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Oh my god I grew up in California City!! This is scary. I will call tonight

Are you sure from what I have seen 78 was the first year of 5 speeds for Datsun on any model. But I have been known to be wrong.

Hey I drive a Saturn, Volvo and a Z so what does that make Z drivers??? :nervous:

Hey just put a surplus ICBM up their a**. When I was a young man in college drove truck off highway in Nevada and the guys that I worked with had lost there licenses, very scary people. I now today if I want to be scared I just stop by a truck stop and see the "slack jaws" long haulers. The good thing the highway patrol does here in CA on I-80 coming down from the Donner Summit is drive small cars at the speed limit and catch truckers that intimate drivers

Can anyone name the brand of dye/paint they have used?

I do not know the car but it had not spent all of it's life in California, otherwise it would have a blue california plate

I know that this is not a Z engine but since so many of us have other Datsun/Nissan stuff I am hoping that someone within 2 hours drive of Sacramento has one they would like to part with. I have a 78 620 that is in need of a new motor. My current motor is sucking a quart of oil every 40 miles and sometimes sucks water (hungry little bugger) Thanks

I have responded with a personal message

When this war started I was against it, I was against it do to the lost of life that was going to happen on both sides. But once it started selected my side and that was in support of my country’s and ally’s forces. I lived through the Vietnam time, my father and brother both went to Vietnam and came home. It bothered me greatly when I saw again the look in the eyes of people that when they tell me that someone in their family is in Iraq, I was being ripped back to the 60’s and Vietnam, I was not comfortable with these feelings. Living in a free society we have the ability to read and say what we want. With that freedom we also have the ability to learn where we are correct and incorrect. In my case I have learned that Saddam Hussein and his party were truly evil people based on the information that is coming from many sources in Iraq. We now have a new challenge of providing the freedom for “freedom” to grow in Iraq without other evil people gaining control. A fine line to walk. Will we make mistakes? Yes, Will it work? I hope so, but at least we have the freedom to make those mistakes a correct them. I hope that in 20 years we can look back and the good that has come out of this war.

it came in an email to me

The War in Iraq....editorial of an airline passenger's experience -- I want to tell you of an experience I had Thursday night flying home from Atlanta. The pilot came on the intercom and went through the usual announcements telling us that "we're just east of Montgomery cruising at 28,000 feet" and "you've picked a beautiful night for flying, just look at the gorgeous southern sunset out of the right side of the plane". He then, however, said this: "Please bear with me as I deviate from the script, but I want you all to know that simply by coincidence you have been granted both the privilege and honor of escorting the body of Army PFC Howard Johnson, Jr. home tonight. PFC Johnson was killed in Iraq defending the freedoms we all enjoy, and fighting to extend hose freedoms to the people of Iraq. We are also accompanied by PFC Johnson's cousin, Marine Sergeant Major Talley, who has been chosen by the family to escort PFC Johnson home. Semper Fi!" The plane quickly became very quiet, but soon erupted in thunderous applause that lasted for several minutes. It was quite moving, to say the least. As I sat there thinking about what the pilot had said, and visualizing PFC Johnson's body riding below me in the belly of that plane, I noticed a couple of things. Two rows in front of me sat a father holding his daughter, an infant, and they were practicing "ma-ma" and in the row behind me was another young boy, probably 2 or so, learning to count to 10. Now obviously both are too young to realize we're at war, or that one of our dead was with us, but it made me think, and this is the point: These warriors, mostly young, all volunteers, everyday are prepared to give their lives for our future, for a safer, more secure future for people they don't even know, all based on the principle that fighting and dying for freedom of others is worth it. By the way, the flight ended with all of us deplaning only to line the windows of the gate house to watch PFC Johnson's body, draped in the American flag, be rolled out of the plane and into a waiting hearse that was surrounded by his family members. Long live the United States of America and other free nations and the freedoms for which they stand!

Does anyone else think it is funny that in the USA we have stickers with Japanese lettering and in Japan the stickers are in English?

peterpit I am no expert on the law but I would remove your prior post ASAP. In your post you stated that you used ".....a website that I subscribe to at work reserved for law enforcement, attorneys and asset investigators and searched. . ." then published info on this guy. From what we have heard he is an arse but you may have stepped over the line when publishing his address. I would hate to see you and this site get in trouble. I am not scolding you just a concerned member. Owen K

Ok everyone this Link is the best performance idea that I have seen for the little boys with more money than then knowledge, but what the heck it keep the economy moving .

