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CO likes story's.. I had a friend in school and he was busy on a cable for a big mixer (mixing console.) i walked into his workshop.. saw what he was doing and told him to stop.. he did ask me why and continued.. i sayd.. if i tell you, you kick yourself.. stop now! Then he looked and said what's wrong.. i said the cap! OH NOOOOHH!! He was halfway on a 40-60 wired cable with individual shielding.. he had to take them all off again..

Or originals from... eh.. me? haha just kidding the postal costs are more than the bumpers .. But you could ask @EuroDat for a set of bumper brackets, i know he makes them and sold some before.

A tube center sounds like a piece of tube for cars that don't have the pre-muffler? Maybe the part nr can be found in a parts catalog.. looks like a 240z part number.

When you installed the exhaust don't forget to dril a hole in the lowest part of the resonator(s) from around 4 mm, to let the water out, it saves them from rusting from the inside! (put a little bit of paint in the hole(s) I did this with a lot of exhausts and they don't rust from the inside out! For MOT not a problem as long the hole is not more than 5-6 mm..

Hi, I see you have already my pic of the mid part of the exhaust! Your resto deserves a part like the one on my old garden table haha.. It went to @Zup maybe he knows a copy or can give measurements of it.. I just had one of those for many years on the attic and never used it. At the moment i have a aftermarket 260z exhaust under my 240z, it has a bigger diameter pipe, and it's a little bit louder. I like your work very much, well done! Hope you find something you can use for this perfect resto! Diameter original (exit side to end muffler.) The part Nr: 200050-N3000

I totally agree.. I don't think thats original.. if you do want that you need a bigger oilpump !! In this pic i see a lot of wear on the left lobe.. it's eating the lobe.. not good. If you want to install a new camshaft, also check the rest!

I did a mahogany wheel out of 12 parts very dry wood in 2007.. still in my 240z i just drove today.. 😉 You need some handtools and a router (milling machine handheld..) and a circular saw (buzzsaw) and some standard milling tool accessoires. You get this: 6 parts in front and 6 in the back. Incl the 7-8 layers of lacquer it took me about 36-38 hours.. totally worth it! Copied the fingers on the back from a orig wheel and used a powerfile to make them.. and lots of sanding.

Yes i know they are sort of spring steel made.. but they don't have to clamp very hard.. the backplate just stands into it and that's not going anywhere.. i think it would work. I find it possible that you can't flatten an old one because it's spring-steel. then just use a bit imagination how it looks when flat (haha) .. and copy it..

I bought once a charger with start assist.. never used it to start.. just keeping batteries alife.. and yeah after 1,5 year it was dead.. i repaired it but then lateron it is dead again.. pff Junk.. Now i have an old transformer from an old security system that i can dial into the needed voltage of about 12,5-12,6 volt to keep the battery from draining.. works very well (the old stuff!!)

So coupe i expect these are for the 2 seater? ( a 2+2 has other dimentions t-bars and i expect other seals? )

Am sure he meant.. NOT very complicated.. And.. take pictures before you take it apart and during it!! you always know what it was like before.. Come on guys... let's watch this, if the single spring comes up again!! 😉

With a bit of patience i would make 4 out of plane sheet metall myself! 140 dollar for 4 of those is a bit steep.. As there is welding involved anyway you could make them out of 2 pieces of steel.. then it becomes easy to make, make one lip and another one on top and weld them together on the chassis.. costs? few cents.. just a few hours of creative work! If you have one flatten it and look at the shape it has then copy that, but 2 pieces is even more easy. let us know what you made! ( Pic's !! )

Yes.. but there is stainless and there is stainless... In some conditions i have seen stainless that was rusty.. It all comes back to the word: Quality.. And i don't know but lately that is what is failing a lot of times..

Some noise in the diff is normal.. In the '70's people who had a 240z sayd, it's normal to hear a whine in the rear, i would worry when one day i would'nt hear it! My just restored 280zx has also a bit of noise but it's not very loud and it's probably due to the rubbers in the diff to chassis connection. I get that your diff makes a bit more noise than normal, hope you get it right, just wanted to say that a bit is normal.

Haha.. I guess bit by bit is the answer? i never heard of that expression! Ryan, could you do a experiment with the bumpers..? As they are stainless i expect then to go a bit dull after some time.. so as they are not going anywhere, you could do a test.. wrap them up again in the paper and put them in plastic so it's airtight. And leave one part, the rear mid part out.. wash it with ordinary auto wash and dry it and leave it at the air. Then we can see after a year the difference in shiny-ness, i for one would be very curious what the difference will be! (store the set in one and the same room offcourse) I think that there will be quite a difference.. Would be a nice test!

