Monday morning, running late for work. Turn the key, nothing. It had done that a few weeks ago, I jumped it and it's run fine. Well, this time, with the car pulled front-first into the garage, jumping was not appealling.

I have a new battery in my Datsun, so pulled it out, and, after taking out battery rack, shoehorned it in, at an angle. Was planning on driving to work, ordering a battery, putting it in tomorrow.

Car started, but immediately had electronic issues. Sat radio died first, followed by all the guages. I shut the engine off asap, but it dieselled a minute or so, having not yet built up vacuum yet. As I got out of the car, saw and smelled a fair amount of smoke, with the attendent electrical smell.

Looks like the positive terminal contacted the air filter housing.

My hope is that I just toasted some fuses, but something about that much smoke makes me suspicious that there's more fried than that. While I'm sure nobody on this board has been quite that stupid, anybody have any thoughts where to start looking once I get the new battery in?

thanks....

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1983 300D- silver blue, tan leather, 205,000.
1975 Datsun 280Z. Stock, ready to restore.
1983 San Juan 23. Dry docked.