Everything posted by Mr Camouflage
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Rust elimination
Alfadog. Would you want a car made out of Bondo? I dont think so. Most of this stuff is light weight polystyrene based putty. Obviously not as strong as metal. (Bondo is the putty you mix with harder and smear on the pannels right? otherwise known as bog.) If you've seen and old car thats been bogged up and resprayed you'd understand why you'd want to do it properly. The bog tends to promote more rust (I suppose by absorbing and retaining moisture under the paint). Then you get the rust causing the bog to blister up as it expands resulting in the uneven lumps in the paint. So this is why when buying a car I always favour cars that still have thier original paint jobs. If you ever had a bingle, most pannel shops just hammer the high spots flat bog it up, sand it smooth and paint it. Where as a propper restoration body shop can actually pannel beat the pannels back to the original shape so that little or no bog is needed. They can also cut out the rusty sections and weld in and shape new metal sections. My dads old L300 is a perfect example. It has rusty sections as big as your head where the bondo has fallen off the car because the pannel underneath has rusted. I used bondo on my 240z when i was 17 because I didn't know any better, but I would have hated to see what condition it was in about 5 years later. (I sold it after about 3 I think). What do you mean the pannel has warped. Is the pannel not aligned correctly? Has your car ever been in an accident? Mr C
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Windshield Wiper
Beware of Chrome Spraypaint. Unless paint technology has progressed rapidly in the last 5 years about the best "chrome" finish i've seen from a can was at best a metallic silver type paint colour. If you're after a chrome finish theres no subsitute for real chrome plating. How about painting them the same colour as your car paint Alfa. Mr C
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I'm new -what does ZED mean?
I think you mean Kiwis Mr C
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I'm new -what does ZED mean?
I believe the french say Zen. Mr C.
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Aussie Nissan 350Z site
http://www.nissan.com.au/z/ Check out the nissan 350Z site. theres a quicktime 3D 350Z to play with and a nice photo of a 240Z and a 350Z driving down a road (lools like in the USA) amongst other photos in the gallery. Plus all the usual specs etc etc. and when you get bored of that you can look at concept cars or the 200sx. Mr C
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WHOA ! Mega-tokyo !
I wonder what his "one of a kind" tail lights look like.
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Zoom Project Car For Sale
Also see thread High Powered Zed, from about a month and a half ago. Same car. http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3371
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Is That A Zed????
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Snowflake wheels
Yep Thats what I though they were. Standard on the 280ZX turbo I believe. Which I dont think we got here in OZ, so I guess that would make them almost impossible to find down under. Auxillary's got them on his car with the recessed parts painted black, and they look cool.
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Should outdated posts/threads be deleted
It's already done. (You probably read this in the other thread about the same thing Rick, but for the benefit of others....). If you started the thread, you hit edit on the first post. THen check the delete thread box of the edit page and hit the delete now button, and the tread and all reply posts are deleted. So if anyone has any irrelivant threads they started that they want to delete, or wish they never started, thats how its done. So Mike, when's the classicZcars user manual coming out? Mr C
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%&*@# sensor light!
Ummm. What sensor light?
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Hows this for a basket case?
What a mess! If you find a car in a shed like this, just close the door and walk away. http://www.cars-on-line.com/66datsun2856.html
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OK Datsun trivia fans....
My Vote: Fairlady Z 432 ®. The engine is an S20. Some harder trivia please. Mr C
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Request advise on radio installation.
Found this at the clarion website: Clarion uses the industry standard wiring colors. Not every unit will have all of the listed wires SPEAKERS: White=left front + White/Black=left front – Gray=right front + Gray/Black=right front – Green=left rear + Green/Black=left rear- Violet=right rear + Violet/Black=right rear – POWER/ACCESSORY Yellow 14ga=battery main/memory Yellow 18ga=battery CeNet power/memory Red=accessory (ignition on) Black=ground Blue=antenna turn on + Blue/White=remote turn on (amps) + Orange/White=dimmer Brown=phone mute Orange=parking brake video lockout White/Red=CCD (camera) input instant on + http://www.teamclarion.com/SharedWebDBs/clarionsupport.nsf/edl/C1A Mr C
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Snowflake wheels
Can you post a picture of them so we all know what you mean by snowflake?
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RB30 in a 240Z
This was posted before somewhere as a link to somewhere else I think, But I couldn't find it. So here's a pic.
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RB30 in a 240Z
Hi Cuong Have you seen the pictures of the black 4WD 240Z? Mr C
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turbos
Ok I'll start the ball rolling....... If you want a turbo on your 240z L24 you have to get: an exhaust manifold for the turbo and exhaust to bolt onto. an intake manifold, theres 3 ways to do it blow through, or suck through I believe, though I havent bothered reading anything about either because option 3 is the best, Fuel injection. Hey you never said how much money you want to spend! you'd have to tap the block to get an oil supply fot the turbo, and water for cooling has to come from somewhere as well. Size of the turbo would depend on engine capacity and compression and how much boost you wanna run. Turbo engines generally run lower compression that non turbo engines. How many turbos can you put in????? Yeah so its not as easy a just bolting on a turbo. Probably easier to souce a 280z turbo engine and do a swap. Mr C
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RB30 in a 240Z
A 200ZR is a 300ZX with a RB20ET inline 6 (instead of a VG V6), 5 speed manual, and a small bonnet scoop. Mr C
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RB30 in a 240Z
An RB30 shouln't be any more difficult to fit than an RB26. Heres a pic of a 240z with a RB30ET (from a VL commodore), which has the intake pipe on top of the engine and the bonnet shuts ok. This car was in Street Machine magazine a while back. I dont know who owns it, but this pic was taken at the z car workshop. Mr C
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new top less pictures
That walking stick come standard with the boot lid or is it an optional extra?
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would this fit a 240Z?
Plus 6 what? plus 13 what? you gonna cut out the metal under the flares?
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Help!!! Dohc Head ????
The Z432 had a twin cam head, dunno what sort of block it had though. I think it was a completely different engine.
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Mickey Mouse Blower
Yeah turbos are designed to rotate at rpms around 150,000rpm and more, depending on the size of the turbo. (smaller ones generally spin the faster than larger turbos). Anything is possible if you have the dollars to throw at it. Just impractical to modify a turbo to work as a supercharger, when you could just get a supercharger. and you wouldn't have to design and build gears to convert the rpm from an engine into the hundreds of thousands of rpm to drive the turbo. If you want a turbo get a turbo. If you want a supercharger: http://www.advancedengine.com/products_superc.html
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Help needed as soon as possible....please
Here's the type of PCV filter you are looking for. http://www.240z.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2078 http://www.240z.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1286 http://www.240z.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1209