Building Datsun 240z 1970 Engine

[@arttafil6792]

A lot of DIY’rs would forget the importance of drilling the stress relief hole at the end of a crack even if you’re welding it.

[@hotsuace24]

The narration, music, and time lapse is.... 👌 on point. My eyes are just melting from the art that went into this video with minimal effort. You my sir inspire me so. Plus that cat looks spoiled 😠

[@benjaminnielsen4288]

Man, I love what you're doing with this. Put together very well. Makes me want to break out my L28 and start working on it :) Cant wait to see the end product. Keep it up!

[@xenon-240z]

90% sure we thought the paint would burn off the exhaust plate, yeah. Hope that chrome sticks it looks gorgeous!

[@ricky240z]

Fantastic Video Segment, I have an original 72' 240z just rusting away in my driveway, and you provide great motivation for guys like me to try to "Make the Ole Z" Great Again, looking forward to following you.

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Ricky Blanton my z is sitting in my drive way under a car cover and I still get people stopping to ask if I want to sell it. 😂

[@seansommo]

Leave the second pully. I have a 1971 240z that came with Ac. It wasnt common but on the higher end models you could get an optional Ac. package.

[@Gildyyy]

music selection is really something

[@willdiesel3909]

Quien era Esther?

[@charlestrevor7865]

Hell yeah buddy keep the Datson name alive used to have a 510 SB

[@dimwitzgarage4686]

mmm, yes datson, lul

[@bartscanland9415]

To the best of my knowledge power steering was not available on 70-78 Z cars. The first (nearest engine) groove was for the smog pump and/or A/C where applicable, the second (furthest) was for alternator and water pump.

[@SSJIndy]

There's a really nice ELECTRIC power steering conversion from zpowersteering.com I put it in my 260z. Works great and I'm happy I spent the $$$ for it (Yes, it's not cheap!)

[@batorback6303]

This L 28 It is so good! good job!

[@billboggess2082]

Water bypass? Size of tubing and hose? Or is it OEM?

[@cowboywonton]

Nice build! Is that a shim on your water pump to align the water pump pulley to the other pulleys?

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Of nothing. Thanks for watching.

[@romeohamrick6842]

Can do a video with wiring and connections

[@mauriceclemens3286]

Why Ford engine blue and white?🤔🤔🤔

[@SSJIndy]

Really. The air compressor is more the correct Datsun blue!

[@randyng-a-fook1695]

You put the left side mount on the right side of the motor and the right side mount on left side of the motor.

[@RESTORATIONRESCUE]

Love the build of the Z motor.

[@tenderthoughts]

Stripper? Just "paint it" with brake fluid and leave for about half hour then whip. It will remover everything down to the metal.

[@victorylanel3150]

nice to see ya changed those engine mounts​😉. I think you'll find the inside pulley is AC, middle is fan and a PS would be a small bolt on outside. Given the mods to the water pump perhaps you have one off a LD28 diesel?

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Victorylane L all I know is the back pulley lines up so you may be right.

[@gustavorojas8196]

Is that the same n42 head on this engine from your previous videos? Great video and thank you for sharing.

[@arttafil6792]

You are quick! I hope you get paid by the job and not the hour. LOL.

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Have spacer. Will run good. Thanks.

[@bartscanland9415]

Why didn't you get the correct water pump? That's ultimately what led to the need for a different alternator.

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

So long story short. The pump housing or timing chain cover was corroded o the point that it was like having a bad water bump. At the time we could not locate a good one. (North Idaho) so I remachined the cover we had. So now all the alignments are off. So all new alternators need to be adjusted accordingly. If you look closely pump doesn't line up with main pully. Didn't want to go into that on video so I basically skip that fact. Close enough for government work. Good catch.

[@antoniodelfino7737]

I’m thinking about building a Datsun 240-280z and I think I found a place to start and i’m going to look at it soon but is there anything I should look out for? like rust in certain areas or anything that would indicate that something isn’t good about it.

