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What do you mean '15" black net wheels'? Steel? Alloy? Width? Are these the BBS/Enkei blackmesh spoke with polished rim style? steve77

In Robert Altman's 'Short Cuts' there is a 280ZX parked at the liquor store where the four losers go for beer where after the girls get the photos mixed up with the guy who knows they murdered the girl before they go to the park and murder the girl. Whew! Damn Altman films.... steve(still confused)77

Whoa! That is wild! It is in a Jetta model and will be in the new (to the USA) Phaelon or something. They are also making a W12. Two rows of cylinders in each bank separated by 15 degrees. Counter-rotating balance shafts??? All I can say is, LOTS OF PARTS TO FAIL! steve77

Yes, it had the wire mesh vent fabric. Mebee I go to junk yard tomorrow 2-many-son! steve77

You all probably saw this in my Blackhawk pix....Took this at the Nissan meeet in June... And for those keeping score at home... steve(all my other cars are 'yota's)77

YEah, that's prety much it...somebody has my JCR cattledog right now, so I haven't been able to look it up. It is in the back in the colour section on styling kits... I don't remember the vents at the leading edges of the rear fenders, but there were alot of weeds and crap... So...to do this properly, one should remove the front fenders and replace them with the CA Z ones? But what about the rears? do you just cut off the covered body steel? I realize this is an extremely subjective question, but how hard would these be to remove from the current car at the J/Y? Could they be ground off? or cut off with an emery wheel or something? I've really been thinking about this fairly seriously the past 24 hours! IF they could be installed on a 240 and end up with approximately the same weight car of pehaps less...... I was thinking lose the buckets altogether and bury the headlights in a grille somewhat like the grille on my car now. Just thinking out loud... steve77

Ummm...'79 for "49 state legal" maybe....here in the Peoples Republic of California I believe they started in '75 with the FI vehicles. If not, then definitely by '76. steve(test pipe)77

Yeah, I need a couple for the holes in the hatch too.... steve77

Delivered a '79 to the crusher today and had to walk down and peruse all the Z's they had. Only one or two 240's, maybe 5 each 75-76 and 77-78 and about 6 ZX's.....ANYWAY... They have this shell of a Z there that has flared fenders. Not just flared wheel openings, but full widening of the front and rear body, like a GT car. Like a 944 Porsche kinda. The front fenders are about 2" wider than the door area and there are vents at the rear of the fenders....The rear fenders just flare staright out and wrap around the back. Everything is fibreglas. There is no hood, and the headlight buckets are converted to square lights (YUUUUUUCK!) with a sort of wide rubber gasket aroud the lights. It has some damage to the rear quarter. It has 75-76 style bumpers and the plaque says it had an l28 engine, so I am assuming it is a 280. I was in a hurry and only really started getting curious as I drove home. When somebody does something like this, do you remove the metal (original) fender material underneath? I'm thinking weight here. I looked in the wheelwells and the shrouds were in and in the rear quarter where the fibreglas was broken, I didn't see anything under there. Is this a kit that you could buy, or does somebody lay something like this up in their garage? It was very rigid and tight. If it matters, it was white with several colours of blue stripes runing the length of the side. steve77

"Boob's are...equivilent to Breast's " Thanks, man. It all makes sense now. steve77

If my grasp of foreign languages is correct, I'm guessing your 'popometer' goes off a split second before you yell, "OH SHEEEEET!" steve77

I see so many Z's here sometimes I keep track in my Daytimer just for fun...Many days I will see 10-12 Z's in the course of driving around all day (work). If there is any acknowledgement from another Z driver, usually we just point at each other, but occasionally it degenerates into a wave, peace sign, or thumbs-up. It is nearly scientific who will respond: 1st Gen: Male driver: I get noticed 99.9% of the time--and get a response.....female driver: I get noticed maybe 25% of the time. 2nd Gen: There are a TON of rusted out beaters and nasty 2+2's around here--but some clean ones too. About 1 driver in 20 will notice me, and it has to be a near head-on confrontation--like a left turn lane or something. Z31: 0% response. Every time. Without fail. End of story. Never even notice. Oblivious to another Z. Make eye contact with them and they have this vacant look on their face, like, "Am I to know you?". You would think they could do the math: Let's see, I'm driving a fabulously appointed, powerful, one-of-a-kind Japanese sports car which is no longer made that I bought new and have washed lovingly every weekend and there's this guy in a beautiful shiny dark green older Z with giant white racing stripes and a distinctive exhaust note in the lane next to me and he's smiling and waving at me.....hmmm, he doesn't look familiar. "Do you know him, Honey?" I just don't get it. Around here 99.9999% of Z31 drivers are men in their 60's. I guess the Z was their mid-life-crisis. Z32: you really have to divide into at least three groups. Lots of women drivers: 0 response; Men 40-60: 1% response; Kids (male) 16-40: At least a 50% response--the younger the better. These kids--alot of them 'Ricers'--LOVE the "old school". 350Z: This will be the most interesting chapter of my reasearch. steve(social scientist)77

