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Almost ready! Rebello 3.0 stroker build.

Welded up all the seams, took almost 4 hours(!) After that, I had to reinstall it to figure out the center mount. I decided to make one that used the stock mounting points Once I had that figured out, I tacked it in place & then removed the entire exhaust to finish the mount welds for this & the rear muffler hanger Archie was hanging around me much of the day I had forgotten about the trans mount / carrier bushings, so I did those now put the exhaust back in (hopefully for the last time) clearances still good Hangers Still waiting for the Redtail Performance tailpipe 😞

I just wanted to add an interesting development to this story about these throttle body parts. As suggested, I posted a "Wanted to Buy" ad in the classified section of this website (it's still there). Shortly afterward I received a response from someone identifying themself as "week2479" telling me to PM (contact) a second party "klxn300897@gmail.com" who, they said, had what I needed. So that's what I did... When I received a response from the second party, his name was "Logan Key"...and he said he had what I needed. I tried to get him to answer several questions that I had about what he was selling...but all he seemed interested in was getting me to send him the money for the spring ($30). After several emails it became apparent to me that he was only interested in scamming me...also, interestingly, the original response to my classified ad from "week2479" has now been deleted from my ad posting. Thought you all would be interested in hearing this...so....I'm still looking for these parts...if you read this and would like to sell them to me I'd appreciate it if you could respond to my "Wanted To Buy" post....Thanks!

Looking good!

Yes, there were dedicated mount points in the radiator sore support panels. Top mounts required brackets between the (captive nut) mounts and the cooler and bottom mounts bolted straight through the core support. The top mounts have a certain amount of 'spring' built into them, which is most likely designed to give some vibration damping effect? Here's the cooler on my 432-R replica project car:

Nice parts Kats! I'm not sure which is the best way to count the cores? Do you count the sections (cores?) or the joints? I would suggest the sections are the actual cores? I can't remember how many sections are on the two 432-R coolers I've got, but I'll count them. I also have a Works 240Z rally cooler and I count 19 sections (cores?). Here it is in period, still attached to the (heavily crashed) car that it came from, one of the 1973 Monte Carlo Rallye cars, built in 1972:

Here is my oil cooler for my Z432.(they are not for sale, the one on sale is a different one ) I have found there are two different types. The one has 18 cores while the other has 14 cores. Which one is older? I have seen 18 version was used on some works Z432, but haven’t seen 14 version yet. Maybe works rally car has both types? Kats

I have a 1973 240Z that Motorman7 restored in 2018 and 2019 discussed in the thread https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/60309-were-bringin-back-the-flat-tops/. I saw the new Z at ZCON Colorado Springs where our '73 240Z took first place in the Stock judging category. (Thank Motorman7!) I knew then I wanted that beautiful Seiran Blue Z they had there and have been looking to buy one since. Finally, on April 14th, 50 years to the day after buying my '73 Blue Metallic 240Z, I bought a new 2023 Seiran Blue Z. The new Zs in blue are harder to find than the Proto Spec version and I found our new Z at a price I could live with at a Chicago dealer. Drove it the day we picked it up to our son's home in Kansas City, where we left it until June. Then in June, we drove it home to California all on US Highway 50, cause Interstates highways in a new sports cars are boring! (especially Interstate 80...) Sightseeing on the way included the National Tall Grass Prairie Preserve and the Cosmosphere space museum in Kansas; Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, Monarch Pass, Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado; the beautiful ridges and mesas of central Utah; the Loneliest Road in America across western Utah and central Nevada; and Lake Tahoe. Conclusions: it is a great car for such a trip! Very comfortable for long days (Day 4 was 852 miles from Ouray, Colorado to Carson City, NV in 14 hours) Very fun to pass cars or trucks on the open and lonely highways of the Midwest and West. Mashing the throttle was like a catapult shot off the Kitty Hawk! (my long '72 deployment on that ship was what enabled me to save enough to buy the '73 240Z) Head snapping acceleration! Wheee! Long distance trips in my 240Z, the blue line was in 1974 after discharge from the Navy. Whidbey Island WA to Huntington Beach CA via Vancouver BC, Winnipeg, Chicago, and Kansas City. 2023 Road Trip on US Highway 50 in the new Z: A photo op in Dodge City: After crossing the flat eastern half of Colorado, took a side trip off Highway 50 to Pikes Peak: Summit of Pikes Peak was closed, turned around at the 16 mile mark (of the 19 mile drive to the top). Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs Highway 50 crosses the Continental Divide at Monarch Pass. 11,312 feet altitude. Turbos make this easy. Turns out the new Z is off-road capable! 4+ miles of US 50 in central Colorado under construction.. . At the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Actually did some Interstate. US 50 is co-resident with I70 in eastern Utah. Beautiful fast road. No traffic. 80mph posted speed limit. A View Point on US50 / I70 A photo of our 240Z somewhere in Utah in 1974: US 50 from central Utah to Carson City NV is called "The Loneliest Road in America". With good reason! This was part of a 184 mile stretch in western Utah and eastern Nevada with only one gas station. Which appeared closed when we went by... (To be honest, at the speed we were going, things were a little blurry...😁) Couldn't pass up a scenic stop at Lake Tahoe. On the Nevada side looking west. Now home with the great, great, great, great grandfather. Taking both to ZCON. Conclusions about the new Z. An excellent Z for a long road trip. Comfortable, quick, and fun! Neck snapping acceleration. (Like a catapult shot off an aircraft carrier) Wife convinced me to get an, uh, "9 Speed Paddle Shift transmission" (don't call it an auto...😁). And that paid off in the stop and go uphill drive on the Pikes Peak toll road. Highly recommended if you can find one at close to MSRP.

