l28

Hi all, it's taken me a while to start a thread on my car - but better late than never, right? Lets take it back to the start... Ever since Petrolicious dropped the 240z "Dare to be Different" film, I knew my dream car was a Datsun Z. The body lines, the noise (oh god, the noise!), the...

So..... L28 engine with an N42 block and N42 head. It's basically the very first iteration with smog kit. EGR, Charcoal, Cat. All this is going. Plan: Lightened billet flywheel Jenvey intake (independant 6 x TB upgrade) with injectors Fast EFI upgrade Zstory race sport header, line and JDM...

After what feels like a year, actually a couple of months. We have received our 280z. A final project for my son and I before he finishes his last year at uni and goes of to adult somewhere far away.. I bought the car as a non runner, putting body condition over anything else. Car is complete...

First off im new to the Z Club and have searched to see if i could find some answers but came up empty handed. So, I have a 78 280 with an 82 turbo engine that im running NA. I bought the car not running fixxed a relay and it ran. The distributor was bad so i replaced it and put new plugs...

heres my baby in tokyo before she was put on a boat for ireland. its not really a 280z. this is a jap car and was fitted with a 2.0 litre originally. during its extensive restoration an L28 was dropped into it (bored to 3.0)

heres my baby in tokyo before she was put on a boat for ireland. its not really a 280z. this is a jap car and was fitted with a 2.0 litre originally. during its extensive restoration an L28 was dropped into it (bored to 3.0)

heres my baby in tokyo before she was put on a boat for ireland. its not really a 280z. this is a jap car and was fitted with a 2.0 litre originally. during its extensive restoration an L28 was dropped into it (bored to 3.0)

heres my baby in tokyo before she was put on a boat for ireland. its not really a 280z. this is a jap car and was fitted with a 2.0 litre originally. during its extensive restoration an L28 was dropped into it (bored to 3.0)

heres my baby in tokyo before she was put on a boat for ireland. its not really a 280z. this is a jap car and was fitted with a 2.0 litre originally. during its extensive restoration an L28 was dropped into it (bored to 3.0)

Just needs part of the throttle linkage back from the chromer, some carb tweaking (sort those tight mixture screw threads out) and a couple of other minor things and the engine is done. In this pic, you can see the oil pressure cutoff switch and wiring that I decided to add to the pump setup...

Just needs part of the throttle linkage back from the chromer, some carb tweaking (sort those tight mixture screw threads out) and a couple of other minor things and the engine is done.

Just needs part of the throttle linkage back from the chromer, some carb tweaking (sort those tight mixture screw threads out) and a couple of other minor things and the engine is done.

Just needs part of the throttle linkage back from the chromer, some carb tweaking (sort those tight mixture screw threads out) and a couple of other minor things and the engine is done.

Header and triple carbs fitted. Features Dellorto DHLA40s - carb bodies hand mirror-polished (don't ask me how long that took me!), intake polished. Next jobs - fitting of Arizona Z Car crossflow rad, fit exhaust

Went in (engine and gearbox together) very easily and quickly - the fun bit was then fastening the gearbox tailshaft up!!