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And some comparison to plan throttle linkage , and exhaust. Kats

That photo gives a good view. Do you think there's enough clearance for the LHD rack casting to not interfere with the oil pan (due to the engine istallation angle?)? If not, that's good news. One less thing to worry about. The LHD exhaust manifold will have to be a completely different shape to RHD, but I think it can be done without looking too strange. About exterior colour/interior colour: When I saw your sketch I immediately thought 904 Grand Prix White with RED interior. I think it would look great with Export type exterior accoutrements (overriders, door mirror, etc) and the contrast of the dark 7J KS rally mags (with chrome dome nuts...). When I took a ride in your blue-on-blue '70 HLS30U my biggest impression was the blue interior. It really made me think of 1960s American car interiors, and goes so well with blue skies and sunshine. The factory red interior colour has a similar effect for me. So startling!

We have a nice group of 7 Z cars racing this weekend at Summit Point. I re-rebuilt (yes, twice now) my race engine and it seems really strong this time. Jeff Lucas has won every race at Summit Point since at least the beginning of last season. Mark Gibson took care of a cracked head and should be contending for the win along Jim Cummings. Jim Slechta in the 300ZX is also very strong. John Legg has a strong engine in his 240Z and still sorting out the car since getting it back on track. If I can't battle Jeff for the win I hope I'm fighting for second place. If anyone wants to stop by John, Jeff and I are in the paddock area inside of turn 10. Chuck 0 Buczeskie, Chuck ITS 1972 Datsun 240Z Carlisle Events/Bucsexy Racing Greencastle, PA 03 Cummings, Jim ITS 1977 Datsun 280Z Silver Spring, MD 7 DeHaven, Chuck ITS 1989 BMW 325is Winchester, VA 91 Fitzgerald, Dave ITS 1987 BMW 325is Business Engineering Inc. Alexandria, VA 30 Geidl, Matthew ITS 1989 Mazda RX-7 RpPerformance Leesburg, VA 13 Gibson, Mark ITS 1972 Datsun 240 z Banzai motorworks Fairfax, VA 17 Johnston, Mark A. ITS 1992 Nissan 240sx AFLAC Hedgesville, WV 61 Legg, John ITS 1972 Datsun 240Z Motorsport Auto Woodbine, MD 00 Lucas, Jeffrey ITS 1973 Datsun 240Z Motorsport Auto Myrtle Beach, SC 5 Maciejowski, Marek ITS 2000 Mazda Miata Vienna, VA 2 Romeus, Wids ITS 1972 Datsun 240Z Arawak Motorsports; Apex Auto Bowie, MD 141 Slechta, James ITS 1984 Nissan 300zx Fidelity Power Systems Manchester, MD 97 Struble, Bert ITS 1986 Mazda RX-7 Bucket List Racing Brookhaven, PA

Running Back to Saskatoon, Orly, Your Backyard, Stand Tall, Break it to them Gently.... the list goes on and on and on.....

No dice... he's all yours and take Celine Dion with you!

Well I took Richards advice and put the proper pintle caps on the injectors. I did find out that the injectors I am using have a 18 degree spray pattern . Not sure how that compares to stock. All I know is that this engine runs as good as it ever has- despite finding a valve nick on #1 bore , despite dropping the cam with towers attached from 4 feet in the air. Despite replacing a cam tower that was nicked on its bearing surface from the drop. Despite shaving another 20 thou and not checking clearances despite guessing cam timing and throwing the cam in 6 degrees advanced. and the list goes on thankyou L gods

The car is cool, and Mr. Obama is cool too ! What a great video. I like it ! Kats

Alan, good news for the oil pan, I think we can clear the issue. Please see the picture, S20 is mounted slightly right side at the bottom. My Z432 was once like a new... Kats

I really like those colour combo's also. I am not a huge fan of S30Z's in white (a bit too plain looking) but with a red or blue interior I really like the contrast. This white on blue C2 Corvette looks nice with the blue interior.

Thank you Alan, this is what you are talking about, please see the picture. Kats

No Kats, I'm not talking about the short knuckles - although I have used them on all of my cars, and you will have no problems if you use a full size steering wheel. I was referring to the clearance cut-out in the 432-specific S20 oil pan/sump which is designed to accommodate the RHD steering rack casting. For an LHD S20-powered Z, I believe you will have to make a mirror-image clearance cut-out on the other side of the oil pan, to clear the LHD steering rack.

Mr Conway Beiber.

