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IMG_5685.MOV Additional photos, cherry blossoms , like me , Japanese people really love it. Side note , original tire was 175 HR 14 for this car , not available anymore today .Yokohama tyre is selling 175 80-14 for classic cars . I put them on my car , not perfect but not bad . Kats IMG_5680.MOV

Hi Gavin , I see you have skills!! I want to do it like you , but maybe I can’t. Just give it a try. I will show you my progress of hammering bumpers and panels . Yesterday I took my 240ZG to my mothers home, 885km (550 mile) . I checked 606.2 km for 44.45 litters during daytime , 90 % on the high way .The fuel economy was 13.63 kilometers/ litter ( 32.08 miles /US gal) . Conditions were like this , Average speed 100km/h with 5th gear / 3.9 final gear Overall field elevation, I don’t know ,, but Japan ,a lot of mountains everywhere in a small landscape .Probably I was driving on a Slightly up and down road . Average temperature was 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees fahrenheit). Wind less than 10 knots, variable. Does my maths look reasonable ? Kats IMG_5643.MOV

I just picked up a digital cooking thermometer and placed it in the radiator under the cap and the fan come on at 172 degrees.I purchased a 200 degree on and a 185 degree off , I can not believe for the life of me that is off by 30 degrees . it is made by american volt company. go figure I guess I will look on amazon for a different brand . I did try to buy usa go figure. when the new sensor come here I will post my report thanks kully

Are you seeing the temp gauge creeping up at highway speeds? Could you be running too lean?

That guy has turned in to some kind of diamond finder. He has a whole list of nice cars sold on BAT. https://bringatrailer.com/member/adamike/

The guy who sold the 355-Mile 1976 Datsun 280Z has just listed this: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-datsun-280zx-31/

It sounds like the fuel regulator my dealership used back in 1974. When the dealership did the electric pump on my 73 they put a round adjustable, shinney silver fuel regulator between the Engine bay fuel filter and the mech fuel pump which they left in the circuit. The regulator was maybe 2.5 - 3 inches with a dial on the top with labeled detent stops labeled something like 1 through 6.

Please elaborate. Fuel regulator? Setting 1??

In my experience the spring missing usually means the pivot joint is no longer functioning properly. So you might need the pivot parts too. They end up going past the lock point and folding backward with the spring pressure. Then you can't close the door. Nissans answer was to charge the mechanism and use a tighter spring. That is why you see a lot of later hinges on the drivers door and this style on the passenger door.

As I recall in a previous discussion and a verifying experiment of my own, the trick to softening and keeping rubber (I don't know if it works on vinyl) soft was wintergreen oil. I soaked a destroyed hard rubber firewall grommet in acetone and wintergreen oil. It softened the grommet and left it soft for months after, at which point I was convinced and trashed it. I also seem to remember the go-karting world using w. oil on tires.

Actually she was a looker, and given the chance I’d hit it again, at least for old times sake. And now, back to our new old member and his Z resurrection.

Yes they do look similar indeed. The giveaway on the T5 is the split bellhousing.

I screwed that one up, it is a BW T5 in the pic above. Same type of shifter plate. Here is the 71C....

It's a FS5W71B close ratio. The speedo bolt is located downwards, one exhaust hanger ear on drivers side and reverse lock out on drivers side. The 71C would have a completely different gear selector on top. The ebay photo above is not a 71C. Looks similar, but it's a BW T5

If it is an 82, it is not a 71C. Most likely a 71B wide ratio out of a 280ZX 2+2 NA or the close ratio out of the 280ZX coupe NA. If he is asking $1000 I would expect the close ratio version. You can easily identify the close ratio by features on the case. If you can find the parts or like Zed Head said a donor transmission, then rebuilding this one might be the cheaper option. Again like Zed head said, this is not a common failure. You could find a trany with a blown centre bearing with the parts you need. Unfortunately the main shaft is NOT the same in the F4W71B. You can use the FS5W71B wide or close ratio main shafts.

Welcome back to the club. What is the VIN? I have a brown 72, manufactured 11/71, VIN 56539. Bought it in 1992 for my first wife, kept it in the divorce. Drove it until 98, then parked it. Pulled it out of storage a year ago last August. , when I was sent home on Covid quarantine. The previous owner used upholstery paint on all the tan interior parts, so it has a black interior now. I spent the two weeks of quarantine cleaning of 22 years of dust, dirt, overspray (I painted a tractor in the shop and the temporary paint booth didn’t keep the overspray contained), and spider poop. The original finish cleaned up well. The picture with the red Z is from 92, the others from the quarantine cleanup.

Yes!

If the tanks are OK, you might consider having the OE radiator re-cored. I can point you to a local shop that can probably do the work.

I did an internet search and read a few things to confirm what I already knew. The chemicals in the polymer evaporate out and the material becomes brittle over time. Heat will make the material pliable, something in the 200 degree range, boiling water temperature, but the material will return to its same brittle state when it cools down. There is no way to infuse the material with what has evaporated out over the years. There are some really good products to protect and slow further damage, the Mequiar's being one of the top five, but that's about all you can do.

I believe you meant, 'hygroscopic' (ability to absorb water). No such word as 'hydroscopic' The history of E85 was (and remains) quite politically-driven. At the start, it seemed like a win-win proposition from the environmental perspective -- an organic, renewable commodity used to reduce exhaust emissions from gas-burning vehicles with not much required in the way modifications to the vehicle. The corn-growing regions loved it. Then squabbling started over the diversion of food-production land towards non-food use. IIRC, other regions got upset over the environmental impact of consuming grassland in their territories for ethanol feedstock. Now we see ethanol being used to offset embargoed Russian oil stocks. And on it goes.