Sean Dezart

The street-sport header.

One of my 1 3/4 full-race headers with a Zstory exhaust (std rear muffler) on the ex-Paul Ricard circuit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=171&v=KSiGA_cBBS4 Thanks Samuel.

Hi Mario. You need to contact Ryan at Zcardepot whom I believe has organised some great deals on shipping. Thanks Andreas....hoping for a mobile video some time

Thanks. The basic differences are the Full-race and Race-sport have equal length primary pipes and the 3x become 1x further away from the engine.

Street-sport header and exhaust fitted to a 2 seater 280Z.

2+2 prototype extension part made up ! In fact this is an exhaust I fitted on this 2+2 nearly 4x years ago - it has lasted well being a daily driver is less than dry-state conditions !

Hi Wayne and thanks for the question, these headers will fit round-ported heads and for seriously prepped heads, there is plenty of metal that can be machined out. I did a (very) rough sketch for someone here with an N47 head. There are two square-port widths - the four outer and two inner and this 'scribble' :-) shows just how little machining is necessary to allow a free exhaust gas outflowing.....but generally it is the square-ported heads used for performance gains. http://datsunzgarage.com/heads/

Hi Marcel and I apologise firstly because I'm getting no notifications of replies despite having selected 'yes' ! €174 shipped, insured and tracked to you - a lot more than EEC countries and in the same case as Norway - it cost less to send it to Finland !

Sean Dézart, in and around Zs for 26 years now, current President of the French Datsun club (with nearly 1300 members - not all active of course), previous Dutch Z club member for 4 years and before that Chairman and events organiser of the UK Z club. Around 4 years ago I discovered that nobody was marketing reasonably priced s-steel exhausts so I set to it. Yes, there was a make and I was in contact with Judy at Stahl but they stopped and their header was already $900 before shipping and yes, there is Kameari and Fujitsubo but, a) their exhaust range is limited I feel and it all costs the donation of a small child ! I've sold modestly into Europe since and developpped and evolved the goods until now I feel confident to sell to a larger and more distant market. In the range currently are : 1 3/4" primary pipe Full-race header : $799 1 5/8" primary pipe Race-sport header : $661 1 5/8" primary pipe Street-sport header : $537 Full 2.5" exhaust line with standard rear muffler : $559 JDM twin-exit rear muffler : $160 I'm looking at less expensive methods of shipping, currently $380 (tracked and insured) for a header and exhaust (with standard rear muffler) and JDM rear muffler. I'll be very happy to answer any and all questions. Best regards, Sean

Hi y'all. Curiosity question and not life changing : why are some (1974/5) 2+2 chassis rails shorter on the left (drivers') side compared to the RHside and why also only from (about) 1976 onwards ? I have only seen this on LHD 260Z 2+2s over here and don't know if this is the same for RHD 260Zs and all 2+2 280Zs.......can anyone confirm the differences and help date the changeover please ?

Hi all, Formely Club Zen (Z enthusiasts), we currently have just over 1200 members which I think places us as the largest Z club in Europe. But we also cater for all Datsuns and Nissans (sedans, SWs, coupés etc) from 1964 'til 1989 - the run of Fairlady Roadsters 'til the end of the Z31s. A lot have imported their Zs, I have done a lot and obviously we have had to source parts and services for our cars : we have a lot of bi-lingual experience, documents, homologation papers and happy to share it on our active (free to join of course) forum : http://www.datsun-france.com/ and in a lot more detail against an annual membership fee of just €15. Anyway, no pressure, no offence to the great info here on this forum, just letting owners and potentiel owners outside of the US who come on here that there IS help available 'locally' :-) !

