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The President is speaking. Have you ever listened to someone speaking and thought "just get done so we can move on to people who know what they're talking about"".

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And the link within the link, from CO.

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The ZX's don't have the flats on the axle. Here's the nut. https://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/classic22e06/23-4572

Still, no link, and pretty weak information. "Indeed they were factory parts", but nothing more. No offense to HS30. Just not very filling. Why, how, durability, scarcity...etc, all would add interest. I assume that JDMJunkies will have these up for sale soon and didn't want to give away the source? Just getting some ad copy?

The gland nut does not seat on the tube, it seats on the top of the shock/insert. So, when properly tightened there will be threads exposed on the gland nut. Having the top of the shock/insert/cartridge stick out of the strut tube might not matter. I think that the strut part number is stamped in to the bottom of the tube, or maybe on the casting that it is pressed in to. Probably covered in rust and crud. Not distinct.

This guy is lucky the owner didn't catch him in the act, with his gun in hand. https://katu.com/news/local/toilet-paper-reported-stolen-from-suv-in-eugene Send toilet paper, guns, and ammo...

It's an interesting car but don't get carried away on value. The parts are still old. And people are still removing L24's to make way for L28's. And the 5 speed is the older style. The easiest part to check and take would be the distributor. AV8 might buy it from you, if it's good. You've probably seen his Hitachi thread.

I'm not sure but I think that the US market got the first body change cars, with the reinforcements. The taller strut towers would give leverage to make a stronger strut mount. The cars got heavier and stronger to comply with US safety regulations, I think. The big bumper years were part of that, along with the 5 mph damage limit. Not an expert on European market cars. I'm not sure the early/late thing applies to European market 260Z's even. Hard to tell because they didn't get the big bumpers, did they? You have the small attractive bumpers, not the big solid ones? Don't know. But it looks like you need "early' gland nuts.

Seems that way. Otherwise the back of your car would be much lower than the front. Assuming that you have factory springs. https://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/classic20n01a/23-4370

The insulator on the top of the back strut would be a clue. The big body's used a taller one. And the strut towers are taller inside the car for the later style. People use the 240Z insulators on the back of 280Z's to lower them, they're shorter. https://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/CTGY/classic20n01a

Like Tinder for Z owners?

You might be able to make your KYB nuts work. The nut serves two purposes - centering the top of the shock, and clamping it tightly in to the tube. Some of the manufacturers just ship a sized metal ring, to fit the application, along with a common nut. Tokico did theirs that way.

There are a lot of gland nut sizes out there. Sounds like they just put the wrong ones in the package. The Motorsport Auto guys do much much better with phone calls.

Where's the link? Could very well be a modern 3D printed thing.

I love Kelvin and Hobbes. Great cartoon.

Are those Celsius or Farenheit?

It would be an N47 EFI head, for an L24, for sure, I think. But there might be two versions. Could be that Nissan changed head design and went to flat top pistons like they did with the L28. Have to dig in to it more. It's still an EFI L series. Get the part numbers from the AFM and the ECU. 77 would have a 280Z type distributor also, electronic, with an ignition module by the fusebox. Look for a cylinder head temperature sensor between the 5 and 6 spark plugs. That's what the later "M"N47 heads used. That didn't come til later on the 280ZX's. It's a fairly rare car.

That would be an L24E. E for electronic fuel injection. Not sure but I think that it has dished pistons, which allows a smaller combustion chamber in the head. It's the (in)famous "M"N47 head. The 810 became the Maxima. You can put it on an L28 and get up close to 10:1 CR, I believe. People like it. @madkaw has used it I think, and knows the details. Overall, it's a nice little L24 engine with EFI. The transmission is basically a 77 Z 5 speed. 3.321 first gear, with 5th gear. Good parts. Worth collecting. Fuel pump, FPR, injectors, fuel rail, etc., all will work on a Z engine.

That's great that you tried but which ones did you do and what did you find? I see these as the ones to do, based on what you said is happening.

I think that the degradation of America's public education system over the years is largely to blame for many of the things that people are doing in response. It's incredible. What could they be thinking? Guns, ammo, and toilet paper? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/us-sales-guns-ammunition-soar-amid-coronavirus-panic-buying Edit - somehow this article here seems related... https://komonews.com/news/local/paraglider-falls-100-feet-off-poo-poo-point

Did you try the solutions offered in the document?

Just read that Canada's borders are closing to individual travel. Commerce will continue though.

2,000 people have died in Italy. If we follow Italy's path, we'll be over 10,000 dead, at least, just comparing population size.