The 'BOOBMETER'????? WHAT?????? Laughing to tears, steve (learned to drive on logging roads in an Toyota Corolla)77

Someone sent me this... 4 X 4 1/2: Acura - Legend '86-'89 Buick - Special '61-'63 Chevy Corvair all 4-bolt Chevy II all 4-bolt Chevy Sprint '85-'87 Chevy Nova ('61-'70) Dodge Colt '79-'88 Dodge Colt (early) Ford Mustang all '65-'68 4-bolt Ford Falcon, Maverick, Granada all 4-bolt Mazda - 626, RX7 '83-'87 ???? MGA, MGB, MGC Olds - F-85 '61-'63 Plymouth - Arrow, Sapporo '79-'88 SAAB all ??? SAAB - 900 to '87 Toyota - most exc. MR2 and P.U. to '89 Triumph TR 1 thru 6 steve

Goona haveto go wid da 42....but where's the 90a? It has a lot of fans..... steve77

In these days of scarce E31's....N42 seems a good 2nd choice. steve77

Wow, that's great! A ton of work and somebody else did it... I noticed no BMW or Volvo notes.....ANybody know what the bolt pattern on these are? I have seen older Volvo's with 4 bolts--I have no idea what year, because I am not a fan of the car...they are 4 bolt back when they were 154 and 164....BEFORE they were 740, 760, GLE etc...probably '70's. steve

Maybe the floorboards have finally rusted through and now when you look down, it just SEEMS like you are lower... steve77

