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Bill, it could be your car was sold to the PO with "a do not resuscitate title-parts only", and he does not want you to find out. I would probably do a little more investigation even to the point of calling the DMV, so that you don't get a nasty kick in the gut when you go to get a tag. Will

I'm in Ga, two hours from you, if you can't get Classic(phone # Zrush left) to help at a reasonable price, we could always do a paper dance-you "convey" the title to me, I get the title corrected and reissued,and sell the title back to you for the cost of getting the state to fix the mistake they made in the first place! At least you have options, GA flat refuses to allow me to get a title for my '72-not even any hoops they can tell me to jump through. Will

Welcome to the club! I am on the wrong side of the pond to give advice on buying a Z in your territory, but there are several members with blood worth bottling in your area to keep you from buying a bondi cigar! I'm sure you'll meet some good cobbers, and find a car that will leave you grinning like a shot fox! Again, Welcome to the club! Will

Carl, you think right-at least about the George Carlin part! Bill, A friend emailed it to me as part of some pre-baby advice! Will

May we all make it to be a kid again............George Carlin Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. "How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. "How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life.. you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony.. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed? You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50... and your dreams are gone. But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would! So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60. You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I Was JUST 92." Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!" May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO STAY YOUNG 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them. 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's. 4. Enjoy the simple things. 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 7. Surround yourself with what you love, Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is. 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER........... Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Will

As with most things, I would read all of these instructions three times out loud (as if you are explaing to your frustrated best friend what he just did wrong so as not to wizz him off further-but to keep him from continuing the same mistake) at three different times of the day before you do this, and again just before doing this- to make sure the jello sets! A smathering of elbow grease applied with a constant and generous flow of water, and a block coveredwith 600 grit, followed by 800 grit, followed by 1200 grit to get to the scratched surface, then 1600 over the whole surface, and then prep it normally and shoot it. When the new clear is completely dry hit the whole pannel with water and 1600-2000 grit and buff it out with the appropriate compound-ask where you bought the paint. You will not be able to see the repair-if it didn't hit the paint-and the job will look like the prettiest mirror you have ever seen! You will probably want to do the last sanding-and buffing to the whole car after you see that panel! Don't be shy with the water while sanding, if your feet aren't pruned after 5 minutes, you had better be weating golashes! Make sure you use a quality block for sanding, and do not rub hard, you do not want the sheet metal to flex under the pressure of your sanding. Go slow and take your time. You control the results you get with your patience and your care. All you are doing is polishing the clear, applying more, and polishing again! Will PS, you know it now, but unless you are going to wipe it all off, and start over, never try to fix paint while it is wet!

240zdragon72, I am in the midst of the same build-straightening out the chassis first. I am doing some unusual things in terms of engine management, and intercooling-pm me if you want to swap notes, ideas, parts... Will AV240Z You probably know this, and were trying to make a quick blurb to get a sale, but others don't, so here it is. An intercooler does not flow or make horsepower, it allows you to tune an engine management system to make more horsepower by cooling the intake air of a compressed air intake system. An intercooler flows, and hopefully cools, intake air. Making the air more dense through compression by a turbocharger adds heat. Making the air even more dense by cooling it, means more can get into a cylinder. More air in a cylinder means you must add more gas, in the right ratio. More gas and more air, in the right ratio, means more horsepower. Once you have more cool dense air and gas in a cylinder, the timing of the spark can be adjusted, hopefully to make more horsepower. The variables of intake temperature, fuel delivery, air delivery, and ignition timing all have an optimum range. An intercooler allows you to have some control over the one of the two variables that a normally aspirated car does not-intake temperature. Balancing all four variables properly in a healthy engine will result in operation somewhere between maximum fuel efficiency and maximum horse power-depending on your tuning. Two more important questions to answer are: 1)What is the internal pressure drop across meaningful flow rates through the intercooler (usually expressed as a curve graph) Do the math to change cfm to rpm-it sounds worse thanit is-and make sure that the sweet spot of your turbo is within the efficient portion of the graph. If it isn't the intercooler in question is not your best choice. 2)What is its BTU dump in through time and volume of air both through and across the ic(usually 2 graphs superimposed on each other-where the two curves cross is the upper limit of efficiency-check the numbers from the answer to the first question, and the cfm of your radiator fan(if you know it), and make sure they fit) Most Manufacturers don't and won't publish either of these because their sales people don't want us to know what their engineers know. Will

