Alright, here's my goal, and I'm stating it here so I can hopefully hold myself accountable.

I want to bring the Datsun home from storage in May. In order to do that I need to make room in the garage, which means finding a place for the following

16 tires/wheels (headed to the basement)

Complete Datsun Suspension (disassemble and then take to basement)

Dispose of

Last week Dad and I worked on the motor a bit, then I got sick and work pretty much halted. Today I started on what I had hoped to do last Sunday, cleaning up and reassembling motor bits.

Here's a list of the things I did today, or attempted to do :)

Painted the oil pan. Last week dad and I took the Oil pan from the L28ET motor to the car washed and tried to clean it up, it had

So my parents are in town for a few days. Dad and I spent some time working on the motor for the 240Z today. I'll try to take some pictures tomorrow.

We pulled the valve cover off, as well as the oil pan, to look things over on the motor. So far things look good, though we could see quite a bit of crap sitting above the valves, mostly dead bugs and such. I tried to get them out with a c

So I took some time this evening to put parts up on Ebay. You can see them all by looking at my items for sale page!

The current parts include

• 1978 Datsun 280Z L28E Distributor and Wires
• 1978 Datsun 280Z L28E Exhaust Manifold
• 1978 Datsun 280Z L28E Intake Manifold
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I get some of the most random emails from this website.

"Nice to see you working on your ride in that qeek shirt LOL

They suck. Submitted By: NA"

Who are you? What fricking shirt are you talking about?

So Nick came over this morning and helped me get the motor off the ground and onto the engine stand so I could begin tearing it apart. After breaking a bolt off in the head trying to get one of the mounts setup for the cherry picker we managed to get the motor up and off the ground, though it took a couple of tries because we tried to get by with "the wrong" parts, meaning bolts in the chain th

Today Nick and I ran around town, getting some metal for his 240Z, then around to find a few other supplies that he needed.

When I got home I was half motivated to work on the car! So I went out to the garage, after sitting on the couch for 30 minutes, and got to working. It's still cold here in St. Louis so I had the garage door closed and decided to plug the space heater in to warm it

What? Another 240Z may become part of www.project240z.com? More information next week.....

What? Chris actually worked on the 240Z? Impossible! It tis true, it really is. Tonight I got home and decided it was time to tear into the motor, so I did just that. I even recorded the whole process, so hopefully I'll have video up soon. For now you can check out the photos of what I found, be warned, it's not pretty!

So I think the time has come. I hope to begin work on the 240Z again this week. First step, finish taking apart the blown motor and find the missing piston! Next step after that, start to take apart the L28E motor sitting on the floor. It's been sitting for almost a year now, and I've learned my lesson about not taking a look at what you have (see previous "First step" above).

So I hope