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If you take as many pictures as you can, as this might just jolt someone into some parts they forgot they might or could use. Steve

What Diseazd said. All you'll need to do is get the little half-moon facing forward, on TDC compression, instead of TDC exhaust.

Cliff....If you aligned the two bright links correctly to the cam sprocket mark and crank sprocket mark, you don't have to pull the front cover. Just turn the engine to TDC compression and redo the distributor shaft. You are 180 degrees out!

hello all! things have slowed a bit, but i have gotten quite a bit done. ordered and installed the lower quarters and the center section above the tail lights. i bought these parts from tabco, and they did need trimming for a good fit. all in all, they fit ok. im just about done with the body work and should have another coat of epoxy and then primer by next weekend. thanks all sb rear hatch piece. this was a pita to get fit correctly lower quarter before and after and all smoothed out

I've got 15" Koning Rewinds from Direct Tire with Hankook Ventus 205/50s and love them. $560 after all the rebates, great deal to me. 15s on the orange one, 16s on the red. I prefer the 15s on a 240. The 16s are on my 280 now.

I do a lot of reverse engineering and for simple parts measuring and drawing 2D is the most accurate and usually the quickest. I then use the 2D drawing to create the model. Ultimately if you are printing you will want to output your final product as a watertight mesh.

We have a FB makers group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/datsunmakersgroup/

The Voices Win! I always listen to that voice, it doesn't always make good decisions but it does most of the time. Congrats.

Charley Browns' Christmas Z will have a home. HLS30 39360 originally an automatic trans, now a rolling chassis. Rust damage; rear hatch sill plate and supporting body, floors, spare tire well is not rusted thru judging by the pond in it. frame rails, Missing items; console, heater core, rear plastic panels, trans., tail lights, right fender & head light & trans. Hatch was opened with an axe. I have a spare. He has a 2.8 that came out of it (E88 on a N42) and the orig. 4 screw round tops with E41 manifold and balance tube. The owner is selling these separately if anyone is interested. The body sheet metal is in pretty good shape as is the glass. Vert. defroster. The car has no title and at first he didn't want to talk about anything except parts and they had to pull them for me. Said the car could not be sold whole. I made a list of parts that I might want, and we determined that per E-Bay prices we were looking at around $1,000.00. He knew that was out of the question and his chances of moving the small parts were slim. He said it was too bad I didn't have a dismantler's license so he could sell me the whole car. I asked if he could do it if he was sure the car was dismantled by me? THEN, he asks would I might be interested in it if he took the vin #s off it. Evidently, as long as he's sure the car will never be titled again, he can stretch the rules and sell it to me. He offered it to me for $500.00. SOLD I'm making arrangements to bring it home before New Years. I'll be cleaning it out and assessing the parts and body and their usability. I really don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. The body really is not much worse than the 260 I'm working on now. And there is still that hypothetical question, posed above, rolling thru my mind. I'm open to opinions.

i'm thinking of the scene in Charlie Brown's Christmas when he and Linus bring home the little tree... tears to my eyes every time

Shame to see an early 240z like this, it would be a further shame if it got scrapped.

It could make so much sense to bring it home. I still have my orig. 71. Body was beyond repair when it came off the road in 96. All there except for a couple of parts that went to members. I think I'm gonna have trouble sleeping tonight.

So, So many. Back in the late 70s it was Huey Lewis "Sports" album on the Pioneer Super Tuner for me. Volume cranked up, a favorite road in my Z. Totally in the moment. Loving the drive and doing some of my best singing ever. Sigh.

Elton John's Funeral For a Friend, live version.

Tom Petty's " Runnin' Down a Dream " is pretty darned good too.... and FreeBird by Lynyrd Skynyrd... and... LS Oakland 1977 Live. Enjoy!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY

Hi Chickenman, The pic of the tweeters in the eyeballs is almost like mine except mine are black. I scraped the chrome off and glued them on with black silicon seal/adhesive. That worked great until my wife decided that the a/c blowing on her from the eyball was too much and grabbed and shoved and the tweeter fell off. Oh well, I'll just glue them back on maybe with JB Weld this time. They work great, though. The problem with our cars is that even with a lot of sound insulation, by the time you are going 70+ the wind noise is pretty bad, but below that threshold it's great to have the tunes. I like to have tunes of the era...I call it my own little time machine. Steve Miller "Your Saving Grace", best road tune ever............ Cheers, Mike

I am happy to report that I finished the intake swap and the OEM push pull rod throttle linkage is working beautifully. The large diameter intake runners seem to have not had a noticeable effect on idle AFR so far. Also of note, the Harada has completely isolated intake runners. The cannon connected them all. I have not seen what effect this will have on the brakes yet, but time will tell. I synced the air flow the carbs far easier than ever before. Since each cylinder is completely isolated, differences in air flow were able to be individually adjusted. Luckily each carb was flowing identical in each barrel, so all I had to do was to get the air flow to match carb to carb. I do not think I have had such a nice idle in a while. I have not driven it yet as my roadster is on jackstands blocking in the Z. NOte to self, never start two projects at the same time...