What gear oil is in it? This is a problem that has been cured in the past with a gear oil change.

21355-E4223 & 21355-E4222 It is very hard to read for the one. Kats

Hi Gavin, the tach is genuine one from Nissan sports optional parts. I combined its face and needle plexiglass with a standard Z432 internal mechanisms. If I had a optional igniter called “orange box “, that could drive the sports option tach. Kats

Won"t get into the pros and cons with electric fans. But for me its the only why to go. Did it on my 32 ford that I built. Matt on your relays I went though the same problem Spend all kinds of time at junk yards on the net looking for a relay box. Ended up having one made for me. You can go to any Hot Rod or custom car shop that does real fabrication work and they will build a box for you. Mine cost me $50 plus materials. I mounted it in front of the battery mount. Now my car had been hacked by POS where I even had to replace the right side if the firewall. First pic is relay box the lid has rubber seals on it to keep moisture out. It has a power relay to supply the relays above it. A ford enertia switch controls ground to fuel pump relay

This is fantastic! One day,maybe, I'll get to do something similar.

While editing, I noticed something very interesting. The 1974 photo of my 240Z "somewhere in Utah" had cliffs in the background that looked similar to the View Point stop in the new Z. Notice the profile of the cliff right above the 240Z. This it the original photo. (The one in the post above was cropped.) And again the photo of the new Z view point stop in Utah: The profile of the cliffs on the right was the give away! Realized both photos were taken at the same place! 49 years apart! Using the geotag info in the new photos, identified the location as the Black Dragon Canyon View Point on I70 in Utah. Google Street view of the View Point: I guess Zs like to stop at the same place.

Terrapin, I think those parts look perfect for any of the 280s, including the 78. I believe the linkage attachment piece is from a ZX, not a Z. Details a couple posts below. Exploded 280Z throttle body for reference:

Do the oil coolers mount to factory points?

Yeah, Stanglehold was a favorite of mine years ago. He's snorted too much talcum powder and maybe stangleholded himself more than he should've. Politics need politicians to get stuff done. I wouldn't hire Carrot Top to roof my house.

The pictures are great! I would love to make another cross country trip...

Well, most non-trucks have transverse mounted engines, so they aren't positioned for an engine mounted fan to draw air through a radiator.

I suspect a number of reasons: With fuel injection you get really precise temperature control for emissions purposes but only when you need it Faster warm up to reduce emissions More horsepower The ability to strip heat away faster when the AC is running No big mass on the front of the engine spinning around that can potentially disintegrate That's all I can think about off the top of my headache 😞

I agree, but only get there very rarely. (like driving through in a Z...) Another interesting thing we saw on the stretch of US 50/I-70: Every seen a curve ahead speed sign of 75mph? (Saw this on our trip, but did not get a picture then. Had to go back to Google Street view to find this again)

Not sure you knew, CarPartsManual.com is the saving grace for finding anything related with a p/n attached

Thank you. That's really all I needed.

Not much magic here, the three trapped nuts in the mounting brackets at the back are M5x0.8 thread, the bolts are black nearly flat headed phillips (ok, yes, JIS…) about 16mm long, The front two on the sides are self taping metal screws, now what size is a bit of a trick to describe, they thread into spring clips on the sides of the mounting bracket, something akin to #8 wood screws. They were oval headed, but whatever sits flush and doesn’t catch your knee…..

I want that works style 6 o'clock tach! Lovely piece of kit. Did you have that tach face custom made?

Sure enough, a few weeks later on Y!.jp, up pops this piece for less than $200. Looks authentic enough. Now I have a spare.

Digging up an older post - My Z432 had a conventional spare tire hold-down in in it when I purchased it in 2010, so finding a more suitable hold-down for a mag spare was yet another item on my 10-year-old wish list. A cheap, rusty hold-down which looked the part popped up on Y!.yp a few months ago, and I paid something like $40 for it, with another $30 to have it shipped. I'm not entirely sure it is the exact S30 Z432 part, as it's been mentioned that it might be shared with another model, but it seems to do the trick regardless. I'll have to add a rubber cushion prior to using it. It cleaned up fairly decently (photos of bare metal part attached), and will be sent out for cad in my next batch. I'm assuming it was Yellow cad, and not originally silver cad?