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I am having a clear out. When I bought my car it came with old club magazines 5 x Z Club magazines 2004 - 2005 14 x The Classic Z Register magazines 1995 - 2003 Post up a message on here if there is an interest and I will put them up on ebay Postage will be £3.49 and I'll put a price of 51p...

I know some of you are into model kits. I bought one from Japan to build in my own real car livery. It is a right hand drive kit whilst many kits are left hand drive. Up for sale on ebay if you are interested (after 8pm Wednesday)

A detailed documentary on youtube by barchetta. If the link below gets broken type "barchetta datsun 240z" in the youtube search function

You might find this guide useful. The later senders seem to be readily available on ebay uk. Might save you ordering something from the usa http://datsun1200.com/modules/mediawiki/index.php?title=Thermal_transmitter If the link is broken try typing datsun1200 temperature in a search engine.

I obtained a new old stock temperature sender off ebay. It fixes into the thermostat housing by means of a separate hollow nut/hex bolt with external M16 thread. The Nissan part number for the hollow nut seems to be 25251. I was going to use my existing nut to attach the new sender but found the...

You've all seen the chrome solid gates for gear selection on Ferraris. What about this for an S30 5 speed gearbox ? On my last trip out whilst going at a nice pace I slipped from 5th to 4th but hit reverse. Not a pleasant noise. I've done this a few times before forgetting I'm in my S30 and not...

I saw a Youtube video where the guy was upgrading his heater blower. Underneath and screwed to the glove box was a plastic panel where you could stow maps or other paperwork. My 240z doesn't have one neither does the carpartsmanual.com diagrams show one. What cars were these fitted to ? USA...

The window winders are held on by a C clip. The Datsun clips are not robust so that your door handle might keep falling off . Some of you will know that you can go on ebay and get Citroen/Pugeot versions that do the job (£2.65 a pair). They are much stronger than the Datsun version. Oh joy. But...

I need to get a set of connecting rod bearings for a 1973 240z. I don't know what size will be needed until I get the old ones off. Has anyone gone through this process and can advise me on :- What brand to get. I see Clevite; ITM; ACL offered. Any others preferred? Where to get them from. I...

V8 Chevy powered. Convertible Search for "Jay Leno swapped datsun" on Youtube Chevy V8 Swapped Datsun 240Z - Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube

A couple of weeks ago I ordered items from zcardepot. The items cost $98, the shipping was $70 (items weighed well under a pound). I assumed the pricey $70 included import duty (vat). There is no clarity on the zcardepot website how they deal with exports. See the previous zclub thread below...

Does anyone know the specified thickness of an E88 cylinder head ? Did a search on the internet but only the following info came up .... on a zclub thread. https://zclub.net/community/index.php?threads/e88-cylinder-head-thickness-and-other-stuff.1458/ (Do a search on "e88 cylinder head...

I need to make a hardwood tool thingy to retain the timing chain. After doing a good search the only dimension diagram that give me confidence was from "www.californiaparts.net" (the source website is no longer accessible). This is the diagram...

A guy is seeking advice/information/collaboration in fitting a fuel injector within an SU carb. Judging by his other output videos he is competent with engineering. He is seeking feedback and info on his idea. Here is the video link www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMxzyXzIkks If the link doesn't work...

Worth a look at this youtube video:- If the link doesn't work go to youtube and in the search type Hagerty Mazda Datsun The first bit is about Mazdas. The Datsuns come in at the 11 minute mark. Barn Find Hunter is an entertaining section of the Hagerty output and worth following his trips...

This weeks edition of Classic Car Weekly (9th October) has the bold headline that Nissan will pioneer small batch production of presently unavailable parts. I couldn't track any further info on a Nissan website nor any other source. Not sure if this will eventually trickle into the UK Nissan...

The Bristol Motor Club have a sprint day at Castle Combe (see websites). They also had one in March of this year. We had an informal meet up for the equivalent March event and six S30,s turned up. It,s a chance to have another gathering. The last time we met, we turned up between 10.30am and...

The manufacturers provide a general setup guide with this distributer. However, my understanding is that the Datsun version has the shaft key/tang oriented at 90 degrees to the OEM distributer. So the rotor arm on the OEM dizzy roughly points in the direction of the radiator at TDC for cylinder...

At the Castle Combe Circuit on the above date is the Great Western Sprint organised by the Bristol Motor Club. The Queen Square Bristol Breakfast Club (facebook) has also flagged up this event in their calendar. They often have a good selection of cars turning up at their meets. Not sure if...

I planned to refresh the 240z brake drums with aluminium paint (currently it has a sad aluminium/silverish paint finish). But hang about, the outer casing of the drum is aluminium. 1) Did the drums of 240z's etc come out of the factory without a paint finish ? 2) Does your car have the bare...