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Interesting discussion. I don’t think there will be any overreaching regulations on classic cars in the coming years (in the US) and here’s why. Classic cars are a very tiny tiny slice of the cars on the road today. There will really be no measurable impact on placing major constraints on their use. They say “As California goes so does the rest of the nation”. The rules in CA regarding classics is they must not be modified from their original manufacture’s specs. This could happen. California would have banned these cars a long time ago but the litigation would been costly and they would have lost. To strip a citizen of a vehicle they legally purchased within the confines of the law at the time would not fly in court. They know every year less of these cars are on the road and one day most will be mostly garage queens. What is possible is a carbon or pollution tax you pay annually but I don’t foresee that anytime soon. There are bigger fish to fry in the climate change battle. My neighbor has a Tesla but I’m not sold yet. It will be the future, no question but I think the tech will boom soon and bring the cost and range up and that’s probably when to buy. Buying a Tesla today might be like buying the first smartphone (they sucked) compared to what they are today. Captain Obvious wouldn’t know. [emoji23] I try to be a responsible citizen and use resources wisely. This is all you can do as one person. We work really hard at work to squeeze every ounce of efficiency out of our flights. We’re narcotic about it. Today I’ll burn ~35,000 lbs of jet fuel flying from NJ to LA. If I can find a way to save 100 lbs I will, we always do that. Taxi on one engine etc. Government is going to go for the big polluters not classic cars in my opinion. I’ve traveled all over the world. The US and Europe are the cleanest (populated) places on earth. Africa, Asia are disasters. Gas is cheap in the US. $1.72 at home today. I think this will change under the new leadership. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here's a rare miss-print,

A guy wins a 3 week holiday to the Caribbean, problem is.....he has a pet gorilla. He asks all his mates if they will look after it and they all make up crappy excuses for not doing it. He gets really desperate so he asks this guy he barely knows. He told him he could stay at his house for the entire 3 weeks and he'd pay him 250 quid. He tells this guy to feed it bananas and nothing else and then he says 'whatever you do don't touch the gorilla!', so the guy nods his head and then leaves for the airport. Three weeks go by, and the guy has managed to look after the pet gorilla. With a few hours to go until he is set to return, the guy starts to wonder what would happen if he touches the gorilla. He reaches through the metal bars, and touches the arm of the gorilla. Immediately, the gorilla jumps up and starts going crazy, pulling the bars apart. The guy quickly runs out of the house and jumps in a taxi. He can see the gorilla running down the road behind the taxi jumping on other cars, causing chaos. The man reaches the train station, where he jumps out and boards the train nearest to him. The train sets out, and he can see the gorilla running along the train track behind the train pulling up the wooden planks that hold the tracks together. The train arrives at the airport and he rushes to the nearest plane and takes off. The gorilla quickly manages to jump onto the wing of the plane and is hanging on throughout the flight. The plane lands at an airport by the sea, and he sprints from the airport to a dock in which he boards a boat. The gorilla swam for 2 miles behind the boat until they reached an island. The man jumped out the boat and ran up the sand and then realised he wasn't going to make it any further so he turned around and fell onto the ground exhausted. The gorilla ran up to the guy and shouted........TAG! YOU’RE IT!

So thought I would update this post with the issue and fix for my problem (since I hate finding posts where the author doesn't include the fix). As all the members who posted before stated, the bearings were the issue. I will post some pictures of the transmission after I pulled it out, you can see the bearing in the casing is completely missing (shredded apart) most likely causing the shafts to not be balanced with 1st and 2nd gear. You can see the shaft isn't straight with the other one and bearing is completely missing New bearing in the housing while old bearing is right below it Here is the transmission put back together with all new bearings and synchro's with the rebuild kit that zcardepot provides. The shafts rotate smoothly now with the gears compared to when I removed the transmission. Needless to say, can't believe I drove the car for almost two years like this and even a day at autocross. I would baby 1st and 2nd gear trying to stay out of those gears during the years I drove the car so maybe that helped but however I am shocked I still have a transmission and no other damage was done. Thanks to everyone for the help. I can gladly pound through all gears now with confidence.

I've stumbled/fumbled through life. In a good way. Literally bumped into to Bono and Edge, Ashley Judd on Bourbon Street after 9/11 bombing. The first big event after that attack. The Super Bowl. A few others too. I know the owner of Mango daiquiri bars and had access to the balconies. Funny story, I had a crowd stopped because they thought I was Matthew McConaughey with a ball cap on. The owner of the bars loved it! You have stories too I'm sure! Glad you are active in the forum. Cool guy I know. @Racer X also. Where you guys been all my life???? EDIT: I've Forrest Gumpped my way so far...it ain't done yet.

