TomoHawk

Well, Lime Rock Park is a little way out from Cleveland (or Ohio!) but you get around, I'll give you that. If not for the 2008 convention, I would not have met you or Mr. Stokes, or Fred Jordan, who jumped into my car at the last second before going on-track at Mid-Ohio, and sat with me at breakfast once or twice at the hotel.)Too bad Mr. K. is (leaving the Z scene) but I hear he gets visitors from Ohio occasionally.

Higuys, On a 1978 280Z with OE alternator, I was wondering if there was a way to have things like driving lamps to get switched off when the engine is not running, and I remembered that the alternator has "a blue wire" that goes to the volt meter for the charge alert light, and I thought that if you can tap that wire to set up something for a relay system that powers things like the driving lamps or headlamps, then when you turn off the engine, the lamps will go off too, saving the battery. So is there a terminal on the alternator that goes hot when the engine is running? thxZ

Black Dragon has some.

Higuys, On my 1978 coupe, I need to replace the front sections of the bodyside mouldings on my vehicle, and I would like to know if you can get new material that is the same, or would it be fine to go with something that is period-correct. lease keep in mind that only the front pieces are attached with double-sided tape, and the sections on the doors and sail panels are attached with rivets, and I will not be replacing the latter for a few years, probably. In any case, where can you get that stuff? I haven't seen that stuff since the 80s or early 90s.

If you wanted to customize your valve cover with come engraving or such, you 'd need to first mill the fins off the top, leaving the mounts for the spark plug wire holders. Is there enough material on the top of the rocker box so you could mill it flat without going all the way through? I think so, and I'm interested if anyone has done anything like this.

Julio, I would turn down the offer of a free Ford GT, unless I could sell it immediately and use the money to restore the Zed. IMO, the windows on the Ford GT are just too small, and make the car unsafe to drive with traffic.

I put a long bolt into one of the holes that the canister strap was bolted to, and plugged the vent hose onto that, so the hose at least connects to something, and it's plugged.

I was able to put on the new horn button, which has a little decoration added. The wood rim needs a few more applications of Tung Oil, IMO. Does anyone have experience with Tung Oil?

That's just Ford GT, Julio, but we know what you mean. The GT40 was offered up to 1969, so Datsun then offered another sporty car for racing.

I would bet the trace for a points ignition wouldn't be so nice

I used the paint reducer, and it worked fairly well. It got most of the paint off, to the point where I could see the texture of everything. I didn't get all the paint off because the odor from the reducer was almost over-coming. I would not want to do this to the entire interior of the car! After I repainted the panel, the texture was very noticeable and this time, and none of the little dandelion 'parachutes' got stuck to the paint. I only need to replace the plastic moisture layer and re-install the panel. I did mask off the wood-grained strip, so the previously chromed parts only need refinishing.

"aircraft stripper" would significantly and permanently damage the vinyl.

I think I have some of those liquids. I tried a little brake cleaner, and all I got was very clean paint

I would like to remove what looks like several coats of vinyl paint from some door panels, so they can be repainted with a single layer of paint. Has anyone discovered a good way to remove the paint without harming the texture of the substrate?

Yeah, Nissan is making a lot of fake race cars lately, but they call them names like 370Z.

the races were very good this year. the weather was sunny the whole time, except for a short shower before the last race Sunday. I saw a few tall skinny chicks, like Conedodger posted about, but lately, you see mostly vintage chicks at vintage races.

He must have hot something; the bumpers fell off...

The picture on the literature had a U shaped tube in it. The description says the kit "includes the aluminum tube, 2" hose, 3 clamps, instructions, and a list of materials and commercial suppliers.

I received some literature from a place called Michael's automotive in IL that's was about a Vapor Line Adapter Kit for the S30. Has anyone heard of it or this adapter? It doesn't say much, but a phone number and that the representative will be at the ZFest. I have no idea what it's even for... thxZ

Heating and shaping the cap actually is not a hard thing to do, but it takes a LOT of time and patience.

I have to leave mine loose because I need to change bulb in the gauges about once a year. Maybe somebody will figure out how to get around that problem without spending $1500. The other two problems I still have is that the cap will not go into the center gauge holes and meet the gauge face properly. Plus the forward edge warped where the VIN is, and does not go far enough to tuck under the defroster panel. No matter how you push in it, the forward edge is too short, an there an ugly gap the whole length across. I end up getting big point hits for the awful fit of the cap. I also used a small drum sander on the Dremel to adjust the holes for the dimmer and odometer knobs. I think I would not recommend any vinyl paint, unless it is satin or flat black, because the gloss paint I used causes lots of reflections in the sun. IMO, using silicone is only recommended because if you use it in the middle, it might soften the plastic a little and leave a horrible dent.

I saw a few ads for the (G-Force?) performance "chip" but it's just a fancy resistor that you connect to the air flow sensor to lean the mixture. You don't even connect it to the controller board, and it's not even a chip, in the sense of an ePROM, or even DIP integrated circuit.

Those are the kind of scenes you DON'T get to see on TV...

The earlier ones had three studs inside. I wonder what it was for?

It seems there are two types of the distribution junction shell. This first type is somewhat rectangular, and the top is simply attached with screws. These are only available from Mr. reddat... the second, like I have, is a pentagonal shape, and the top is hinged and snaps on.