Mr Camouflage

The 510, 610, 910 are all bluebirds. The Fairlady name was was in use before the Z, which is why the S30 was called the "Fairlady Z" to distinguish it from the previous fairlady.

Theres already a Z cars in movies thread, do we really need another one? speaking of irish cars, I read an article about a place that completele rebuilds DeLoreans. In the article they said they might start making new ones on a limited basis, since there aren't too many f them left.

I was subjected to country music when I was a kid. Forced to listen to Dolly, Kenny, and Waylon in the car when on trips with the parents, and sometimes at home. I can still remember the lyrics to most of the songs. There should've been a law against it. I have memories of being driven around in the Mitzi L300 with it playing on the tape cassette player. That and Boney-M. After all that I cant stand country music.

More scarce? They're pretty damn scarce already. It's easier to find a 240Z than a 240K down here.

Doesn't sound like the wiring is the issue. Sounds more like the wiring harness has been dodgied up to fix various problems, instead of fixing the problem itself. Eg the headlight problem is probably a worn combination switch (a common problem with the S30). Simply replacing the harness wont fix the problem.

.... and valve springs. Pick a car, be it 240 or 260 or 280 and spend the money on head work, cam, carbies, and exhaust. The better the engine breathes the more HP its capable of. Theres no point spending money stroking the L26 when you can pick up an L28 cheap enough. Or theres the turbo charging option, but thats a whole other can of worms. Whatever you do, you could dyno the car before and after, so you can see what gains you actually made.

Exterior panel disassembly: 1. Start by removing the hood and inspection flaps. 2. Remove the wipers and the cowl. (giving you access to the hidden fender bolts) 3. Remove front bumper, grill and lower valance. 4. Unplug all lights in the fenders, and remove all bolts holding on the guards. 5. If you got all the bolts the fenders will come off in 1 piece (no need to separate headlight buckets). It it doesn't move, you've missed some bolts. 6. Unbolt the door hinges from the chassis and remove doors with hinges attached. (Take a note of any shims the might be used so you can replace them correctly). Or you could leave the hinges on the car and just unbolt the doors. 7. Moving to the back of the car, remove the rear bumper. 8. Remove the Hatch 9. Remove the rear tail light panels, and tail lights. Thats basically it for stripping off the body panels, I don't think I missed anything. You should remove the windows too, but you have to start removing interior panels to get to the bolts that hold the quarter windows in.

It got to AU $3,583.00 reserve not met. No sale, I guess that means we'll see it again on ebay.

Damn. I forgot to up my bit at the last second, and someone out bid me. Hope it wasn't any of you guys. .\/.

Got a budget in mind? Best performance, go with a larger engine (L28). If you want to cut costs, ditch the efi and use round top carbies. The search feature is good, think of a question and type in some keywords and you'll get alot of homework reading. also check out www.datsunzgarage.com

$400 for a fuel pump sounds expensive to me.

I did, until the electrics crapped out and constantly drained the battery flat. I'm fixing a z31 to use as a daily now, but until then i'm in the R31.

Tough break. how much would storage cost? Maybe you could offer the cash to your parents instead? Got any buddies that could store the chassis for you at there place? Maybe you could put a shed up in the back yard or beside the garage to store the car in, then your olds get a free shed after the car is gone. Or you could move out and take the car with you.

I dont like R33's or soarer's, so my advice would be don't get either. I like 31, 32's and 34's. then theres the Z32. Maybe you could try getting a fresh off the boat imported one (any of the above) from a dealer?

I bet its around 5K, as the last auction started at 4999 with no reserve. Been on and off ebay for about a year i'd guess.

Looks more "Tin stamped" than "die cast" if you know what I mean.

You can see more pics of Andrews car here (post 39 and 40).

Replicas are available from Japan, like this one

Not really. If you thinking of getting some parts to take back to the USA to sell for profit, you'd probably be better off bringing some hard to get parts to Australia and selling them off to the locals.

Relisted for 99 cents with a reserve. 1 bid so far. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300131620946 Lets see what bidding gets to.

Electrical problems? Headlights not working/dim? This is for British cars, but the theory can be applied to Japanese and American cars. http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm Probably need a bosch kit for the z's.

I dont know if this is any help It's from the USA Nissan Competition parts book cira 1984.

I reckon I would have paid around $3000 to $4000 for it, which is around what he convinced the previous owner to remove it from ebay and sell it to him for. But now that I have one, I'm not interested. He should list it with a lower starting value and let the market decide what its worth, and sell the other bits off separately. I think he's hoping someone from Japan will pay his buy it now price and ship it back home.

Yeah I was gong to say 72 but I wasn't sure about USA delivered 240z's so I guessed late 71.

doesnt matter, you already tried them.