Hi, Having successfully imported 6x containers' worth of Datsuns into Europe since 2004, gaining valuable experience and useful contacts, I would be interested in discussing further with you in private. My email address is : seanz@wanadoo.fr Regards, Sean

And you're missing my point - I wouldn't report it (ie officially to a flic or ebay or whatever), I'd publicly state it here, on this forum that it seems incredible to see my old 4944 restored SO quickly and up for sale at such a price ! I don't snitch on others, I let their own conscience work - it either does or doesn't and aint my problem ! I vote for Obama, for someone to direct their gaze within the states, try to move things in the right direction and not continue or start another war against the next baddie and keep attention fixed elsewhere than at home. Point is guys, stop trying to police the world - you've enough sh*t to deal with back home - I've just watched a programme talking about the 2 million tyres lurking off Floridas' coastline, being cleared up by the US army at a rate of 65,000 per year and then driven to Georgia where they're recycled. And off New York, they threw in twenty or so train carraiges, again in the dream to stimulate coral and fish enclaves....... There is no petty crime - there is just crime ! Someone explain to me why early cars are sought after - please ! And do YOU drive around in a non-standard Z - legally a potential death-trap ? oh, and don't forget to have yourselves a nice weekend ; I will - my daughters' 1 year old tomorrow, it was my wedding anniversary yesterday and we're going gliding Sunday. Ooh and my 240's going to have a new (yes, brand new - never used) gearbox put in early next week. The sacrilege of it is that it isn't even a Z or ZX box ! Just to round off, do you agree to scrap 10 Z to save one or watch 11 quietly rot away ? Pride Performance Preservation Principles ? I repeat, R.I.P no. 4944...........................unless I win the lottery in which case she'd finish up like a mother-...ing ace of a Z ! Ta chaps !

err, who's to stop anyone putting 1 + 1 = 3, buying the whole chassis, cutting out the relevant bits, dumping said complete chassis over here and posting back the relevant bits ready to turn $2000 into $10000 ! That pays for a return air ticket AND the fuel surcharge !Only I would know who had the souvenirs but then again, they could be sold on........but I'd know that it might re-surface again sooner or later. No, I wouldn't report it to the law, certainly not here -they wouldn't give a damn but I would start a thread on THIS forum if I saw someone trying to cash in. No, not jealousy ! and why I regret not offering the whole chassis YES, it is important - why do they sell for more ? Is there no-one over there who can or will explain this ? The explanation of the colour of the sky might change one's perception of it - arr, blue sky means sunshine or does it mean no rain ? Yes Alan, I'm silly but isn't this fun ? Wish someone would enlighten me as to why these, err, 'series 1' cars are worth so much more ! The phone did ring off earlier and I heard a strange 'click' so maybe I'm being watched - there was a 1950s' Chevy intercepted recently with +++kgs of pure coke in it's chassis rails so maybe they think I'm dealing 'cept this Zs' rails have so many holes it'd all fall out !

Are you so sure that if I'd sold the VIN and later seen the car for sale that I wouldn't have reported it ? If it had been sold and nobody ever heard of it again - no-one would be the wiser - maybe it was adorning another chassis, maybe just hanging around on a wall as some sons' pressie to his dad (who for one reason or another can't drive) so he (the dad) may claim to 'own' 4944 and be part of this forum....... We're all hasty to judge but what would you be saying if the ad had read (included stripped chassis) ? You would never know if the buyer had taken delivery of everything or just the VIN ! Hell, if it left my place, I wouldn't know either - it could have been cut out before entering a container bound stateside....... The difference is that I advertised it seperately for which I regret as I didn't think of thievery stateside...sorry, it's not in my nature to think that way ! That said, YOU lot have encouraged the thieves by valuing such early cars so highly.....AND I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE DEFEND THE HIGHER VALUE OF EARLY CARS ! Sorry, I'm hoarse now but explain to me why ? And for all those stone casters - how many among you have altered your cars in such a way to enhance performance (engine, brakes, suspension, tyres, strut bars).....? To increase the performance and encourage increased velocity and speed is surely contrary to your states laws and speeding kills (so they say) ! C'mon lighten up - you're all arguing about the format of the ad. - not even the content but for what was missing ! BTW, it's still here for sale.....

