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Well you want his children to go to college don't you. Have a heart. Paying way too much is a badge of honor for Porsche people. I find they like to brag at how much the repairs cost. It keeps us plebeians away from their beetles.

I have the BRE/Mulholland springs and struts, as well as the sway bars, on one of my 71 Z's. Installed them originally in 1972. When I was doing the restore on it I managed to find a full set of the Mulholland struts, new in the box. The springs are grey (front) and blue (rear). Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Classic Zcar Club mobile

So does that mean we have a baseline value for a 280ZX shell?

finished up the rack this week.. so I had to buy a slide hammer pilot bushing puller to get the inner bearing out of the rack housing.. that bearing was really bad, the water in the housing really killed the bearing If you remember the bearing you can get are 1mm too narrow to work, so I had to find or make a spacer. several folks have mentioned that a valve shim would work.. I dug around in my stuff and looked for something I could use or modify, and lo and behold I found the perfect washer ! 15mm id .035 thick ( close enough to 1 mm for me ! ) I installed two of them between the pinion and the bearing ( otherwise you cannot install the pinion if it is on the other end, it fouls with the rack. ) after I installed the pinion with the spacers, I set up a dial indicator to determine how much axial play the pinion and its bearings had, Ideally one would have a bunch of the shims so you could get a just .002 free play or so .. I only had 3 shims.. played with it until I got what I think is a few thousands of preload. I measured .002 with the bearing housing and shims in place but not torqued. after I tightened the bolts the free play disappeared. no play but it still turned easy the shop manual specifies checking the turning torque. so I checked it with a small dial torque wrench rigged with a steering spline piece, It was within specs. I then installed the rack and the mesh adjustment shoe ( had to work the shoe with a bit of sandpaper to get it to move freely in the bore ) . adjusted the preload while taking torque measurements. ( never quite understood why there are shims under the spring, I just adjusted the positioned the big screw cap and locked the jam nut ? ) . got the torque within spec, but it always had a tight spot on one side of the travel.. not even torque all thru the travel. installed the inner tie rods, installed a grease nipple and pumped them full of grease , they felt good with no real play and did not flop around installed the boots with tye wraps and all done ! ( I also painted the housing before I put the boots on ! gotta look good ! )

I reinstalled them today in the correct orientation. shoving the hoses in did not pose much of a problem. if the lip turned inward, I just tugged on the hose the opposite direction and it corrected itself. facing the engine bay is how they 'gon stay now. thanks to all contributors.

Funny, I didn't need to do anything like that. A lot of people say it can't happen, but I have seen on more than one occasion that a Z car distributor was installed 180 degrees out.

Yep that's them.. oemz very nice rides Sent from my iPhone using Classic Zcar Club mobile

Finished up installing Tokicos, Eibachs and brake parts for the rear of the 73. Just bled the rear brakes. Now on to shocks, springs and new Willwood brakes for the front.

Yeah, always fun to get a short ride down memory lane and you know all about Safari Gold! This is the car just before the teardown. You can see it is noticeably lower by looking at the lack of opening at the top of the wheel arches and the tires. I could barely get fingers into the gaps. Steel wheels painted silver made do for my "alloys" back in my poor days. The Mulholland springs eventually went to one of our forum members up north for the price of shipping.

Very cool rally shot!

I had Mulholland springs back in the late 70's on a 72, they were black. As for the looks, those are not 240z springs. I just did a set of springs on my 240Z and the springs should be the same diameter all the way up. Those won't sit on the spring seats. They also look thicker than most Z springs. They almost look like springs for a truck.