260z

Yes it is and it can be hard to find interesting cars sometimes. Allthough we do have some of the raresta ones for example mercedes-benz waxenberger 300 sel 6.3 liter. There are only on car out of three that has survived racing.... http://www.m-100.org/6point3/magazines/classicandsportscar_jan1999/waxenberger.html I dont know the number of kgt's imported. There must be few of them because those are occasionally for sale. But I think that there are even more z's for sale... Is it correct that this car was 1.6, 1.8 or 2.0 liter skyline in japan nad that 2.4 liter version was skyline gt-r? Thats what I have been reading on the internet.

I have just missed my chance to get company to my 260Z....There was a 240 kgt for sale here in Finland for 600€!!!! Daily driven car!!! I was too slow... If you dont know what I am talking abou look here> http://skyline-gtx.hp.infoseek.co.jp/cm.htm Well I guess I have to settle to buying a 260c -73 for 500€ (series 230) But it is not nearly the same..

I don know if there are any of these Cobra replicas here in Finland. I doubt because there are only so few Z's here. But when it comes to taunus Cobra's it is a bit different scenario!! We have one firm that actually produces those replicas out of old Ford Taunus. There are 2,3 litre v6 and some versions are available with turbo. They do also make v8 replicas....That is a big question mark to me because it is veryvery hard to get a car with so big modifications registerd here. And if you want to make all the way with new chassis and engine and so on you have to pay new cars taxes! That is if you dont register the car as Taunus. According to our laws this kind of kitcar must have atlesa 50% of parts out of a registered donator car... You can find the firm here www.sporttiauto.com

The old bionic woman has been running on one channel here in finland. Atleast in one episode the lady drove a 260 or a 280 z with big bumpers....

I had my bonnet stuck with my former z too. Those old worn cables. Fortunately I had disassembled the lock mechanism once so I knew what i had to do. I made a tool which helped me to reach the lock arm that the end of the cable is attached to. It doesn't really help if you can reach the cable because it is screwed into the cars body. I will attach a picture of my tool. I used to open my bonnet with this tool for a while. (naturally I forgot some times that the cable was stuck and closed the bonnet too hard!!) Normally i drove around with my bonnet open... The red line in the picture is the tool. I used 8mm steel axel to make my "bonnet opener". It was pretty soft steel because I was able to bend it by hands. It is actually easy to use this opener when you find the right place to poke the tool. The tip of the tool should be placed behind the lock arm.

Here is the web address to minilite unitedkingdom they claim to be the makers of original minilites. www.minilite.co.uk

That is just one good example how to spoil a beautiful car! What a hotrod custom kind of ugly monster!! I sure prefer more original looking Z!

What should the accurate operating temperature be when the engine reaches its normal temp? The scale starts at 120 f and my car is running over half way of the meter.

We have also speedcameras here in Finland. Usually these cameras are in some sequence of road. It can be for example some 50 km long sequence of road. There they have 10 or so camera posts in both directions. Normally there is only one camera that police moves from post to post. There are also signs to say that camera surveillance starts from here on. But they dont have to tell when it stops. Offcourse you know where this ends because the posts arent going to move.

Kippis!! gesundheit!!! Meine deutch ist nicht so gut! Still visiting Finland often? Have you by any chance been in north karelia, Joensuu perhaps? Tseck out jns.fi(my home town) Lucky you, you got so many nice zed's there. Well some day=) In addition to my 260z I have got a 318i bmw tourer from 1990. ANd it seems to loose some value as our taxation changes nowdays...

that I got my inspiration from. Nice piece of art!! Have you done the kind of interactive flas animations that dohring is talking about?

I was just browsing your gallery. Many of us must have similar hobbies. I just ended my career as an co-driver for a buddy. Yöu can see picture of me and our car at www.mediarace.fi/racing do you own both of those z's?

It is this european community ****!! I automatically voted as european. So I just missed the Scandinavian...Which was right over europe...Shame on me!!

I received some criticism from my finnish friends. The first animation was too fast. Now I have adde some frames and reduced frames/sec rate. I also added my first edition drive-by animation to my www-site. www.mediarace.fi/unenvaltakunta

The same thing. This animation career of mine is just on hobby bases. Allthough I do similar stuff for clients. I am goin to try find the time for that. It is a bit more complex to do.... And ofcourse you must draw all those variable parts.... Let's see if I manage to put something together.

Although there are pretty many countries in Europe I don't compalain. I am zedding in Finland and there are plenty of us here too. Our finnis datsunnissansportscarclub has 151 members. And 15 of them are driving s30 series z. You can visit club sites at www.dnsf.org Site is in finnish but you can see our cars in the galleria section.

I was inspired by z-animation in this forum. Check this out and rate it! www.mediarace.fi/unenvaltakunta/tunezani.htm

Hello, I had a 240z with kph meter. I think that all z's in Finland and some other european countries had kph meters.

There is a short video of my ex 240z on my website. The address is www.mediarace.fi/unenvaltakunta There you must choose the s30fun link in upper left corner and click on the video link. Then click the burnout button on the site. My wife was the camera master=) was not able to keep up the pace.....=)

I am 26...number 2

There are few pictures of my su set up in my gallery.

Here is some info that they send me from midelty company. We build the 260Z HS6 carburettor from all new parts and are assembled to the specifications required for that engine. The correct metering needles, jets, piston springs are fitted as well as all the bowls, lids and levers to match with original pipe work etc. HS6 and Hitachi's both have four bolt flange. I didn't change the bowls. I took the springs from my old hitachi flat top's!! I did order new sm needles as well as carb rebuild kits from england. It was burlenfuelsystems co and they have all the parts you can possibly need for old su's...exept datsun su's. Volvo carbs fit straight into the datsun manifold. The throat is a bit smaller. If you can find the AUD codes in the body of your su's I might be able to tell you which car your su's came from. There are probably many AUD codes. Give me all you can find. My carb set up seems to be working quite well. Week ago I drove 110,4 mph (184km/h) It was a 1,8 km long straight(1,08 miles) I am not a expert with adjusting carbs. Before this highspeed drive I just turned the carbs a bit richer because I did not want to melt my pistons..... The carbs are not tuned by professionals yet. I reckon that the car could do a bit more if I took it to some professional that has all the meters and stuff.