Evidently, I have nothing to hide or this would never have been offered for sale in public. I am also the legal owner of the car and have all the papers to prove that. I should, however, have offered the chassis complete plus papers - the fact that I didn't was reported to Ebay who subsequently removed the listing - quite correctly in view of your federal laws (of which I am unaware - ie the publication of a registration document). I included the reg. doc. to prove that the papers were in my posession in an attempt to indicate that the souvenirs were from a legal source and not from a stolen car or whatever ! Question, whilst selling the chassis, numbers and papers, I suspected that it might be used later to defraud - should I have still sold ? If someone offers to buy your second Z (a project car) and you supect that it might end up 'shady' - do you sell ? The banks're closing in on you, recession is just around the corner, the presidential nominees can't agree on what to do (intervention or not), Dubbyas' adminsitration is almost nationalising one or more financial institutions and you're gonna refuse a legal sale of your property because you suspect that maybe your ex-property might be exploited illegally ? It's only us poor and middle class that can't afford to have principles but it's mostly just have that have 'em ! The sale of the souvenirs was never intended to be furtive - that's why I chose Ebay ! Now, the chassis (what's is left of it) is going to be exchanged for a 260Z 2+2. Why ? Because the prospective owner has 3x 240Zs and needs certain panels - the chassis is not being sold with the souvenirs to ensure that it doesn't resurface again under the number 4944. Which means that at the moment, the chassis number 4944 is still for sale (with chassis) but as soon as the chassis leaves my place - the sale is cancelled ! If someone had bought (will buy ?) the souvenirs and not wanted the chassis, then I would (will ?) have sold them..........but you have (almost) all stated that they're too expensive ! I quite honestly never expected anyone to buy them but to make sure, put them up at a price that I considered too much for a simple wall-hanger but not enough to put people right off ! It does open the question "why are 'series 1' cars coveted so ?" If this had been number 131,029 there wouldn't have been so much fuss because there wouldn't be an obvious financial gain by 'developing' a 'lost series 1' car. There was someone in the UK interested in the complete car in order to salvage parts for his own 1970 Z but my price of $1850 put him off ! Why did I advertise on Ebay.com and not another Ebay site ? 1) there are more worldwide Z customers who trawl 'your' site so it'll get more exposure (again, not really inkeeping with a secretive, shady deal) 2) it's only in your country where the 'series 1' cars have a percieived higher value - in any other country, no-one would give it a second look ! So, one might suggest that it's the US Z community who have made this sale attractive by encouraging the rise in value of 'series 1 'cars........? I repeat my question - why do they have a higher book value ? Obviously because they are more desirable but then why are they desirable - imo, they're not better cars; in Europe, cars of very good (but far from perfect) condition are worth far more than early cars, even if in some cases, the earlier car would not have to conform to emissions tests and be illeligible for road tax (ps in France we don't pay road tax !) In the UK (I don't know of any other countries where this happens but considering that on the continent, all the cars are like yours - LHD and therefore it's even easier to 'adopt' another identity, especially if the car coming from the States is in MUCH better condition than any potential donor car) there are only about 155 240Zs left, a few more perhaps loitering abandoned in peoples backyards and most of 'em need welding every year to get 'em through the MOT (technical check). Some people have imported clean cars from the States and switched IDs but they have obviously removed the HLS30....... and replaced it with their original HS30....... just as Alan was suggesting. There are obviously some adaptations required on the firewall to accomodate the steering coloum etc in a different place - some go even further and replace the entire firewall ! For better or for worse, this keeps more (and better condition and therefore safer) 240Zs in a country where to own one aint as easy or nearly as cheap as in the States. Obviously, if their donor car was dated after Dec. 1972 they won't qualify for zero road tax but they will have a perfect shell ! On the other hand, if they want a pre-'73 car then they can import one from you and keep it LHD - thereofre running on its' HLS30 number, signifying it to be pre blah, blah, blah ! Have I opened a can of worms ? Were you not aware that this was possible and indeed being don ? It's not new because since the early '80s, cars were being shipped over for GTO kit conversions and there have been and still are several commercial entreprises still importing them - al of which is quite legal and they're not concerned about end use - it aint their problem is it ? Do you worry about the drain of Zs to the old world ? When are you going to block the sale of every Z leaving the States ? How many 240Zs are left in the States now - any ideas ? In France, there are less than 100 out of 675 ish imported. In all of Europe, there can be no more than 400 - I wonder how many of those were first sold in the USA.......

