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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.

That's a good point. It might actually be that the process of torquing the nuts (they're not really jam nuts, just nuts) is what causes the distortion of the spindle pin at the lock-pin hole.

You like the UK's herd-thinning approach? Maybe COVID-19 is actually a government (world government) plan to reduce the burden on society of an aging population.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rate-south-korea-compared-to-flu-2020-3 motorman does have a point about the media though. They tend to pick and choose their data to project a view. In this article they use the US flu rate and the South Korea COVID-19 rate. Why not use the South Korea flu rate? Who knows. Big picture wise, it's hard to imagine that the whole world and every state in the US has been suckered in to drastic measures by the media's use of percentages. Could be though. The last three years are telling.

This is a weird comment. Percentages are one of the most effective ways to describe large numbers. And odd that an "engineer" would ignore or not understand exponential growth, or even how any person wouldn't understand how disease spreads. It starts small and grows. It's not a constant like automobile deaths or addiction. But, that's today's world. Many "experts" sowing confusion. If society can get ahead of the growth fewer people will die. If they sit back and say it's a hoax and it will pass, more people will die by the time it's over. The math shows that.

The fact that it's new and undefined is the key. If you read around about past epidemics you'll find some that faded away and some that were very bad. But they can't be predicted. Ebola is the last big one, and, apparently, because we were prepared, it never took hold in the rest of the world. I think that the bigger fear is that eventually one will come along that really is very deadly. This one is a practice run, and we're failing in controlling it. It should be easy, supposedly we're the most sophisticated most powerful nation in the world.. And you're looking at after-the-fact numbers. Besides that, what do you tell the families of the 42 people that died in Washington? After scientists in Washington had identified the disease but the CDC told them to stop testing. The consistent failures make you wonder what else could go wrong. I think that's what much of the fuss is about. And if you have relatives over 65 then you worry about the overall healthcare system failing them and letting them get ill. If you just don't care about people over 65 then I guess you'll be okay with whatever happens. Take off your engineer hat and see what comes in to your head. Edit - actually just realized that you used absolute numbers instead of percentages. C'mon, you're an engineer! You know better. Do the math.

Rugby is taking extra steps so that they can keep playing.

All of the NA MT's should be 3.9. But, the FSM is not always right. Just check your ratios before buying. They're stamped on the ring gear. You'll want to pull the cover anyway to look for damage. Might also be that they are including the type of axle in the part number. The 2+2 83's came with CV shafts. So, if they removed the CV's the diff will be "empty" of axles.

The more tests that you do, the more people you catch that aren't showing symptoms. In America and other countries the lack of testing makes the death rate look higher, because only people closer to dying are tested when they show up at the hospital. Because they're not catching as many people with the virus. The irony of trying to make the numbers loo good by testing as few people as possible is that it makes the death rate look higher. I got a 2% death rate using this data. https://www.covidus.com/coronavirus-usa/