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I have always wanted a 240z & have on occasion, come close to finding one in the past. Now, I seem to have the storage & shop space to work on one ... Through an incredible & generous deal with Zup, a silver 71 240z is now part of my life. Moving it to its new home, I thought I might borrow one of these rigs... But ended up using a flatbed tow truck. Silver Z now safely in its new home. Its a pretty solid car, was sitting for a while, will need floor pans & rear wheel arches, etc. The battery area & rear deck sill are in great shape. Have not had time yet to really go over the car in detail but will soon & I am excited to start working on it. Just need to finish the interior refresh on my 280z first. My intent is to make it a worthy older brother to Zup's immaculate silver 73. Thanks again Jim, you're the best! I wonder if I will run out of space in that big storage building.... oh look, there's another one near it

I finally got around to doing some 0-60 runs after re-jetting the mains and converting the carbs to dual barrel synchronous operation. As I mentioned above, I didn't expect the conversion to synchronous operation to improve 0-60 times since this is done at full throttle. Where it does make a very significant difference is in the 40-70 mph driving range. At 50 mph the Z is loafing along with the throttle slightly opened. In this state, the car accelerates to 60 surprisingly quick without a hint of strain. I suspect that the light throttle position at 50 leaves lots of accelerator pump action in reserve. Now for the best part, after re-jetting I dropped a full second off the 0-60 time, 9.9 seconds versus the 10.9 secs previously. This is actually a half second faster than the writers for Road and Track were able to do back in 1971.@ 10.4 seconds(Remember this is for a car with an AT.) Other than the DGVs my engine is completely stock. I did a bottom end overhaul this year. The head was rebuilt about 40k miles ago and tested good so I left it alone save replacing the cam with another stock cam.

While my 77' is in for body work (rockers,doglegs,and rear valence), I took the leap and POR15'd the fuel tank, inside and out. I've been wanting to do this for a while now and was inspired by this thread http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/17542-treating-insideoutside-of-gas-tank-with-por15-products-and-removing-evaporation-tank/page-2?hl=tank Before During , After Inside before and after ,

Happy Birthday! Enjoy the link and 3 files http://www.thelolaregistry.com/DIY/Weber.htm Vol 01 Issue 3.pdf Vol 02 Issue 1.pdf CLF140.dgv_.pdf

fwiw - i installed a new headliner with the spray adhesive provided (from msa) last winter and it's been great so far. i wound up w/a few wrinkles due to my poor skills, but they are not horrible - and they have not changed over the summer. the key is prepping the underside of the roof (total pita to get all the old crud off) and using new foam, as the old stuff will keep tearing apart and just ain't gonna cut it.