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I have been working pretty hard on getting the car where I have wanted it. Saturday I snapped a few pics of what I consider close to how I want it. It still needs to be lowered and I hadn't gotten the chance to put the badges back on, but the pics still turned out pretty good.

I hope everyone got home safe. Had a great week!! Enjoyed meeting more members in person. @gnosez @wal280z @Obie 280Z @gwri8 @Zup & Jim2 @Captain Obvious @Pat Carr @SteveJ @Redwing @Diseazd @motorman7

It has more to do with the people who like to see things described properly. The title of the thread piqued my interest only to find out that the car isn't. I'm happy that you inherited a low mileage early car, and it's a very pretty car, but I would encourage you, jakay11, to learn a little more about your car and appreciate what you have. BTW, the interior is not leather.

You can download a 240 FSM here. http://www.xenonzcar.com/s30/fsm.html That will be your new bible for the car.

Looks great!

Damn she was beautiful. Some kinda brown color, and really clean looking. Didn't have time to snap a pic though I know most of y'all have one already, but for me it's the first time I see an S30 in person! (There is a 280zx rusting close to where I live but they're not as cool...) Can't wait to actually own one!

Got the carbs off today… managed to only damage one hose, so I’m calling it a success. Not looking forward to trying to get them back on and get all the hoses in the right place, but that’s a future-me problem. . Looking at the bowls, I appear to have 74 model carb I think. Worst of the worst? Haha. There’s 7 screws rather than 6 like the manual shows, and my float pin is only accessible from behind an external screw (the one that's half was out on the upper left of the carb in the pic below. The only marking I could find was a number 2 stamped on both carbs. From the Clymer, it says 73s had HMB46W-1 and 74s had HMB46W-4. It also claims that only thing you can do with a 74 is open the float chamber cover, implying that you cannot take out the floats or needle valve. Found another thread from a while back that talks about the same thing and it sounds like his was a 74. I opened the float chamber and the floats look ok. The screens on the other hand are in rough shape. Not clogged, but pretty smashed. Seems like they could be reformed, so I’ll try to do that after cleaning them. Next step is get some carb cleaner and see if I can clean out any gunk that might be hiding. And maybe pick up tiny pliers to try and pull out that float pin. Bonus picture of the garage assistant after a freak snow shower we had on Saturday morning. Michael

I would use the original dash. Be very careful when you remove it or it won't be crack free anymore. I don't know on the vinyl. If I had to guess I would say it won't help resale. I don't worry to much about that as I don't plan on selling. If it leaves my garage that more than likely means one of my kids got it.

Then it took me a while to figured out the 280ZX was a Transformer. Sent from my [device_name] using http://Classic Zcar Club mobile

The car looks great. If you have pictures of any paperwork that you have, and the car's ID tags, that would be fun to see. Some people get really caught up in the numbers, and as you can see, there are still open questions about how the cars were built and how they got distributed around the US. Even with the paperwork there will probably still be arguments about whether it's real or not, what "model year" it is, what "series" to call it, whether Bob Sharp touched it or not. Good stuff. See if you can find a Bob Sharp fingerprint somewhere on it. Remember also that anything original to when the car was built might add more value than being shiny and clean. Patina, provenance, history, whatever. I wasn't kidding about the fingerprint.

Well, it has been put to bed. The closing banquet room was packed. We had raffles, recognitions, auctions for charities, tons of car show awards, and a nice presentation from the next group of insane or naive bastards who want to take the baton to Branson for 2019. Then the room emptied out. I did ask Tamura-san what was the chance of Nissan using a straight 6 in their sports car. I know that current packaging makes it almost impossible, but he took the time to talk about other factors like the limitations of the straight 6 with regard to higher RPM applications. Where else but at ZCON can you get that kind of access? I haven't had a conference call in over a week now, but I'm not suffering from withdrawals. The week of somewhat controlled chaos is over. It was great to see how the team worked out pretty much any issue that came up. I have heard that some ZCON teams aren't on speaking terms after all is said and done. I don't think that applies to our group. Thank you for all of you who made the trip to my neck of the woods. I'm sorry I couldn't be more social, but I needed to help my team take care of a few hundred of our closest Z friends. ? If you ever want to drop back by, I'll be more than happy to show you my favorite roads and BBQ joints. I hope you enjoyed your visit. I have most of my things packed. I'll get a few hours of sleep and go over to the Sonesta to say farewell to anybody starting off their trips back home. Then it's my turn to take the short trip back to my house.

This can be purchased separately and is available in 918 Orange

Well after we got it running right, eventually the head gasket blew and starting burning oil and coolant. We picked up the swap for a really good price, and it came with the rear sump oil pan and an aftermarket ecu. It's an rb20det out of a skyline. We used the 280z motor mounts, transmission mount and driveshaft.

Excellent work. Thanks for the quick update.

There were a couple small issues with rev. "L", so Revision "M" has just been uploaded. It's awesome.