Watch more of the Datsun build: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8CnbKSCmJm4moE.html

I see they didn't address the fact that the engine was initially installed wrong. The mounts were swapped side for side, which made the engine sit vertical, it's supposed to lean to the right side slightly. If the mounts were installed correctly from the start, the exhaust kit would have fit... The swapped mounts isn't an uncommon issue. There have been plenty of threads over the years of people doing this, but as car guys there should have been clues once the trans and header was being installed that the engine wasn't sitting right... This is why it's important to take pictures before taking any car apart and referencing them during reassembly. labeling parts in bags and boxes or with tape also helps.

The paint looks like primer!

I had a 71 240z…it was really a great car for its time, and priced right!

Would love to have seen more of the track time outcomes. Handling, full throttle runs, etc.

that is a lot of smoke coming from the tail pipe....

High school acquaintance had a 240Z fairlady brought back from Japan with right hand drive in the late 80's. Loved that car then and still do now. The front tires on this build look a little too wide for my taste and not sure about the yellow headlights but otherwise nothing horribly bothersome. I do tend to like cars that are more along the lines of stock appearing with subtle mods.

I really dig this build! It has a lot of character. Sounds fantastic! Looks like it will break in nicely!

Nice build. To each his own. Never been a fan of 4x4 bolt on fender flares and hacking sheetmetal. Either flare the metal, mini-tub or tuck the wheels somehow. If they had matched the flairs to the carbon fiber look of the bumper, then rolled the rear pan or added a carbon fiber rear bumper instead of plated bolts - it would have looked more cohesive. Just an opinion. Every build has budgets and critics.

Thank you

You guys knocked it out of the park on this build. Great job. 👏 😎

Gray: it’s bold!

We need MORE sound clips of the cars

This channel is a meeting place for amateur mechanics in the world

The 280Z looks the best.

Heritage restomod a term I’ve just heard. I like it !

8:32 "It's going to give you that distinctive tone that you guys remember from the 60's and the 70's" LOL Most of your viewers probably weren't even alive much less remember the 60's 70's or maybe even the 80's. Great now I feel old... I do miss those sounds along with a lot of other things 😎

Was waiting to hear what that car sounds like at full throttle?!?

I really enjoy seeing a nice clean garage like that and the work on The Z is really nice to see a JDM products for a change right guys good job. Also I noticed when he got out the 280z and shut the door that it sounded bro. No Z31 WTH

you guys should take this car out to Branson Z Fest lots of cool cars and great roads to tear down

The 280 looks great! I would've preferred a staggered wheel setup. The front wheels look too big for my taste. The rear fitment I can live with.

Love iT

3:33 no clutch alignment tool?!? Jimmy your not that goot yet lol!

YES FINALLY!!

Beautiful car. Now take it back to the shop and rebuild the engine. Can't hide the smoke. 👍

I still don't know how the hell that exhaust can even breathe with that header merge collector, welded on at 45° angle to the midpipe... exhaust 101 right there

Love the old L series motors

Batch fire....seriously? The 90's called and they want their EFI back.

beautiful looking car but it smokes a bit though

So are we ever going to get to hear the car run? I hope there's another episode. We need a total review of the new suspension and the car as a whole.

Lol the 2nd tax weld on the header

I like V8 conversions on Datsun Z’s.

MS3 setup would be sweet for this car. sequential injection and no extra injector connectors 😀

I would have liked to see dyno numbers to compare with the base numbers.

Love this car 👍... I realize that JDM isn't your jam, it's not mine either, but everyone loves a Z car.

Awesome car, I'm a Nissan fan but as of lately Nissan has lost its soul, build quality, and reliability -

Nice job BUT, you really neglected(to me) even mentioning one of Datsun/Nissan's biggest supporters. Paul Newman RACED the Z's for years.

Anyone else look away when he started welding?

Headers? Lol you mean header .. there is only one

I'm not the biggest fan of the JDM cars but this is pretty cool. It would be interesting to see them stuff a modern drivetrain including DCT and make it a truly modern restomod. Maybe a GTR drivetrain which would allow for some really interesting mods.