I gave some options earlier, here are what they have been going for on Ebay. NPR $225-325 Starion/Conquest $50-150 Power Stroke $250 Audi $40-80 Probe $50-90 Volvo $50-70 Mitsubishi 1st gen $35-50 Will

I would try color sanding both the panel and the door, go back ony as far as you have to. Clear is easy to work with, and easy to fix. if the problems didn't make it to the color coat, just redo the clear. No point in priming again, unless you just would feel better doing it. Will

The fenders are the same! I have been interchanging them for years... Will

Bill, Just pullin' your leg, The only bad thing I have to say about you involved a dope who told you he would get pictures of some wheels a week or so ago! Will

Ed, Your car is going to follow you everywhere! Wiill

" THE PHAOMNNEAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID... This is wild... I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was Rdgnieg Aoccdrnig to a rseearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt thing istaht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Now I'm tinkihng aobut all the tmie I wtsead in sochol lrenanig how to slpel..." Will

Hey Bill, All of that stuff-well, most of that stuff-I have said about you, I take it back, most of it! :stupid: :stupid: :stupid: Will

My info came from explicit instructions on how to tow my first Z when I bought it, and reading through the owners manual-it could be wrong, I did know a lot less about Zs than I do now, and I have never questioned that specific info, so I have never researched it to find out different. I do know that in towing 35 Zcars over 7,000 miles, I have never damaged a transmission from towing with the rear wheels on the ground-but Towing with out disconnecting the drive shaft could have been just as effective. Will

Who cares, you've got #26 and #27! Hot Japanese twins in various stages of undress! Will

The internals do not have to be swapped, but changing them out will give higher compression. Will

My understanding, from a long time Datsun mechanic is that towing a Z with the drive shaft in it should be done for less than a few miles-the Owners Manual also says this. My assumption is that the fluid pump is driven off the clutch disk, with it disengaged, the pump no pump! Will

I had to chain the SOB too! My Buddy can back anything, anywhere within inches, no matter what the equipment. He reminds me of my lack of skill all of the time, I remind him if he could do the same thing going forward he would really have something(6 car accidents-all his fault-the smugg bastard!) Will

I just recieved the "Buy it Now" emblems. They were shipped from the right Zipcode on September 2nd. They were from an order filled by Nissan on 5/21/03. No invoice, a handwritten note on the outside of the box with weight and contents-does not look like Chloes writing. Nothng new on Ebay, Will

Towing with the wheels off the ground is not just for automatics, In the manual, if the engine isn't driving the mechanism, lubricant does not flow through the transmission, and you will wear things pretty quick with no lubrication! I always put the car front first in the towdolly, just take a coathanger and a couple of wrenches(an adj. and a socket set), disconect the driveshaft at the rear (4 nuts, bolts, and washers-don't lose them) and use the coat hanger to wire the drive shaft to , strap in the wheels and head out! You can disconnect the drive shaft at the front as well, but then you have to secure the shaft so it can still spin, and remember to add fluid when you get home-some will leak out when the driveshaft is taken out of the transmission! Michael, when you get ready to back that thing up, use something to secure the two parts of the tow dolly so that the pivot will not pivot. Not everything is Rocket Science! Go low tech, a couple of bolts, heavy nails, or a tow chain would probably do the trick! You aren't backing from Texas to Minnesota! Will

Yea Baby! Move them over, and get that car on the road! Also, post a big picture of your avitar in your gallery. Will

The turbo block is the same as the na block, the pistons, rings, head, and oil pump are different. You have everything you need,and some parts you don't. Use the turbo block and head with your 240 intake and carbs-rejet as necessary. With out the turbo, and even with-if you know that there is room between the floor and idle- the T-5 is heavy and not necessary, the other 5 speed is probably shifts much smoother. Will

I hate to see Gary go, but I respect his choice-even though I don't agree with it. He contributed a great wealth of information, shared his views freely, and most noteably stood by his beliefs. I don't knock a man for doing what he believes is right when it doesn't take anything but pride away from me. I Admire the strength of his convictions but wonder about the differences between his value of this site and mine, we must be in different places, not better or worse, just different. Will

I've always taken off the whole rail, checked the injectors, replaced the hoses(split carefuilly with an exacto knife), and put it back. Replaciing all of the hoses means not having to revisit the area again when the next one opens up, and affords the opportunity to examine/clean the whole assembly-keeping tabs on everyhting means a repair can be planed at your convenience, and not ruin a pleasure trip. Will