SteveJ

The distributor is WAY out of wack here. Please note in the attached photo where the vacuum advance is on my distributor (ZX distributor). You need to take a few steps back. Make sure you're at TDC on the compression stroke, align the oil pump properly and re-install the distributor. Did your car always have the ZX distributor, or did you do the conversion? Was a ZX distributor mounting block used?

Mark, as someone who drives on Georgia 400 every day, I can assure you that Georgians believe those are the speed limit signs. You should see how crazy it gets on I-675.

I wish I had known you wanted to change springs & shocks. We could have done that at my place.

The images you see on this thread are merely plucked from the sphincters of random people with no affiliation to Nissan. Any resemblance to future Nissan designs is merely coincidence.

From a brief conversation I had with Tamura san at ZCON, I can tell you not to pin your hopes on a straight 6 in a future Z. He was kind enough to explain to me that there was too much flex possible in the crankshaft in a high revving application as opposed to using a V6 block. I would speculate that the 3 liter V6 with turbocharging will play a role future Z cars. It was an interesting exchange. Nissan has been very supportive of the Z. They had a significant presence at the Mitty, Monterey and ZCON. The American market conditions don't support the Z car. You hardly see any front engine/rear drive vehicles in the American new car market that aren't SUVs or trucks. How much is Nissan willing to spend on a platform that essentially a one-off? I would expect some kind of mild evolution of the 370Z platform for the new Z car with sheet metal that goes with that platform. I would not be surprised if there are people in Nissan that might favor the retro appearance, but I'm not sure if it would work on the current platform. I think the proportions would look squished.

Post photos of what you have.

Is there some way you could construct a tube-shaped tank and dip the shafts while attached in evaporust?

Make sure the hoses between the tank and fuel pump are in good shape. If there are small cracks, it may pull air in without leaking fuel out.

If you don't understand much about electrical issues and LEDs, rely on a website like Superbrightleds.com. The exterior bulbs will be 1156, 1157 and type 67 (marker lights and license plate lights). Match the color of the LEDs to the color of the lens. For interior, most will be BA9 bulbs. You may have to remove the lens from the gauges to get the LED bulbs to fit, though. I can't remember the festoon bulb size for the dome off the top of my head, and the map light will differ between the 240Z and the 260Z/280Z. Some of the interior lights in the 260Z & 280Z will be BA7 (hazard, seat belt, etc.).

I would think he was misquoted. Chris is the executive director of the ZCCA and knows 240Zs fairly well.

I know it will be in July. I don't have the postcard with me that they passed out at the closing ceremony. They should be getting their pages set up soon on the ZCON.org website, too. I believe the judged car show will be indoors.

Branson with Nashville in 2020.

By the way, if any of the cars in your collection have working air conditioning, you may want to bring that one. ZCON 2020 will probably be in the summer, and Nashville is VERY humid in the summer.

Kats, Let's face it. ANY of those would be welcome. Just think of ZCON 2020 as a continuation of the celebration starting in Japan in December 2019. There's no reason we can't celebrate the anniversary for a full year.

Alan, the North American concept of "Model Year" doesn't have much place in sanity, either. A car manufacturer can start calling a product a "2020 WizBang" starting on Jan 1, 2019. Heck, I purchased a "2012 Mustang" in June 2011. What's even more confusing is that some government requirements (safety and/or emissions) are based upon calendar year, and some are based upon model year. At least that was the case in the past. Ford used to target a new Mustang model (or special edition) for April of the round number anniversaries. Many people anticipated the rollout of the 2015 Mustang in April of 2015, but I believe it was introduced in the typical fall roll-out timeframe. Holding ZCON 2018 in October is somewhat of an anomaly as far as ZCONs go. Our planning committee decided to forgo the typical summer swelter for some nice autumn temperatures. October is also one of the driest months in the area. On the other hand, if it was typical for ZCON to happen closer to the roll-out date of the Z, I'm not sure that overrule the desire of most people to pay more attention to the model year.

Typically ZCON celebrates the anniversaries based upon model year designation and not introduction/sales dates. For instance the 1995 convention celebrated the 25th anniversary, the 2010 convention celebrated the 40th anniversary, and the 2015 convention celebrated the 45th anniversary. If Nissan corporate expressed any desire to consider it differently, the ZCCA would make that change.

Maybe you could start planning ahead for 2020. ZCON 2018 set the bar for the highest ZCON attendance ever. I'm thinking the 50th anniversary of the 240Z might make it where the 2020 convention could beat it.

Here is some 4K footage I shot at the Judged Car Show, one of the few opportunities I got to play with photography/video this past week. The music may be a little much. There was music playing at the show, and I didn't want to worry about copyrights, so I found some royalty free music to substitute. The file is really huge: https://youtu.be/zgLgI6YWWtY. If you have a 4K monitor or 4K TV with YouTube, you may want to watch it that way to get the full effect of the video.

Jim2, a few photos of your cars (and of yourselves) ended up in this article on ZCON! http://www.speedhunters.com/2018/10/welcome-atlanta-zcon-style/ @Zup @S30Driver

You missed a good one, Mike. It was the biggest attendance-wise in ZCON history.

The ZCON 2018 photo with the ZCON 1995 photo that inspired it. Both were taken at Road Atlanta.

I got the poster series framed as well as the signed event post.

I'm still wondering what Mad Mike was going to say about Cody at the Closing Banquet.

So are you the one I heard about taking people off-road on the mountain drive?