This came through on the 510 list...somewhat amusing..thought I would share... Subj: New REVEL Datsun 510 model kit Date: 7/13/2002 6:56:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: bre66@(edited) To: bluebirds@bluebirds.datsun510.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Well, I bought one of the new Revell Datsun 510 kits today that are now on the market. For those who are interested, here's a kit review for you: The "new" box art is pretty well done.. The words "tuner series" in a special logo are on the left front corner. The picture of the model is of a dark blue 510 with a big Datsun logo on the hood... ( looking good so far. .. ) On the side of the box, there are four pictures of the optional decals on a yellow car, also showing the interior and motor bay... Inside, you find that this kit is a re-issue of the old and very rare "Brock Buster" car - a model of Pete Brock's personal 510, the yellow Zonker. But this "new" kit, has something interesting in it.. fully molded and hollow vinal/rubber tires! No more SH**y two-piece tires!! The interior is complete stock, with spare tire well as a "glue-on" also. Let's see... parts tree # 1: full dash, back seat, and stock exaust .. stock front seats, battery, and spare tire well here. Parts tree #2: This tree has the hood on it. Also has the race part that replaces the rear seat! ( take out that back seat, I say ..) and the hood also has hood pins molded on it - still. tube headers on this sheet too. Motor/trans. halfs found here also. Finned rear end cover, swing arms, brake petal assembly, stock door panels, steering link, trans crossmember mount, and ..... working hood hinges found on this tree. Parts tree#3: a rear brake light panel that's stock, ( unlike the BRE 510 model ) so you can put a licence plate on it.. complete with licence plate lights, front sway bar, wheel backs, front struts, rear springs, rear Koni shocks, "Spook", front seat bottoms, lower half rear end assembly - I mean, underside part of crossmember with axles and swing arms and R160 unit, ...and front control arms make up this tree. Parts tree #4: The chassis can be found here... with front motor timming cover, front valance panel .. ( now that's a real-life item that's hard to find undamaged these days.. ) Racing steering wheel, motor pully assembly, drive shaft, UPPER half of the rear end assembly - I mean upper part of the crossmember w/ upper half of R 160 unit.. , motor bay fire wall, and STOCK OIL PAN round out this tree. These four trees are molded in white, unlike the Brock Buster kit of yore.. they were butterscotch for the first runs, and yelow for the second run - aka - the first re-issue. Also the body is molded in white - and it still has the pop rivets on the rear flairs, and the hood pins on the trunk. Parts tree #5: This tree is all crome. CLEAN, RUST FREE CROME FRONT AND REAR BUMPERS can be found here!! ( Will SOMEONE out there PLEASE start making new, affordable REAL LIFE CROME DATSUN 510 BUMPERS for the masses ?? Geeez!! ) A set of Weber DCOE carbs w/ stacks.. ( not the best reproduction of webers I've ever seen - better ones in the same scale came be found in Fujimi kits .. ) four cromed Libra wheels.. ( without the center caps .. heh heh heh .. and I have four real life brand new ones still in the origional bags for sale if anyone is interested - pardon the small plug here.. ) a crome valve cover and cromed grill aaaaand.... a crome fire bottle and a crome hood prop as well. parts tree #6 This tree is clear plastic. it has a .. clean .. scratch free, windshield... another 510 part worth re-inventing for the real world 510 owner. Rear window, and two side windows.. and this is the cool part and a departure from the BRE model .. clear headlights. Decal sheet: Now here is something entirely new from Revell. Two different types of body graphics. very well done, at that. one set red, white and blue.. being a red center stripe w/ with white sides and same stripes for the doors, and a large DATSUN logo for the hood that also has the numbers "510" on it... two different licence plates... one that says "Datsun" in the Datsun circle, and the other - you guessed it - "LIL 510" - from California, no less. ( why does California always get picked? I mean we have some really cool 510's out here on the east coast too, ya know. That's it, dang it - I'm making my own licence plate for this model.. I always have too anyway! ) The black decal set has really cool side door graphics that have "510" in them pretty large... and angled stripes. A black windshield banner that says "DATSUN" and also, outdated I think - black with yellow type licence plates that read" MMJ 219 " ... from you guessed it, Califonia. I say out dated because I've seen the more scripty california plates around recently. Can someone out there explain why this kit would have black plates? Anyhoo, the last part of the decal sheet has some neat after market speakers for the doors and rear deck.. some white faced guages, and orange/black parking lights to put on the body. There are also some aftermarket performance stickers on the other side of the sheet.. ( sadly, no "BRE" stickers anywhere.. sob sob .. ) And one last thing I noticed about this "new' kit that's different from the old kits : No vinal hose for your cooling needs. Oh well, can't have it all sometimes.. at least you're getting a FACTORY TACH. !! ( Dude! You're gettin' a Factory Tach.!!!!!!!! ) just like buying a real 510, would'nt ya say??? Go get one while they're availible - they will surely be bought up as fast as they can be put on the shelves. ( mine cost only $11.20 !! ) Keith ( boy I must be really bored on a Sat. night to want to type this long, trivial and useless 510 related Email .. ) 510

I'm really curious about the users of THIS site... If you've got more than one--AND WHO CAN OWN JUST ONE--I'm not sure how you can vote for them...if you check "allow to vote more than once" it still says "you have already voted in this poll"...so pick one! steve77

You, know...it might work good for the dash if you could get it smooth somehow. The dash would have to be out and stripped to get it perfect, and if you could get it smooth, you can actually create texture on a surface with this stuff by fogging quickly with the can several feet away. Just don't put so much on that it 'solves' the previous application. It owuld be interesting to see how long it held up in CA sunsine! steve77

I did not paint my dash. It had gigantic....well, I don't have to describe to anyone here what 25 year old Z dashes look like....I bought a full dash cover from VB and refinished everything else--including that ninja-warrior-thing with the defrost vents in it. There are only two new things: The dash cover and the black shift boot. The rest I painted. If you're coming to ZFEST, you can check it out. The stuff is amazing. steve77

Fortunately for you, tomohawk's don't have rear windows! steve77

I had everything out for a carpet and upholstery job, so I epoxied/ filled any cracks and wiped everything down with Acetone real good and sprayed them with Krylon Vinyl Refinishing Paint. I used black, but it comes in several colours, including a cream. As long as you do EVERYTHING, you wouldn't have matching problem. The stuff covered great. Really thick. One coat covered everything. WAAAAAY thicker than spray paint. Hey, 72: do you ever get out to MarinaCross? Are you going to Fremont? We actually have a couple members in Monterey, but that is pretty far North of most of our group. steve77

Has anybody ever compiled a COMPLETE list of automobiles which share the bolt pattern of a Z? Ignoring offset. Just the bolt pattern. If not, post here the cars you know and when we are done, we can compile it and put it in Tech Articles or something.... Toyota Celica Toyota Supra Starion/Conquest Datsun 510 Datsun Roadster Honda (FWD offset) And...? steve77