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Nice article and great feedback by HS30-H below the article. Thanks for bringing the article to our attention. I did have a couple beefs though. The several comments on the lack of headroom in the early Z cars are surprising. I am 6' 3" tall and fit well in all my Z's; 2 are completely stock. I do not fit in most Honda's, Corvette's, or the current 350 and 370Z's. Odd that this was brought up. I am guessing the author is short and does not really have to deal with this issue. Would have been nice to have an original 240Z in the photos. A call to any of the local Z clubs would most likely get you a decent one. As a side note, Also heard rumor that Matsua, on his way to ZCON (noted by HS30-H in the article comments) will be in San Diego for 3 days to visit the Datsun display at the SD museum and the Datsun Heritage Museum in Temecula. Assuming this is true, I am hoping to meet him and possibly get his signature on the underside of my hood. Will be taking off work to make that one happen, definitely worth it. Peace Out, Rich

Hi David, That would be great. Would be great to see if we can get some of the Empire Z , SoCalRoc, and LA Z club there. (Gotta include SoCalRoc, I think my next car purchase will be a roadster) I love the venue at Irvine. Very high end, and good coffee of course. When I brought my '70Z, there was just as much crowd interest in my Z as there was in the mega dollar Aston Martin that parked next to me. Thanks for the support, Rich

Wow, major bummer! I would feel the same if something fell on mine. Hopefully you can paintless dent removal that out. I went through my small garage where I usually keep the '70 and figured I'd try and make it earthquake proof since I live here in So Cal. I roped up some items (bikes), added front panels to some of my shelves and moved things away from the car best I could. Still have doors and stuff up in the rafters. If I were smart I'd toss those.

I would like to send out an invite to the Z clubs in So Cal to the Cars and Coffee in Irvine. The ZCCIV is planning on going to the Irvine Cars and Coffee on 24 July 2010. Would be nice to have a good showing of Z's there. Roadsters and 510's invited as well, of course. We are planning on arriving between 6:30 -7:00 AM. Send me a PM if you have any questions. Rich

Thanks George! I checked out the site. There is a lot of stuff there. I will definitely be checking out their calendar. Rich

Hi George, any way to get a little more info on the Datsun Swap meet you mentioned. I run the ZCCIV web site and have a section where I try to add the So Cal events that are happening for Z/Datsun enthusiasts. It would be nice to have a place where all of the So Cal events are listed so people can attend and enjoy the events. Best Regards, Rich

Beautiful car, wonderful job! Hope to have my '73 looking that good some day.

Mine was bought in Florida but brought to California shortly thereafter (within a week or two). No three way valve in engine compartment with line going to aft tank, came that way.

HLS30-02614 has no evap tank...it came that way from factory (or so I was told, never removed the panel). Are you sure your supposed to have one? http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32826&highlight=evaporator+tank&page=2

I haven't seen any ads on our site, just the craigslist. Just seemed odd since he bought the car in AZ a couple weeks ago. Maybe the wife doesn't like it. Very nice color though. Would like to see the motor. I love the panasports on it, he just needs to drop it an inch or two. I have the original 5 slot mags on my 1973 with brand new Michelins and would gladly swap tires with him.

Sorry, didn't know you were looking to trade that beauty. Thought it was a con craigslist posting since there was no phone number.

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/ssd/cto/1797830032.html

Will see about picking one up before the Laker game tomorrow. There is a harbor freight about a mile from me. Will pick up on way home. Thanks for the tip. Rich

Actually, I don't have a timing light. I have always done it by feel. I usually advance as much as I can until I get engine ping under load. Then I back off just a bit, so just a trace of ping under load. I plan on buying one some day soon here. The idle is about 800-900. Funny, last time I called Pep Boys for a timing light the youngster on the other end thought it was a device to turn your house lights off and on. We are dating ourselves here.

No change. I pulled off the hose, plugged it with a 1/4" bolt and that was it. No other changes.

OK, I am now running the 280ZX dizzy without the vacuum input. This is a good set-up. I get less or no ping under load than when I had the vacuum hooked up. Also, motor freely revs to 7K, which is great. No more 4K flat line. Afraid to take it over 7K as I think the tach has a slight lag and could be at 8K during a rev. So I am doing about 75 MPH at 3K RPM. Theoretically I could do over 150 MPH in this thing before redline now. May have to try that someday to see what it could really do.

Not sure what you mean by front and back seals, but I installed just about everything. The BD kit comes with Hood/cowl rubber, door lower rubber strip, single piece rubber for each door frame (Very thick, pain to install and hard to close door), front and rear windshield rubber, Quarter window rubber (2 pieces each), both seals for rear hatch,-inner and outer (use the masking tape on these). Good news is no exhaust or gas smell.( I still have the Trans oil smell from my speedo cable issue though).

I got the black dragon kit for my Modified Z. Only thing I wasn't happy with was the door seals. Very difficult to close the doors..but then again, no exhaust smell either. Oh, forgot to say I hate installing weatherstripping. Easiest thing to do was the front and rear glass. The rest was a pain. I will use the masking tape trick next time as mentioned on other thread.

I will give that a try. Right now I have the vacuum hooked up. It will be interesting to see how it does with the vacuum removed. Will try and set that up tonight when i get home. Thanks for the input. Rich

Wasn't sure whether to add this here or put it under the what I did this weekend thread. Seems it would be most appropriate here. This weekend I went to the pick your part place in Oceanside and snagged a 280ZX dizzy to replace my Petronix/standard dizzy. I too had the 4000 RPM stall and was hoping this would fix it. At 4K, it seemed like the ignition was cutting out and I could actually get a gas smell, so I was thinking it was an ignition issue. The change out was pretty easy since I already had the Petronix. I pulled the old dizzy and mount, noted the rotor location (cylinder 2) and installed the new 280zx dizzy and mount and started the cabling with rotor location being cylinder number 2. This worked great, started right up. Odd thing was the RPM's would go up much higher than my other dizzy. Had to break out the Unisyn and lower idle speed. The thing that is odd here is if my earlier dizzy was optimized, and I think it was, why would a new dizzy bring the RPM's higher? Anyway, I have the dizzy dialed in and I love how it runs. No more 4K stall and maybe just me, but car seems much smoother. I will keep the old dizzy just in case, but for now, it seems like a nice change. So for my Yellow '71 240 Z, I am now running a 280 alternator and 280 dizzy on a 260 motor. Talk about a hybrid.

Wow John, that is an impressive amount of work for a weekend. I'm jealous

It must be coming up the cable because I had it hanging in an upside down 'U' shape in the garage. Didn't lube it when I installed it. I'm guessing it must have been leaking when I didn't have the cable installed, I just didn't notice it. I will replace the o-rings Espirit mentioned and hopefully that fixes it. Looks like I will have to add trans fluid to