If you do remove your smog equipment do not throw it away, because there is an assembly bill (AB 708) that is in commitee that would require pre 74 model year motor vehicles driven more that 12,000 per year to be smog checked. I wrote the bill's author and this is what I got back. Thank you for contacting my office and sharing your thoughts on SB708. In January of this year, I was appointed Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Air Quality in the Central Valley. To date, the committee has conducted four hearings and nine more are scheduled to be held this year.After all the hearings, a report to the legislature will be submitted detailing the committee's findings from the hearings. Why have I undertaken this initiative to clean up our air? Air pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley have gone up 17 percent in the last three years alone. According to the Los Angeles Times, air pollution is to blame for more deaths in the San Joaquin Valley in the last three years than car accidents and murders combined. The San Joaquin Valley has surpassed Los Angeles as the worst air basin in the state and the second worst in the country. The asthma rate for children in Fresno County is the highest in California - twice that of Los Angeles and triple the national average. Without swift and decisive intervention, this problem promises to escalate into a public health crisis, if it isn't already. In response to this, I have introduced ten bills targeted at cleaning the air in the San Joaquin Valley. SB708 is one of those bills. Unfortunately, what much of the public does not understand is that SB708 is a work in progress, and amendments have been written since the original version was first circulated. Our bill has two important objectives. First and foremost, I want to get the worst gross polluters off the road, to mitigate ozone emissions into the air. Second, I am working hard to preserve and protect the rights of car owners who keep well-maintained older vehicles, many of them classic cars, as enacted in SB 42. SB708, with our most recent amendments, will require vehicles over 30 years old which are driven 12,000 or more miles a year to get a smog check. Cars which are not used as a primary vehicle, driven on a dailty basis, should not fall under this definition. The collector car industry representativeswe have worked with so far agree that this is a fair compromise which protects collectors and hobbyists, while cutting down on auto emissions. My staff and I have worked diligently on this issue. We have conducted more than 30 hours of meetings on the subject, returned hundreds of phone calls and collaborated with prominent people within the classic car industry - even Jay Leno himself. Steve Davis, one of the leaders of the initiative that became SB42, has worked closely with our office to craft SB708 in a way that protects the classic car hobbyist and targets only gross polluters. We are confident that the amended SB708 will prevent gross polluters fromtaking advantage of SB42 and undermining the purpose of the 30-year rollingexemption. I thank you for your input and your willingness to participate in our effotrs to clean the San Joaquin Valley air basin.

Does the cute Asian gal help with the installs?

Yes wouldl like to know that also, I have eyeballed the Miata mirrors thinking they may work. If can I will stop by a local wrecking yard and ask for a broken mirror for free to test the fit.

Back in the days pre first oil shortage when we still thougth that Japanize cars were junk. The joke was " The yellow was because the beer was not drained out of the cans before they were melted down".

I just posted a working Clock from a 280Z on eBay

http://terrytate.reebok.com/

She is called Zena and can be seen at www.aristata.net/240Z

We just do not want to see are clean Zs that we sent back east (east of the Rockies) and turn into rust buckets

Trying to sell my 76 Z . Black. 3 (2.0 Mikuni's ) duces side mounted,( was fuled injected), header, cam, rebuilt auto trans, 25,000 mi. new rack& pinion steering with upper and lower tie-rods 2000 miles, good tires, two vented hood. luvered rear hatch. eng L28 2783cc. HLS 30. new brakes front&back. 35,000 miles on rebuilt eng. Replaced back bumber with heavey duty trailer hitch for jet ski or bike. protects gas tank also. Carbs were $1700.00 new. Was FAST. set up for raceing road not strip. Problems: Daughter drove it . over heated, burnt headgasket,or warped head. needs paint. some rust, not bad Florida car. No A/C or vent ducks. no carpet. no spare tire canster. few small dings. First $300.00 ( three Hundred Dollars )take it Ineed my garage back. In Northport Florida about 75 miles south of ST. Petersburg. 40 miles north of FT Meyers Tmere10010@aol.com 941-423-9959

Hi Royce Send me your contact info in a PM and will give you a call. I can go over anytime because this guy is about 20 homes down the street and around the corner.

I am not an expert on this but the new owner pointed out that it has 3 fuel pumps! The stock pump that you can see in the photo, then a low pressure high volume in the foreground (silver rectangle with some blue markings down an a little left) and another by the fuel tank. This is from the ebay listing *Bilstein Struts *Suspension Techniques Autocross Springs (lowered about 1.5 inches from stock) *Suspension Techniques Sway bars *body is very straight, no rust *280Z Shortblock (2800cc) *Knife edged all weights on the crank *shot peened crank *shot peened rods, cosworth tapered wrist pins *Balanced *Ross forged pistons, flycut to clear valves *240Z head, angle milled, and heavily professionally ported, with 280 oversized SS valves (10.0:1 compression) *stellite valve seats *Isky Cam, and valvesprings *40mm Mikuni Carb set (3x2) *Alumicoated 6to2 headers * all new exhaust system with turbo muffler * 280ZX turbo oil pump *Tilton aluminum Racing flywheel (with new bolt-in facing) *Center Force II clutch set. *All machine work done by RSM machine in Roseville CA, except latest Head work done by AIMS Machine in Reno NV *seats just reupholstered *clear NV title * aftermarket aluminum wheels * early 73 built car