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I love seeing detail pictures of your car. Also I had seen this picture yesterday and I said to myself " that is Kats car".

hey fellas. Anybody know of a 280z getting parted out in Spring TX? Looking for a AFM and other miscellaneous parts.

We are all safe!

Hi Montezuma , That is what I am worried about too, I do not want people to think that RM car is MY car . Already I saw one website is mixing up pictures RM car and my car, I think ordinary people (not people like here) can not tell the difference between these two cars. My Z432 is PS30-00088, the RM car is PS30-00092, yes very close. http://www.carsaddiction.com/articles/2015/02/collectable-japanese-market-only-nissan-400r-and-z432-on-auction?preview=fairladyz-17 And there is a very similar You Tube about Z432's 8 track stereo to my You Tube, I uploaded last Nov, the seller of the RM car did it last month. Did he take the video with similarity to my video intentionally ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp3rXgBE7pU Kats PS: Jay made this beautiful and wonderful You Tube for my Z432, he put a lot of efforts for it. Please do not mistake this video for the RM Z432. I know people here understand it correctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyA8qLPwGwM

yup - simple way to get 'em nice and clean quickly. just to be safe, wrap some tape around the stem to protect the stem from the drill chuck.

Yes, there's no mystery there. It's not a version thing, it's a chronology thing. I've got one sitting in my driveway. An 83 ZX. The 83ZX has a later revision of the Bosch L-Jetronic that includes a Lamda sensor. The point wasn't that it was hard to find... the point is that the ECU they were tweaking in that HybridZ thread by changing the resistor values doesn't apply to us with the first gen Z's. wheeeeeeeeeeeee, Haha! I don't think yours is the holy grail of ECU's. It wouldn't have the same P/N on the outside if it were. I just think it's a newer produced version for the older cars. I'm thinking that in 1990 the factory still had to supply ECU's for people who needed them and there had been so many technological changes in electronics between 1975 and 1990 that the newer ECU's changed some with the times. Form, fit, and function identical to the old ones, but different inside. I'm just wondering if Hitachi decided to get away from the completely custom IC's used in previous versions for more readily available silicon. Or maybe they thought they could sell some of the components on the open market to other manufacturers and started offering them for sale outside Hitachi. I really doubt it, but it doesn't hurt to check into it.

Great, I'd love to have some better pics and some numbers from that newer ECU. No hurry... At your leisure. As for the Hellfire... I believe the only thing holding it up is available time. Lenny keeps fading in and out of consciousness. Maybe if I were to resurrect my somewhat similar project I was working on before he came along and seemingly made my project obsolete before it was ever completed. Maybe I should have never pulled the plug? Maybe if I just TOLD him I was going to resurrect it... ::

nissan zombie commercial I have zombie squirrel in dry walled basement celling 3 days now. My Winnie and jack Russell dogs took out my laundry room wall trying to get at it. Dryer vent and all they took down 4 square feet of drywall. He has been in the trap twice and got out. I have never seen walking dead.

A quick update and status report. The HEI module is still working fine, although it has not been driven over the winter months. I put the battery back in and started it last weekend with not problems. In my last post I showed a plated mounted on the resistor. That was done as a temporary measure until I ordered a new 6 volt coil. The coil I was using in the testing required 12volts. The system is now fitted with a Pertronix Flame Thrower II HEI Module D2000 in the TIU and a Flame Thrower 45000 volt 0.6 ohm coil P/N: 45011. I made a simple instruction document for anyone interested in doing this swap. Chas Instruction - Fitting a 4-pin HEI module to 280Z 1977.pdf

This weekend I gave my girl a 45th birthdat gift, after way to many years she is back on the road legally. She still needs a few items, but after breaking the in new rebuild and a 100 mile road trip, she is very happy to be back amongst the living.

Hi Kats, There is a similar muffler on this page: http://motor.geocities.jp/atakausa/Details.html It says "original". And one here which you may recall: http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/29865-original-muffler-question/ And another: http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/44949-nice-survivor/ I hope it helps!

Your car looks great, Kats! I wish I had known you were going to speak with Mr. Uemura and Mr. Osawa because I have so many questions to ask them. I have so much more information about that time in 1969 now. By the time they came to America with their cars, the HLS30 was in full swing production. "Testing" the new design was already complete. The American press introductions were during that time. And I wonder how much 'testing' was really the subject of their project. Rather, I am lead to believe, they came to America to drive the cars and show them to Datsun dealers.

I second that! They must have got the development right because I never had to use cardboard on my Zeds, or 510s for that matter, no matter how cold it was!

Kats, you are an honorary Canadian!

With the crash of the Yen vs the dollar over the past year, $150K for a Z432 with needs, located in Japan, feels very expensive. That said, the 69 car is of interest to me. As far as the Ameila Island Z432 goes (just talking numbers now) - typical in the Auction world, the "first through the gate" always gets the lions share of the attention and profits. Examples that follow can struggle to achieve price parity, especially for cars that trade in a thin market. That would seem to suggest that this Z432 should do well. The real indicator will be what the price of the next two or 3 examples will bring. I've always lived by the rule that a minimum of 3 well-advertised cars and published sales equals a price trend. I myself am not convinced that Amelia auction-goers will buy into the significance of the Z432, because if their unfamiliarity with it. In the United States, the 240Z is the car that people know and love, so it remains to be seen whether someone will pay 4-5X for a car which "looks" like the model they know, but isnt. And yes, I get that auctions are a global event, and not just limited to American buyers- but in Scottsdale in January, there were very vew phone bidders when compared to last year. I'm making the assumption the same will happen at Amelia. We will know more in a few weeks!

That's a good point, Kats. I think only a few people would give attention to the handle of a screwdriver. Even if you know the year the car was made, and assumed the tools are from the same time, many people would not notice the plastic handle. OTOH- I noticed screwdriver has the removable shank, which you can't have with wooden handle. I wonder if the screwdriver was replaced at some time?

I was worried that it was Kats' car untill I took a close look at the pictures....his is much nicer. Awesome to drive too....thanks Kats for letting me get behind the wheel for a few.