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I remember my older brother and Dad were swapping a clutch. I jumped in the car, pushed the clutch to the floor, blowing out the slave cylinder. I got out of the car and started running! Fun times. My Dad is now 87 and loves to brag on my mechanic ability. He's my biggest fan.....now. Lots of great memories.

"Hold that damn light still!" was heard many times in my early years. When he would finish a repair I was put in charge of cleaning all the tools and putting them away.

Agree to Disagree and move on. This is not what I personally need to see.

@SpeedRoo Thanks for the addition, I scoured the internet and found the checklist document via the wayback machine Cylinder head checklist #4 states "new seats"...so it looks like hardend valve seats were in the protocol.

Most of my kids are gearheads. I need to build a couple more Z's to reduce the fighting when I'm gone...;)

There we go again with the insults. I've found that people like that aren't very happy people in general - that's always been my frame of mind when trying to understand such behavior.

For sale is a rebuilt circuit board for the 75-78 280z OEM clock. The circuit boad is usually what fails. Cost is $80 (includes shipping). For questions contact me at: ron@zclocks.com. Thanks for looking....

@w3wilkes no, as near as I can tell, I am the fourth owner since the restoration. I have contact info for owners 2 and 3. Owner #2 is the one that told me he bought it off eBay 20ish years ago from a guy in Michigan. I'm trying to contact the original owner in hopes of either getting a scan or procuring the "Certificate of Authenticity" signed by Mr. K. EDIT: further poking around on the internet has revealed a new name: https://web.archive.org/web/20130102122335/http://www.editgrid.com/user/mlwilliams/Z_Car_Registry EDIT2: a later revision of this list and the owner name has changed: https://web.archive.org/web/20131128034951/http://www.editgrid.com/user/mlwilliams/Z_Car_Registry

I always enjoy it when our resident armchair expert (RAE) from across the pond makes assumptions that turn out to be wrong. To assume he knows the people I speak to for my background information is the level of arrogance, Just as he has done here: "In contrast, one of your "people involved in the program" has knocked out a couple of hardback books - to great fanfare - but which are packed with enough misconceptions, mis-captions and plain old mistakes as to make them all but worthless for entertainment let alone reference material. You'd be well advised to take care in choosing your gurus." I've never spoken to or been in contact with that person, nor do I have his books. Yet again RAE has gone far off the beaten track. Even the people I have spoken to didn't have a lot of good things to say about the program manager you refer to. It's obvious from the photos from the Japanese magazines they are early cars, the cars in the pictures are instantly identifiable from the master list of the Vintage Z build. If you watch the videos @deanhuff posted links to you can see them at Pierre's shop. It's no great mystery but documented evidence. Just as they put the engines in conventionally at the beginning of the program, they got more efficient fitting rebuilt engines supplied by AER from below by lowering the car onto the assembly. Oh I forgot, RAE worships at the house of Japanese superiority and how could they be wrong having put some photos in a Japanese magazine. The VZ program was an American program, done in the USA and sold in the USA, not sure how the Japanese had much if anything to do with it.

Deanhuff, I am in Maine for the week, returning Saturday the 16th. I will contact you when I get back.

My Dad raised a gearhead and I didn't even know it. Started out as the keeper of the light shining "right here damnit" then tool chaser, he'd get flustered and throw wrenches. He hardly ever used sockets.

Hi Dean Thanks for finding the document I was referring to. Based on this, chalk one up for me!

Here's a different AER page. It's from 2002 and "Not secure" so can't tell if it's just an internet artifact or current. http://dealer.aermanufacturing.com/manufac/remeng.html They do have a Contact page though. Might send them an email and see if they have some documents. http://dealer.aermanufacturing.com/contact/index.html

AER Manufacturing in Carrolton, TX remanufactured the engines. Williams Technology in Summerville, S.C. rebuilt the transmissions. (Williams Tech was bought by Caterpillar circa 2004/5) Both were existing suppliers to Nissan. https://www.aermanufacturing.com/ https://www.ame.org/sites/default/files/target_articles/92Q6A4.pdf

For sale is a completely refurbished 1-knob calendar clock. This clock is very nice and keeps good time. Price is $550 and includes taxes and shipping. Please contact me, ron@zclocks.com, if you have questions.

Doing another 3d print run for @pjczc8 this weekend. Dug up my old files from 6 years ago. Have a SLS metal printer now, should be able to come up with some interesting pieces!

Yup, I now recall the hood was pranged and repaired many years ago.