TomoHawk

Well, thanks Arne for confirming what I was thinking about the light bulbs. I'll change them the next time I go in there- probably to add an extra ground wire.

Maybe a grommet would be enough, if it closed up the hole enough, and possibly with a section of bicycle inner tube for the elbow part. You just have to cut it to hget the headlamp wires through.

IMo, some of the info sounds about right. So this person could be connected to some insurance company somehow. That's a lot of work for just ONE post. BTW, since an S30 car dosn't have a 17 digit VIN, you may run into problems with some of the 'streamlined' auto insurance companies like Geico, Progressive, CarFax. I tried to get a quote and got stopped at the part where you enter the car's "17 digit" VIN. which is 6 digits too short. As for the spam- Internet forum websites originally required the admin to aprove a new user, which could take an hour of even a few days...

I was hoping they would make a regular movie starring: Mathew Broderick as Speed Racer Daisy Fuentes as Trixie Eenest Bornine as Pops Racer Martha Stewart as Mrs. Racer Tobey Maguire as Sparky Tom Selleck as Racer X The orangutan from "Any Which way But Loose" for ChimChim David Scott Freeman ("Flight of the navigator") as Spritle

Too bad you can't use it for your S30 car. The same wit hythe CarFax service.

Vince Vaugn is in his Late 30s, do you think that'll work for the film? I wonder who they got to play Trixie & Pops...

Thanks, Arne, I couldn't find that in any book or even thwe FSM. Because of the size of the upper inner lense, I assumed it was just a locator lamp. And I like the iea of the two bigger sections lighting up when you press the brake. I'm even working on a high-mounted brake light with a Z logo on it. Just for kicks. I made up a graphic

Yes, but..... Nobody's driving!!!! The canopy was also up when people were shooting at Speed (it was bulletproof.) BTW, that DVD from Amazon.com was from the cartoon series, not the recent movie (maybe they never finished it??) tyvm

Deaf Deer?

How many of you have had experience with, or own one? I'm in the suburbs of northern Ohio, where there are so many deer, sometimes they roam city streets like gangs! Even with the annual hunting seasons to thin out the heards, you still see them sometimes on wooded lots or wooded areas in the park system. My mom's roses have all been decapitated. I erwmemner seeing deer whistles all thewtime in the J.C. Whitney catalogs, so I Googled (verb) for some "deer whistle" devices, and found a place that sells electronic ones (http://www.xp3hornet.com/), and a passive one (http://www.deerwhistle.com) I prefer the passive type, since I'd rather not add any more electrical stuff to the Z's wiring :tapemouth so i'd probably mount the passive one to the underside of the front bumper, if possible, with some of the rare-earth magnets i have, it'll go on & come off easily (sort of). thx and w

I have, but I don't know if the right bulbs are in the right holes.

I've never seen an orginal or restored 280Z from the back at night, so I don't know which areas light up for the running lights, turn signal or brake. Can omebody 'enlighten' me? thx

You can buy an LED substitute for the incandescent bulb in a Maglight or Mini Maglight. From using my Faraday flashlight, I'll bet that the LEDs are pretty bright and focused and you could probably leave the light on all night and still have enough battery left for the next night.

The Mach 5 was a spyder with a glass bubble-top. I think it was a derivation of the 64 Ferrari 250 Testrossa

It's not really a grommet. Those you can probably get from a hardware or electronics catalog. It's a grommet with a rubber elbow. Grommet was the only word I can think of.

Except for the ability to rev the engine while you let out the clutch for an awesome holeshot, the newer automatics are just as goos as any manual-shift tranny. You can even convert it to full-manual (at least for Chevys/Fords/Mopars). Micheal Schumacher's F1 car has an auto trans! ( with a manual shift setup). And with an auto, you don't have the annoyance of having to constantly shift, like when you got a lady in with you, or on long trip, or in traffic. No clutch to wear out during gridlock, either. After I get all the other stuff fixed or done on my car, I'm going to put in a Maxima 4 spd O/D auto, maybe with a manual valve body. JMO...

Mine crumbled away recently. Can you get these anywhere? I looked in the BD and MSA catalogs, but haven't called them yet. I'm afraid that if I drive in the rain, the pressure in the wheelwells will spray water onto whatever is next to the hole, like the alternator or AFM. thx.

I just noticed that BD has the shims for the S30, but not the springs & other misc hardware.

Why would you want a newer model? The newest ones need all the electronic stuff to get it to work, but those also have the advantage of overdrive. Your best bet would be to just get one of the same kind with the least mileage. The one in your car is probably the exact same as other years.

He and others are working on LED replacements for the outside lights, and for the guages. The problem with LEDs is that they are too focused, and would make better lamps for a flashlight than something to illuminate a wide area like the guage faces or the area under the map light. You'd need a row or two of closely-spaced LEDS for something like the map light.

Yeah, I hope that inspiration from Above gets to ALL the politicians and gets them to turn around this "culture of death" that we live in and support with our hard work. NOTHING wrong with that. If we can conquer tobacco, we can also conquer cocaine ( and other drugs), homosexuality, the high divorce rate, unemployment, and who knows what else! :classic: Remember to pray- for the whole world.

I have some good mates down your way, even right now on holiday. I also remember that an early settlement in Australia was a penile colony (at Botany Bay, for the Star Trek fans)

You'd need about 30 of them to light up the area under the lamp. Ifthe wiring was up to par, it would be bright. But since I've never seen a primo example, I don't know how bright

It's the pads. You squeeze them together, and they make heat, which is a kind of energy. This energy has an equivalence in vibration/sound, so it makes a noise which is transferred to the brake caliper. Using the shims or anti-squeal compound is like a layer of sound-deadening insulation.

Ooooooooooo.... I like that thought. i'm sure it's probably in the Constitutional Amendments.