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I had a collection of odd problems all happen in one day, hot start (unclear why), stuck fuel pump relay (had to use my pump switch to get home), and brake pads grinding on the disc (caught just in time), and one of them, just to confuse the overall situation, was that my tachometer stopped working correctly. It would just bounce around between zero and 500 or not move at all. I pondered living with it like that for a while after I fixed all of the other problems, because changing tachometers is a pain, but remembered that I had had to install a condenser on the negative terminal of the coil years ago, when using the GM HEI module with a 300ZX ignition coil. Since them I've installed another engine, a different module (same brand after I damaged the old one), and replaced the 300ZX coil with the proper GM HEI external coil. But never removed the condenser, even though I thought it might be unnecessary now. So I got out the meter to start checking circuits and instead found that the wire to the condenser had broken. It was just hanging there. Spliced it back together and the tach is back. Lots of words just to say that sometimes these old tachs just need some signal filtering. Maybe it will show up in someone's future search. I don't know why the condenser works, maybe one of the gurus can say, but it definitely does. I still have a good condenser, the stock configuration, on the coil positive. But without that extra one on the negative side, the tach refuses to behave.

I decided to make a post to help owners find the Z registries on-line Here is a page on Carl Beck's excellent Z Home site and his work that long ago has done what I wanted to do here.... nothing new under the sun and Carl is a star! Carl Beck's Z Registry Links Here is the last recovered version of the on-line Excel based Z Car Registry that is now gone. The data is in the way back machine: Defunct Z Car Registry on Wayback Machine Jan 2013 snapshot I took the liberty of converting the early 240z part of the Z Car Registry to pdf and to XLS format. Z Car Registry Nov 2013 as a PDF Z Car Registry Nov 2013 as an XLS Z Car Registry Jan 2013 as an XLS Z Car Registry Jan 2013 as a PDF If you have a car that is not in these files and want it added, just post to this thread and I'll find some time to update the files. It would be nice if everyone posts a reply to this thread with the VIN as the title and photo's info on their car. Z Registry.pdf Z Registry.zip zreg 01 2013.zip zreg 01 2013.pdf

I'm going by memory here, When I got my 1st Z, a long time ago, I bought a couple of braided hoses from Nissan & I remember thinking at the time, the color was more of a dark charcoal color or a very dark gray, almost black. Judging the color is difficult because the hose doesn't reflect much light. I have seen a few rat-rod paint jobs in very flat black that could compare to the color of the hoses. You could say the color is black, but it comes across as a very dark charcoal. I also remember how fast they started to fade. Hope this feeble bit of info helps.

The fit of that interior vinyl leaves a lot to be desired, and at $65k asking, wow! Beautiful car, and almost all of it looks perfect, but I don't think we're at $65k for these cars yet... maybe in another 10 years after the drift kids have thinned out the numbers a bit more.

I purchased the bracket a couple years ago & it works great!