Yardbird

So how are your 810s doing? Mine is still running fine. Just turned 100,000 mi.! I just bought an OEM power antenna from eBay for it. Actually two, one for backup as my original one hadn't worked for about 6 months. Paid $36 for one and $28 for the other including shipping. Both new in original box, never used. It's odd that these showed up on ebay within a week of each other. These have long since been NLA from Nissan but would have cost about $185 each if they had them.

As for an L28E in a 810, couldn't you just get an L24E from a 80-84 Maxima and put a L28E bottom end in it (bored .120)? The'yre plentiful in the junkyards at least around here. You'd be pretty much limited to 2.8 but the only machine shop you'd need is the boring of the L24E block. I have one sitting on my engine stand along with a diesel oil pan but I haven't started work on it yet.

I was at work at ACE Hardware in Riverside. It shook that little metal building pretty good! A couple of things fell from the shelf but notning major. Just a few rattled nerves. When I got home, San Bernardino near Devore, I noticed that a couple of my die cast cars had rolled forward in their case but nothing fell or got broken/damaged.

Actually, you're still only close. It was 85. The last RWD Maxima was the 84. And technically that would be a 910 (square-bodied four door and wagon) as the last 810 was built in 1980.

Thanks, Steve. If those pillar mouldings are in good shape I am interested regardless of color. Let me know. I've done business with Norman at OEM Surplus/Neosho Truck Parts for some time now. In fact, I just received a new AFM from him today. I've also dealt with Charlie at Old Car Parts, Chloe at Midwest Z when she was around, several other places here and even a couple of places in Australia.

I am loving this thread! I have owned my 810 for over two years now. This is the first time I've seen this kind of interest in them other than the 4 cyl 200B in the UK and Australia. I've got parts lists for them and a 5 page microfiche set that I'm looking into having converted to TIF or PDF format and put on a CD. You guys have answered some questions I've had about these cars. I always thought that they were more ZX based than Z based. Does anyone know where I can get the two plastic pillar mouldings that go inside along either side of the front windshield?

I seldom get to post pictures of my daily driver 810. It's nice to see some interest in them.