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Antonio Delfino the better question is we're should I not look for rust? The answer is no where. 1 lower part of front fenders by doors. 2 Entire sill plate under door. 3 all along rear wheel well fender. 4 lower corners of windshield rubber. 5 under rear hatch all along top plate above tail lights. And of corse. 6 Both foot well floor pans. I had one z where the front sway bar mounts had rusted out the fram. Last 7 where the spare tire goes.

[@CarsBikesandCoffee]

Nice work on the engine!

[@dominicsoto2533]

Dont remove the second pulley that assembly is balanced and couldnt removing that disrupt the rotating assembly balance......prolly super minimal but the same could be said about removing that pulley just for looks just my two cents

[@ricky240z]

Fantastic Video Segment

[@killahkay2112]

mount is on the wrong way I hope you machined the pulley off ... I'm sure you'll gain a bit of HP in the end .

[@Urban_Lumber_Winnipeg]

By a TIG welder so you don't have to do so much grinding! Good work!

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Hear here

[@alleybuilds5370]

look into carb spacers. it looks like you are not running them and it helps with tuning. i think the race cars would have to run the smaller spacers do to a rule not 100% positive

[@victoreboli211]

Who drew the little 240 sliding on the intro? I like it😅

[@FishboyBakery]

Can anyone tell me what the white pipe being hammered in at 3:49 is?

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Case oil breather tube.

[@kenyonstewart7120]

The old saying "when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" --> "when you have a powder coating setup everything looks like..." I won't say what I think it looks like, other than in the first part of the video I thought that was the before pictures, not the after...

[@timwing4379]

Yeah, leave that second pulley on, unless you want to mess with possibly having to re-balance it.

[@keeganbritton7939]

pretty sure those motor mounts are backwards.

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

All keep that in mind thanks

[@mpetersen6]

You've got machine shop. Why not just set the water pump up in the lathe and face it off.

[@TriniRogue]

Machine the wart of an extra pully of the double pully jonny

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

TriniRogue cool

[@toyota.2000gt]

日本ではヘッドカバーは素・メッキ・赤が多い、ブロックは青、オイルパンは黒、補器類は素ってエンジンが多いと思う。

[@WRMonger1]

I hope that you didn't machine off the other pulley landing. It's much more difficult to put it back if you need it later on than to just leave it there. You never know what you might want to do in the future

[@KevinWilliams-px6il]

I saw what you did wrong instantly. You put the motor mounts on the wrong sides of the block lol.

[@knotsandstuff]

Kevin Williams wat what? when? the engine leans toward the passenger side?

[@jeandremarais336]

Awesome again

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Thanks!

[@jasonsykes5993]

should have used a set of new bolts.

[@EnimaAicDz]

great video can you give me the music

[@pelikan909]

Keep the double balancer

[@EnimaAicDz]

thankssss

[@cooperbee408]

why would you paint that valvecover

[@albertgallardo8441]

Why not

[@c0rpse1]

ur work is top notch just wish you didnt paint it :(

[@sweettee3647]

I would paint the lettering Nissan white.

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Sweet Tee I'm hopping to sand it back down to the metal and then polish the letters to a nice shine.

[@SteelRider]

11:50 dat music

[@charliebrownau]

Music is too loud and annoying

[@nbenning25]

On my '72 240z, I took off my three pulley balancer (Alternator, Smog, AC) and replaced with a single pulley from ZcarDepot (zcardepot.com/harmonic-balancer-damper.html) Reduced the weight by 10lbs!

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Nicholas Bennington not so wored about the weight. Just the look. But good to know they have a single pulley replacement.

[@jbour875]

machine off the pulley if you haven't already. its an inline 6 and should be balanced very well, and its not like its helping any. it could help with rotational mass but you're probably running a stock flywheel so who cares.

[@oldbustedhotness5994]

Watch my latest video to find out.

[@winfordbr]

OBH! 😂😂😂Awesome!

[@spm4426]

Grind the extra puley off, If wou need a air filter cover i got one that i can sell you it was removed from my 71 240Z

[@PearlFoxx]

Don't cut it! Leave it on ;)

[@jasonsykes5993]

get a decent air filter box

[@sportscars9982]

Put powersteering

[@jorgedominguez2256]

get rid of orange peel

[@szaki]

All that work for nothing! LOL!