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Hello sisask, Welcom here... By 4 layers you mean the paint layers? oh well there are enough people here who know alot of that and i could ask my painter also.. I'm restoring a 280zx and should also be ready in march, 2018.. but it's at the painter for a year or so now hahaha i'm in no hurry and so is he! Tell us what it is you want to know.. BTW (by the way..) We here in the Netherlands had a big car show, could be bigger than the one in sweden, (when i see those 4 halls..) the MECC in Maastricht is 35000 m2 big... https://www.interclassicsmaastricht.nl/en/ Greetings from the Netherlands, Mart

yeah and these are DUTCH! we rock....

Funny thing is... the front rozettes or bumperrettes (or whatever you would call e'm ) are the left one sits now on the right and vice versa, and upside down! on the car... no one else sees this? oh well ....

No,no... not at all.. put it in the files.... Maybe someone can enhance these digitally.. Mart

Here i've got a copy of the fiches Datsun 240z / 260z s30 (euro version ?) I'ts readable... Fich0001.pdf Fich0002.pdf Fich0003.pdf Fich0004.pdf Fich0005.pdf

The L24 i was talking about has serial Nr: L24-180723 and came out of a '73 Dutch version 240z. I believe it's one of the last L24's ?? ( Almost sure it's a all Original block.. the car where it came out of was sitting on a junkyard under a enormous pile of junk..for about 25 years... in the early '10's that had to go because the yard was no longer to be and they discovered this car... (It's now on a new location) The son of the owner looked at it and was not surprised by it, he bellowed to his dad on a crane: Shall we throw it in the press or save the engine of it? It got saved.. the car... sadly no... they did'nt know what they were throwing away.... ) On the pic you see that these are flat tops.. no fly cuts.

I've got a '73 complete engine with the E88 head, it's the deeper head, but the pistons are flat with no cut-outs.. no flycut... I'm pretty sure that it is a euro version 240z engine L24.

Wat wij noemen: supergaaf.. Eh... what we call here : super nice! know 'm all...

I'm going to put in some König seats in my 240z, they were used in "Original" rally cars! I've seen them in yellow/black and as in my pic red/black. They have also a fearly high back.

From before my time but something special it is....

Nice ReVox A77 MK 3 Yes they made 4 types of them from round 1967 till 1984!! that good were they! It's one of the best taperecorders ever made.. A77 MK1 till MK4. Just this week i was repairing my own B215 cass tapedeck! After 30 years it needed only a drop of oil and 2 new pinchrollers!! This machine is from 1986, bought it new at my work.. ReVox Import Netherlands!! Was a ReVox engineer for a few years, but i was not the person for a 9 to 5 buro job so later on i was a service engineer, much more fun! Here you see also a part of the cd player B226.. i had a complete set B200 series.. (could have bought a Mercedes from it...haha..) With the biggest speakers ReVox had at that time The Symbol B MK2.. sound was great until the B251 (A very complicated power amp. gave up. I remember that in the 80's when a B251 came in for repair.. the chief engineer asked for a new amp and powersupply for it... HAHAHA.... those things were to complicated, just put new units in it and send it to the customer! I tried to repair my amp but no succes.. The B215 however works after 30 year still perfect! Even the music i recorded with it in the 80- and 90-'s sound realy good!! (all high quality tapes and stored in a good climate!! that's important.) Mart.

Can you give me some explanations? don't get it... but.. since you've got that Trump guy... pffff....

HAHAHA.... Very funny !!! I've seen a LOT of redneck attempt's when trying to repair old Datsuns that were imported overhere to the Netherlands HAHA... but seriously, there is no such thing overhere in europe as a factory sunroof, i've never seen one on a Z..

Reminds me about a question from a (very untechnical) director from the firm i ones worked for... i showed him a set of ratchet ring spanners.. he askt me if that black inner ring was plastic..... (Pfffff.....) I told him YES, and... i have another set of these because these are for undo-ing a nut.. the other set i need to put them back on! (what an %$#^%$)

When i had my first 280zx back in 1991 i already knew that there was a "Mercedes like" engine in it.. some sayd: they took away the starr and wrote NISSAN on it haha... But i think it's like with the SU / Hitachi (roundtop) carbs... they looked at a very good design and made e'm better and call it theire own... good work!

And in europe they had the flattops till 1978, i even know a late sold 78 that is registered in the Netherlands as a 1979 model and has those flattops.. When the engine is cold they are very crappy but after a warm up the engine runs better.. but still a set of roundtops could make it run a lot better.. cold and warm..

There is a story that the L series engines from nissan are copy's of the old Mercedes blocks.. a sertain engineer in design (still nameing no names... ;-) ) took a copy with him from mercedes to Nissan.. And yes i think there has been some copying...

Hahaha... yeah... I don't think those parts are all for 240z... what is that light blue drum right in the middle of pic 1 ??? I don't recognize it.. no 240z part...

if you still have fumes open hatch lay a piece of paper on the rubber seal.. close the hatch and if you can easely pull the paper out it does not close well and leaks. put it back in and close hatch, move the paper around and look for more leaks. Adjust the hatch or maybe you just need a new rubber seal there..

Yeah, every time it's much cheaper in de States, overhere all carparts are more expensive WHY?? (Netherlands is a small market, USA is enormous...) Also in Germany it's all cheaper, i had a clutchplate for 40 euro and overhere in the Netherlands its 90 euro... it's crazy... i can go on and on.. waterpump is overhere 40+ euro. for the cheap stamped impeller that is! Grrrr...

Unbelievable.... it's really frustrating when you know these shields are made (also) in France (EUROPE!!) and here in the Netherlands you have to pay over 600 euro for the windscreen ALONE !! labor is extra..

This one has never seen winter in now 25 !! years, from a ceo of Nissan Netherlands! with complete history, it drove 83300km and is totally Original. (without any scratch or dent of course..)

Haha.... yeah, don't drive it in the winter.. i've got a "as new" 300zx twin turbo 1992 Original dutch version.. for the summer and my 240z is the other car that draws the short straw!! But i must say after 17 ! years of winter driving the underside shows only a little bit of surface rust.. our winters are not that heavy.. for the last years we did'nt have much salt on the roads.. For my 280zx restoration i plan a mix of transparent undercoating ( viscous oil) mixed with WD40. Most important is that you keep it sticky! If it dry's you get cracks in the coating were wather and salt gets in and destroys the metal.. Mart.

I spray my car with wd40 every 2 year.. the old layer of undercoating gets soft and is very sticky! I had a 280zx with every 2 years a new undercoat.. after 10 year i bought that car (my first one) and there was a big layer of undercoat, when the car was 20 years old a mechanic told me he could put a screwdriver through the bottom at 12 positions.. what i'm saying is: use one thin layer of undercoat and keep it "wet" with some wd40, works for me here in the wet and salty dutch winters! So... get off the loose parts and spray some wd40 on a part and let it get soft i a few days if it works do the whole underside. (maybe experiment with a mix of wd40 and paintthinner to get the Original coating soft again.) i would never put a plastic like bedliner on a car because if you see rust then ... it will be to late. and a car rots behind a thick coat of undercoat or bedliner..