conedodger

!!! I am a member of the Sacramento Valley MG Club. I haven't owned one in years and naturally when I did it only ran for about 30 miles over a period of 2 years but once you join their club they keep sending you the newsletter for life. Some of the recommendations are outdated. I think EOS is NLA for one...

A good Porsche engine builder, a guy who makes Porsche cylinders, and a guy who does CNC cylinder head work on Porsches got together and tested most of the currently available herd of oils that car guys are using. They found that Brad Penn has the highest zinc content of all the popularly used oils. Brad Penn is a shortening of the name Bradford Pennsylvania where the old Castrol GT refinery was located. I guess when the refinery was going to shut down it was bought out and is being operated by the old employee and management group. Testing second in this group for zinc content was Royal Purple and Swepco Synthetic. The old school synthetics could cause oil leaks but now days the synthetics contain additives to swell seals so that is uncommon. I use Brad Penn in my 914, Swepco in my 911, and Brad Penn in my Z... The 911 has very low mileage and runs considerably cooler on the Swepco synthetic. Why is Porsche test data relevant? These are all older flat tappet engines.

Ebay is the wrong place to look for appraisal information. Your appraiser will look at a lot more than that. Cars with history can bring higher value. I suspect though that in this case unless your unnamed drivers were fairly famous that effect will be limited. Z Store cars have brought very high prices. I am not so sure they deserve to be bringing higher prices than a well restored and original car but they can. It sounds like you are thinking of selling. Good luck!

Not too sure why worth is even being discussed. Is the guy looking for offers? Seems to me he has just shown it to some guys he met and let them take pictures. Perhaps the proper semantics would be the lowest VIN actually sold in the USA? No way to tell what VIN was sold first in the USA, and in any case that was probably in California no??? Is there any more to report on the car? This seems to have devolved into a critique of the US hegemony.

Very cool...

I just unbolted it, gave it a few spanks on either side at 3 and 9 OClock and it began moving forward on the shaft. Then I just gave alternating pulls to the left and right sides and off it came...

Arne is of course absolutely correct. I forget that for most guys don't need or want to pay for Hoosiers, Kumho, Yokohama R-rated rubber. My apologies. You should be good for a long time. Now I will go back to sticking my thumbnail deep into my tire rubber and smiling :stupid:

Dude! Where is your cat??? Seriously, lose the air pump.

Consider 16" wheels. It is hard and will be getting harder to find tires for 15" wheels.

In the right hands it is not terminal... Good luck and happy welding!

Isn't the 280 hood the same as the 240 until 77? I bought a 240 hood three years ago for under $200 new from the dealership.

I have two grills in great shape. I may have both signals, I have to check. Pretty sure the rest of it I don't have though... PM me an we can work out a price.

Then there is the "as long as you are in there" factor. You have the head off, you should check that it is straight and not warped. A lot of people would take the opportunity to do the valves. I have seen warped heads and blown gaskets before but they always ran. Basically a steam caliope but they ran...

I have one. I didn't want to separate it from the carbs but I will not bother with EBay either. If he still needs one contact me.

I bought my Porsche 914 from the original owner (my Z too for that matter), He bought the car from Sierra Porsche/Audi in Riverside. The car was delivered with these wheels. 914 guys call them Western wheels. They weren't particularly light. They also aren't particularly popular. The dealers took off the factory Fuchs Wheel, a forged aluminum alloy wheel to put these things on so they could upcharge the customer for "alloy" wheels. I also have the original 8 track the dealer installed. Now if I can just find that Herman's Hermits tape...

I used a guy in Salt Lake City. Art Thrane at Air Cooled Engineering or ACE. I know, I know, your car isn't air cooled but he is very good... I was able to bolt them on and balance them and go...

I'm not sure I totally agree with much of what has been posted. I owned an automatic 280Z and I autocrossed the crap out of it. The automatic was a great advantage on an autocross course. No third peddle to work, one click to stay in the torque... I stomped the wizz out of that car and trophied every event I attended for years. Other than the generalization that they were "treated better", I agree...

Welcome, I have a student from Northern Ireland and I have to say, you guys are a lot easier to understand when you write!

If you can manage to get Jay Morris on the phone when you call Ground Control he is a wealth of information on the Z. When he first started having success with the company he was racing a Z. He did the did the corner balance and alignment on my old Z before changing the company to manufacture and sales only and moving up the hill from me in the Diamond Springs area...

I didn't notice you were in Oakland. The ZDoctor is down there somewhere. Richmond maybe?

I had to go to your profile to find out what car you own but what you are describing is typical of a throttle position sensor that is gunked up... Sensation will usually happen at steady state cruise. Pop the cover off and look at the circuit board. It is sometimes possible to clean it up and still use it.

On the pic he has of the front of the car, just behind the bumper and on top of the bumper shocks - blocking your view of the bumper shocks is a body colored piece of sheet metal supposedly called a sight shield (I have never looked it up in a parts manual). I have one from a parts car and can take a picture of it. It serves a similar purpose to the part attached to the body in the rear of the 77-78 cars. It is just there to hide the bumper shock. I have noticed at ZONC events over the years that this part is seldom there. I suspect because it gets crunched in any low speed fender bender and not replaced.

Nice. I have found it pretty rare for the sight shield in the front to still be in place. By now most of these cars have tapped something in the front and people have not bothered to find a sight shield to replace the bent up one... California law may be vague as written but as applied, the seller must smog the car. But if you don't insist, DMV is not going to bat for you...

I just wrapped my new dash in bubblewrap and put it in the crew cab...

Nice one for sale on the ZONC site. I think it might be in Roseville just outside of Sac... Check it out. Big miles but looks like new.