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Had a great weekend at the La Jolla Concours this weekend. Brought my 1970 240Z and the roadster. This is the first year that the La Jolla show has had a Japanese Class so I had to offer my full support. It was a fabulous show as always and had a great time. The party the night before was epic and way worth high entry fee (The party is an all you can eat and drink affair catered by La Jolla's finest restaurants). Anyway, I was interviewed by the local TV station, KUSI, I will try and find a video clip of that. I also was presented the "Honorary Judges Choice Award/Trophy" which is probably the best award I have ever received. The Honorary Judge has the entire field to choose from and he chose my Z, just barely, over a Ferarri that he liked. The emphasis on the award is preservation so that definitely helped. So, I will try and post some clips if they come available. The Award presentation was absolutely phenomenal. I felt like a rock star with all the people at the drive up presentation and photographers. They talked for about two minutes about the car and the award while the gallery and photographers snapped pics. Was way cool.

Reach out to the Connecticut Z Car Club (http://www.ctzcc.com/ and http://forums.ctzcc.com/). There's probably someone in that club that can put you in the right direction.

Yes, there were some great cars there. Mike Malamut's Mazda Cosmo took first in the Japanese class. His Mazda Rebo and a Honda sport coupe were the 2nd and 3rd place winners. The Judges graded on restoration excellence. The 2000 GT was easily the priciest car in the Japanese class and garnered a lot of attention. I would venture to say that my Z got almost as much attention as the 2000 GT. The show was very busy which blows my mind since the cost to enter is way high at $70. I usually attend the free show outside and peek through the fence at the cars inside. The cars in the show were just insane; Bugatti's old and new, Rolls Royce's and ton of Mercedes, Duesenbergs, McLarens, a 1963 Lola GT that had like an 8 man pit crew prepping it before the show, a charger Super Bird. I could go on and on. Amazing cars and a lot of fun. Glad the 240Z was well received. Oh, one other cool thing happening here: the Petersen Museum in LA ( https://www.petersen.org/) is doing a year long exhibition starting in May contrasting Japanese and US car design styles. They asked if my roadster was available to present as part of the display, so I will be loaning that out to them for a year. Nice to see the Japanese cars getting some visibility. Also nice to get some free storage . I need space

Thanks guys I’ll check R&R out with a call and ask around the CT club as well. Not so concerned about body work and whatnot. Just really want the car running. I’m sure my Z needs a lot more work, but really need someone to reroute the throttle and choke cable and triple check the carbs just so I can drive around in this thing a little for the summer. I own a high performance nissan / infiniti shop and personally do all the tuning on my in house dyno. But this might be a little too predated for me and my techs to tackle for the time being I’ve got 6 engine builds for twin turbo Z34s that all need to be done by May ??‍♂️ but now have got the serious itch about getting this classic running. The L26 was overhauled and bored out by previous owner and I’ve compression checked etc already. Here’s a pic of the said car; when it was being loaded on trailer from Georgia to bring to me in NY. Thanks again gents!

R&R restored my 260Z to a high standard. They have a number of excellent craftsmen. as an example, take a look at the rear spoiler on my car - hand formed and welded sheet metal.

I have heard some not so good things about this place. Of course, YMMV.

Not in your immediate area, but you might talk to Ragtops and Roadsters in Perkasie, PA.

Good job...I could not get that pin out and did not have the hole in my case to use a drift. My input shaft is noisy while in neutral with clutch engage, so eventually I will send to trans specialist and get a full rebuild..including the shift rod seals.

Fujitsubo quote the current pipe diameter - several times in several different places - as 50.8mm x 2. Volume 13 of NOSTALGIC SPEED magazine - published July 2017 - carried an 'Advertorial' feature on the new Fujitsubo Legalis R system for the S30-series Z. See scans below: Old design on the right, new design on the left: Box on the bottom right gives data for an L28 engine in the tested car. Apparently their improvements have been realised through various changes, notably the exhaust manifold and the resonator box re-design.

I too would go with having them turned but you may find the cost of turning them very close to buying new ones. If you have Advance auto out there check their price then go to retailmenot.com and get a 30% coupon code. Its been 8 years ago but just basic rotors were $20 each after the discount. And if I remember right that was what charged per rotor for a cut. I bought drilled and slotted from amazon but like Zed said it was for looks. You can see mine through the wheels I have. Painted remanufactured calipers red, it all looks good. The ceramic pads I used got rid of the horrible squeal all Zs I've owned have. I'll find my thread on that when u get my laptop out in the morning. Some good info on replacing the races, how to get the old ones out and seat the new ones DIY style. Torque value too.

I attended a very nice show this weekend with a concours-like setting, lots of very fine cars. The major divisions were English, German, Italian, Domestic, and International - for any vehicle not in the other groups. I managed to snag a 1st in this lightly populated division. For anyone on Facebook, I've created an album with some show photos. https://www.facebook.com/jim.arnett.240z/media_set?set=a.959359637516728.1073741831.100003281014642&type=3

Just to add some more background info, here are few pictures of the fuel vapor venting system in my non emissions car as it came from the factory without the vapor recover tank, it doesn't get much simpler than this. Also look at what I happened to find in the second picture, below the red arrow.