Mr Camouflage

Try using DVD shrink. It will "Backup" your DVD and re-encode it that it can be burned to a regular DVD, as a region free dvd. then you can play it in your dvd player.

Yeah I like the gtr grill better, then the standard 240k grill. This is his z here isnt it. I didnt think it was supercharged, or efi, just triple carbies?

Whats the "belt buckle" grill look like? Someone post a pic. Tom, was that Dino's (spelling?) car. The 4 door that he's wrecking. Did you have a look at his coupe?

is the vacuum advance working?

Brian!!!!!

Shades of Déjà Vu here. Maybe a faked death notice , and some laying low for a year or 2, à la zmefly.

Hi George. They come up pretty often on ebay. There's 3 on there at the moment, or was just recently. (Theres either none for a long time, then usually more that one at the same time). check out http://www.wazcars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60 for a bit of a history of z cars on ebay (au only) over the last year or so (with photos and final prices).

If you are shipping overseas you should always get insurance where possible. Make it part of the shipping fee. Also shipping will take up to 3 months via sea mail, plus the time it takes to clear customs. Looks like bluefairladyZ was a bit premature with his negative feedback. Is it possible to track down the package via australia post and find out where it is? My girfriend sent something to France recently. It then sat a a post office for 2 weeks, because they forgot to deliver it, or send a card to the person to tell them to come in and collect it. So after 2 weeks its was sent back to customs and presumably destroyed. Same thing happpend to me. I had somethins sent to me from the USA. It never arrived, so i went looking for it. It was at the local post office having never been delivered, they never notified me to pick it up either. As a Seller, I should not be responsible for the postal service's incompetance. and as a buyer i hate it when you pay for something that never arrives, which has happend to me too, but it was only worth $25 so I didnt get to upset about it.

Your previous posts about your revolutionary engine modifications were based on ATDC, was that a complete failure?

Theres a couple of them on ebay.com.au at the moment. also try the sydney z car club http://www.zcarclub.com.au/

That is so ugly it makes the urge look good. This is a good link for Nissan concept cars (and production) throughout the ages. http://www.nissannews.com/multimedia/nd_50_anni.shtml

Not my site, its TexasZ's site. Works for me. Its not a link to the pdf itself, but a link to a folder on his site which contains the article. I didnt link directly to the pdf, because I hate it when pdf's start loading in your browser. At least this way you have the option to load in browser or "save as" Lots of great stuff there. Including the whole Wangan Midnight movie. (no subtitles though )

I'm very hesitant at resurecting this thread. Better to let sleeping dogs lie me thinks, but..... .....there is a particular magazine article that details what was done to the BRE 240Z to turn it from the description given by John Morton (quoted by Brian way back on post #1), to a racing car. You can find it here (thanks TexasZ) http://www.pape.ws/allan_and_rosanne/Z-Car_Stuff/Magazine Articles/Datsun 240Z Goes Racing/ It's from Road & Track October 1970, and really puts into perspective what had to be done to turn the car into a competetive race car.

The original link to the article has moved to: http://www.rallysportnews.com.au/cms/A_20516/article.html Is that the guy that had a load of corverttes? That used to sell bit and pieces every now and then, untill some poeple broke into his property and stole some stuff. So he packed it all into shipping containers and welded them up and stacked them all up againts each other so no one could get it. I read an article about it (on here i think). He died and his wife sold the whold lot to one guy, who stands to make a packet selling them individually. Or was that a different obsessive compulsive?

Well Blax240 must be happy with the price. Somehow I dont see the seller coming through with the cash though. Whats with rocketerd8083racing's bids. Any normal bidder wouldn't have bid $300 to start with, let alone trying to find alexidewayz's maximum.

Keep the 2+2 as a parts car untill you have finished fixing up your 240z. Then once you are happy with the 240, then sell off the bits you dont want, and keep the bits you may need in the future. Spare bonets, guards, bumpers, diffs and gearboxes may come in handy if the unthinkable happens.

I have an L28 in mine. Dipstick doesnt look like its been moved.

$1000 sounds about right. You's spend about 5 to 10 thousand having it restored, so you may as well find the best one you can get. The floors can rust from the inside out too from under the the tarmat where it has separated from the metal due to age and/or accident damage.

I was just out in the garage measuring up the suspension to work out the same thing. This is what i came up with: Firstly forget about offset. Start with how much clearance there is between the hub mounting face and the suspension (I havent considered how much clearance there is between the chassis and the wheel on full lock though) For the front I came up with 130mm (240Z), say minus 15 mm for tyre clearance (so your tyres dont rub on the spring perch when cornering) would give you a back spacing of 115mm. Second work out the width of the rim. Lets say 7" = 179mm Third, maximum offset = backspacing - (width/2) 115 - (179/2) = 25.5mm which is +25 offset. For a 6.5 it would be +32 So, I think thats right. However, having said all that you'd really want to get as close to 0 offset for a 6 to 7" rim. Currently the car has 14 x 7 with 0 offset and 235 tyres

Actually, i had the same idea a couple of weeks ago. Was walking to work one morning, after i'd been shopping on the weekend, and looked at the t-shirts in the shops, and though they all looked pretty lame with the printed designs they had. So i got to thinking that t-shirts with old school car designs like skylines (c110, c10), 240z's etc would be cooler. Thought there might be a market for them on ebay....but thinking about it is as far as i got. Now it looks like someone has beaten me to it. 3,480 ~ AU$40 How many people would pay that for a old school car t-shirt?

Completely unrelated, but the other day i saw a black z31 300zx with rego plates that read "niterider". Cold air is denser, so you get more air/fuel mix into the engine. I dont think you get as much extra power as 30 hp though. Hey Tom, What sort of induction system you got at the moment? You went with z twin carbies didnt you? You could use a stock z airfilter box and run a pipe into it from the front of the car somewhere. other alternative is bonet vents, to lower the temperratuure in the engine bay.

huh? well its not your car, so i dont know what you are getting at??

I believe 440K was being sarcastic

Was probably just surface rust from the paint wearing thin. you know how neglected cars get.