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Partnumber says 1981 280zx engine! Engine Assembly - 1981 Nissan 280ZX (nissanpartsdeal.com)

In the video he says it's a N47 head.. so a 280zx engine.. i guess. (I never seen 280z engines here..) Nice find that nos engine! with the orig. part sticker stil on it.

Go look for the prices of parts that seem to be good, like the pully (passified one) is on it's own 95$! I think that there are a lot of parts on it usable or made usable again and that ad's up quick.

Thanks guys! 👍

And again we all can see that designing (a car) is a job not everyone can just DO! 😂

It's a year ago that this topic was on the "today's listing" and i haven't worked on the car for over a year.. It's still on the lift in the garage.. When the heating stopped working in the garage and i got to ill to work on it.. it came to a halt.. So.. in the coming month i get some heat pumps installed in the house AND in the garage! (Normally i would install these myself. but no energy..) Also the carport is worked on and it will get much bigger, from 6 to almost 12 meters long! (I try to get it finished in august i hope.. normally a days work for 2 people.. 😞 ) As for the 280zx, i'm only looking for a nice trunk cover in blue.. Here a pic of my (sold long ago) red/black inside 280zx 1983. trunk cover.. It's so damn frustrating to be a handy man with no energy.. Or like the energy of a 100 year old... I hope there comes a day that doctors find out what the hell is wrong with me. 😒

It can't get any worse.. the metall will get clean and the rubberparts will get better, if that's enough to let it work well.. we don't no untill we try.. 🤠 If not.. nothing lost!

And? did it work out? It's a gamble but who knows..

Don't know if there is a spring in there.. you could put a black piece of (half a) ring in there to let it pivot some more.. maybe? Maybe the mirror can be taken apart and make the ball on the back a bit bigger? I guess there a 2 screws in the door bit? if you put the mirror with it's back screw on the front hole (so the mirror sits like 2 inch further to the front, i bet that would be enough.. yeah i know you see the other hole in the door.. but the mirror works. 😬

I think the spot were they sit now it to far back? If the right mirror was few inches more forward it would be fine (the vision).. Maybe someone can take a pic of the right hand mirror (In LHD car) seen from the driverseat? Most mirrors are more into the front corner of the window.. i think..

Disagree! I got a special pair of eyes...!! Jokes aside.. most cars if you can get the past of the car, and use magnets, some special (small) places that are almost always rotted cleaned to the metall, then you cán tell if it's a good body. Also use a endoscope for internal rust! NO no... most people drive on the RIGHT right side! (Just messing with yeh..) It's NOT a problem at all as the chassis is made for both! LHD and RHD! Didn't you see this already?? So it's very easy to put the parts from your RHD on the LHD car..... 🙂 I would think it over as Namerow has a point here.. you never know how big a mess a specialist still can make.. (Don't ask!!! pffff...) When the car is completely ready for a drive on a nice day.. then you will know what it all costed, not earlyer..

One of the best rock and roll groups ever, and FROM THE NETHERLANDS !!!!!! WATCH THIS !! It's a song from ... 1973 !! The band was playing from 1961 till 2021 !!! that's 60 years!! and look the energy that the drummer still has!! WOW!

Yeah, i have seen more than once overhere locally that people asked for a chassis s30.. it always made me laugh.. if i could get me one i would buy it! I got enough parts to make me another one! (On the other hand i have to much work already and feel to sick to work on another car so... don't offer me a chassis please! 🤒)

I know someone here in the Netherlands that had a car like yours and it came back from sandblasting and looked like yours.. he went to a specialist and he said.. If you give me 10 grand (euro's) for the repairs of only the rust, i'm not gonna touch it! So he bought another chassis.. There was not a single panel on the car that didn't need work. I already admired your perseverance! I expected a chassis with lots of welds and holes.. (Like most original imports in the Netherlands are having A LOT of welds) and sadly i got right. I wouldn't continu with this kind of rust.. but i think i said that year(s) ago.. It's your car/money.. Has the carshop seen this car? and you got a quote? If it's lower than 5 numbers they are not a specialist/professionalist.. And another tip.. never ever pay the full amount on front, my painter still has to work on my car (polish the complete car as it's an orange..) and he still a grant short. Now he stopped with the firm as he's 68 years old and i'm happy i didn't pay him all Now i can do this myself and keep the money! Good luck, hope you find a guy that wants to work on your car for a reasonable amount of money..

