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Are there any witness marks where the cover sat? Residual dust patterns? UV light bleaching?

Looks to be the same, although I have never had the Subaru one in my hand. Here is a write up on the two. JDMjunkies.ch240Z: Subaru R180 LSD Diff swap Parts - JDMjunkies.chSo, with the recent progress on the chassis and body, i thought it’s time to kickstart some long-pending projects. One thing i had in mind for a while was to fix the differntial. It was not really bro

Not in the current climate. See my comment above.

Greetings and welcome to the group, HLS30-365101. Some pages ago, we were discussing the quality control checklist. At the urging of SpeedRoo, I dug through my files to find my copy of the "240Z Restoration Program Quality Control Checklist". The checklist I have is some 40 pages with an introduction overview page and 20 or so pages of procedure descriptions organized by component with columns for notes, sign-off and date. For instance; under the brake / clutch / hydraulic component, one of the procedures is "All rubber brake hoses: replace" and in the notes column it says; "Use DOT 3 brake fluid". During the restoration program there were two final inspections and four inspection sign-off points during various stages of the restoration process. Of note to our Plating conversation; checklist item "All steel brake lines: check for kinks, condition of flared ends", notes "Cad plate all brake lines possible. Replace any corroded lines." Attachment D of the checklist is a two page copy of Wick Humble's book; "How to Restore your Datsun Z-Car" discussing fasteners, everything about fasteners from engineering standards to thread pitch and sizes. From Attachment D; "How about the fastener's finish? The manufacturer plated every metal fastener...on the Z car, it is predominantly what platers call yellow zinc, that multi-tinted golden finish used on most bolts and nuts exposed to the elements. Plain natural-colored zinc is also used on some parts."

Hi Charles…..Thanks, no, I bought the foam from Resurrected Classics, the seat covers from Mike at Banzai Motorworks and had a good upholstery shop put them together. Some things I leave to professionals 🤑

Repairing a fuel injected car can be a pain in th A*se..😭 I would before doing anything to all the sensors in the system advice to FIRST do a compression test on the engine so you KNOW that the engine is mechanicaly in good order! Very important as with the electronics on these cars many things can go wrong. (Buy a good compression meter not expensive.) Then also check every vacuum line and all the rubber hoses in the inlet system.. a small leak will throw the systems ECCS* (NOT A ECU, how many times do i have to say this... sorry.. anyhow..) the ECCS* get complete faulty readings when there is a air leak even a smallest one will ruin how the engine will run. Also, Cleaning the electric contact with a good contactcleaner, like they use in boating is a good one look it up! Cleaning contacts can be a temporary thing when you do it with a nail file, i would be very careful with those.. (At first the contacts will work but later on they will fail if they were silver or gold contacts.) A lot of contacts have golden or silver contact points.. Golden contacts should really be cleaned with contact cleaner (or alcohol) as also silver contacts (But not necessarily on silver) @Yarb ) Copper contacts can be cleaned up with a small (nail) file without a problem.) As a (ex) electronics guy i also know in audio there were a LOT of silver contacts and.. not many people i think know this: Oxidized silver conducts electricity even better than silver itself! Really! So cleaning the silver-plated contacts is completely unnecessary and harmful, because you're making the silver layer even thinner. Again, the conductivity of rusted (black!) silver is BETTER than of silver itself! Further, as we all know gold does not rust so that is not a problem, clean it with alcohol and a cotton swab.

Bring it to zcon. I'll fix it for you. ☺️

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Much much better!! I know that’s Great English!!😂

Harmon brakes in GA can probably handle your booster... The reaction disc is the little rubber disc on the end of the chrome pushrod. Im not sure the ZX's had it?

This should probably be in the carb discussion section rather than electronics.

IMSA car. Now in Glen’s care.

Pretty late to the party but both Z’s in the video where (I believe) owned by the same guy at that time. He unfortunately sold the orange one and repainted the gray Z to yellow but ultimately sold that car as well for a BMW E92 M3. He now goes by @Dutch_e92m3 on Instagram.

Let me explain this better. My mechanic is trying to fix rough idle issues when my car is at idle during long traffic jams. He removed the Pertronix 1.5 ohm coil and the 1.5 ohm resistor connected to a Pertronix ignitor 1711 module, and installed an MSD Blaster 2 coil. The tachometer in my 1972 240Z is no longer working? Any ideas of how should i wire this so it brings my tach back to life.

I just purchased some parts from UAE and Spain, pre-August 29 tariff effective date. Speedy delivery and low shipping costs via ebay. For obscure parts, identify a ebay seller based overseas who have extensive listings and ask if they have (or can locate) the parts. Keith

Thanks guys, in the mid term im going to cap it off with an hps 19mm coolant bypass cap. I think I will pick up a spare 3 way pipe as well and see about having it welded / capped off.

Here is a complete E88 cylinder head including valve cover. Ran when parked over 30 years ago. Lubed and free spinning. I would take $300 plus shipping for this head from a ClassicZCars member. Ebay Listing Here

Something's wrong with the first listing. Broken link. The $589 is "Buy it now" and the other is an auction, with three bids to $56. I don't know if EBay auctions have a reserve or not. I'd guess maybe the seller can just not complete the deal? From what I've seen, the way to set a reserve on eBay is to set the reserve as the minimum bid to beat. Maybe he forgot or doesn't know to do that. The $589 is $539 with a coupon.

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Quite a blast from the past. Filling in the "rest of the story".

Still in original packaging, braided steel brake lines. $100 retail - I'll sell at $50 U.S.

Don't forget about the bronze valve seats that came OE in the E31. They're not good with the gas we use now but you can have them updated to steel for not much money if you're not currently running the head.

Looks like they are also for sale for $1000 BIN with free shipping. eBayAuthentic OEM Nissan Fairlady Z/Euro 70-78 Datsun 240z S3...A once in a lifetime find here! Original OEM Nissan headlight covers originally designed for JDM/Euro Fairlady Z cars. The OEM trim here looks 100 times better than the flat bar $800 reproduction trim

Not the shipping tie downs but the ones that attach to frame maybe? Googled showed some similar when I searched... https://www.google.com/search?q=240z+tie+down+points&sca_esv=06dd4c047f376356&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1121US1121&udm=2&biw=1229&bih=556&ei=F8a0aJ7AG4b-p84Pzf-V8Qc&ved=0ahUKEwjep42dhraPAxUG_8kDHc1_JX4Q4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=240z+tie+down+points&gs_lp=EgNpbWciFDI0MHogdGllIGRvd24gcG9pbnRzSP4gUKwHWIYccAF4AJABAJgBS6AB5QOqAQE3uAEDyAEA-AEBmAICoAJLwgIGEAAYCBgemAMAiAYBkgcBMqAH-QKyBwExuAdJwgcDMC4yyAcC&sclient=img

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