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Well the car is up for sale locally on kijiji for the last couple of months, and I've been steadily "improving" it while I wait for a buyer. I've fixed the major holes around the rear wheels wells. The intent here is to plug the holes to the interior to make the car safe to drive and get it to pass inspection. I want to get the car running, safe, registered and insured so the new owner can take it on and make it what they want. There is enough "missing" from the rear arches that they become candidates for a set of ZG flares just to cover the functional repairs. I've replaced the door and hatch weatherstripping with used pieces I have to seal out exhaust. Couple of small rust holes in the floor boards to patch Hopefully with it fully functional, more buyers are going to be interested. The screws attach the panels, then the heads are ground off and spot welded. This leaves the SS screw holding it together and spot welded tight. Wish I'd taken pics of the at strip that fits the curve of the wheel well. Made with a shrinker/stretcher. Screw it to the outer surface, then slight and hammer it to fit th inner curvature. Maybe you can see the four holes in the wheel well inner where a long-gone roll bar was located with 5/16 bolts. Now they have 4 carriage bolts/washers in them, sealed in with undercoating. Note the fancy slightly used tires. 185/75-15. These are fully safe and functional and replace the ancient winter knobbies the car came with. All with minimal cost. $160 for four and 15/each to install/balance. Props for gooddealtire.ca in Calgary.

Well the car is sold. Well SOME of the car is sold. I have sold the shell and basic suspension to a new friend in Edmonton. The other goodies will grace other cars in the region, or maybe 3798 will stay closer to home a wear a few goodies until that original patina. Or how do I get that stroker into a certain 510 I know? Hmmmm

If you can't find one closer, I have a spare ring here. New inner shift boots are cheap from MSA or similar.

Basically its 206 x 90 x 36.4mm Holes are all 10.85. 7/16 bit would be fine, bit big... Both sets are 68mm apart, centered across the width. The size of the radius cutout is not critical, just have to clear the curve of the bushing pocket on the bar it bolts to. And before you whacko's ask what's behind the little paper slips on the drawing, it's not dirty. They cover up bleed thru marker lines from the other side. I'm saving the forests by using both sides of the sheet. yay me...

The stock one is 3.85mm thick steel. Very hard to drill, not just mild steel. Doodle coming

Making them would be easy, but you must make them strong enough. The top bend must not unbend easily. I can certainly provide measurements. Since Mr Wheee offered first and you no longer need the pedal (the only reason I jumped in there anyway), I take my proper place in line.

I also have lots of those link bars and gas pedal assemblies as well. Let me know Another option is to get the Suspension techniques rear sway bar kit that comes with a fresh set of those uprights with the extra holes for the sway bar mounts. BTW they are the same for all S30

The machining operations to create them are straight forward. The 'value' comes with material selection, proper hardening and coatings. Don't discount the consistency and dimensional repeatibility/accuracy benchmarks either.

Ok, that's the last time I post anything useful for you bunch of jokers.....

Someone on hybridZ from the UK mentioned a source for lash pads from a company I had not heard from before. They are Precision Shims from Australia precisionshims.com.au They have both flat bottom and recessed bottom (like stock) lash pads in any thickness. They have stock thicknesses in 0.5 mm steps, but will make you any thickness. They make shims as they call them for many many engines. They even have the size printed on the edge! Now the best part. Price. They are $9 AUS each for the flat bottom. For Canadians, this is fantastic, as the dollar is near par with Auzzie land. In fact I had about a 1% advantage in exchange rate on the day I bought some. US folks will win even further with a 30%+ advantage. Anything Datsun I can buy from Australia is an easy choice. Datsport for 510 stuff like weatherstripping, is another favorite. Chris Bullen the owner was great to work with and very responsive. Shipping was fast (about 10 days) and three sets (36) in a padded envelope was $30. Highly recommended!

They are M4x0.7. Long black and flat/oval headed. Maybe 25mm long. Philips drive

I suggest just getting a new headlight connector pig tail and splicing it on. I see billions when I google headlight connector H4. Every generic auto parts store, ebay and amazon has them by the boat load. Just one example http://www.repairconnector.com/categories/HEADLAMP-CONNECTORS/ I believe this connector style Actually has the stock style FM connector pins. I have a few of those somewhere. Search for either H4 or 9003 style connectors

Clipsandfasteners.com. search for M5 SEMS M6 SEMS Etc....