Alan, are you talking about this race option knuckle arm of your interest for the subject of steering ? I do not know I will put this or not, according to the manuals standard Z432 has 115mm type like other models. Only Z432-R has 105mm type. Some people said 105mm is very very quick and gets driver tired if he does not want to race. However I am curious about the 105 arm, I should try at least once . Then I will decide. Kats

Wheee! nailed it. Burton Cummings. Heck of a vocal range and a great piano player too. American Woman is a classic and the message is still pertinent. No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature is still my favorite.

Okay, I don't want t steal anymore of Raff's thunder so I'll just post these few and then you'll have to wait for him to update his thread.

Blue... Canadian Tire for parts... really? I buy Garden hose and BBQ supplies from them, But wheel bearings? Shame on you. Any local bearing supplier should be able to get Timken, NTN or SKF. PS, all kidding aside, Canadian Titers Professional grade of Mastercraft tools are pretty good.

And with the rubberized armour coating applied...

Gave, I do not know much about that car, but I think we can make a tribute car . Pick up an U.K. or AUS 260Z 2+2 , then put a "Fairlady-260Z" emblem on it. Then you buy an assy of G nose and install it to the car. Or buy a Fairlady-Z 2/2 then put a L26 and the emblems , also put the G nose. I see the rear bumper is painted in grey just like Fairlady-240ZG. Nissan made and listed the emblems for "Fairlady-260Z" in the parts catalog , this indicates they prepared little bit for the production . Some people bought it for having fun. I guess the reason why we were able to buy a full set of G -nose somewhere around 2000 at local Nissan , they would have made enough G-nose for departure of "Fairlady-260Z" . Some of my friends who bought G-nose like those days said it costed 450000 JPY (650000-1000000 JPY today!) and it came with a set of ducts for better air flow for cooling. This means that G-nose is later type, Nissan added the ducts for improvement for the air conditioned car. Fairlady-260Z was supposed to have an air conditioning system as a standard equipment. Kats

Long night.... Clear went on beautiful. Hoping for next to no orange peel. Two quarts disappeared fast though... Didn't clear the interior. That's getting Dyna matted.

Here are a couple more pictures of it... Some of them have the old rims on still, but I'm running 16 RS Watanabes now to fit the break kit. The car really evolved, I think I went a bit wild with parts when I first got it, then landed on a more refined place with it - ie. no carbon fibre hood on it anymore.

Too true. He does have fabulous metal skills! My wife wanted it yellow. It's really her car. When we first went to the paint shop. She took a yellow Lily out of our yard and told them she wanted that color of paint. They handled it well... We went through several shades before settling on this one. Yellow is a challenge though because it tends to be very transparent so the color under it makes a huge difference. I shoot white base coat first or the yellow color shade changes

Well, it was more like yesterday...For those of you who remember the BRE 240Z from the Memphis or Austin ZCON, I drove the Z over to visit with the owner of that car to catch up on all he's been doing to it since I last saw it in February. https://fiddlingwithzcars.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/bre-240z/ Be sure to click on the link in the post for the YouTube video of it firing up. The blog post has a link to a non Photobucket (@Captain Obvious) collection of photos I took when I was there.

Whether its new cars, tools, smokers, ...etc., we need pictures or it didn't happen. I've been known to smoke brisket and chicken - haven't had any of my food rejected (yet).

Hi, thanks for all the great information while I've been preserving this 260Z. Its now for sale up on BaT, so please check it out! http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1974-datsun-260z-6/

If you haven't seen this yet, it's a good read. http://zhome.com/Classic/CommonZRust/RustPrevention240Z.htm

