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Congrats Greg! Well deserved. You-all might note that 240z's finished 1st, 5th and 7th. Congrats to all those that continue to fight the good fight. http://www.scca.com/articles/1998060-ira-scores-super-sweet-e-production-win-at-scca-runoffs

I completed the next stage in my return to a more rational ride quality. Changed out the 6K and 5K coil over springs on my McKinney Motor sport coil-overs (that 470 and 390 in-lb in case you were wondering... 70-100 is stock! sheesh!) springs for a nice set of 150/175 in-lb Eibachs... Much better! Not spongy or floaty or caddie like, actually quite nice.

Good weather today so i took her for a drive.

I took my 240Z to a local car show. Besides a 1978 Land Cruiser and a Japanese-built Mini Cooper, we were the only non-American muscle car or truck there. Oh well, she was looking good and running better!

The cars you see peeling are normally from other issues. Poor prep or faulty products. Buy good products and you will be ok.

Since you're not going for a ZCCA Stock Class look, here's another BIG vote for 2-stage. Appearance: clear coat will give a big "pop" to the underlying color. Buffed and waxed - grab your cheap sunglasses (apologies to ZZ Top). Protection: the additional layer of clear is a barrier protecting the color coat from wear, swirl marks, light scratches, ...etc. Maintenance: the clear can easily be re-worked if needed, not so the metallic base coat. Earlier this year I noticed some irregularities on my hood when viewed in a reflection - very small hair-width depressions in a close pattern almost like orbital sander marks. Most important, a fellow club member who has done some ZCCA judging spotted them and said that could be a judging problem at ZCON. I showed it to my paint shop and he said it was likely some shrinkage in the primer or base coat that later became visible in the clear coat. Repainting a four-year old hood would be a color-match nightmare. The solution: color-sand the hood and re-clear it. When buffed out, the fresh clear had filled any remaining depressions. Problem solved! Hope this helps your decision process.

Very interested in your choice and results as I am going to be repainting my (original colour) 280Z 240 green as well. I was contemplating adding a little more metallic to it too...

I always laugh at "California Car" used as a selling point. Here in Australia we don't salt our roads and have plenty of sun, yet most of our S30z's are pretty rotten after 40+ years. The ones still around have all had some kind of repair work done in terms of rust at some point. It still rains in California and when it does quite heavily....At least the times I've been it has been torrential flooding...