The wheels and tires are clown shoes. The fender flares are unnecessary if you used proper tires, too. The rest of the build is pretty cool. Commie grey isn't my color, but I have to admit it works here. You guys get a C+.

Boulder grey, guys. Its not bold. Regardless I think the color is great.

Nice

Cool car. Super wide tires/wheels look a little odd without wider flares, but I guess I could get used to them. 🤷‍♂

Beautiful…can you tell me who’s selling the kits for the cd009 trans..❤

Beautiful car. I thought louvers would look good on that.

You guys should of thrown a turbo on it. They make real decent power with a. Little boost. Can’t compare the 170hp stock engine to a twin turbo new z.

It’s obvious these shows only cater to the the average car guy who won’t notice the important details… 1. No clutch alignment tool 2. No 02 sensor installation 3. A generic cat and torpedo muffler, what is this 1975 come on man. 4. No startup video and explanation of how that batch fire EFI system works. 5. No acceleration pulls to determine if the engine actually gained any power. 6. No actual engine upgrade just a gasket refresh. This particular L-Series engine only has an 8.5:1 compression ratio and a very mild cam…it could have used a set of high compression pistons, a ported head and cam upgrade. They were sponsored the suspension, brakes and gearbox upgrade which is awesome sure but skimped on the engine, I don’t get it, I could go on and on but what’s the point!

FAST EFI technically makes this car not road legal. Even in Texas, if the tech notices it's a FAST system during a safety inspection, it could fail and lose it's road legal status. Yes, the safety inspections can look at the general presence of emission compliance. The only way around that would be to declare it an antique car, side step safety inspections and not commute to work in it. This is a big deal -- you should probably warn users. You might get pulled over by TX cops who believe there is no exemption from inspections, and have to fight to drive around without the sticker.

Hey You guys, love the setup, we are working on a similar project here in Belgium, but we can't get our setup right, we also use the EFI Fast but can't figure out all the settings, (PS - we only have 98 octane here...) what are the numbers you are using?

needed to rebuild that effing motor - smokes like a second-hand lawn mower

Dude. There are many y pipe exhaust that fit your s30Z.

For me this was a disappointing episode. Very little detail was given. For example I believe that the transmission they used requires some tunnel mods and some other costume work but none of that was talked about. When they put the transmission in the splash guard was in place but later you see that the splash guard is missing. The explanation of the Fast EFI was lacking...

I see in the beginning of the video the engine is installed straight up. The engine sits to the passenger side 14°. Then later I see the engine is sitting correctly. What's going on?

The engine is installed incorrectly. It should be countered over to the passenger side. That's why the exhaust doesn't fit and the oil pan doesn't sit flat.

you didn't mention anything about the fuel rail....it's from ProTunerz and you are using what kind of injectors with the stock intake manifold? they don't come in the kit - or i was looking for the wrong kit 🤷🏻‍♂

Sick

Looks pretty boring compared to mine but its nice ! I have the FAST system on mine as well. It took some time to get it running just right but overall i am happy. Ots been a great car for the 28 years i have had my 77'.

where did you get that rpm signal thing plz let me know

I have the same type of hack job exhaust system on my Ford 300 inline 6.🙄

You mean to tell me that all 6 injectors fire together? So your using 500% more fuel than intended?

You missed out on putting a 406 in there.

I want that car

If its a batch fire injector’s wouldn’t that give it a bit worse fuel mileage since its just giving fuel no matter what?

Suprised they did not just reengine it.

Great build, but I'm not a fan of the yellow headlights

Y'all didn't need all the music... I was looking forward to hearing that angry little straight 6 howl around the track😒

Put that glass pack where that dumb catalytic converter is, use the muffler in the back , and then put a turbo + manifold and you have a stock sounding monster

How Cheap and shitty should we make the exhaust? Them: yes

Pretty disappointing. Just so much wrong. The width of the front wheel and tire combo is just terrible. The L28 smoking like hell. Junk fuel injection. Swing and a miss.

