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Welcome to the early Z life. you should take some time and read the post's about rust BEFORE you go and look this car over. You may save yourself some big headaches. It sounds like you have A good doner car for the driveline so thats no big deal. The other thing is you are not looking @ A 240Z if it is A 1974. That would be A 260Z. As posted before PLEASE dont put X after Z with the early cars. Good Luck.

Yes VR is no longer taking orders but they do have there jigs & molds up for bid. They say there dropping it because of needing too focus on there real company in with airospace. This sounds good but I think Ferrari may have had alittle hand in this aswell. They have shut down every other repro company that has done A Ferrari so...... Plus there cant be A whole ton of money in aftermarket bodies for Z cars anymore.:sleepy:

Hmmm must be over the home of the lead engineer for the 350Z.

Sorry, Nissan lost hope of getting my money with putting the same V6 from the maxima/Altima & infiniti G35 under the hood.:sleepy: Please with the DOHC twin turbo inline 6 on the bench. WHY GOD? Why?:stupid: Then ta try & tell us that this is A car with roots from our baby's. Funny other then 2 seats 1/4 glass & A letter I dont see it. Sorry.

Not sure what this person thinks they are getting to sell. But the days of the VIN# being the # of the car off the line was dead about 1980 on most cars. I would be very suspect of this. Why would Nissan give up the #1 car? Even if they did dont you think someone in Nissan would be picking this up? Or @ the least some Nissan dealer. At the very least 10k+ so it is worth more than twice the original sticker price. Yes on the 240. But +60k for A 350Z NO sorry .

Yes A amp would do fine. One other thing you should look into getting before you put any new things in (amp head unit EQ ) is A good noise filter. A noise filter hooks up in your power line for these things. With the older points/coil type cars you will prob. hear the elec. sound of your motor through the speakers. Much like A tach but with sound. Dont worry there only like $5-$20 and you will get what you pay for.

this is it. $199

http://www.custom-autosound.com/ They have one of the best hidden set-up's on the market.

("Any thoughts on where to get a new exhaust system at a reasonable price?") I would say look in the paper and find A car show. Go there and talk with some of the people with the nicer rides. They will point you to A good shop. Dont let some hack put A clamp togather set-up under there. Go stainless welded. You will be much better off in the long term with this. Thats my .02 on that.

DAMN NICE FIND!!! 1st Thing I would do after A find like that is buy A loto ticket. Now as the car gose. So far I would do as the others have said. Only I would just get new brakes all around and new rubber brake lines @ the same time. They go bad fast just sitting. Why risk it? The other thing would be order A master type kit with all the rubber bushings. Take this kit with the car and drop it off @ A shop. Get the labor cost up front. go home have A beer & know its money well spent. You wont know it was the same car when you pick it up. O ya the shop wont be happy when you go ta pick it up. But you will be.

2manyzs got it. look @ the headlights of the car in the back :stupid: But still looks good on the z covers.

First, I must say that is one sweet Z. The headlight covers look good with that stripe that lines up wtih the body lines. Wish I knew the answer. Also note they did A line on the side marker lamp. I dont think that's just black tape. It would be easy ta paint on. With clear plastic you would paint the line inside the cover. Then you cant scratch or chip it.

I took the drivers door panel off and you dont want it Ed. Sorry man. But the door is falling apart from the inside.:sleepy: O-well, least it's just A parts car.:classic:

I had A dash "fixed" by A shop like that. It was on my 74 vette. looked damn good. For the first 6 months. Then It started cracking around the patchs they put in. They just push A heavy foam in the cracks then cover that with melted plastic and brand the grain in the new plastic. After time it splits again. This time the cracks are smaller tho.:stupid: With the dash caps there are 2 types I know of half "top" or full. The top cap covers the top ta just under the gauges. and full is just that. I cant say I have used eather one. This is just what I have been told.

Happy ta hear:classic: Just dont fall in love easy. If the ad is true good for you. If not take A deep breath n walk away. Dont fool yourself just cuz its there and you want one. good luck and I hope its what you are looking for.:classic: P.S. Bring your cam. for showing off your new baby or letting the rest of us see what it was.

here http://penvose.net/~theblue/video/Darius-240Z-R1.mpeg This is the same car. now this is the clip ta load worth the time. full view of running motor close-up. inercooled turbo with blow-off valve. http://www.ksurf.net/~jb_ce_heros/240z.mpeg

I am sure HS30-H will be posting on this one for you. He will tell it . I dont know my Z history well enough so rather then say something thats not rite. :tapemouth Look up HS30-H and look @ his avatar. Thats the real deal.

I think this one is A kit but this is what it looks like

The one thing you will never see any foam filter maker warn you about is. After awhile foam will start too come apart. If you let it get old or let oil sit on it. Now as this foam gets old it will start too flake. These small parts of foam will then enter your motor. This is not A good thing. For foam is made of plastic. Think of what that will do inside your motor. This is why you will never see A foam filter (alone) in any stock car. You see them on racecars because they can filter better. But they also put new foam in all the time and know when its due because they pull there air cleaners after almost every run. If you would take A small hunk of foam and light it on fire. Watch what happens and think of that in your motor. There is another thing to think of with foam filters. If your timeing on your Z gets out of whack you can get A back pop of fire from your carbs. That filter will catch fire real fast from this. If you dont know this happened and still are trying too start your car. Your pulling that melting plastic into your motor. I would say if you dont like or trust K&N then go paper. But thats just me.

The two holes are for the fuel cell. That looks good set-up for the track. The tires are on the strange side. But all n all looks damn good. I cant wait too see in in action.

I will forward those links too its new owner. I couldnt find anyone that had the real thing. That they would part with. As far as I know he's still looking. Thanks.

(What about a Ferrari GTO z conversion, lots of those about) The big reason is just that. Aswell Ferrari has made it SO HARD Too get parts. emblems and so on. I had A dino rep. I was doing in vegas. I wanted ta get some real Ferrari parts. The first thing asked @ the Ferrari dealership was (" Whats the vin# of the car these parts are going on") Give A real vin# for A Ferrari or go away. :sleepy: So I sold it.

on the track.

wow this screams make me too A Z owner. I saw this and got goose bumps. I have been looking @ doing A body kit. I know I know dont kill me. But look at the bodylines. The original prototype Cobra Daytona Coupe that has been missing for 30 years, was recently sold for over $3 million dollars. As one of six closed Coupe Cobras, . this is such A cool story (wow) http://www.thecarsource.com/shelby/cobra/daytona/csx2287.html

The Donkey An old man, a boy and a donkey were going to town. The boy rode on the donkey and the old man walked. As they went along they passed some people who remarked it was a shame the old man was walking and the boy was riding. The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions. Later, they passed some people that remarked, "What a shame, he makes that little boy walk." They then decided they both would walk! Soon they passed some more people who thought they were stupid to walk when they had a decent donkey to ride. So, they both rode the donkey. Now they passed some people that shamed them by saying how awful to put such a load on a poor donkey. The boy and man said they were probably right, so they decided to carry the donkey. As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on the animal and he fell into the river and drowned. The moral of the story? If you try to please everyone, you might as well Kiss your arse good-bye. :cheeky: