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I took the car to Caffeine and Octane on 9/7. While there, one of the attendees offered to take some pics of my recently restored 1971 Datsun 240Z. Looks to me like she used some kind of lens filter. Nice of her to send them along to me.

I was just passing on a comment from the listing. Don't know who LookCloser is, but apparently he did. I think the rubber was just old and aged though, and the backward washers had little to do with the cracking. Many commenters were expecting over $100k, but those small details are often signs of bigger problems. Surprised it wasn't caught by the seller or the owner.

I think there are a lot of signals that the economy is weakening. To me, this is another of a great many.

The Black underside didn’t hide the poor metal work done when the new floorboards and frame rails replaced the originals. You could clearly see the lines where everything was cut out and the replacements welded in. The OEM reinforcement patches at the rear of the floorboards were cut and left off the floorboards as well. Perfectly OK for a daily driver refresh, but not the professional metal work you expect to see on higher dollar restoration. Picture #127 and #228 of 325

Nice! Adding a pic of the linked relay for posterity - never know when it will go dead

Zed Head - glad you called our/my attention to that strut rod as the large washer is installed backwards! Paul, that is Paul Taylor, was the owner of the Franklin Mint car before he died and his Z went to the dark side.

Agreed. And - quite clearly - the vendor knows little to nothing about the car, as shown in the listing and his comments through the auction process. He wasn't even aware that the chassis number is engraved on the firewall, so no surprise that he didn't know the differences between a Z-S and a Z-L of this vintage nor the somewhat personalised/custom nature of the particular car he was selling.

A silly comment from the peanut gallery. You seem to be taking it perhaps a little too seriously.

There are a few things on that fairlady that Im not sure why you would do it such as the black underside. Jay had it listed on ebay USA for a while until it eventually sold to the current owner/dealer.

This seems to be one of those cars with its own fan club. Interesting. A Players Club car. Dilettantes need not apply! "This isn’t a car for dilettantes or dabblers… it’s for connoisseurs and real players…"

It didn't bring anything. Not moving. Isn't this guy a CZCC member? "JDM Car Parts and Restoration founder Tsuguya “Jay” Ataka". There were some small things that might have hurt it, like below, with the TC rod bushing. Small part, its degraded quality impossible to miss. He owns a car parts company. But, the money doesn't seem to be flowing anyway.

As I've said at least twice in the recent past - the upper middle class collector car market is, and has been for at least the past year, depressed.

I figured it would bring more. I thought $60k was low.

Yikes! $64,000

Who is Paul and where is it being sold? That "rarest of the Fairladies" is finishing today. I've noticed many "Bid to"'s though. People are getting tight with their funds, I think. Edit, aside - always funny how the sellers tell people how to use their computers so they don't screw up in the final two minutes. Smart enough to make an extra $100k or more to blow on a collector car, too dumb to know how to get the money spent. "As the listing approaches the end over the next few hours I’d recommend refreshing your screen and having the auction on two devices so it’s in live time." Bring a Trailer1971 Nissan Fairlady Z 5-SpeedBid for the chance to own a 1971 Nissan Fairlady Z 5-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #211,860.

Paul's car is for sale AGAIN!

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Let me know if you want info on the 2pole Bosch sensor.

Check out the housing ZCD sells. I bought this for my resto. Worked beautifully, A little pricy but has everything you need thread wise. I’ll post a pic.

On another thread, EuroDat gave this info. I think the sizes are as follows. You should be able to find a M12 easy enough or tap the 1/4" out to 3/8" NPT. Temp gauge: M16×1.5mm Thermotime: M14×1.5mm Water temp: M12×1.5mm (for fuel injection control) Water temperature switch: 1/4" BSPT. (Not the same as NPT. Has 19 threads per inch and NPT has 18.) Why on earth Nissan decided to use BSPT on that one port is beyond me. Some folks use a BSPT to NPT adapter to get a sensor in that port but I'm hoping it can be drilled and re-tapped for 3/8" NPT. Has anyone done this?

Yes. My thermostat housing (no idea what model it came from) has an amazing 5 ports so one for the temperature gauge sending unit, which is already installed along with an EFI sending unit, and one for the fan switch. One port is already plugged so I'll leave that alone and plug the others as I'll have triple Weber carbs with no need for a water line as was used on the OEM SU manifold.

Are you trying to trigger it from your thermo housing?

We probably all know that you can choose a thermostat that opens and closes at several temperature combinations. My L24 FSM says the stat should open (and close) at 180 F. Fine and dandy. But now I'm putting a 3.1 L stroker motor in my car and adding a Vintage Air A/C system and a 2450 CFM Perma-Cool electric fan as well. So, I need to get a thermal switch to operate the fan (which will also be activated by the trinary switch on the A/C system). Assuming that a 180 F turn on temp is OK for the stroker, the question is at what temp should the switch turn off and is that even important? Almost every switch I see online has a 165 F turn off point. I presume that is fine because any running engine should be at about 180 F when it gets turned off and the fan would be running. But I want to check with folks more expert in these matters and that's you fine people. Am I worrying about nothing?

I removed the degraded foam before using the 3M Headliner and Fabric Adhesive. That was at least three years ago. The car has sat out in the weather year-round and still no sagging.

Like the Z's here in ARIZONA...