Mr Camouflage

Starts at £400.00 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220011706007 He's a bit confused about how much the wheels and tyres are worth, but car looks ok. There quite rare over there (the car that is, not the wheels).

Actually it goes alot further than the unfinished version at zhome. The one at z home stops after the dog ran off with the tek screws. See point 11 "More to come" The more to come is in the technical articles link on this site. This one continues on and shows the floors actually welded in, and Chris's tips/experiances in welding them it. The one on Zhome shoulbe be titled "How to remove your floorpans" because thats all it explains. Carl, when are you going to update your site so it doesnt look so junior high.

Theres a better write up right here. No need to leave this site really http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17235 More details, more photos and doesnt seem to stop half way through.

Update. Its the EFI version of the engine that has hydraulic lifters. Specs for a KE laser 87-90 Single cam are adjustable: Valve clearances hot: 1.3 litre stem to rocker inlet: 0.25mm exh: 0.30mm Camshaft to rocker: in:0.18mm ex:0.22mm 1.6 liter stem to rocker: in: 0.30mm ex:0.30mm Camshaft to rocker: in:0.19mm ex:0.19mm Firing order 1342 plug gap 1 to 1.1mm Timing 1.3 6 deg BTDC 1.6 2 deg BTDC

Actually, come to think of it there could have been a thin coating of yellow/beige primer under the tar undercoating, but definately not over the top color coat paint. Well at least not the floor pan. That my experiance with 3 240z's. I still have the back half of the car still left to strip, i'll take some more notice when i get back to it. To avoid confusion, how about we call the beige stuff primer or undercoat - as its known in Spray painting terms, and the Black tar stuff, we'll call that rust proofing, or underbody deadener, because thats basically what it was supposed to be.

The underbody of the Z was coated from the factory with a black tar type stuff, straight on the bare metal, no undercoat underneath it, This thick tar rippled look coating (If you dont call it undercoating, i dont know what you would call it) was then oversprayed with the color paint. not painted as such. I doubt you would find paint over the top of the tar coating in places like the transmission tunnel above the gearbox. My car is a 72, and has this undercoating. It washes off back to bare metal with a rag a bit of petrol.

Did you pull the plugs? I thought that would be the first thing to check.

Hope it wasnt a coupe they crushed.

Youll probably find that they are just ignorant of the history of Z. They were probably just looking around for a sports car and this new nissan sports car was a lot cheaper than a porsche, so it will do.

I used to have a (KE) Laser TX-3 turbo 4 wheel drive. What sort of laser is it? The problem with the B6 and B8 mazda engines is that they have hydraulic lifters, and when they get noisy, theres nothing you can do to them except replace them -and they cost a fortune. I think they were at least $20 each, you need 16 of them = $320. Its just a different approch to car manufacturing. Lasers are built to be cheap disposable cars. Z's were built when a car had to last and cost cutting and market competition weren't as important as they are today.

Yeah. I was going to buy that. The seller lives a suburb or 2 away from me. Tom wants the badges he's selling

1,000.00 USD = 1,325.02 AUD at todays rates.

Thats probobly why goggo-mobile man gestures towards the guy next to the 240z and says something like you dont need to be a member of a club.

I hate it when people in Australia list stuff for sale in US dollars. Its a cheap trick to make you think $1000 au dollars, but by the time you convert it to AU dollars its substantially more. Wonder what the reserve is. I remember seeing that car on carsales or carpoint, cant remember what the price was though. Looks ok, but new paint can hide a lot of rust problems.

Thanks .

It had a big Z-shop logo on the bonet. http://www.zshop.net.au/

I saw a new Shannons advert on the weekend featuring a green 240z, with two other cars (A blue triumph spitfire, and an xy Falcon from memory). Was on during the motor racing on channel 10. Anybody else see it?

I have a haynes manual and it says the firing order is 1-5-3-6-2-4. Cover is a little different. It has the book number above the haynes logo -28010 (206) , and a 'printed on recycled paper' logo bottom left. That must be a first edtion, with errors.

floor looks pretty beat up. when that happens the sound deadening tar stuff bends or cracks and can come away from the metal (which is bare metal with no paint or undercoat at all) and eventually starts to rust under the sound deadening, and you cant see it happening untill it rusts all the way through to the other side of the metal. So whats supposed to be special about it? The datsun badge on the dash could have been added by anyone, like the datsun gear knob. Seats could have been retrimed.

Heres a long shot, but does anyone know who made these Rear Strut Cartridges? They are from a 240z, painted black, and the only markings they have are a part number: 734603 and "Made in USA".

I'd pull the intake pipe off the front of the turbo an check that it rotates freely and doesnt have any shaft play. You should try and find out from the PO why the car stoped running in the first place. I'll help you work out exactly what needs to be dont to fix it.

Snap a photo if you can. what sort of price are they?

If I was selling a car, and had a couple of intereted buyers, i wouldnt sell it to the first person that saw it. I'd give all the people a chance to look at it and see who had the best offer.

you forgot the 350Z (Z33)

Hardtop is generally used to describe a 2 door car, same as coupe. (I just got bored with saying coupe all the time.)