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They all come from JDM. Jay is the only one to go to the expense and bother to reproduce cloth braded coolant, booster and valve cover breather hoses.

Excellent observations Paul. I'm in complete agreement.

You park it way out but when you return there's almost always another car, usually a beater, parked next to you!!!

Personal experience comment on ZAPS. In 1977 I was working as a mechanic at the DC Datsun franchise. Originally a Ford dealership built in the 50s or so. The east side of the shop had an almost wall of windows with tons of natural light. The west side was built into a hill so in the summer there was a modest amount of natural cooling. We were always busy. We got 1 ZAPS car which just sat on the showroom floor. Finally the GM got the bright idea to give it to the service manager to use as his demo which allowed it to be seen around town. Finally after about 4 weeks it sold. When we later got our single Black Pearl car it was on the showroom floor for no more than 2 weeks before it was snatched up. My new Service Manager

Sorry Grannyknot, didn't mean to leave your astute observations out.

Bart and HS-30H again hit the nail squarely on the head. "Restored" in the 80s with parts available at that time. I can't remember what wasn't available in the 80s and I was there. They bought a new air filter housing- available in the 80s - I guess to get the decals. Just a little research on their part would have unearthed reproductions.

Thank you DC871F for your kind words.

Boys, boys, we're all on the same team - aren't we?

There are 2 tiny issues which I'll go into another time. One is important the other not so much.

I'm confident my unsolicited advice will go in one ear and out the other but the new owner would be wise to start the operation with an S30 World reproduction fuel tank. Build your house on a solid foundation!

Thank you Racer X

HS30-H - when asked, I tell customers the 240 guild story but I've been in business long enough to know when someone isn't paying attention to my line of conversation. Unfortunately I experience this more times than not. Lesson - there is indeed a sucker born every minute! Still trying to figure out how the late Paul Taylor's car fell into their slippery hands.

HS30-H you've hit the mark. Yet again, your summery of the situation is concise and to the point.

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Looks like one of my reproduction "OK" decals v

Jeff, I, couldn't agree with you more.

To change the subject a bit - Had a 280 recently sold on BAT towed to my shop for a once over for the new owner. The car has very low mileage. It almost goes without saying that the rear brakes were frozen. Got the right rear wheel off and discovered this "modification" had been done to the fuel pump. As these cars age I see more and more generations of butchers plying their trade but this is a new one on me!. Now, what was he trying to address with this trick? Cheers

Z cars always seen to want 12 BTDC

Always risky reusing 50 year old lock washers. Correct lock washers are still available from Nissan but they're now plated clear.

My goodness! Why take a chance? We're talking about a 50 year old part.

Z Therapy has reproduced the floats and have done a very nice job of it.

The US market 510 2 door came with rubber mats from the factory - they were sold to the first owner that way, ditto for the trucks. The 4 door and wagon came from the factory with carpets. Also, the 2 door front seats could not be reclined as could the front seats in the 4 door and wagon. Installed the parts required to make 2 door front seats recline many times for customers when I was a dealer mechanic in the 70s.

Of course, if we go to 15% ethanol all bets are off!!

Did someone say V-3 kit - final installment So, for the next two plus years we tried very hard, at least I did, to make those 73, 74 & 74.5 Z cars run properly. I paid careful attention to each and every service bulletin ignoring those that didn't make sense and trying those that I thought had a shot. I found that as time passed less and less of the affected cars ended up at the dealer. Where did they go? Fast forward to my post dealer days. I was getting a fair number of mostly second owners who weren't aware of the faulty induction system but knew something just wasn't right and wanted very dearly to make the damn thing run properly. Of course the fix was to backdate the induction system, the entire system. Everything from the cylinder head out. This operation turned the undriveable into pleasurable. Most of these second owner cars had low mileage, often less than 15k. It seems that most of these cars were parked by the original owners after their patience ran out. In about the year 2000 I did the backdate to a 73 with only 8K miles. Uemura-san's book drew a detailed picture of the extensive real-world testing that was done before the 240 was introduced to the US market. It's clear to me that Nissan did ZERO real world testing before introducing the 73 240 to US market. What a colossal foul-up! Interesting postscript - 10-15% of the cars in these model years, according to the original owners, ran just fine! In my view these chaps weren't being completely honest or they only used their Zs in the cooler months. Some time in the future I'll go into the other 74 & 74.5 big problem - loose crankshaft pulley bolts, oh yea! Cheers

Wrong seat covers but contemporary Nissan hose clamps. Rather a mixed bag.