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1987 My first car purchase. Saved for 2 1/2 years

Our youngest (43) gave me these coasters that he made on his new 3D printer. They're glued to cork beds and a clearcoat over the Z emblem. I think they're pretty hot!

Beautiful engine, 180hp are good numbers but if you popped in flat top pistons and brought your compression up to at least 10 then the engine would really wake up with no danger of pushing it into unreliability

That looks like the Xenon air dam to me. They used to be about $160. Those days are gone.

Looks like mine! I have the license plate cutout version. Purchased from MSA.

How many times have we heard “the power is in the head”. Still true. Cam, lift, porting. Make’r flow like a hurricane!

Here is my tool, just for completeness and give others ideas.

Have you measured cylinder pressures? That will tell you something about the CR. Ideally, combustion chamber volume would have been measured when the port-matching and valve unshrouding was done. Either way, if you did not install bigger valves, an N42 or N47 will be an immediate benefit, due to the higher flow. 2mm bigger intake valve and smaller combustion chambers. Here's the 1974 260Z specs compared to 1976 280Z. Even the text is cleaner and crisper.

The 18" flexible would be great for the gentle curves around the edges of the roof and back fenders, 12" flex would be good just about anywhere as would a 12" straight. It would also be nice to have a 6" straight for the tight curves and edges of the front fenders and hood. I mentioned I ordered 2 12"x12" 3/16th acrylic sheets, when they arrive I'm going to make a 12" flex, a 12" straight, 6" straight and bunch of 1"&2" blocks of various lengths. The 18" would be nice but I think you could do everything with a couple of 12"'s and a 6" block of hardwood.

I put in the speakers I got and here are some pictures. I also took pics of what I assume are OEM speakers. The back side of the one I pulled is the first picture. They screwed right in no issues at all

One of the good things about being so slow on my own project is that they have added a lot of the parts I was looking for last year. Just received these recently...