Mr Camouflage

I would expect that you have no rights when purchasing a second hand car from a private buyer. About the only right you have is to not buy the car, after you've bought it it becomes your problem. Thats just the way the legislation is at the moment. Buyer beware. Maybe if you'd had the car inspected by the RAC or the like and they said it was fine, then you might be able to take action against them. When you get the details of the place that makes the frame rails can you post them here for everyones benefit.

Standard nissan enging naming conventions would suggest that the difference is that one is electronically fuel injected and the other isnt (ie its got carburetters). But I'm guessing. nissan might have not started adding an e to injected motors right from the get go. And from the sounds of your post, you already have fuel injection. I'd used the ecu and wiring that came with the engine incase they are different. If you go modifying the cam you might have to use an aftermarket tuneable computer to get the best results, as the standard ecu is tuned for a stock engine.

He should have come back with lotto results, and sports results, and bet on games. Nothing illegal with that.

I saw a guy on TV here in perth thats making 2 stretch limos from genuie Walkinshaw VL commodores. He gets the metal skins to stretch the car made by a sheet metal worker to the exact contour of the door. Which brings me to my point. Instead of replacing the whole door, you could look into getting the outer skin replaced with a new one made by someone thats in the business. Not sure if its cost effective, but might be something to investigate futher.

Thats such a cool story! He should sell it to someone and make a movie based on it. So if he came back in time, wouldn't it be on record in the future that he got caught? If he was researching trading records of the 21 century wouldnt he have seen the story. Reminds me of the Terminator movie where Michael Bien is explaining about the future and how he came back in time. What was he going to do with the money? live here in the past. If he took 350 million back to the future, it wouldnt be worth much due to inflation would it. Unless he left it in a bank account now and let it earn interest for 250 years. Now if his time craft was a modified 240z (instead of a delorean, back to the future style) the would be even cooler. Lets look for his time craft, go back to 1970, buy a bunch of 240z and inport them to the present, solving the problem of 30 years of rust and wear and tear. Now for some Bill & Ted time travell theory. He's obviously not getting back to the future, otherwise he could travell back in time again and warn himself just before he gets caught to get back to the future.

Probably nothing to do with proxy addresses. The Network admin has probably blocked all the ICQ ports with a firewall. Try ICQ 2 go. Its a java applet that runs in a browser window and seems to work when normal icq cant. http://go.icq.com

Why are you depressed? Is it because your car broke down (i read that in another thread).

Cheers BK. I dont mind broken posts and faded paint. as long as the chrome is passable. dont have to be perfect. If i wanted perfect, i'd save up and buy new ones. alfa you got pics of that choke handle? Craig.

My Brother is in santa clara Yeah saw them on ebay Alfa, thought they were pretty pricey. New ones are nice, but when you convert it back to AUD$ it's very costly.

Oh yeah easily. put a roadster next to a bug convertable and the datsun will win every time.

I Saw another Fairlady roadster wednesday in Perth. It was another red one, but not the same one as before, different rego, exhaust note and different driver. This guy was absoultley caining it down plain street from the corner near the mint and the grovsner, down plain street towards Adelaide terrace.

G'day Californian Zee owners From Down Under. My Brother is up from Australia and is in California untill the 11th of April. I occured to me that he might be able to get a few bits of trim for my 240z that are nearly impossible to find in Australia. I'm after: 1 x Front hood emblem 2 x side datsun emblems 1 x choke lever handle and the 2 plactic cover things that go in the door latch lever thing (one for each door). So if you have an old parts car sitting around the garage or some old bits in a box you dont need, send me an email and i'll see if i can get my brother to pick them up for me. Preferrably cheap or free. Only have 2 weeks to arrange it before he leaves. zed240@hotmail.com Cheers Craig.

5 speeds were available on the 240z since the first zed rolled out of the factory. Only Left hand drive US zee's got 4 speeds, and since the L24 was the same for the rhd and lhd the 5 and 4 speeds are interchangable. I thnk the F boxes were used up untill the 280zx turbo, which used a different type box. i think it was a borg warner style box. I think all boxes are interchangeable. but i'm not 100% sure

No, it's not that old! It was in the RS2000 skyline which was somewhere around 85 to 88 . There were no GTR skylines after the 70's model GTR's untill the R32 brought back the GTR name in 1989. 80's skylines were just GT. (without the R) Such as the GT2800.

The S15 has been discontinued as it cant meet the new japanese emission standards with its current engine, and is only sold in Japan, Australia, and NZ. Rather than sell it just in Aus and NZ nissan have droped it completely. Second hand imports with sr20s will still be allowed, however the government has changed the rules to restrict the second hand import industry, and some cars cant be imported anymore. I was reading about it somewhere.

Damn thats ugly. Looks like a melted lotus 7 kit front end with a cobra kit rear end. For $69000, id rather have a 350z. Speaking of 350z. A friend of mine was at speedworks to have a Mk4 supra he is buying examined by the boys down there when a 350Z turned up. Aparrently the owner has got them fitting twin turbos to it!

A bit like this you mean: I'd rather the round lights be closer together without the square light inbetween them, corvette style. but i like the standard lights the best.

Wooo. With this post I make it to the Magic number 432 posts! Nothing funny about that i s'pose, but made you look. Whats magic about 432? If you dont know you should educate yourself in the history of datsun z cars. And now for something funny the latest futurama is available from www.lando.co.uk "enjoy you affordable sweedish cr*p."

Yep wack a stamp on it and post it to me in Australia.:classic: Nice bonsai kitten I see yours is a cube. I have one myself, it's a pyramid. I call him pointy.

Yes we do Alan.

Umm. not not at all you missed the point completely. I guess its true, americans dont get irony. The point i was making was: An invader occupying a foreign land (You in america), which you occupied for 200 or more years, advocating the natives of another country to take thier country back from the people who have occupied it. (my apologies if you are a native american indian, then this doesnt apply to you)

You Americans going to give the US back to the Native Americans and go back to where your ancestors came from?? $^!#, us aussies a going to have to leave Australia, French Canadians will have to back to France, other Candians will have to leave too, so the navite Canadians can have their country back. Michael Jackson will have to go back to whatever planet he came from. How far back in time do you want to go. we could all go live in the africa, or even further back, we could live in the ocean like the single cell organisms we supposedly evolved from. Everything changes. The world is not a musuem.

P.S. Is that a tea towl and electrical tape air filter?

My turbo (laser tx3/mazda 323 4wd turbo) leaked oil. Engine didnt smoke though. Most of the oil ended up in the intercooler. it was leaking on the intake side, not the exhaust. If the engine is smoking constantly at idle worn piston rings is my guess. if you get a lot of smoe when you rev it after letting it idle for a while this also could mean piston rings. If you rev it and get a puff of smoke after letting off the pedal, it indicates worn valve guides, as oil is sucked down and burnt on over run (thats what it said in the book i was looking at, an interperated it to mean that. if i'm wrong let me know) ofcourse this was for non turbo cars so it could be the turbo if it smokes under acceleration. I see by the photo it has a carbie bolted straight onto the turbo looks like a suck through arrangement. Maybe you can take the airfilter tube off, lift the vacume plunger thing open and shine a torch in there to see if there is any oil in the intake side, though it would probably be in the engine intake side of the turbo i suppose, like 2manyZs says. Compression test the engine. it just involves removing the spark plugs. Easy. that will give you an indication of the condition of the engine. if you can take the carbie off the turbo, you can check the impeller shaft for play (up and downmovement, and endfloat, thats in and out). That car looks in really poor condition (look at the corrosion on the OHC cover), I hope it's really cheap. Be preapired to strip and rebuild the engine.