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I need to get a new gasket for the firewall. But took my first drive today. The gas pedal travel is truncated a bit compared to my throttle cable, but the feeling is direct and so smoooooooth. My throttle cable never felt 'right'. It worked okay, but it hung up and did not return to zero so to speak so often. I also after driving with this manifold I think I was only ever getting 75% throttle for the longest time. I gave her a good romp in first and second, and my car has never revved that hard and that fast ever. I do not think it was the manifold with it larger runners, but that may have helped. I know my L28 likes the added flow and seems to respond to it immediately if not sooner. Makes me think DCOE45's would be even better. But that is another story. Idle is spot on perfect at 1000 rpm and I cannot even feel the engine running. Overall, I am thrilled with this swap. I also finished my fluid flush on the roadster and fixed an oil leak on the oil pan drain plug on the roadster as well. Overall a Very productive day. Now to kick back, and have brew, as I have earned it. Some pics of the stable. Oh, I picked up a set of genuine Coco mats for the roadster. They look the business, I think the Z may getting a set soon.

I just read a book about the fashions of the sports car owner/driver of the 1940s and 50s, and it made me wonder about the stuff I wear today. People used to dress for just about any time they leave the house: for school, for a party, for Church, for travel, etc., and it was never the same thing. Remember that ladies had all those fancy hats? The only time you saw a person wearing a T-shirt tat wasn't covered was for cutting the grass or some other mundane or dirty task. Even at my last evening visit to a nice restaurant I saw guys in T-shirts, one with a jacket over that. People have lost the skill of dressing well or appropriately for wherever they were going. So I would like to ask what you'd put together (that doesn't include a T-shirt) for a trip to anywhere in a Zed as a proud sports car owner & driver. What would you wear to a dinner at Applebees, or a race as a guest of Nissan? I remember photos of guys at the races wearing turtleneck sweaters, jackets, slacks, cool colored berets and golf caps, and just lots of great fashions. Jaguar owners wore slightly different stuff. Even the race drivers had cool fashions.

Can you say RARE?!?! 1996 was the last model year for Nissan 300ZX, with less that 200 Convertibles manufactured. #151 is an automatic Pearl White/Tan, one of only13. An Emerging Classic https://www.hagerty.com/…/Art…/2015/08/05/Collector-Vehicles This incredible ride was always garaged in SoCal & FL by original non-smoker female owner. Barely over 100K easy miles, always serviced by dealer - complete maintenance records. window sticker ($46,843) and dealer brochure. Original condition, untouched with no scratches or dents, no accidents. Perfect dash, bumpers, top is in excellent condition. Original front air dam is repairable (see pix) skinned with Stillen air dam. Won't last at $12,900. See pix at http://www.facebook.com/1996300ZX.

I'm doing my best not to think about the bottom side! I'll take that on whenever I can finally get to -- or farm out -- the body work. Fortunately the Z only goes out in fair weather and spends the rest of the time in the garage... (kind of like me...)

You have two types of cover. They changed in August 76. I think its only the fuse layout diagram that is diferent. The shape is the same. If you see "Radio" in the top right, its the later version. If the radio is lower left than you have the pre Aug-76. The later version is most common.

Progress! Two coats of the Masterseries Silver have been applied and it looks a lot prettier now. I spent yesterday evening masking off all the areas that needed seam sealer, which ended up being a ton of work I probably didn't need to do. Since I don't have a gun for the 2k sealers, I chose the 3M Ultrapro. I also don't have a gun for that, but thought I could do the old homemade pastry bag trick. Turns out that seam sealer is way thicker than frosting! Spoiler alert: it didn't work I ended up digging the stuff out and applying it with my fingers, which made a pretty horrible mess and isn't something I really feel like doing again, but it came out nice enough. Hopefully on Wednesday I'll have time to put on the black finish coat.

Nissan has gone full retard and shamed the name of Mr K again. Dumb jackasses should all be fired, fired I tell you!! The new Z should be a 2600 lbs advanced composite body 240Z with a 2.4 liter supercharged direct injection engine putting out 250+ hp. Almost no frills version. Lightweight like Lotus, with much more powerful engine. Furthermore it needs to look like a 240Z except with modern line, not that bull**** look they've been putting out.

Oh please, Uncle Alan tell me one more story... I was browsing yesterday night on the Jap web-ring and I realised that every country has it's own vision of the Z. Interesting to see all those G-nosed cars and the fat wheeled Z, I could kill for those!!! That made me think (Ouch, not used to that!) is there any notorious Japanese Z goddess, like Big Sam on UK, or the BRE, Newman’s… ? You’re right about the race book, maybe we could start with a new Historical page on this site, what do you think moderator man ? Anybody up to the task ? Fred