adjust the idle in the engine compartment. Perhaps its idle mixture? Instead of being on the afm they moved it to the ecu?

A while back I ran across a video of a guy in Barbados that's restoring a 280z. He started out with a left hand drive and converted to right hand drive since barbados drives on the left side of the road. LOTS of work converting them. Do you know this guy? small island... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE75qFeUq0c

z's were the car of choice for drug smugglers because they had that hidden compartment in the back.

i use rubbing compound. the kind for polishing cars. the stuff thats for heavily oxidized paint. not the white stuff its too fine. always removes those big huge water spots too.

Would you have alot of confidence in a $19.99 rebuild?