w3wilkes

If originality is the goal maybe something like this would help your back. https://www.amazon.com/SAMSONITE-Ergonomic-Lumbar-Support-Pillow/dp/B072K59NYZ/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?th=1 Since originality has not been a thing for me I took the "comfort" approach and replaced the seats in my early 71 240Z with seats I scored from a 77 280Z with new seat foam and new leather seat covers. The big things for me were the seat back and the spring base of the seat bottom vs the straps. With the original seats I hated the extremely limited range of adjusting the recliner angle, with the 77 seats I can easily adjust the tilt and tilt the seat back way forward for access to the tool storage compartments on the floor behind the seats.

@Captain Obvious Curious, once your back gets rested what are your plans for the car now that it has pretty much proven itself as road worthy?

I've been stuck on this album for a couple of weeks now. I'll put on something else and after that finishes I'll say to myself... Let's give John Hiatt - Walk On another play.

Thanks for the reply and it does make sense. Maybe I'll see if I can find another tach or a replacement smoke kit. Hopefully Lucas parts would be compatible with our Z cars!

@cgsheen1 Maybe you can help with my tach. After my mechanic did my zx distributor in my 240Z all was well for some time so I guess it's wired correctly. Then one day I was out for a drive and watched the tach all of a sudden start climbing and in a few seconds it had gone all the way over to 8. I shut the car off and sat for a minute then started it back up and ever since it doesn't go above about 3500 RPM. My ballast resistor is removed. Other than that my car runs just fine. Any ideas, maybe a coil change? There's no marking on my current coil so I don't know what ohm it is.

@Captain Obvious What is the build date of your car? Is your map light in the dash hooded? I ask because there are a couple of us with pre HLS30-21000 that have hooded map lights. The hooded map light is one of the things that Datsun stated would be updated for the 21000+ cars.

Here's the fuse block Cover from my 12/70 car 17486.

You didn't mention which TachMatch Device you installed? I did a ZX matchbox distributor with removed resistor on my 12/70 car. My tach almost works but doesn't seem to go any higher than about 3500 RPM.

Wondering where you've installed the obligatory rust on "Lilly" ?? 😉

Took the Z to a show at a local Chevy dealer. When I pulled in the dealership owner said "We never see these cars, I want you parked at the entrance".

A very early AI movie (and there's a trilogy of 3 books) is "Colossus: The Forbin Project" released in 1970. And yes, we lose control of it.

I never lock my 12/70 240Z. It's garaged almost 100% of the time. When out it's for a show or cruise night or visiting friends. There's nothing in the car that really worries me and I'd rather have it just stolen than having someone break a window to get what they're after!

Is this like Datsun saying the hooded map light was one of the changes for 21000 and beyond yet 2 of us with 12/70 cars have hooded map lights. I would think it possible for Datsun to document zinc if that was the direction they were going but I could also see them using up cad NOS if they had it.

Then I would guess that with the electronic flasher it makes no difference since it's not load related. And in the case of my all LED bulbs the load (even with all 8 hazard lights blinking) is insignificant.

I left mine blank, but I don't have driving lights. I did repurpose the slot for the manual throttle next to the choke for the antenna switch when I swapped out the stock radio back in '91 for a Sony cassette player that I've now replaced in 2017 with a RetroSound Bluetooth radio. Our son 3D printed the faceplate for the radio with the raised lettering and the surround of the radio face that I painted white so it has a more stock look.