Hey guys!
I know it's been a long time since I've posted but I was gone the entire summer.
Unfortunately, rather than the update I thought I was going to post about doing some more work on my car I have some very bad news. I just started college at CalPoly and wanted to take my car, of course, so I drove it down here. I've driven the car nearly 5,000 miles since I bought it last October. For some reason, on the way down here the Datsun gods decided it was my time to have my first major issue with the car. Something got inside the engine while I was driving and knocked a valve open and my car started running really rough. I pulled over and looked at it (just knowing it was running rough, at this time I didn't know what the issue was). I thought it was possibly just a bad spark plug or something causing one of the cylinders to not fire. I immediately drove to the nearest shop in SLO that I could. With no tools of my own down at college I had to take it in.
Turns out, there was damage to the engine caused by some foreign object that got inside it. This means I will have to either do an engine swap or rebuild the engine. At least 2 pistons have been severly damaged on the top by the object, as well as the valve bent in those 2 cylinders. The object was not found, only the damage it caused. The car currently only runs on 2 cylinders.
I love this car, and I want to get it back on the road ASAP but being in school now will make that difficult. Basically, I won't be driving my Datsun for at least 3 months :( :(
If you guys have any advice on how to move foward let me know. As for right now, I'm not sure what will happen.