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So a buddy of mine has been hunting for a 77-78/280 for a long time and has come close to buying several times but for one reason or another they didn't happen. Just a couple of weeks ago one came up on ebay that fit bill perfectly and Tim went after it and won the auction, it is now sitting in his garage waiting for spring! The car is very clean with only one area of serious corrosion under the battery tray and a few spots here and there, easy fixes. I'm going to do a little pre-safety certificate work on it tomorrow so will come home with lots of pics and details. Over the next couple years we are going to transform it into the car he has always wanted, here are a couple of pics that were sent to me.

Looks great! I didn't know I wanted these, but magically my project budget just expanded slightly lol

Been there before!

I don't want to seem like "that guy" but I think your rear bumper guards are upside down. :)

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So another of my long planned purchases finally arrived. I had been covering the BRE racing mirrors for a while and pulled the trigger a couple of weeks ago. First of all, they are very cool. However they need to mount closer to the fender than the stock position. That means drilling new holes. No big deal because the stock holes are too wide anyways. My first problem I quickly discovered is that the door is very “closed in” near the front of the window area. Hard to get a finger in there let alone nuts and washers. But the real issue at first was that the backing plates were not drilled to same spacing as the mirror mounts! Poor quality control there. Other than that, I am super excited to have them finish mounted on the doors. A couple pics of the drivers side mounted to the stock position before I drilled new holes and closed up the old ones.

I might now hold the record for the quickest 'Flagged As Not Constructive' comment on BaT. Those high-rolling 'portfolio collection' guys sure do take themselves seriously. For the record, somebody asked when 240Zs started getting the splash pans. '1969' was apparently the wrong answer. Let's hope nobody asks what all those captive nuts are for...

I can attest that the passenger seat in that 240Z is fully functional. However, the belts don't cinch down very well. At least we weren't going at speed that day.

I haven't been keeping up with the names of the people whose threads I post in. But I'm pretty sure that I already mentioned that the position of the oil pump does not really matter for starting. I think you have 2 or 3 threads about the same problem, right? You should just stick with one thread. Here's a couple of things. #1 is always #1. You don't have to find it, it's the first one at the front of the engine. Take the valve cover off and rotate the engine until the two cam lobes point up, but slightly off to the driver's side (the engine is tilted jonbill, you knew that...). That will put #1 very close to TDC. Then use your chopsticks and get the piston as close as you can to the top of the bore, if you don't have any of the correct tools. Then mess around with the oil pump and the distributor drive quill (shaft) until the tang looks like the picture that siteunseen often posts. Your other picture was way off. Then with the piston still at TDC, reinstall the distributor and put the rotor on. Find the distributor cap terminal that the rotor points at. That is where your #1 plug wire goes. Install that wire then install the rest in counterclockwise order, 1-5-3-6--2-4. Make up a tab of some kind so you can use the damper mark for timing, ypu need to know at least close to where zero is. Even if it's not exactly at zero, you will be able to adjust the timing to about 5-10 degrees before zero. It should start. Just one way to try...

@grannyknot It does have a bit of tan mixed into it. Like an off silver. Definately not factory color, I believe it was originally silver and was resprayed a close enough color.

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