Well time for a major update, the car has finally arrived into our possession! We went down to Fourways Engineering on Friday afternoon to collect the car with all of the works being completed. We are really pleased with how the repairs to the front of the car have come out in particular. We decided to contrast the front end and a Euro looking front chin spoiler was acquired from MJP to replace the damaged orange spook spoiler. Amongst other bits, a new brake servo was fitted (big thanks to Ryan at Zcar depot), new headlining, new chassis rail fabricated and welded in, MOT light conversion, fuel sender etc. A big thanks to them for their continued efforts :thumbs: By Saturday afternoon we had racked up 140 miles before having to put her to bed in the lockup due to family commitments. Its safe to say its been a roller coaster ride all of the way and quite an experience having now been able to pick up the car. Having never driven a classic car with no power assistance or driver aids before it was a bit of a shock to the system, in particular the lack of power steering was entertaining to start with however I'm already getting well used to it now. The brakes seem positive albeit they currently pull to the left and are slightly lack luster compared to the setups I'm acclimatized to using, that being said its all part of the experience. I've been told before by my dad that driving the Healey requires concentration is genuinely a tiring experience, and I must admit I've never really fully appreciated what he meant before getting behind the wheel of the Datsun and must confess to have felt very tired having done 90 odd miles on the Saturday. I will in part attribute this to getting used to driving a LHD car as well learning about road positioning and spacing along with all of the other factors, so call me a wimp if you will but I'm leaping into a different world of motoring from all of the 90's cars I've owned! :driving: The thing that has amazed me most though more than anything is the attention the car gets wherever it goes! :eek: I know its an unusual orange classic sports car however everywhere we have stopped people have come and talked to us, complimented the car, taken photos. The amount of turned heads as it cruises on by is hilarious, I'm convinced I stopped most of the commuters coming off of the Friday evening train picking my sister up from Surbiton station in the evening. Its something I'm loving, I just hadn't realised how much attention it would draw. There will certainly never be such thing as a below the radar drive in this car! :lol: The soundtrack of a 2.6 straight six is also to die for :bow: I can't get enough of working the car up the gears and dropping back down them for tunnels. I can imagine how good some of the sounds tracks on these cars can be even when mildly tweaked. Its everything I'd hoped it would be in that respect. Unsurprisingly the low down torque is fantastic with the car pulling well in 4th even below 1k rpm, certainly a lazy car to drive if you want it to be. Most remarkably as well even with some very spirited driving the car comfortably returned 20 mpg much to my surprise, and the smiles per galloon were just off the chart! :coolgleam: We took the car down to Rawles Motorsports open day on the Saturday where I met a friend who also has a 240z and compared notes, and did back to back drives to see how the cars compared. Different setups certainly having their pro's and cons. I also met another owner who is local with an ex Nissan press car, albeit his car wasn't present due to ongoing bodywork. Lots of other classics to peruse over (predominantly Healeys due to the specialist), it was nice to have two cars together though. After all of the positive news there had to be some negatives to balance everything out We've had some developments on the insurance claim with CFR, who after much chasing with unexplained several week delays (both myself and dad work within the insurance industry and cannot understand this when they had all of the required documentation) agreed to settle our claim per our repair quote minus the policy excess ($500). We agreed this with the insurance company however felt the need at this point to remind CFR of their negligence and rightly requested that they reimburse us for the policy excess which we were having to pay. This email request was then ignored for several days (having previously had daily responses to our emails). In light of this my dad decided to make a phone call to pursue the matter with the very helpful CFR claims manager. Having explained the situation to him, our contact turned from his usual extremely helpful self to completely turning his back up at us. He tried to stipulate that it was only by his grace that our claim was processed, and even tried turning the tables on us that our claim was weak despite all of the evidence and photographs. To cut a long story short he went on to say in as few words, and without directly saying it, if you wish to claim the excess from us then you will have to sue us. Its safe to say we were both completely shocked to have had this sudden transformation in customer service! Despite being well aware of our right to pursue the excess claim (in our view) and considering the morality of being fobbed off we have decided it isn't worth the stress and hassle of pursuing the matter further. With the above in mind we signed the release and requested the insurance payment was made by bank transfer (for which they added a $50 charge), as if to add insult to injury we were sent a response to the completed release stating that the payment request would take between 30-45 days! :banghead: We were left speechless at this point and with no avenue to protest the ridiculous timescales suggested. Currently as it stands we are still awaiting the settlement payment despite having picked up the repair bill, and I can only summarise this by saying we have only been left with a bitter sentiment towards CFR having previously received fantastic customer service up until this point. They have fallen seriously short in our estimations on just the last hurdle. Both our experiences with the damage not being reported or observed, and then the handling of the claim has left us with low estimations of the company. I know various people have used this company over the years and received good service and had no issues, however I felt the need to share this so that others are forewarned of our experience before choosing a shipping company to use. We're planning on taking her out tomorrow for a cruise down to the South coast to get better acquainted as the next stage of the adventure. Anyway there's loads more positive things I could say, however that's enough for now. Here's a few pics for you all to look at, I'm sure there will be lots more to follow as things develop and we get more experience with the car :driving: :thumbs: Some of the remnants of our chassis rail (Usual rust free 240Z) Pickup at Fourways Rawles Motorsport with company