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It was running when I parked... 10 years ago.... Often heard from seller

I just got '75 280z. The car was parked on the car port for 10 years under the sun shine of CA weather. When I checked the car, the body is fairly good condition, only small ding on passenger's side door and fender. Rust is on the hatch area, but not cancer rust. Finally the car got towed to my home. The fun began
tamo3
  • tamo3

240Z frame drawing sketchup

Updated 30 Mar 2014: Screenshots: Rotating view (click to zoom in): Front frame rails: Rear frame rails looking towards front of car: Sketchup drawing for download: 240Z frame rails whole car 20 Mar 2014.skp.zip Sketchup drawing viewer can be downloaded here: Download | SketchUp Revision history: 2013 Dec- Updated drawing includes holes I noticed in the frame behind the seats. (Holes are now in correct location if you happened to have viewed this drawing the first couple of week
Mikes Z car

Engine bay light lens- make your own replacement

Hi all, I made a new engine bay light lens out of an empty nutrition drink tube that looks like a large translucent white test tube with a tube DIA of 33.8 MM, though it does not have to be exactly that to work. The nutrition drink is called Energize and has the words "Hardcore Energize bullet" on it with the word "Energize" much larger than the other words (Thank you to SteveJ for identifying the brand of drink for me since I had thrown away the wrapper). It is sold by Wall Mart here and I
Mikes Z car

My ideas for a Nissan Marvel!! 1977 280Z.

My ideas for my 280z to make it a originally awesome... . RB26DETT engine . dual 2 or 3 inch straight pipe . Carbon Fiber 3 piece spoiler that more or less resembles a mustang duck-tail spoiler . Wide body rear panels . JEEP CJ5 CJ7 CJ8 7" UNIVERSAL ROUND HALO LED HEADLIGHTS BLACK HEAD LAMP if its possible . 18 inch Lexani Lust black-machined wheel . Vertical Lambo doors . New interior I'm going with black leather . 110 7200 red paint . carbon fiber tail light panel . and more modifications th
Bryson@80z

Clock replacement for 240Z (Quartz)

Hi all, I got a quartz clock from Michael's (arts and craft store in USA) and replaced the mechanical clock mechanism in my 1970 240Z (my clock face says JECO). There is a thread where someone else used this same clock for their Z, the following is my experience. The easiest way to do this IMO is to use the hands from the new clock and to wrap wires onto the new clock battery connections to remote the battery location to perhaps the fuse box. I didn't install that way as I wanted the clock
Mikes Z car

Reproduced Window Stickers

All, Anyone looking for window stickers mgood can make you just about any year you are looking for and he does a great job and looks just like the originals. Just had one done for my 1973 and it was just what I was looking for and he will laminate if you want, very fast service too. Thanks again Michael great service... Mnilges
mnilges

Clock face scanned in for 240Z series 1

BE SURE TO SAVE THE FOLLOWING ZIP FILE PICTURE FOR PRINTING NOT THE ONE VISIBLE ON THE SCREEN (keeps DPI correct to print to original size): clock face 240Z series 1 scan cleaned.jpg.zip For viewing but not for printing: The attached .ZIP file clock face is a scan of a 240Z series 1 clock. The original clock face was removed from the clock and placed on a scanner so there should be no perspective distortion. It could be printed out for a creative project if someone were so inclined and p
Mikes Z car

1970 240z and new electric antenna.

Well my original antenna just isn't cutting it anymore. I recently purchased an Harada MX 3 antenna and now see that it wants a DPDT switch and not the original SPDT switch (which basically puts +12V to go up and then reverses +12 V to do down.) Any schematics out there on how to "fool" the wiring so that I can use my original up/down switch with the new MX3 antenna? Also, I want to be able to stop my antenna and not have it go all up or all down like the modern antenna do today.
kirkE
  • kirkE

1978 280z

Hey, I'm a new Z owner....I inherited this car and have no idea of its value??? It seems to be in great looking condition, but it hasn't been started for probably 15 years. Can anyone give me an approximate value of this car?
CJO
  • CJO

Access door for fuel vapor hose

Hi all, I put in an access door for the large fuel vapor hose that connects on top of the back of the gas tank making it easier to change out the hose. After dropping the tank to change that leaking hose I realized I wanted easier access to that hose though I recognize it might be a while before it needs replacing again. I figure anything that makes upkeep easier prolongs the life of the car. I put an aluminum rod approx 1/4" DIA about 10 inches long into the part of the hose that connec
Mikes Z car

Gas Tank sealing with POR 15 standard tank seal

Many thanks to Jeff G 78 and postings by others for help with this. I noticed the instructions on the standard tank seal can called for thoroughly stirring the tank seal which I thought I had done but when I poured the seal in the tank there were a few lumps. If you look closely at the flat surface on the right (tank baffle) in the completed picture below you can see a couple of small lumps likely from lack of stirring. I used a pint and a half which is a half pint more than what POR says you
Mikes Z car

6/70 240Z Ball Joint

The bottom tube of my 6/70 240Z Macpherson strut has a horizontal plate inside about 3/4” from the bottom opening. Recently purchased new ball joints with larger diameter stud and used later-model steering knuckles fit together well. My problem is that the new stud is about 1/4” longer than the original stud and won't fit inside the strut, interfering with the strut plate. I haven’t cut down the stud of the new ball joint yet because I feared it would be of hardened steel (difficult to
sevangelos

72 Z Master Cylinder quandary

Redoing my brake system for the first time. Got a rebuilt Master cylinder from Black Dragon & found that it: 1) had a two hole flange mount vs the original which had 4 holes 2) the collar which fits in the booster hole is ~1" deep vs 1/2" for the original, thus 3) Master Cyl will not bolt flush to the booster. 4) Dragon says that they have not had any customer issues with fit but are happy to take it back Has anyone else observed this and do I have any options besides rebuilding or mounting
Z4Her
  • Z4Her

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