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I have been stripping the car of parts so that I can send just the body to the paint shop. Tear down has gone pretty smooth with only a few bolt heads torquing off due to rust. I will drill and tap those spots. I posted a couple pics of some of the unique early Z items that i have noticed. Some of the unique items so far (to the best of my knowledge) include: form fitting washer motor cover (versus the later bag), hood rubber bumpers, air duct attach bracket (versus tab) , and nice interior hangers. There is a lot of rust, so we will need a number of patch panels in the usual places. Pictures of some of the rust areas are also below. The interior plastic panels were in great shape, much to my surprise. No need for new ones except for the rear panel that was damaged during a speaker installation. Engine came out easy. Looks like the car had AC at one time as there is a third pulley wheel on the crank and a large hole in the firewall which was plugged with plumbers putty as shown below...🙃 Pictures of progress are below.

I haven't used them, but I'm not sure about the validity of the fitment claim... The later cars used a different (wider) bushing than the earlier cars. I think the 240 used narrow and 260-on used wider.

I have a set of them. I bought their whole kit to check it out. Especially the long un-available moose-stash bar bushings. The rack bushings feel very “Stock” in my hand. I have not installed them yet.

I was looking for production date on the other side of engine….. same born on dates for HLs30-00051 as your Hls30-00042… Perfect!!

Thank you Carl, Confirmation car is one of approximately 230 HS30 cars built in 1971, which estimation of 180 were gnose HH fairlady ….. leaving only 50 to be Z-L or Z-S Worthy to be restored

Just for grins. I'm pretty sure that my old stick cars - 2 Maxima's, Stanza, Jeep Loredo, 1st 240Z, Chevy Vega all parked between 3 & 4.

My '71 4 speed parks between 3 & 4 and like CO says, the push from R is much stronger, definitely a spring. It like "just glides" to there from between 1 & 2 with not really a discernable spring type push to the right.

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The 1972 FSM says the ET is 15mm for the 5 inch wide wheels. I did not find documentation of what the earlier 4 1/2 inch wheels had for ET (offset), but I took some quick crude measurements comparing the 4 1/2 inch to the 5 inch wheels and it appears they added 1/4 inch to each side. If that is the case, then the ET would be the same for the 4 1/2 inch wheels.

My 77 5-speed shifter does rest in center 3-4 position if you aren't pushing it to one side or the other. There is something pushing it away from 1-2. The spring pushing away from 5-R is much stronger than the force pushing away from 1-2. Might just be the rubber boots and linkage stuff, but there is something.

Bosch off a BMW. I ordered the studs already! They are nice and cheap.

Damn, you have good eyes 🙂 Haha, yeah i didn't have any high expectations either. But the fact that it was officially Nissan approved made me have some hope that it's maybe better than some of the other books. Nevertheless. it will end up in my "junk" section of Z-books (which is the Majority of those books, tbh). Funny enough Flo asked the guys at Nissan germany for some press info regarding the Z and got some clearly wrongly-labelled photos from their archives). I guess this book was proof read (or not) by Nissan USA and hot any historian at NMC in JP. I keep buying and reading these books for fun's sake, but always take them with a big pinch of salt.

Dual L6 knock sensors using the stock block m6 hot water pipe mounts. They are actually about perfectly placed! These are just ti prototype. I am designing my own and will be adding them to the things I make and sell.

Thank you for that information Gavin, digesting evidence and coming up with Nissan intentions for a “press car” without written records is hard to make it make sense 50 years later…. The combination of the red dot radio,and the captured nut for the flat hood bumper at first glance to me was a glaring contradiction. Was there a red dot rear view mirror on the hs30-00004 car. But all of these items could have been added or modified in the past 50 years as well. It is a special car no matter what…. A known z parts specialist nudged me gently,asking me if my hls30-00051 had the proper red dot radio…. Well, just not familiar with the early RDR. Looking through my am radios 1 of 5 happened to have red dot instead of the green dot…… Surprised to have this “rare” item in my stash.

During my recent work at the front fender areas, i realized that the corner where the headlight buckets go on the driver side must have had a hit at some point and the panel was slightly bent backwards: I started to enjoy bearing metal panels with a hammer recently, so i got myself a proper hammer and dolly and started to hammer it straight. Worked out pretty well and i'm happy i didn't have to pay a bodyshop for another 30minutes of work. While doing bodywork anyway, i thought it's time to test-fit the rear bumper. I didn't want to mess up my NOS bumper mounts (i'll save them for the final assembly). I realized that my old ones were pretty messed up. A bit of hammering and bending and things started to look usable Then i recut the threads because the bolts wouldn't fit with the thic coat of primer that ended up in the holes: And last but not least i put some rust-converter on the straightened brackets and installed them on the rear. But i forgot to take photos of that. Then i got a bunch of panels in questionable condition from germany. What is special about those front lower valances you ask? Three of them are specific for European spec cars, with the additional mounting points for the euro-spec front spoiler: Here you can see them with my (very wobbly) front lip: I once had a NOS one, but it seems i sold it a while ago (back then i thought i'd go for the xenon front bumper anyway). and now i hate myself for it. Luckily one of the corner valances seemed to be half-NOS. It still had the original protective black primer and sticker on it, but it also had a bit of rust and remaints of a front bumper that was once attached to it. BTW: those EU-spec corner valances have a closed hole for the turn signals (we got the ones mounted on top of the front bumper) and again holes at the bottom for the front lip: Well. it took me a few minutes to get those rusty old bolts out, but now i have again a complete (albait the center part is not very fresh) set of EU-spec lower valances. Oh and a sea-freight pallette with some nice parts left the Port in Japan last week. so i hope in a few weeks i can show you some nice parts... And then, recently i iwas at a very nice S30 related event in the netherlands (more about that very soon). And there i got some nice gifts. Read more about it here: https://www.jdmjunkies.ch/wordpress/2024-10-26/240z-some-gifts-from-the-netherlands/