I can't give you enough thumbs up for this build my man. Mad respect to a rare breed of KZfaqr nowadays who actually build a car with their own hands from scratch. Looking forward to the future uploads. The amount of small details that went into this build is amazing.

Easily my most favorite build on youtube. I wish I had the time and skill to restore my 280 like you did yours. Glad to see all the work paying off!

Big congratulations on your first drive! A big moment for every car builder.

Super happy for the pair of you, the grin on your face whilst driving said it all 😁 Fantastic build, well done 👍

Thumbs up my dude! 3 years of hard work paid off! Love the interior panel/dash area.

Insane I was just watching the video from 2 years ago, just to see that only a month ago you are now driving it! I hope you enjoy it man! Well deserved!

Both of you have done a great work. Wish you much fun with it. Take care

Your dedication to this car and your followers is amazing! You inspired me to start my build series on my 2jz swap into my 300zx with some Restore work as well! I love you music you use and the way you film! Keep on killing it bro. Hope to meet you at a z even one day

Congrats on this man, huge steps. Been watching this build for years as i'm about to start on mine this winter. I look forward to seeing more post on here and IG.

Congratulations on your first drive! I'm so happy for you to have to Z up and running

Best car build series on youtube. Well done 👏

Congratulations! Very big day indeed! Hoping to get back to my build soon. Maybe one day you'll see a blue one pull in your driveway! Well done!

hey man awesome to see her finally running! can't wait to see what she makes once she is tuned!

Congratulations to you both! ❤️🚙 Great job! Love from 🇦🇺

Pretty cool. Debbie and I watched this together. It looks and sounds great. Well done.

Congratulations bro! An amazing day I am sure.

Way to go! The first few minutes of driving makes all the hard work worthwhile. Time to consider the Subaru limited slip differential swap.

Awesome work I have been watching this build since the first day

Awesome build! Keep it up 👍👍

Nice 1st drive!

Big props to you. I just finished doing an RB25 swap into my Z and I can definitely appreciate how much work you've put in. Especially trying to film it all while you're wrenching. Also mad props to your wife for being so supportive. My wife supports my hobby too, but it will be a cold day in hell when she picks up a wrench!

Mate AWESOME BUILD. Good engine for the car. I have the same set up too. Love your work bud. 👌

Great video, glad I stumbled across this, I'll have to check out the past videos, as I have a 280z, and a 1jz sitting in my garage, about gave up on the 1j idea and do an ls swap. Maybe this will inspire me once again.

Well done!!!

You gf should be as proud as you she has been there with you and for you. Congratulations!!! And dyno results were awesome

I found your video about removing the underbody coating on this car very helpful. How time flies....congrats, the car looks solid.

That was awesome! 😱 Congratulations on the first drive dude! My boyfriend and I watch your videos and we too are going to work on his Datsun 😁 can't wait til we do our first drive like you guys did. Once again congrats!!

Looks great!

Great work just watched few of your vids I got a 280zx in uk only driven it abit with the stock L28 & loved it currently stripped down & need alot of work love & money chucking it it 1 day I may decide to get a engine swap looking at options now 1jz 2jz rb26 rb25 god knows what will happen if anything just hope I live long enuff to get round to it with all my cars and busy life

Nice job man, congrats!!

Yeah Buddy!! Love that exhaust sound! Congrats on the build! Off course there’s always more work to be done. I am solving a few gremlins on mine and it’ll be test drive ready as well! This definitely fired me up to get to work!

Nice man. Im about to start a v-8 swap, turbos, on my 89 300ZX, TTop. Love the Murder look too.

Awesome! I bet it feels grate to be to this point!

Congrats guys! Awesome build, some fine tuning and your there. It’s a bit to loud for me, but I’m old. 😁

sweet looking ride dude.

Very nice!

I definitely understand why you were nervous with the first drive. My supra that I've been building for about 4yrs is at the tuners and I'm freaking out, it's a lot of money and time if it doesn't turn out a success. Good job man!

Hell yeah bro!

Great job sir. I've really enjoyed you taking us along on this build. Ive even learned quite a bit and got some ideas for my own project. One thing i did notice on your test drive is it looks like your hood might not have been fully/correctly latched. Give that a look see before you do any high speed stuff :)

The girl, the Car, your freedom, You don't need nothing else bro...

congrat broo! can u tell me what are u doing for got that big loud sound its really really nice hope u tell me what u do for getting like this sound 💙

Awesome 👏🏻

Sounds so aggressive!! Good job man!

Respect

awesome build 1 thing I missed was what program are you running on your tablet? again this is a sick car!!!

Watching this video I'm glad I threw out my welded diff and upgrading to a r230. The car really looks amazing tho great build

awesome stuff mate, great to see you driving the beast. You have to give your GF a drive now!

Your faces say more then your mouths ever could:) Great vid and great car!

The dog outran you at 6:40 lol. JK good build man

This is sickkkk., can’t wait to see it tuned.. what are you gonna wrap it in?

Awesome

For a 1jz without a tune the z sounds really good.

dope dope

Yeah my own rusty datsun hasn't seen the road in too long as well.

My first car, 76 280z fi

those rattles really take me back...

Where in Illinois? I've got a buddy in Springfield that I'm trying to talk him into the 1jz swap for his 280.

👌

Nice job, Hello neighbours here I come, LOL

it sounds like its gonna shred on pieces...

Can you tell me what wheels you have on and the sizes? Thanks

Sick - how is the temperature? Oil and water ?

So when does it go up on bring a trailor?

Maybe after the car is tune would you take her to a car show.

Congratulations...! Hellofajob..!

you should keep it matte black it looks mean as hell

what are you using for a front jack point? custom?

royal purple isn't the best oil btw

and that z32 shift nob thou lol

Is that sound deadening on the roof?

The car looks great but it sounds like pieces are falling off

Very illegal in Australia LOL

Not exactly a smooth ride lol