Zedyone_kenobi

This is a great thread. You guys inspire me to start welding again. Have not done it since college when I gorilla welded our SAE baja car.

Whoa, lots of questions there. First start off with what car you have and what does it currently have on it. Second. Do some research on this site. There are many cars with larger tires that you desire. Also, and probably the best recommendation, try Hybridz.org. They are more into heavily modified Z's. Most folks here like to keep them in as new or as new +1 condition. Good Luck.

Steve! Great choice, I want to go with some 205/50's as well next time. I am currently running 195/60/15's. The 205's are just a hair shorter. So you decided konigs ver VTO's huh? I totally understand. I LOVE the graphite Konigs.

Gosh I love those wheels

There are ways to check the brake booster function. Check out your FSM and they give you ways to diagnose if it is your booster. I did this finally only to find out mine was bad.

Here is another option. When I replaced my brake booster, the adjustment pushrod that came with mine, was not long enough. Even all the way out I was short the correct distance by a good 1/8 inch. I had to buy a bolt with the correct threading and then grind off the end to a smooth ball before I could get enough length. But then it worked perfectly.

Well I am thinking of picking up a set of those black Libra 4's in a 15x7, but I am not sure how that would look. In order for them to look right, the 'clover spokes' cannot be too long, or it looks weird. If the 4 thick spokes are the same size on the 14" and 15" rim and all that changes is the chrome or polished part, then it would look great I think. Very retro. I am trying to emulate the 4 spoke rim on the 71 SCCA Champion car I love so much. Just paying homage to a legend.

That is not unreasonable, but still a little surprising.

Found this car in the classifieds. this would be an example of what the VTO's would look like in a 14" size... In another words, they look awesome.

These are Libras right? If so, I think I will post this in the rim thread, as many like myself want a set of these 4 spoke wheels.

It is actually a bunch of stills I have. But the guys at the car meet, have some HD video they are splicing together. Should be pretty good!

Museum guy said I could pull my classic in front of their classic! Another pic. Ane one next to my most favorite plane of all time.... I have a ton of pics of the Corsair, if you would like some let me know. I have some of the engine starting and we go to watch it taxi away under its own power and fly off. The pilot then did a fly over. NOTHING On earth sounds better than an 18 cylinder radial!

You keep the faith Ben. The search for a great Z is not a short one. Think HOmers Odyssey more than Homer Simpson.

No thanks. But I can understand why this is happening. A changing of the guard is happening in the collector car world. The old baby boomers that drove up the prices of the muscle cars are fading away and the generation after who grew up dreaming of skylines and silvia's are coming into money now. Not that rare. Cars that were popular to kids of an older generation become in vogue again 30 years later when they can actually afford them. But if I compared the two, I would say Jared has done a far better job presenting his than the blue car guy. If Jared does not get 69, the blue guy definitely will not. But again, we will see!

Well 59 to 60k is not insane money for what it would take to make this car if you did none of the labor yourself. So I think that is fare. 125 was just on another planet insane. But I may be proven wrong. 2 more days and we will know. If the reserve has been met already at 59, then you can see he was realistic with the pricing this time around. If he truly believed it was worth 125k, he would have kept the reserve much higher than sub 59k. Still I wish him luck!

WEll I think the blog has it right. He can and should get half the asking price of 85000. But even at that level, I am afraid he would be lucky.

I sure do wish somebody would post a pick of a 240Z with retro 4's on it!!!

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40535&highlight=brake+booster I just replaced mine with one from advanced auto. There was a hiccup or two. But in the end, my car has working power brakes for the first time since I owned it! There is a member in my post that said it was very hard to rebuild the booster, as some of the tools are not available.. or something.. anyway check it out, it may help.

This is my next project, Very good insight! I would like to redo my entire fuel system. Evap tank and all. Is the evap tank still available? I can do the tank cleaning stuff easy enough thanks to this review, but I do not want to alter my stock car. Also is there a diagram of the 71 240Z tank hose routing. The early Z's do not have an electrical pump. I want to replicate as much as possible. MSA has many hoses that are CRAZY expensive. I do not want to go buying stuff until I am sure I am buying the right stuff.

I would! My Z is over 2 years older than I am! In fact in 4 months, she turns 40, I should have a party.

never thought of that. We are potty training now. Almost have it licked. He loves sitting in the passenger seat, but he is only 3, and the only child seat we have is his convertible rear facing to forward facing and it is almost as big as my Z. So perhaps when I get him into a toddler forward facing seat,we can get him in the Z! Great idea!

Sadly I am the day care driver in the mornings, so I have to take my son in my WRX. Very hard to bring him to school, then go home and switch cars, and then go to work. So I am struggling to get 700 miles a year on her. I wish it were much more.

I have to inject something here. First you threw out there 300 HP as if that was the minimum you would take, and I hear that a lot from many people. Mostly young ones. Judging by the poor grammar, and the rose colored glasses and your past cars, I would say your pretty young and very new to Z's. I also think your reality has been very skewed by reading too many magazines. Tuning a computer controlled modern turbo car is NOTHING Like tuning an old carburated inline 6. Other than they are both air pumps, they have little to nothing in common. Now, lets get to business. What are you going to be using the car for? Realistically Is it a daily driver, is it a show car, is it a track rat? This is very important. Second, get 300 HP out of your head. There is nothing magical about that number. Vehicle weight, final drive ratio, good tires, suspension are all ways to make a car faster, that are FAR easier than monster HP to achieve and to live with day to day. Third, make a budget and stick to it. Do not let costs creep up and up in search for a number you will never get. Remember this. Making N/A HP is like running an old muscle car in the quarter mile. It is easy to get it to run 14's, but it gets far more expensive to run 13's and exponentially expensive to run 12's. Same for HP. You can take a stock L24 and get 165 HP out of it with some good parts and tuning, but to get 200 HP gets far more expensive, and to get 250, it is a big step function costing more money. Pick a budget and let the HP fall where it may. Third. The end result may be 220 HP with all your money spent, but keep in mind that true enjoyment comes from having a car that you can turn the key and reliably drive down the road and smile the whole time. It does not take monster HP to do this. Especially in a Z. Good luck, and thanks for your service to our country.

I could not watch this. did you guys happen to see the faces of the people after they showed them it was a Datsun. They were like, 'what the hell a datsun'. These are musclehead guys only, and they only know V motors. The only real talent on either team is the painters. The rest are just bolt on monkeys. The only thing they showcase is the talents of the painters, the interior guys an the body work folks. The engines are plug and play. In essence this is just a build your own lego car show. It would have been better if they had a V8 and an L6 to choose from.

Are those 14" or 15" konigs?