No probs. I'm sort of an 'agent provacateur' - I'm not expecting to get anything back from '4944' but the good news is (for me) that someone over here will exchange what's left for a complete 260Z 2+2. The deal excludes the chassis number as I don't want to see that chassis re-born - it's too far gone ! What some nefarious person could do is change their early-ish number for this one to be one of the first 5000 US imported cars.....but why ? Again, what is the reason their is attached reverence on these so called 'series 1' cars ? Alan may correct me - I beleive that '4944' isn't the 4944th Z to be built - it was probably 5500 or so (?) since this was an HLS and there are S30S AND HS30s. That being so, coveting 'early' cars is not logical (Captain) - it is specific only to the US - but hey, it's your war........sorry, police action. Been busy Carl ? It's been quiet.

YOU can interpretate as YOU wish - YOUR perogative but if I'd simply put the wreck up on Ebay - what would you be saying ? "this French guy's dreaming - who's gonna pay that AND ship it back here - look at the state of it - it aint worth fixing" ? Anyhow - this aint Minority Report - nobody can charge me with someone else's potentiel future crime. R.I.P 4944 !

http://cgi.ebay.com:80/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300238661817&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:MOTORS:1123 As we would say (translated) " little player" !

Lazeum, there are innumerable differences between the S30s, even between supposedly the same model but in different markets but any lay person wouldn't really know the difference and certainly not any civil servant and/or cop...unless he or she were a well-informed Z fan as well and had it in for you ! Quite frankly, I don't care what a buyer might do with this number - it aint my problem any more than selling a correct car to someone and then wondering if they'll kill someone on the road........alcohol kills, so do cigarettes and let's not even get into the legal sales of guns.......... You know of the story over here where last year (I think) a bar owner was prosecuted because he sold a few drinks to asomeone who then had an accident intoxicated ? Self - responsibility is a diminishing occurrence - it's always someone elses fault and that means I can sue their a*s ! Well not me - I assume - if there was a Z museum, I dedicate the VIN to it but there aint so it's either there for someone or it hangs in my garage - I don't mind either way but admittedly, it's a shame that it can't legally be exploited. In fact, it can but it means someone buying the chassis too then replacing more than half of it - all legal but what's left of the original ? Reading earlier about race cars reminds me of a certain 240Z that used to race in the UK. I won't mention it's name 'cos Alan will moan and hold his head in his hands but it's not running on the original chassis number. Back to you guys......

A quick search found these : http://www.zclub.net/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=1678&cat=1 http://www.zclub.net/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=1647&cat=1 and especially http://www.zclub.net/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=1486&cat=1 I'm sure you can find more and at varying prices ! Oh - hello Carl.