Just realise i still (sometimes) use my casio FX80 since 1982... pfff...

Maybe someone can tell if a 240z fillerneck could be made to fit: partnr: 17208-N3050 they are around 159 dollars.. at courtesyparts.com. (you have to close off some fueldamp tubes that are on the orig one.)

I hope you tested it with fuel.. these pumps fail when you run them without fuel longer then a few seconds.. (if you look on youtube , bosch fuelpump 044 there are some info's around knock off's .. wow..)

Your welcome, read a book about carbs and/or take an old one apart and see if you can assemble it again.. Yes i know it takes time to do that but you can later on say you did it yourself! A guru for everything that would be nice hey... In 2001 i took apart a Nissan 300zx non turbo engine, i had to use all the letters in the alfabet for only the connections that where on the intake manyfold!!! Really! My local garage a Nissandealer had f**ked up the engine by testing it with a loose toothbelt.. and then i said, you stay away from that engine, i rebuild it myself.. they said: you can't build that engine! I showed then otherwise! 2 weeks later i had it rebuild, started it up at the Nissandealer (i have a lift at home but as they had broken my car, i told them that theire new lift was MINE for the neccessary days it takes to repair my car. When i started that up, there were 5-6 Nissan tech's around my car looking at a perfect running car! In (around..) 2012 so 11 years later someone called me and asked me if i knew the car with numberplate ZN-5 .. .... I said YES! and i asked how does the engine run.. the answer was very good.. i said him i took it apart in 2001 and assembled it then.. For a short time it was quiet on the other side of the line... you mean that you took apart the engine of my car.. i said yes! And that it was nice to hear that my first Z32 still runs! So.. what i want to say: if you really want something done, with some time and precision you can make a lot happen! BTW.. i just checked my old car and it has still a MOT till december 2021!! NICE !! (We can look it up in a register for all dutch cars!)

In the 80's we had a prime minister that came with the solution.. for a time there would be extra taxes on fuel.. they called it: "het kwartje van kok" translated the quarter (guilder we had at that time what was 25 cents (about 10-12 dollarcents?) from kok (yes that was his name.. Kok.) and it never was deleted that quarter.. What i also found very nasty was that there was 25 cents of taxes and then taxes VAT over that! It made it extra extra expensive.. No later government has deleted that quarter of KOK at any time.. still paying that.. But hey.. i'm happy i don;t have an airplane.. they fill up and have to pay 6000 euro at least for a tank stop.. (Seen on "the steelbuddies" going to the big apple from germany. (in german and engish partly.)

There was a time i did'nt understand nothing about Hitachi/SU carbs.. now i think they are easy to tune.. come on i hear you say.. a Mikuni is a bit more difficult, and i agree but when you read a lot about tuning you'll get so far that you, if you take your time you will get there.. (with a bit of help from people who have done this before..) The first thing to do is always.. everything else has to be in good condition.. No air leak in inlet or exhaust. Valves good adjusted. Good ignition spark and on time. Good compression. do always a test in advance. Good fuel, the right fuel. work on a clean engine. And last but not least, ask! There are no dumb questions, only dumb people that don't ask.. haha.. and make pic's lots of pics if you have trouble with something, pics tell more than a 1000 words (Who was that.. telly Savalas.. haha..)

Ah... nice topic.. the price of gas!! we call it "benzine" overhere.. i do some calc.. One liter of fuel 95 benzine is overhere 1,80 euro... so 1,8 x 3,9 (3,9 liter in a gallon) = 7,02 euro and that's $ 8,42/gallon !! so... haha.. stop complaining.. A tank of fuel in one of my cars is 60 x 1,8 = 108 euro = $129,60 keep smiling! I can't be bothered.. This week i got rid of a lot of weed on my big lawn of around 4 (yes 4!) m2 of grass and i had to pay the bill right away, my body was so upset of it that i did'nt sleep the night after... that tired i was.. So what i want to say is: get over it.. just keep on trucking! 😉

Whoopsie Zedhead.. My 1979 euro version 280zx has a N42 block (and N42 Head..) just wanted to let you know.. early 280zx had that later came the F type.

Yes.. and put some rubber from a inner bike tiretubing between the old and new brakeline. just wind it around the new tube and ziptie it.. (i bet it will stay in there for many years! 😉 )

Yep, be sure to make all the checks.. (and use a serv.manual thats what they are for) The day after tomorrow, it was a year ago that you started this thread! I would also get a bit frustrated, but you have to persevere and be precise in what you do. Success, and tell us what you find and pic's tell a thausand words..