Never heard of that! It's one or the other never both! (I think your cars previous owner didn't know what he was doing?) It could work iff you installed the special oilpump.. but you solved the problem already! 🤠 On topic.. I got a reserve N47 from a 280zx USA. does that have the same exhaust ports as the N47 from the older 280z's? (I'm asking because there are also old and new E88's that are totally different! ) My N47 does have the steel inlays/linings in the exhaust so it must have come from a US 280zx as our 280zx's never had a cath.. I always thought that they were there (Those linings) to keep the exhaustgasses hotter for the catalitic converter, so it chemical reaction's start earlier? Isn't it possible to make the outlet's better ( get rid of the linings and make them a lot bigger for a good flow)? The valves are big enough i think.

At 3 min he drops somthing into the engine (sparkplughole.. at 3:30 he starts to TURN the engine.. 🙈 i would never do that when i just dropped something into it! At 15 min he finds the part.. BUT.. Yeah, nice oiling system on the camshaft! (The old way seems to be the best way!)

CO.. What is that.. the old standby method? and.. what is the function exactly of this ferrule? and last but not least.. how are you supposed to get them ON again? Also.. I'm glad that our euro cars not suffer from rotten rubber lines so often.. (My 280zx injectors are 44 years old and in very good condition..)

good question.. It can be a lot.. Don't know if you are handy with a multimeter but there is a saying here: measuring is knowing, the rest you can forget! Just follow the power on the wiring.. if there is no power "behind" the switch.. this is the culprit.. It's important to do this in a sertain sequence.. Maybe a circuit diagram (here on the site) of your car comes in handy? You can learn a lot of this!

That raptor stuff sounds a bit like the stuff we call "bodyshoot" It's a sort of hard rubber like stuff.. i used it under the paint on the lower parts of my 280zx. It's a anti chip for keeping the paintwork in it's place. If you want the original look... well than you will have a lot of rust under your car in a few years.. and yes that's original.. but i wouldn't do that!! Take the good advice of the paintshop. (I would.)

Paintshops over here have a scedule, you go on a big board with all the other cars. So no weeks or month's later.. Once i was at a painter for my work long ago and there was a hobby car that one day should get painted.. the next year i came there.. it was still in the corner.. haha but the owner had told them to paint it when they were low on jobs that needed to be done.. hahaha.. Lesson, never tell a carpainter it does not matter when he does it.. it never gets done! (not that you did this!) Your shop just does not keep their end of the deal.. pfff... (They would have painted my last car i tell yah!)

I got a clock like that and comes out of a euro 260z and is a calendar clock.. with one knob on the front like the above.. i believe the rally clock has 2 knobs on front? (I'm not sure maybe someone can elaborate on this?) I have no idea if that clock of mine was a standard in a Dutch (Netherlands) 260z car.. (i mean with the date showing on the right in the clock facia. Googled some.. and came up with: 😏 🤣 your own explanations.. Rally Clock Identification - Zclocks So.. it's a calendarclock.. And they are expensive because.. (i know this because i have also worked on clocks) it's a lot of specialist work! Well done! (I guess they come with a year or 2(?) warranty?)

And.. he's still smoking his sigaret! Good to see him among friends.

No need to.. hihi.. AND IT'S JISSSS... EH.. JIS! 🤣 Japan-Industrial-Standard. but they stopped with these around 1974-78 with these and my 1979 280zx has phillips screws.. zKars, thanks for the information on the thread size etc. I just wanted to be (to) correct.. one of my obnoxious qualities! 😉

You can recognize these screws by the little dimple in one of the 4 edges on the screwhead!!