Ok chaps - get yer hammer and nails out 'cos you've got a real, live slimey Ebay villain here..........or have you ? Last week, a Parisian motorcycle cop hit an elderly woman on a pedestrian crossing, severing one of her legs, the poor lady died two days later and it was discovered that the cop had been speeding with no siren, no warning lights and was over the minimum alcohol limit. Scary that they're allowed to drink at all before being on duty but maybe he was already..... The next day a gendarme shot at a superior before blowing his own head off - an attempt maybe at improving upon the USPS sorting office life expectancy (no offence to you guys - you do a great job and I always get my Z parts delivered safely) ! The Pope, currently visiting us here has apologised for various infractions and cases of immorality undertaken by 'his' gentlemen of the cloth. What am I going on about and why ? Who can you trust ? Not men, not women not animals said Conans' father - this boy, this, you can trust as he showed him steel ! And that's it - you can't trust anyone and you're all right to have questioned this sale BUT I still have the car, well, most of it including the chassis! If any of you want to buy the numbers AND the chassis and pay for its' transport BACK to the USA - I'm open to offers. But unless someone here's a looney millionaire, that aint gonna happen and if there is one here, where was he (she ?) when I bought the car 3 1/2 years ago for $1760. History of the car : I was buying several Z to import into Europe via Spain (lower VAT) and in fact 11 were bought and 1x Fairlady Roadster, currently being restored not far from me by its' new owner. I wasn't expecting to win the 1970 Z bid - it was a 'stocking filler' - a last, cheap car to cram into a container to make the most of a bit more space ! I 'won' however, a complete car needed some attention to restore it having had a small knock in the rear panel but included a replacement rear hatch. When I saw the car...whoa, the complete rear end needed replcaing, not just the hatch (which wasn't an original type with the lower vents), both engine end chassis rails had been 'cut' and 'welded' by some guys little brother it appears, the bonnet support panels are bent and most importantly, the firewall was buckled and even pierced ! It had the orginal E31 engine and head, 4 sp gearbox and most of the interior but in very poor state. Thanks MR USA Ebay seller - sounds almost illegal doesn't it ? Let's just say that he was econmical with the truth and poorly described his car and move on. I'd hoped to sell it on cheaply as a potential track car, perhaps eligible for pre'70 race classement as it could probably be proved to have been manufactured before January 1970. BUT, I wouldn't let anyone take this car away just like that so began a programme of stripping it down in preperation for repalcement panels including a 'new' firewall - the orginal reason why the VIN was cut out ! But one starts buying panels and then lucidty starts creeping in and I realise that I'm going to lose so much money so I sell some panels, keep others in case of trouble with my own 240 and start to sell off what's salvageable on this chassis. I'm happy to have cut out the VIN because when this chassis goes to the great Z paradise, nobody can re-hash the number. So, I have a practically useless chassis, European VAT and customs duties paid upon it, all the clear titles and documents and even Nissans' certicate of conformity ready to import it on a CG normale but I'm not going to do that - it wouldn't be ethical. I'm not famous but I have a reputation and people know of me and even if you don't always like what I say, I would never screw another Z fan - Zs and Z people have given me too much pleasure in life and besides, I have principal to treat others how I'd expect to be treated ! You should know that to import a car here, the car doesn't even have to be seen - if you know someone at the controle technique station, they'll sell you a CT 'non-runner' which you then use with other official documents to get your CG normale or collection ! I've hidden nothing, the car has always been mine since it arrived in Europe, it still is and I've talked about it on this forum, on the UK forum and on our French forum. It's been advertised honestly in the UK, in France and on Ebay.fr I did palce the ad on Ebay.com for a laugh - if someone wanted to buy it - no problem but I wasn't insulting anyones' intelligence but including the chassis - niaive perhaps considering Ebays' rules and I could still place another ad including the chassis and removing the title photo........ but what would it serve ? Why then did I add "use it as YOU think fit" - to cover my ar*e but nobody came back and asked if there really was no more chassis. Anyway - it spurred some discussion and perhaps you know more now than at the beginning of the thread. Interesting to nate that the discussion went from illegal, to only illegal if abused after purchase to too expensive....... That it's now been reported as dubious doesn't worry me - I wasn't really expecting the sale to lead anywhere anyway and if now, that means that no-one else might have a chance of restoring an early chassis - tough ! Someone can still make me an offer though.... or it'll go up on a frame in my Z garage : the chassis will get crushed ! That'll boost up the early cars values......:devious: - do I get a bonus for that ? But hang on - there remains another question unanswered : why sell it on Ebay.com if the car is in France and 3/4 legally imported ? Because your country is the only one I know of where an early car is so coveted ! Perhaps Alan will correct me that maybe in Japan, pre-HS30 car command a premium but I guess that they're so expensive in any form there anyway ! But why do YOU value a 'series 1' car so ? Is it better to drive than another ? Nissan didn't think so or they wouldn't have changed so many things....are they better then, than say, pre-72 cars ? Pre-'73 cars ? It seems to me that '71 and '72 cars are the most desirable as most people can't get hold of the 'series 1' cars or don't want to because they're either : 1) basket cases and very expensive to restore to original form or 2) they're too expensive once restored or in very good original form Ultimately (in my opinion) a '73 240Z with early carbs, or a 260Z with 240Z carbs or a 280Z (both mith erhum, improved bumpers) are much better than your 'series 1s' which in all honesty count merely for snob value ! Poindexter - " I did in fact stop to think what happened, but since finding out precisely what happened to the "donor" car is nigh impossible from the US, I did not bother trying." 1) you could have contacted me via Eaby with a private message 2) after Alan highlighted the UK site advert. you could have replied 3) after it was highlighted that I was a member here, you could have PM'd me so, in conclusion it wasn't and still isn't impossible and you don't try very hard at all. No need to be disappointed Lazeum :classic: Not at all why it's being sold or I might have worded it differently and advertised it on Ebay.fr Pre-1972 cars in the UK are exempt from road tax and so I might have done the same on Ebay.co.uk and is another reason why imports are popular since not many original UK cars survive from before end 1972 although Alan has well explained the end use of 95% of LHD imports into the UK. REMEMBER THAT if selling a car to a slimey limey - the sale isn't illegal but the end use could be (words sound familiar ?) ! Rubbish - your car may have been valued at €20000 like several others I know of (mine's been valued at €30000) but you and I would be hard pressed to find a buyer at that amount. Most 240Zs over here go for around €10000 - €16000 although of course I believe that they are obviously under-valued. Thankfully, one DOES have to make sure that the brakes work right, the lights are conforming and (sadly) the emissions test is passed - some of the cars sold on Ebay are right lemons and if you're getting a CG Collection then you know that you only need to get it through a controle technique and if you know someone there - that shouldn't be a problem even if some things aren't 'exactly' 'legal' !ps My engine's a stroked 3.1 and still passes the emissions test ! I think that it's generally belived that about 850 240Zs were officially imported into France between 1971 and early 1974 with perhaps no more than 20% left running. Yours Lazeum, is one of perhaps 20 personnally imported of all S30 types. Totally unrealistic - where do you find this 260/280 ? Stateside ? Then it'll cost the same to import that as a perfect 240Z and nobody can convince me that a 260/280Z ressembles a 240Z 'cept for the bumpers ! C'mon ! Besides, this car (chassis number 4944) isn't on French plates yet ! Whatever, enjoy your presidential election - it sounds like it's gonna get really entertaining ! Cordialement,

Just looking across at Zhome: is this true ? The HS30 series cars (right hand drive models) started production in Jan. of 1970, and were given a separate chassis serial number series. While there seems to be some wide spread misunderstanding related to the year of manufacture of these cars, (which is not helped by Nissans own publications, which give broad ranges within which certain series of cars were produced). There is sufficient evidence to bear this out. I assume that the figures given are export figures as Japan doesn't appear ? And that others are made up of HS and HLS Zs ?

Can anyone help me with more details regarding European Z sales please ? Primarily the 240Z but I'm looking for figures on all 260Zs, 2 seaters and 2+2s ? Any specific information for France would be VERY welcome ! In the absence of any figures, I'm stumped because the figures I've seen for the JDM and export markets and take away those sold in the US don't add up !