If you have oil/gas mix your cylinder bores may look like your cam lobes. Hopefully not but if possible you should do a compression test.

Clean it up and see if there's a lip on the edge. Hard to tell with all of the sludge.

Sit in a chair and watch a movie, put a towel across your lap and start rubbing the cam with a scotch brite. No need to rush... after a few days of leisurely scrubbing, it will sparkle.

I am talking the cylinder head out to verify everything is fine and replace all seals. Im done with testing. 6 years testing and same issue.

Cams are tough. Scotchbrite pad, any oil, and some elbow grease. Before After For the rockers, put some 600 grit sand paper on a marble/stone cutting board (TJ Macs kitchen area) then pull and roll the rocker surface towards you. Water or oil on the paper helps. Pitting in the surface is OK.

Be it corporate leadership, the army, a president, or me as a parent speaking to my children, humans like consistency in messaging and what is familiar. When reenforced consistently, it becomes the new familiar. There are always rebels / belligerent / bigoted or ignorant people anywhere, but at least there is now going to be a president who seeks to unite. Let’s hope enough politicians are able to get past party politics and work together / with him for the good of the people. COVID-19 doesn’t care for colour, religion or political persuasion. It’s the silent invisible enemy we need to battle together.

I was serious, I thought it was about right. An old refurb'ed 1978 280Z, mid 30's price. Seems right. I still think that other guy should have taken the $111,000 for the 240Z. And, no offense, or sarcasm, I'm glad you don't work for me too. I sense trouble... 😦

And you both can watch Seinfeld.

Must be a rare Series 1 part,

Received the AC kit from Auto AC solutions last week and decided to mock it up in the car. Link to the kit we got as reference: Z AC Kit Initially I had high hopes for this kit. From the description on the website it sounded like it was designed specifically for the Z. I wanted a system that was much cleaner than the dealer unit originally installed in the car that had the massive York compressor. This is what came in the kit (AC compressor and mounting brackets not shown - mounted those before snapping this picture) As you can see, the evaporator unit is a massive assembly. I could not figure out how to package it cleanly behind the dash and with the existing HVAC system. Perhaps I was looking at it wrong, but it didn't seem as integrated of a unit as the one removed. The compressor mounting brackets seemed fine, but the hardware provided was useless. Looked like M10X1.5 hardware for the most part, but with mix matched bolt head sizes and thread pitches. Definitely not very well thought out. I will replace all of this will better quality hardware. With the York compressor, all the AC lines and fittings remain on the RH side of the car. With this new system, the compressor is mounted down on the LH side of the engine, similar to the ZX. Now this aspect of the kit I liked, as I didn't want to look at the compressor when I opened the hood. However, the condenser seemed to be setup for the York style of system, with both inlet and outlet ports on the same side of the unit. Again, I don't think this was very well thought out. We'll be able to make it work, but with more effort than I was anticipating. Another feature of this kit is the ability to maintain the smog pump as the AC compressor bracket has holes to relocate it slightly higher up. With all that said, I am pretty disappointed in this kit. Looks like a quality Sanden compressor and some cobbled together off the shelf pieces to make a "kit". With that said, we decided to rebuild the evaporator originally on the car and utilize the new valving, hardware, and fittings so that the under dash appearance was as clean as possible. For someone who is looking to install AC in a Z but retain the factory heater and look, I'd suggest picking up only the engine mounting bracket and compressor. You could easily build the rest of the system yourself, if you can locate an original style evaporator. Pulling the evaporator a part, it was amazingly clean and needed very little to recondition. The plastic housing was split open, cleaned, new seals installed, and painted. The evaporator core itself was thoroughly cleaned externally, checked for leaks, flushed, and vacuumed to ensure no containments were left. We'll leave it plugged until final install.

I bought a 2.4 motor with e88 head and 3 screw SUs. When I removed the valve cover the smell of gas was strong. Oil pan was like a gas can. One of the carbs was flooding the head with fuel which mixed with the oil through the opening up front on the head. That may be what your's is doing? Is the the oil level high and thinner, smell gassy?

I honestly just gave him an old distributor and then the jeep cas. I told him to make the jeep identical to the stock dizzy. I believe he cut the shaft, then he mimicked the slot. Then drilled the shaft for the stock pin. Then pinned it together.

Give me your thoughts

And that's a fair price for what you get considering you would have to dump $30k more into it.

Or you could just use the one in the kitchen when Ms. J isn't looking. Ms. Obvious was distracted by something else while I took the toaster oven outside and did bad things to it.

