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Bar none the best write up I have seen on this topic!!! Thank you Arne, I'll certainly be using your documentation when I make the switch to the JDM tail lights on my Series I.

Unfortunately that link is dead now. For what it's worth I have all of webdawg1's spreadsheets up to this point downloaded and hosted on my site also. I may consolidate them in to one file with each spreadsheet being one workbook/tab. Any how, here's the link: http://www.pape.ws/allan_and_rosanne/Z-Car_Stuff/Restoration%20Spreadsheets/

I've got those complete assemblies for sale, they are from a '73. Take a look at the pix on my website at www.TexasZ.net and let me know if you want them via PM or email.

I did!! He ended up posting a craigslist ad to which I responded and through a couple of exchanges I asked if he was ZXMan and it was! Just luck really. He said he had been out of town and things had fallen apart such as his website...he's working on getting things back on track though. I'll probably be seeing him in the near future to get a couple parts. All this just happened this past Friday too!!

Interesting idea, got any pix of the homemade rig you describe?

If you're looking for those parts I have a few of them for sale. Just shoot me a PM or email.

Good to see you back here! We met at a car show in Round Rock a few years back...loved your car then, even wanted the engine for myself! Can't wait to see it again when you are done with the changes. I even remember you yanking some parts from a DFW junk yard for me and bringing them to Austin when you came to visit someone.

Chris, why the L20B front cover?

First one is your antenna. It plugs in to the back of your radio.

You guys rock!! I knew his site was something like zxman.com and thought maybe I was just remembering incorrectly since I couldn't find him. I knew that he had moved to Round Rock a few years ago...my office in located there. saridout - the phone number is great! I'll give him a call next week. Thank you all for the help.

There's someone that goes by ZandZXMan or maybe it's just ZXMan. He was in the NE part of the country a couple years ago then moved to Texas. I used to have his website bookmarked and now I can not find it for the life of me. I've searched this site as well as the web with no luck. Does anyone here have the URL?

Can you two email me the videos please?

Not necessarily Mike, I have a server.

What is the video of? Can you email it to me?

Would you be interested in shipping me the E31 head (at my expense of course)?

sblake and 26th...you beat me to it! Anyhow, for anyone who wants to help grow the collective knowledge please contact me directly...I'd be glad to add what ever you have to my site.

I'm planning on running a '77 5-speed (early?) and an R180 3.9. The engine will be a 3.1L stroker with about 10:1 compression. The car will be for autox and some street driving (just for fun on nice days not a daily driver). Opinions?

While you're at it put on some Speed Bleaders, several people here have done so and like them. I'm putting them on when I do my brake system, in fact I've already got them sitting on the parts shelf in the garage. On the front you may also consider doing the 4Runner 4-piston caliper upgrade. This is another change I'm going to be making. Lastly, on the master cylinder consider going from the stock 7/8" model to the 15/16" model from a later Z car. The last two will make a noticable difference in your braking distance from what I've read. The above are items I'm changing on my brake system as a result of much research. I'm also doing drilled and slotted front rotors.

I could use a little more detail on "de-peening" the nut please. I have 3-4 sets I need to remove and started them soaking in PB Blaster yesterday afternoon and was going to go at them with the impact wrench today...that is until I read this post. I'm in Cedar Park if it's something easier shown than communicated in text...plus we can talk Z cars and maybe I have some parts you want/need. Seriously though, just looking for more information on this before I damage something.

That's perfect Mike!! That was the thread I was looking for...and it was katz who chimed in on that discussion though I forgot that Alan had provided valuable input as well. Wowzers, I didn't realize that thread was from 2002!!!

I know I've seen at least one thread talking about the switches where are in the series I cars at the back of the choke plate. I think it was katz who shared info on this though I'm not positive. Can anyone point me to these threads? I've searched and could not find what I was looking for so I'm hoping someone has the threads bookmarked.

Well that's over...kinda. I ended up cutting the heads off the two bolts yesterday and working the head off...that was not easy and involved more cutting. The head seemed to slide pretty easily on one head bolt and not the other. After TONS of pounding with a 3lb hammer and a couple 2x4s (we destroyed the first one) and pulling up on the head at the same time we only managed to move the head up about 1" and decided a different course of action was in order. Time to cut the stuborn head bolt between the head and block, though it was not accessible with my cutoff wheel so I had to use a sawsall...this made me very nervous as I didn't want to damage anything. Those head bolts are VERY tough, I burned through 2 and 1/2 metal blades cutting this one bolt. WOWZERS!!! So now the head is off after a little more persuasion. Next is getting the rest of that one stuborn head bolt out of the hole in the head. I figure putting the head on wood blocks and using another head bolt and the 3lb hammer I should be able to pound it out easily right? NO! I only managed to move it about another 1" before stopping for the night. I filled the hole the bolt was in with PB Blaster and called it a night. Wise move! This morning I wicked out the hole of the PB Blaster with a papertowel and took the same approach with a head bolt and the 3lb hammer. about 6-10 blows later and it's out!! After inspecting the bolt I just removed it was obvious why it was so stuck. Here's a link to pix: http://www.pape.ws/gallery/v/Our_Life_Together/Our+Hobbies/Allan_s+Hobbies/240Z+Car/My+First+240Z/Totally+Rusted+Head+Bolts/?g2_fromNavId=x821ef459 Check out all that deposit on shown in the second pic. I'm leaving the two bolt remains in the block for the machine shop to deal with.

If the price it right and the engine is truely a '73 I'd be interested in the rods (the 9mm version).

Thank you, I passed on the information to the guy who asked me. He said to thank you also.

Anyone know of good race compound pads for the rear discs on a 280ZX? Someone just asked me and I have no idea so I'm turning the to the most knowledgable group of Z peeps I know (errr...virtually know I guess...ya know virtual world, cyber space, etc...ok enough with the failed attempt at humor).