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That silver 1970 car number 3486 looks almost the same as mine when I bought it - right down to the fake sheepskin seat covers, and the cracks in the dash. Although mine didn't have a field growing in the engine bay. Shame it has no airfilter on it. Might mean the engine has been contaminated with dirt from the air, but I may be wrong. Still, a seemingly unmolested early car. Not so common these days. Andrew

That 1970 could be a real find for someone. If it has been protected by the dry desert air. serial number 5578 is about June 1970. Even if the body did turn out to be beyond saving it looks as if there are potentially quite a few 1970 bits that would be worth stripping and selling on their own, as there are numerous bits that were unique to the early cars that are really difficult to find these days. - 2400 valve cover - 'oil' ( non elephant) cap on the rocker cover - original bonnet if salvageable ( no holes on the inside - as per Kats website) - possible complete series 1 dash with original gauges - it already has a cap on it - not surprising in Arizona -can't be sure from the photos but it might have the original slotted heater central vent and non-hooded map light cover -there is a rusty original lap belt buckle showing in one picture -early non-reclining seat mechanisms -early tailgate with grills Not too sure about the 'decent' seats though ;-) Andrew

Matty have a look at this link which shows the kit references http://www.atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/bushings/index.html 260z kit is halfway down the page hope it helps Andrew

I also bought the to intense vinyl covers and would concur with MikeW, in that they are close but not exact. Quality seems good though. I have seen pictures that show that classic datsun motorsports cover are much closer if not indistinguishable from original. There is a similar earlier thread that shows some pictures of the clasic datsun covers. hope it helps Andrew

EricB I agree with your maths I use a formula for mph per 1000 rpm as 60000 ------------------------------- (diff ratio)x(wheel rpms per mile) for a 1:1 top gear ratio so for 0.745 you divide by 0.745 regards Andrew

Thick as pigsh*t Going back a few posts: 'You are so ugly that when you were born the doctor turned you over said 'we have twins' '

Not all Europeans . Some of us are trying very hard to stay out of the nightmare of the EU. The scale of waste, fraud and bureaucracy is at least on par with the US. I applaud your dream Carl. Someone (American) said to me recently that the US was now a one party state, with the presidential election there to give the illusion of choice. Quite well put I think (and I don't think things are any better where I live) Andrew

Good post!!!

Interesting thought!!! I wouldn't call it a mistake, ( more a failure) as he tried to invade the UK and soon realised that he couldn't. (and I am not suggesting that the British forces were so much better than any one else; we had the English Channel between us and continental Europe for a start) Got any numbers to back this up? Sure there were a lot of Polish, Aussie,NZ and other pilots who had escaped to the UK, but I would seriously doubt that they outnumbered the Brits as the Battle of Britain was a very short battle which left very little to time to train pilots let alone getting replacement pilots from abroad. That is however my gut feeling and I am more than happy to be proved wrong by some numbers Yep! Ironic we are talking (amongst other things) about being at war with Japan on a website dedicated to our appreciation of a japanese car. In a perverse kind of way I thank the US for dropping atomic bombs on Japan, as if they hadn't, my father would have died in a POW camp on the Burma Railway. However given the suffering that the atomic bombs caused that is not something I am particularly proud of. Andrew

FOR THE RECORD ONLY (I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING AND I AM NOT INCITING ANY INDIGNANT RESPONSES) usually any American uttering such a phrase in the UK is met with the equally untrue and inflammatory reply, ‘The US joined the war after the real fighting finished.’ or ‘The US sent men and hardware but left their balls at home’ FWIW Hitler abandoned plans to invade the UK almost 1 year before the US joined the war (after the Battle of Britain in 1940). The above statement might be true in France though ( sorry France!!!!) please take this post with good humour in the way it is intended :) Andrew

I've spilt quite a few things on a keyboard in my time but never....... Yuk!!!!!!

What I am pissed about is that I opened one of the dead baby pictures with with my 2 year old son sitting on my lap. Fortunately he is too young to know what it is but I would like to be in control of what my children see. What happened to the practice of warning about graphic content??? FWIW we have had overkill of gruesome pictures on UK television and in the newspapers, not much in the way of supression of the reality of war in Iraq over here, which is why Blair gets a well deserved metaphorical kick in the nuts everytime something bad happens in Iraq (and that goes for UK/US AND Iraqi casualties) Andrew

Some funnybone guys and pictures of dead babies too. Just what I expected on a z car site.

I'm with you there Carl, I don't want to butcher my harnes either. IMO LEDS seem a good way to go without cutting the harness (but expensive). To cut down on the cost of LEDs is it possible to prioritise which bulbs should changed first? I would assume the brake and indicator bulbs first as they provide the voltage 'spike' in the system when used which provides the excess heat? or is it the bulbs which run continuously when switched on ( dash and taillights) that cause the damage? Also is it possible to leave say one indicator bulb each side of the car as non LED to avoid having to change the flasher units or put resistor kits across the indicator LED's? Dave, when you converted to LED did you have any problems getting LEDs for the rear lights that fit through the bulb holes in the light housings? Some of the replacement LEDs look too big to fit thanks Andrew

It's Compulsory to vote in Aus?? So if you dislike all of the chioices, you vote for the one you hate least? Looks like us in the UK are also going to vote back in a bunch of arseholes too. Not because Blair is popular because he certainly isn't, its just due to the lack of an effective opposition.

pretty easy to cut some headlight gaskets if you have some thick rubber sheet, and an old gasket for a pattern. Thinking about it you can probably do without a pattern as it is fairly clear what size you need. Chris - I'm not 100% sure but I think you might be able to use front suspension balljoint boots to replace the emergency brake mount in the trans tunnel. FWIW Andrew

Well done Dave!!!!

Ok I just did a search and I now see that the taillight/parking light fuse is prone to melting the fuse box as well as the headlight fuse.

This is a new one on me. Is the problem with the taillight fuse overheating like the headlight fuse? ie you get a melted fusebox if the wiring or fuse is dodgy? Wattage going through the tailights is very low compared to the headlights? Andrew

Be careful. Isn't there a 'second chance' scam going around at present.

Thanks Dave

upgrading to IE6 cured it for me. It was the donations banner on mine that was blocking out half the page. In IE6 it is showing OK now. Andrew

240znz I am as certain as I can be that there is no difference LHD to RHD. My early LHD car also has the slave cylinder on the RH side of the bellhousing ( looking forward), and the master cylinders for my RHD and LHD cars are identical. Quite a bit of choice for master/slave cylinders on ebay too. hope it helps Andrew

Amen to that. My one unbreakable rule with ebay.