Racer X
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Blue. It is dyed so it can readily identified by the tax cops looking for people who are trying to avoid road taxes. The racing gasoline I used to buy is dyed purple. Off road diesel (for tractors and heavy machinery) is dyed red for the same reason.
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The racing fuel I was using in my race Z usually ran $8 to $10 a gallon. Eventually I went to the local airport and picked up 100 octane low lead for about $6 a gallon.
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The 280Z steering wheels I have are covered in leather, and the rim cross section is about twice the diameter of the faux wood wheels that came on the 240Z.
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A package arrived from France the other day.
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240ZBUILTBYME 1971 240z HS-001063 Project Georgia
Racer X replied to 240ZBUILTBYME's topic in Build Threads
Hi Ryan, So sorry to read of your loss. Allow me to express my deepest sympathies to you and your family. Regards, Racer -
Looks like a good start. The dimpling die trick is sweet. Welding is always easiest and best done from the top side of the join. To do welds on a surface that is normally facing down, flip the part over so the weld is “on top”. A rotisserie works well for positioning a car to do this. Are you annealing the sheet metal before hammering and forming it?
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The guy who sold the 355-Mile 1976 Datsun 280Z has just listed this: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-datsun-280zx-31/
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Actually she was a looker, and given the chance I’d hit it again, at least for old times sake. And now, back to our new old member and his Z resurrection.
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Stupid predictive text!
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Thanks! Not a chance. Been nearly 30 years, and we haven’t spoken since the divorce. I would like to run into her though. I paid $2,000 for it, and we all know what they are selling for these days. Yes, the brown cars only came with the tan interior. I’m not as fussy about the originality, or I would be looking for a way to return it to the tan. Besides, I’m partial to the black.
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Welcome back to the club. What is the VIN? I have a brown 72, manufactured 11/71, VIN 56539. Bought it in 1992 for my first wife, kept it in the divorce. Drove it until 98, then parked it. Pulled it out of storage a year ago last August. , when I was sent home on Covid quarantine. The previous owner used upholstery paint on all the tan interior parts, so it has a black interior now. I spent the two weeks of quarantine cleaning of 22 years of dust, dirt, overspray (I painted a tractor in the shop and the temporary paint booth didn’t keep the overspray contained), and spider poop. The original finish cleaned up well. The picture with the red Z is from 92, the others from the quarantine cleanup.
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He doesn’t mention recutting the valve seats, and refacing the valves, or lapping them. I only trust my Datsuns to myself.
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Having used dykem many times over the years, I can’t see any reason to completely coat the entire combustion chamber with it. Doesn’t make any sense.
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So the guy sold it on March 6. What happened? The buyer flake out?
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You can take the boy out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the boy.
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But Cliff is a Southern Boy. Alabama I believe. That Z on BAT is a Yankee car.
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Happy anniversary James! Let’s see. Mrs. Racer 1.0, 3.5 years. Mrs. Racer 2.0, 25 years and counting. 1972 Camaro 45 years. 1971 240Z 35 years. 1972 240Z 30 years. Still have the cars, and Mrs. Racer 2.0.
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100% Having spent a lifetime working on, and fixing, cars, trucks, motorcycles, lawnmowers, heavy equipment, and other machinery, I would have been ashamed if I had missed any. The ads did suck though.
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Maybe someone slipped some LSD in your sammich.
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I would flush them with solvent, then blow dry. Then cap both ends, to keep any critters from moving in and setting up housekeeping in them. Keep them in a cool, dry place until you are ready to reinstall them. Then once more, flush with solvent and blow dry before reinstalling them.
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I’ll have to check where mine came from. I bought them about a year ago, and haven’t had time to do the swap yet. As I recall the material felt a bit thicker, and it caused me to wonder about fitment. I’ve removed panels from a couple of Z cars, but only replaced them in one, and I reused the original ones. It is a bit of fuss getting them in and out, making me wonder how it was done on the production line.
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What brand did you buy?
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Did you finally get the panels installed?
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For vehicles that don’t get enough miles annually to warrant an oil change, the crankcase oil should be changed once a year. Even though the oil doesn’t get polluted with combustion byproducts that escape past the piston rings, the crankcase gets humid, and the oil gets fouled with moisture, and whatever chemicals that are in the atmosphere. So once a year is cheap insurance for your engine. Transmission and differential gear lube should last indefinitely, given that it isn’t exposed to the same pollutants as the engine oil. It is also a good idea to keep track of the engine coolant, and do a clean and flush periodically. Testing it can help determine the required frequency of replacement.
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Not that far off. My iPhone is pestering me to download and install IOS 15.3. So IOS 15.4 is just a heartbeat away.