4510 is tough to track down. The whole saler in canada will only sell it in 45 gal drums. I have to beg a local upholstry shop for it. Whatever spray you use, make SURE its rated for headliners. Heat will cause many of the sprays to fail.

Flat tops got to the place and reputation for three reasons. IMHO 1. Complexity. When they wear out, and they all do, rebuilding them was difficult. Kinda the same, keeping them in tune was also tricky. 2. Availability of the earlier simpler round tops. Why bother when something simpler and better is available, barring some polution law in your kneck of the kwoods that made you do it. 3. Rebuild kits were NLA for a long time. MSA has them again, I bought a set. I have a bushel of flat top cores if someone is wanting some.... Crickets...... I have previously expressed my admiration for the design of the flattops. While I threatened to build a set and show the na sayers some time slips, well, you know what happened. Too complex, time consuming and there are these fantastic folks at ztherapy....

Up until the last one, I was making the brackets from scratch. The last though I used bracket arms from vintage air. https://www.vintageair.com/brackets/ Then attached them to a plate I made that fits the four M10 block bosses.

Good morning. I'm in a mood of distracted boredom, and thought I'd start a rousing games of "why'd they do that?", 'they' being the factory. I have noticed on more than a half dozen odd Z's that I would say are relatively unmolested, that the six bolts that hold the wiper arm pivots to the cowl are quite surprising. Five are identical, one, the same one on every car, isn't. Here we see on the left side, that the inner, rear fastener is a round headed machine screw, bereft of even a lock washer, while all the other five are nice hex SEMS bolts with the expected lock washer. All are of course M5x0.8 thread. Right side, all is happy with three matchy matchy. As those of you who have had the pleasure of removing this lovely flock of fettid fluffy fasteners have experienced, it is not enough that 4 out of 5 of the bolts snap off, but you have to resort to vise grips to get that lone round headed bastard, rendering its head beyond repair for future use, causing all sort of consternation and wringing of hands. This was recently observed on 3798 (pics above) and on a 73, VIN 127xxx. Can't say for sure what other years I've seen, but a good sampling. Let the speculation begin. Why in the world would they use one odd bolt in that group of six in such a systemic way? I think the assembler was a clever prankster, and revels in the joy of imagining the future angst he/she will have caused. Well congratulations. It worked.

Don't forget I have 3798 for sale folks.... Numbers matching (except the dash, dang it..) Canadian edition. Most of the early stuff is there. Runs, drives, looks terrible. Rust is totally managable but very present. Alberta registration. Well 26 years ago.... I hate to put it on flea bay, but maybe I should, to get the exposure. I should make a proper for sale thread for it, shouldn't I? Only asking a mere $8K CDN, about $1.56 USD..... zkars.com/cars/1970_240z_HLS30-03798/

The feel is good. I have quite a heavy pedal with my clutch setup, but it is smoooooth....

Tough one to fix. Hatch alignment is a real bear. You can place a shim between the fixed threaded hatch mount plate and hinge, where the pair of flat headed philips bolts connect the hatch to the hinge. Make it out of shim stock or brass sheet. This will move the hatch toward the front of the car. Real fun to install. Use some crazy glue to hold the shim in place on the hatch plate while you get the bolts lined up while holding the hatch with your other three hands. Or use slotted shims that you stuff in AFTER you get the bolts in but not tight yet.

Where is your compressor mounted? If it's the monster York thing on the right side that surrounds the fuel pump, then all the engine threaded holes on that side are M8x1.25. If its mounted down low on the header side, those four threaded bosses on the block low down are M10x1.5mm As to length, get your tape measure out....

I find it cool to know that a thing such as the "Society of Fuse Engineers" exists. I wonder how I can join... "Glass fuses designed to specifications set by the Society of Fuse Engineers. All are 1/4 inch in diameter, but vary in length according to.."

Other than tube diameter (50mm vs 55mm) they are the same enough length and spring perch wise. If you want a 240 strut in decent shape instead, let me know. Calgary isn't too far away. Z240@shaw.ca

No problem using a larger pin. Just make sure it's hardened, ie don't use a bolt. Certain crazy people have even gone as far as inserting a bearing in the pedal hole for that velvety smooth clutch feel. They shall remain nameless, ok, me...

Sounds about right.