I did that a number of years ago. Back before I started taking pictures of stuff like that. My "jig" was a piece of coat hanger wire that was bent into the desired shape (over-bent actually to account for spring-back), and my "heat" was a toaster oven. Worked pretty well. I did some parts out of Viton and some others out of neoprene. PSA - Don't burn the Viton or anything else with fluorine in it. Some more detail just to fill out the story... I ran a pair of those tubes on a some round tops for a while and then pulled the round tops off to go back to flat tops. They worked great while on the car. No binding or other issues. However... Just a few days ago (quite coincidently) I was inspecting those round tops and noticed that the rubber tubes were failing. Cracking around where they were expanded onto the nipples at the ends. I don't know why they were failing. It was Viton from McMaster, so it should have been quality material. Maybe I did some damage with the heat.

I convinced a bunch of drunk college students at a spring break beach hotel that my buddy was Randy Travis. I did it because he looked like Randy Travis and would break out a guitar at parties and try to get people to do sing-alongs. I hated that. "That's Randy Travis. Go say hi." Drunk people are gullible.

I found my receipt and it was $20.07 in 2018, each. So $53 isn't as crazy as I thought.

Thanks. I'll make the inquiry. As far as the other types of hose I'm buying, I am planning on doing some trials on a spare set of carburetors I have to see if the different types have the necessary flexibility as the nozzle moves with the choke.

What an utterly awesome story!!! I’m most envious (in a good way). [emoji106][emoji106]

That tile looks familiar? Missing some stains though.

This is one of those moments / events I wish I could have been present at ....

This gave me chill bumps. Perfect song, perfect timing.

I live either at the beginning or the end of the Appalachian Mountains, depends on where you standing. I like to think the beginning but s h i t does flow down so most likely the end. Add my train of thought, where I was going with my post. There's a lot of state parks and the like up here cheap and friendly so I bet they do get close. Cornbread and grits and all that other stuff nobody admits to like.

With the long block out of the way, and waiting on hardware to come back from the plating shop and bigger parts off to get powder coated, I turned back to rebuilding the smaller assemblies on hand. Next up was the rack and pinion. I ordered up new bushings, rack bellows, tie rod ends. The FSM has an easy to follow guide for rebuilding these. Tore the assembly all the way down, media blasted the housing, and used a generous amount of grease on the gear system.

I just stopped by my local Nissan dealer ready to order a couple #16356-25610 tubes. He told me, with a straight face, $53.76, each! I think I'll call ZTherapy. I do like the baked in curve though.

What is your price range? With all your criteria, you are looking at a car north of $35,000... A truly rust free version with those criteria may be north of $50,000

"Out of sight, out of mind", they say. Funny how that can be interpreted two ways. One could argue that the earth will be pulled in to the sun in six billion years anyway. Destruction is inevitable, why wait? You can go round and round on these topics. I do understand the weed analogy though. My neighbor's yard was full of dandelions. Lazy bastard.

My local dealership got these overnight not too long ago.

Well, I managed to change the parking brake cable with just removing the exhaust. This was so much fun on jack stands. Thank for the help once again!

For sure, this is a car site, a very specialised car site, with a fairly small community of regular posters. The primary reason we all come here is our passion for the Datsun Z. We get to know each other, some even meeting up for a beer or coffee. And we all know what happens when people start talking politics. Discussions degrade into flame wars, people get butt hurt, hold their breath, clench their fists, stomp their feet and hurl a insults, behaving like children. But I wouldn't be opposed to having one place where things political could be discussed, in an adult and mature manner. Keep it simple, never get personal with comments, and no one is allowed to get butt hurt.

I agree Steve.....this is a car site and @Mike oughta make that clear.

which is why I posted, no one changes their minds and there are different sides each have members here. Typically I would not post but after having to withdraw from this before I felt like getting my view stated, then leave.

My vote would be not to have political rants on this site. I have always thought that this site, just like sports is an escape from the political B.S. Please find a political site to your liking and do your venting there.

I rebuilt a '77 about 8 years ago. The Tom Monroe book AK260 mentioned is the first money you should spend in my opinion. Read it a couple of times then start the work. Bag and tag is the next best advice. I can add my experience with that too, write the description on a piece of paper and put it inside the bag. A sharpie on the outside will smear and rub off after being handled a few times. Buy a gallon of lacquer thinner for cleaning and soaking parts as you remove them. A couple of 5 gallon buckets with the lids will be useful too. Brass wire "toothbrushes" work great with the thinner. I could go on and on but like Grannyknot says "you found the right place". There's always someone on here to answer any questions or offer advice from experience. Here's a couple of the most helpful things I've read on the internet. The tech tips from 240260280 is a money saver. He also has a '77 so it'll be extra nice. http://www.atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/ https://www.datsunzgarage.us/ Oh yeah! The forum has a lot of info too. https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/forum/184-build-threads/