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We had quite a turnout for the Sacramento Z-Car reunion but no Z cars!!! !!! Three Z families. 4 kids, 2 wives, 3 guys! No running cars. Well, ok - one ran but with 4 people to haul they elected to leave the Z at home. The Porsche side of the event was well attended and represented and just for the heck of it, I will show off the pictures...

It's on! The July Sacramento Z-Car Reunion is less than 2 hours away! See you there!!! Audrina, Drop the flag! Let's get this party started...

Nothin' to it but to show up and do it! See you tomorrow morning at the July Sacramento Z-Car Reunion! 9am to noonish!

Just an FYI, I just got off the phone with Les at Classic Datsun Motorsports. Les has a company he is working with to make rubber products for the Z. In that regard, I want to say that we are not a manufacturing company. We are just a couple guys wanting to restore our cars. So given that fact, we are not interested in competing with Les' source. Les will probably come on and comment on this development but let me just say that Mark and I will only be making rubber product that Les' source is not interested in making. This is good news in that Precision will be a year out from making anything for us and their quality was in some regards not the best.

Huh... Looks to be a genuine Black Pearl. Not sure about those mirrors though. Nice.

Not taking anything away from the Z but you need to go to better pubs!!

The Sacramento Z Car Reunion is coming up fast! Will you be there? Hope so...

I will get her to come up for a while... She works pretty much everyday so it is unlikely she would stay long though.

Five days and a wake up till the July Sacramento Z Car Reunion! Come on out and get your donut on! 9am to noonish. Details in the first post. :classic:

Nice looking car. Start at $5K and don't be afraid to go up. He has done the good mods for sure...

Good luck!

Are you listening to the World Cup while you work on the car?

Chris, They probably aren't usable. The better the beggining the better the end. I have my own I could take off... They are probably in better shape than most.

I don't need no stinkin' temp membership! I am a member!!! I just don't have a running car currently

Shine 'em up guys! The Sacramento Z-Car Reunion is only a week and a day away! After that we can wander over and watch Steve Parmley tear up the autocross course... Make your plans!!!

Steve the dude is completely insufferable. He has a crack in the plastic next to a bolt holding the raintray on under his engine lid. He has been searching the classifieds on three different Porsche websites and the PCA publication for a new or like new one for 10 years. He has even offered $1000 for it. It apparently was the only problem his car had until he discovered that the longitudinals on the sides were rusting out from the inside. He then promtly had chest pain and was admitted to the hospital for an angioplasty. The doc told him "you need to lighten up!" No??? Really???

I have started with two very small insignificant - even available parts just to show what we can do. I will have a price estimate for these next week. The 15th or so... The round plugs that goes in the bottom of the rear hatch. The metal/rubber guide at each side of the body in the hatch area. Keep the suggestions coming. The idea is that we make something that looks factory enough to fool concour judges but in some cases is better. So what you got from Mcmaster Carr is nice but it is a compromise...

Welcome and good luck!!!

First of all, I want to say what a great search function this forum has. I wanted to restore my steering wheels (I have a spare) so I clicked on car forums then interior then searched steering wheel restore. I came up with 5 threads of which this was the second and most relevant. Over the last two days, I have masked off the rims on two steering wheels - bead blasted the spoke and hub areas - primed and then painted the spoke and hub area satin black - then cleaned the rim with Scotch Brite and Joy dishwashing liquid - then after they dried I gave each rim a coat of gloss Marine Spar Varnish. Over the next week or so, I will either wet sand or steel wool the varnished surface and give each two to three more coats. No pictures yet but I want to reaffirm what others have said; there is no need to stain no matter how 'white' or 'grey' your wheel rim has gotten. Just clean it well with the Scotch Brite and some kind of cleaner, rinse well, hang to dry for an hour or so then paint on the varnish. It comes out a deep reddish wood look. All that age just disappears. Pics to follow...

Thanks Miles. I need to dig out their catalog...

I know EJ and Susan well. I think that thing is a 3.8 liter twin plug. He tried to sell it to me. The motors were built by one of the guys in the service section at Bugformance over on El Camino. Susan has shoulder problems and can't wrestle the steering wheel any more without power steering. They are both fast but I am surprised you didn't mention the guy next to EJ and Susan's car. The blue car with the arrow on it, is Steve Neislony, he and his wife are both former Parade Autocross winners. That is the PCA equivalent of being an SCCA National Champion. He and she both put down TTOD pretty regularly when they come to PCA events. That car has about 130 HP and Steve regularly waxes $100K+ hardware with huge power. You might not have noticed him as much because of the difference between SCCA and PCA autocrosses. SCCA has that nice big course while PCA has to deal with much smaller venues. The driver becomes much more of a factor on the smaller course. I am committed to the Reunion event but I will head over to Mather after. I would love to see you run. Still no running car for me yet, in fact a setback on my 914 motor. I got the case together and discovered that with pistons and cylinders installed, rods run into the cam. I have to take it all apart and clearance the pistons a bit more, then balance them again. The Z interior is going in nicely but finding fasteners is driving me a bit nutso! I have to get it running now! You heard that scolding I took from Bill for being a former competition director who hasn't been on the track in a few years... In my defense, I autocross all the time. Here is mine at speed...

Chuck might have been there from Napa. He has a 3.2 liter six. Was it reddish? A well set up 4 cylinder can keep right up with the 6 cylinders on an autocross course. Those extra 2 cylinders only become an advantage on the track. As for the VW/Audi thing, VW now owns a controlling interest in Porsche.

Those were all four cylinders Steve... One of the guys who didn't make it has an 8 cylinder. He had a shock break the week before. He will be up this time. I have a couple friends with 6 cylinders who might make it. One has a 3.6 liter six that has been featured in Excellence magazine 11 times so far. This guy shows up from time to time too... Just a late model 914 really. (right)