sblake01

FWIW, the 76, 77, and 78 280Z owners manuals all show the key that black gold man pictured.

Mark, thanks for that. I'd much rather hear an answer from someone based on their own expierence rather than the anecdotal stuff you always seem to get when someone asks such a question.

My 810 and my 280Z would have been exempt.

Now I want to see it roast those tires. What an amazing build.

I think you must have missed this post from about 2 months ago:

Hey guys.

Thought you would all like to know that the car is about to be shipped to Dubai. It sold again. For more.

Jared

They pay top dollar in the middle east for left hand drive cars if they are interested. I sold my 810 in 2009 to someone in the UAE for nearly twice my asking price.....

I thought they were all the same key too.

I know this this car uses the same key. Or at least is did during the 12 years I owned it. I bought the car in 1997 from the original owner. I sold it in 2009 and the OP (knarfrabot) bought it from him (small world!). Either the lock went bad somehow or the owner in between did something to it but it worked when I last tried it.

Wait a minute....Mike, aren't you in Maryland? Isn't the OP in Los Angeles?

Oh yeah...that was the topic. The lock worked for me when I had the car but I didn't use it often. I probably only locked the glovebox 4 or 5 times in the 12 years I had the car. I sold it to it's previous owner in May 09 so it might not have been locked for at least 4 or 5 years.

Bill Ramsey!! Where the heck have you been?

I never had a GSXR. I've owned several bikes in the past but nothing for 15 years. Or do you mean he (the onwer in between) had one? How's my old Z? Sounds like you've had a few problems with it. It never gave me any trouble in the 12 years I had it other than having to replace the radiator, alternator, and starter not long after I bought it. Besides that, nothing but routine maintainence. It's probably time to change my avatar.....done.

Yes, same key worked on all locks. GSXR???

P.S. Do you mean literally the same car?? I know that the person I sold it to did sell it again.

That was on eBay but it looks really simple to make. He doesn't show a Z on his list nor does he say what the capacity of the drive is:

http://compare.ebay.com/like/130652941594?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

Doesn't a company in Great Britain make replicas? I seem to recall a discussion about them a couple of years ago.

I guess we're even.....mine was sarcasm and not a bit serious. So much is missed in the written word.

Ok now putting the drive in the base is just cheating! now I am going to go a different route: thumb drive into a Z maxbox car. (for now all I have is a 350z but Ill find an s30!). Ha! so there!

Been done:

And just what’s that supposed to mean………..

Seriously?? Did you read post #6?

Is that our FilipeA? That's $2400+ and the reserve hasn't been met with over a week to go!

@ Sblake - I am glad you don't have a snuggie (snugZZie?) Having one would most likely have ruined your reputation.

Is that possible?

But wait.........

@zbane: now, that I like! A die cast stand/hard drive enclosure. I could put the die cast of my choice on it for the week or day/whatever. I'm literally surrounded by die casts when I'm in my den.

@cygnusx1: I don't own a snuggie (snugZZie?) nor a satin smoking snuggie (don't smole).

:tapemouth:tapemouth:tapemouth

At least it's useful....okay, I'll stop....

Well then that shows, in large part, the workaday differences between Hitachis and what you have. With Hitachis you could have made things right without even removing the air cleaner.

Not lambasting webers, they are what they are, but it would be interesting to hear what you end up having to spend to get them right once you get them home....

If you have someone who knows Webers, the cost of setting them up properly would be less than a 'new' set of SUs.

But true, Datsun history goes back to the early thirties. Don't forget the 1933 Datsun fire truck!

I've never seen in in person wheras I've actually sat in Mr. Johnson's '36.

There was always the one I referred to as my 'identity crisis' car - The 1981 Maxima/Datsun 810 by Nissan.

Same way you make a million dollars in just about any form of racing.......