This entire build was half arsed and you finish it off with a semi EFI upgrade. For the expense of the ECU you should have gone with individual coil packs for full ECU control of the engine instead of using the OE dizzy and coil. A waste of money and just kinda lame. Catalytic converter is likely too far back to warm up properly and be of much use and the battleship gray paint is boring compared to the light blue metallic of the original factory finish.

Nice looker, but seems to have a pretty nasty smoking habit...

looks like the car from Count's Customs

I love everything else about the build, but I just can't get past those headlights. They look absolutely hideous. I don't know why they thought they were a good idea.

The one time a Z is on Powernation and doesn’t get a nice LS swap Sad times we live in

Yup, Swing and a MISS. Hideous color - shiney primer? The cheap black flairs installed by the local high school, with tires hanging out like a typical teenager's Honda. An exhaust worthy of a Midas repair shop. And while a lot of commenters lament a batch fire injection (it means very little as far as performance goes), you guys missed the boat: this car is worthy of a set of ITB (individual throttle bodies) that would have made it stand out and perform.

Yellow headlights? JDM inspired fender mounted rear view mirrors that wreck the front fender line and thus the entire style line. Not for me or my Z.

This is not the content I grew up with. The subject matter is perfectly fine, but whomever is making decisions on HOW to do exhaust, fender flares, tires poking out needs to be fired. Both of these cats seem to have great skills, but most of their builds are hacked together in one way or another. Building on a budget does NOT mean doing it wrong. I have seen JDM builds that were safe and done very well. Much like the 3rd gen Camaro before this, this is terrible when it comes to 40% of the build. Compared to the quality of the shows, Get rid of Carcass, Get rid of these guys, or get rid of the decision makers.

Batch fire fuel injection was what it would of had with the old system so where is the modern fuel injection upgrade apart from the inclusion of closs loop it's pretty much the same set up as the original just marginally more efficient with the clossed loop system trimming the fuel a little bit not as good as a proper sequential with individual injection pulses timed for each cylinder intake stroke as all modern cars have I'm not 100% up to speed with just how a fast fuel ecu system works but I'm pretty sure on heltech you achieve this and run individual coil packs to if wanted to just by modifying your distributor into a crank angle sensor or Installing a crank trigger wheel to the crank pully with a crank angle sensor

I don't know why, but this is irritating me now...video title should be changed to "Nissan would't approve a Haltech or Holley fuel management system, so we're band-aiding this build with batch fire"

That exhaust looks like something a tech that gets paid $11 an hr working at meineke would put together. Come on this is a show that is supposed to be nothing but top notch work! My 8 yr old son could have put that exhaust on better

Is it me or the car is making huuuge oil smoke at the end?

Why the hell would you go to the effort to change the whole efi setup and then make it batch fire instead of sequential

Cars on the frame rails😔

smoking 😢

Well, it's DEFINITELY much better looking than the new Z! Dear God, the new ones are UGLY!

DevilZ will running..

What the actual F&#$

Looks like she is smoking😮

cANT stand shiny primer

They show up at a track, tell us "its great to finally stretch its legs...use 6th gear", then close the video with the cars slowly going round the track. Just sad. Thumbs DOWN.

hope they just cleaned the motor up and didn't rebuild it! the blue smoke @ 20:13 and forward is embarrassing

meh. some hack work.

Show idea : Geo metro convertible with modern GM ECOTEC 1.3 Three cylinder turbo 3 or 1.4 ECOTEC turbo 4 cylinder. Almost triple the horsepower and torque. BONUS use AWD power train complete with ABS , stability control and power steering.

Yeah this build just missed tbh

Batch fire!?!? 🤮👎 Might as well b a fuel injection system from the 80s!

What a hack job...the car and the show. So many wrong choices.

That little engine is begging for a turbo.....

Those arches and those wheels look terrible. Batch fire ignition is just lazy.

Around 8min I stopped watching. What gives... Your not in a state that requires a car that old to run CATS ? Noticed Pat & Frankie got pushed to use one too but Pat gave the excuse it was part of the stealth mode . But now this early 70's very efficient fuel injection getting a catalytic converter . What's the politics shaping these decisions