Posts posted by sblake01
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I'm actually still here too! Well, occasionally. I ended up putting the FICD system in the car I mentioned above in post # 2 approaching 11 years ago. It was actually easy. I used the vacuum tank and magnet valves but I didn't use the vacuum switch. I tapped into the power line to the compressor so when the compressor was switched on, the vacuum went to the FICD and raised the idle. I haven't owned the car in over 6 years but the system was easy to figure out and worked flawlessly. Unfortunately, since I don't have the car I can't take pictures of the setup.
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Here's the New York Times article about him:
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Edited by sblake01
Somewhere I have a picture of Mr. K at the car show in 1999 that I mentioned earler. Been looking for it since this thread began. Hope it didn't get lost in one of our moves.
So far, all I've been able to find is a picture of me next to a life sized cutout of him at the Heritage Museum......I doubt that anyone wants to see that.
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I know where he lives......and he's been at it for long time. When he gets enough negative feed back, he'll just change his user ID:
The box below contains the User IDs that this member has used on eBay.
User ID Effective Date End Date
datsun-parts May-01-07 Present
ur-gelis Oct-21-04 May-01-07
bad-mfr May-12-03 Oct-21-04
absolutely-ghetto Mar-03-03 May-12-03
2602nv Mar-20-02 Mar-03-03
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I have a 4-pane racing mirror, but you can't mount it in the S30 without drilling holes in the roof. the roof is too low to see out the back with one, anyway.
I had a 5 panel wink mirror in my 78 280Z (as well as in the 79 810) for the entire time I owned it. Had no problem seeing out of the back window with it and it virtually eliminated any blind spots.
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There are online stores in mainland China that will sell you a 'clone' Samsung as well as other brand phone comlete with the logos on the phone, packaging, etc. They do let you know up front that it's not the real thing plus they only cost a fraction of what the real phone costs. I've often wondered how they can get away with that.
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Edited by sblake01
I had a difficult time finding the correct caps for those wheels 11 years ago. Nissan no longer has them. I bought mine from Nismoparts.com back then but a couple of years later when someone else I know was looking for a set, nismoparts.com didn't have any more. And, they're not '240Z alloy wheels'. They were an optional alloy wheel for the 260Z/280Z most often seen on the 78 Black Pearl Edition.
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Edited by sblake01
Give this thread a read. Maybe not the best but one of many treads from the past that discuss the illustrious Mr. Allen:
http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/open-s30-z-discussions/32275-terrible-vendor-datsun-parts.html
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RIP Victor Laury
in Open Chit Chat
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Bkecause of my detachment from the Datsun hobby, I didn't know of Victor's passing. He was a good friend back in my Datsun days. Like the Datsun hobby, I also lost track of Vic as wall as the many other great people whom the hobby brought into my life. Vic and I go back to the days of 510 Again (The national Datsun 510 Club) if anyone remembers that. Forgive me if this video has already been posted somewhere on this site.