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Too bad the ad is not about the car! Less than 1/4 of the page is used for the car... Will

What a big old bunch of new parts-obviously Chrismass came in April! Congratulations! The key is to watch the bunch shrink-be sure to post more pictures of your progress! Will

In addition, get your ducks in a row, and get the Better Business Bureau involved, call the local TV stations, and see if they have a consumer advocate style program. Get the guy by the short hairs-his business! Will

Mike, The wheels are slot mags that have been painted-so they could have been original to the first purchaser. It also looks like the car is the original color, just has black stripes added-but the flares-yuk! Carl could "bean" the guy for the copyrite infringement, I think taking the car would suffice!

look here for 2 seater to 4 seater differenece http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20647&highlight=differences+seater Will

Only if you ask Mr. Goertz...and allow him not to directly answer the question...on either! Will

Jonathan, Put me down for 2 sets! Will

What you are forgetting is the part of the sentace he did not verbalize. What he said to you AND himself was: Oh, I don't know anything about Datsun. Other than buying bolt ons, I really don't know about cars. Just so I don't look ignorant, I will stop talking at "oh". Don't feel old, feel informed and experienced! Just imagine all you know and how long it will be before Bill Ramsey gets it! SOrry Bill! Will P.S. They do say the memory is the first to go...

My point exactly! Will

Chris, "I am not intending to sound rash or arguementative by any means, but I don't necessarilly agree with the detail of your description", but Princess 27 was a 20 the moment I saw her in an ebay picture from across the room-I was dumbfounded, not simply awestruck! After a spa visit, and removal of the crack pipe, she is absolutely a 10-as long as the NOS parts that came with her are left in plain view in the hatch! You will get more "points" with before and after photos... Will

Keep of the curbs and parking lot guides, be carefull of driveways with steep transitions, avoid running over thing and you will be OK Will

Air Flow Meter! Will

Assuming all of your pieces are good, using the 82 engine with the electronics and harness from the '78 should be almost plug and play-don't splice anything, but use the 78 afm. I have an 82 turbo engine running on 77 electronics and harness-other than the idle control, making it work was not hard, but it was tedious and daunting. Get the engine wiring diagrams for both years, and address the differences. Will

Dave, Have you rebuilt a starter or replaced it? Most testing that is performed on them really does not go past replaceable and inexpensive brushes, but...the labor involved means most of them get replaced not repaired. While I will agree a bad block by its self is not necessarily an indication that a hard drive is going bad, the growth in numbers of bad blocks is. A growing number of bad blocks in absolutley indicative of read failure in a drive be it due to changing head geometry, or failing media.. Ed is in an area he is not familiar with. Yes, he could download the right set of utilities from the existing drives manufacturers web site and properly test the drive, but EVERY manufacturer states that the only true test of a drives health is made by destructive data testing-that is NONE of them will authorize a warranty replacement for a drive with symptoms like EDS without the drive failing to reformat. With this test he looses all data, and the ability to recover it...in Eds situation, this is not a good answer. There is a chance the drive is not actually going bad, but if the drive will not pull a directory, then the file allocation table has been corrupted meaning that the drive no longer is sure of what it contains, or how it is organized. More often than not, this is a precursor to drive failure. While Ed has not reported that he is getting a "Bad CRC" error, the odds are that is where his drive is heading. If It was my drive, I would replace the drive, and use the utilities that came with a new drive to attemt to copy the contents of the old drive, then thoroughly test the old drive, but I have been servicing drives since before the controllers were addressable with "debug G=C800:5", when the tools I used most were a soldering iron and an oscillascope, and when replacing a board was never a cost effective repair. For the cost of a new drive, he could save some of his data which does seem to be important to him. If the data and time was not important, the testing would be a viable option. It all comes down to the most economical repair, do you spend a time testing and hoping the drive will pass and continue to function, or do you spend a little less time for a sure thing? Depends on value of the data, the labor rate, and the cost of a drive. Will BTW you said: "Somebody recommending a new hard drive right off the bat is the 'service technician disease' IMO...most techs in a service company have to work quick, and to say 'just buy a new hard drive' is a quick way to fix the problem. It fixes it, but it isn't the most effecient fix for the consumer, and isn't necessary." I will be happy for you to pay me for the time that would be spent doing this testing and not replace the hard drive, I would get a great deal more of your money (and you would have a much higher bill) than I would by simply replacing the drive. Funny thing about that "technicinan disease", it saves customers money even if the drive tests good(a replcement drive costs less than the time it would take an onsite technician to sit through a test) Let's not forget Eds time is worth money too, and he has a learning curve as well. In addition the utility you link will not test drives which are linked to a raid controller, or in some systems that require drivers for the controller-so they may or may not work on a particular system though they will work on every drive under specific conditions.

Congrats! Will

The intake does not appear to have the "J tube", Manifold over boost valve(can 't think of its real name), larger distributor, the "Turbo" Valve Cover, Turbo hood, or turbo badges. It is also missing the oil cooler that all 280ZX turbo automatics had, in addition, the vin number is not indicative of a true turbo car. The owner probably has no idea what a turbo car is, and thinks all 280ZXs were 280ZXTurbos. WIll

...That's what you get for staying out all night and coming in covered in dust with some story getting locked in a corn starch factory for the 52nd time... Will

"I don't really know what is going to be "spare" until I finish the cars," "Frankly, with all the time, money and energy spent on storing parts, it's a wonder any restoration work gets done!" I resemble both of those remarks! "My father is a dumpster diver" I am jealous of your available resources-in addition to the hot Naked Japanses twins you have at your leisure! "Taking spa", is that what they are calling it now... Seems the Garage is not the only thing that's Tricky! WIll

Ed, If you can get gas in a rental car with a locking gas cap, you can do this! The drive will come with complete instructions, and I will give you my cell# is you happen to have problems. Will

Ed, If you format, everything that is on the harddrive will be gone... It sounds like the drive is going bad. In the mean time, I would remove the current drive, get a new drive, install it and set up windows on it to get you back up and running. Most new drives come with utilities that allow you to copy the contents of your old drive to the new drive-from the sound of it, you will have lost some data, but the copy process will not change the contents of the original drive, meaning you could also try some of the hard drive recovery utilities as time permits. WIll

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Here are some of my storage solutions. Almost everything is listed to make finding it easy(I have not found or listed a short set of seatbelt clips yet though). I keep the NOS and restored parts in a climate controlled porch(porch1 and 2), everything else is stored inside a shed, in the garage attic, or another porch, though not in a climate controlled area. Will

I realy thought you were crazy until I realized I did not put the word "spare" between your and parts in the question. Will

WHat, no pictures-post your three points of fame!!! Prolong the glory! Will

Well, we know what the next piece of "Club Merchandise" should be! Will