Datsun 240Z L24 Engine Full Rebuild - Start to Finish Restoration of a 50 Year Old Engine

This is an engine from a 1972 Datsun 240Z that I'm told was long ago abandoned in a field and the car and engine were separated. I rebuilt and restored this engine slowly over the course of 2 years and it's finally at a place where I'd say I'm done! The original plan was to build a metal test run stand for this and start the engine up, but at the moment I do not have a place to work and decided to build a wooden stand for it to sit inside my apartment until I have access to garage again. Maybe someday I'll even put it in a car! For now I just enjoy looking at it, hopefully it is now similar to the day it rolled out of the factory over 50 years ago.

This is meant to be an overview of the whole project, but if you are interested in more detail, I have a whole series of videos that go into pretty much everything shown here in far greater detail.

The VIN stamped is: 147753
P30 Block, E88 Head

The casting code is: 2X161 = October 16th, 1972
"2" = 1972, "X" = October (format is 1-9 then X, Y, Z for Oct, Nov Dec), "16" = 16th, "1" = Batch #1 of the day