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No longer looking. I brought this 1975 Z home yesterday.

Yessir. I saw what BaT auctions been going for. This is more a car that i wanted to sort out and at its best present to my father when he is retired. It’s the one car he’s always wanted but never got to own cause he had three sons to raise. Fonrtunate enough to be able to have gotten most of my dream cars. I’ve got to make sure I get him his, yea

Yes. Just remove the choke cable from the carbs and ensure the lever on the top of the carbs is all the way off to prevent any choke circuit leaking into the manifold. You may enjoy this page: http://240260280.com/Tech/Carbs/Weber/DCOE Theory Operation and Tuning.html

Love the color!

Here are some of the award links. Would be nice to have a video of the presentation. http://autoweek.com/gallery/car-life/winners-la-jolla-concours Pic # 23 https://www.lajollaconcours.com/2018-winners

Well in other news, while the car has been stuck in the garage for the last few weeks owing to this miserable weather I've been making good progress with collecting parts for the transmission upgrade with things starting to fall in to place. My very mucky looking S14 gearbox turned up in the post today, will be talking about having it rebuilt with a local gearbox specialist tomorrow hopefully. For those with this conversion I now have the gearbox and a 260Z five speed bell housing to be machined. I know that I'll need to modify/replace the gearbox mount and shorten the prop however is there anything else I should be getting? Just thinking silly little items such as a new Clutch fork boot as linked below? Is everything else reusable? https://zcardepot.com/clutch-fork-boot-oem-240z-260z-280z-280zx-72-83.html This has been my guide so far: http://zhome.com/ZCMnL/tech/240SX5spd/Transmission2.htm I've also since acquired a Subaru R180 3.9 Suretrac LSD, and am currently waiting on stub axel production in the US to get those on their way over. While doing the conversion I've been kindly reminded that this may be a sensible upgrade so will need to order one of those as well. The long parts list continues. https://www.technoversions.com/DiffMountHome.html I've also finally decided upon a flywheel and clutch combo and looked to Japan in the end following some very helpful input off of here. I've therefore got an OS Giken single plate clutch/flywheel on its way over. Weighing in at 10.7kg for the whole assembly I'm hoping the car will rev more freely and I'll have future proofed against any engine upgrades to come (rated to nearly 400bhp) while keeping a nice pedal pressure. https://www.rhdjapan.com/os-giken-super-single-clutch-kit-aluminum-cover-gc10-hr30-c110-c210-s30-s130.html As if there wasn't enough else going on back at the end of January I asked Ztherapy to put me on their waiting list so that I could completely refresh my carb setup with it more than showing its age in places. Hopefully as of May I'll have new carbs, euro style balance tube and fuel rail heading over the Atlantic to be fitted. I was tempted to use the opportunity to look into a triple carb setup of some description however looking at the cost implications, the fact that I only have a very stock engine setup and insurance implications (the joys of being young) I've strayed away for now. I'm hoping this will more than meet the cars current needs and when the time comes at a later date I can decide upon an engine and triple carb setup to suit. Current plan is to have all of this done so that the car can be enjoyed to its full potential on its way down to the Le Mans Classic this year IMG_5575 by Mark Woodrow, on Flickr IMG_5563 by Mark Woodrow, on Flickr

I'm currently in Oregon. Sometimes I work in Long Island and NJ area. I'll update you if there.

Bring it down to ZCON in October. @240260280will be there.

Looks subtle and nice! Love that clock too .....

Mart, Thank for this. Potentially very handy -I'm going to save it. And yes, I pretty much figured out that there were no passenger car tires 2,000 inches around! Cheers,

If a critic is that close to the bars, it meant you just ran over them. In which case they will have bigger worries...

Can I hear an Amen, Brothers & Sisters? Dennis

Ads on a service manual? Are you F'n kidding me?! Hard copy is better anyway, ads or no ads. I do agree that it's a stupid move though. Not sure how much money there is to gain or lose for Nissan, but these are old cars now. IMO this is a case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

Head has been dismantled, inspected and a new valve and seat have been ordered. My mechanic thinks that the seat may have gotten installed slightly off and was eventually just knocked loose by the valve. Should have it back within a couple weeks and install.

UPDATE: I have been so busy with baseball I have not had a chance to post in a long while, but the transmission is cleaned up and ready to install. Ordered an new clutch and pressure plate. I may or may not change those though as I only have 3000 miles on my stock clutch. I will change out the throw out bearing though for sure.

Had a great weekend at the La Jolla Concours this weekend. Brought my 1970 240Z and the roadster. This is the first year that the La Jolla show has had a Japanese Class so I had to offer my full support. It was a fabulous show as always and had a great time. The party the night before was epic and way worth high entry fee (The party is an all you can eat and drink affair catered by La Jolla's finest restaurants). Anyway, I was interviewed by the local TV station, KUSI, I will try and find a video clip of that. I also was presented the "Honorary Judges Choice Award/Trophy" which is probably the best award I have ever received. The Honorary Judge has the entire field to choose from and he chose my Z, just barely, over a Ferarri that he liked. The emphasis on the award is preservation so that definitely helped. So, I will try and post some clips if they come available. The Award presentation was absolutely phenomenal. I felt like a rock star with all the people at the drive up presentation and photographers. They talked for about two minutes about the car and the award while the gallery and photographers snapped pics. Was way cool.

I have VIN 249. Open to outrageous offers. I am located at a sea port so shipping should be easy.

Thanks Charles! My frame still has the remnants of the old parts so I should be good.