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I'd just like to add: I've been largely absent from the z forum community (not that I was ever influential, or nothing) for a while and I got on here to just spread the news of this guy's videos, but @florian beat me to the punch. Regardless, I will endorse the YouTuber's videos as if I were getting paid to do so - I love it that much! I implore you to watch his z restoration - it's not only a good way to get ideas for your own car, it's very well put together and entertaining to watch.

I just gotta say - I have a lot of respect for this guy. Completely unrelated; prior to, I had been watching his videos where he restored random stuff like coffee grinders or whatever and I thought he was doing something cool. My YouTube (of course) recommends z related stuff. I started watching this guy's z restoration, quickly became enamored. He's handmaking so many of these parts, tastefully documenting his journey along the way with his recordings. This is commendable in its own right -as @Richie G said, it's "mesmerizing". At some point he hammers the front apron flush, end to end - a little unseen seam that even the original z engineers overlooked because, well, who cares, nobody's gonna see it!? Anyways, I randomly get into this z restoration, and, turns out, this is THE SAME GUY who had been entertaining me months prior with his well done and beautifully presented restorations of random kitchenware and various archaic hand tools. Now, this isn't even to mention all the bs random nonsense he's had to deal with off camera - stuff that we, the audience, will never see. Random things breaking or irreversibly bending, bolts flying off into oblivion... you name it. And, how about all the rust he's found hidden beneath a layer of already rusted metal? We're talking past the doglegs; beneath the corroding metal one sees along the the back window. Of course we, fellow z owners, feel his pain (I'll be damned if I don't break at least one bolt in any endeavor or have to overcome some small, small detail in what should be a boiler plate operation), but that just adds to the level of detail, dedication, and craftsmanship this guy achieves! He has a keen eye in general and set his sights upon our beloved z car. This guy is getting it done son, and I love it!

A little something I wrote up a while back. In my and many other's experience, the Precision stuff is not ideal, and evidently, neither is Vintage Rubber. McMaster-Carr makes weatherstripping that's comparatively easy to install, keeps water out well, and allows the door to close properly. Info's in the linked post. Hope this helps.

https://www.thezstore.com/topic/stage_one Apparantly, the site as it stands right now is a work in progress - it should be improved upon in the future, but right now it's a sort of go between. It does, as you mentioned, have some growing pains, though. To be fair, the old website was a liiiittle outdated and janky 'til you got the hang of it, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that it'll be better in the end.

We just gotta find someone with their z in pieces and we could do it ourselves - they shouldn't be too hard to find! Ha!

I found the guy who made these pictures, his name is Fabian Oefner. I was mistaken, as to how he did it. He actually did it with real, physical scale models, then photographed them. In other cases, he did it with the actual cars themselves and all their physical components dismantled, then compiled them in post. Crazy awesome stuff! Still, I think it could be done with 3D modeling. At any rate, read about how he does it here: https://www.madgallery.net/geneva/en/creators/fabian-oefner A video on the process:

In principle, I imagine it's similar to the exploded views you find in a service manual, except this is beautifully rendered with CGI and with an artists touch. Compare it to this (the Ferrari one is artsy, the z manual is pragmatic): Theoretically, someone could make one of these renders for any car - the 240, too... It would take a lot of know how, and it'd be expensive to hire a guy to do it, but it could be done. Maybe there's a 3D modeler in the community who'd do it of his own passion....

I kinda like it. Hard to tell from just that one angle, though. Also, FB Marketplace doesn't have an option for a 240z listing, so a lot of people list it under 240SX.

Late to the party here, but one of my buddies was into 3D printing for awhile. Don't ask me for details because I dunno them, but apparently there's some kind of plastic/polymer/whatever you can use to 3D print gun components. I'd imagine this material could withstand the heat and general wear and tear of friction fairly well. Just 2 cents, I'm no expert.

Nice! Glad it worked well for you! Sorry I never replied to your earlier comments - for some reason I wasn't following my own thread and it got buried off the front page between the times I checked... I caught it this time, though! And, yeah, mating the ends is sorta tricky the first few times, but it's no big deal by the end.

Yeah, I had used Precision first to no avail. From what I remember, it was super hard to get the lip of the rubber to stay on around the door without using some kind adhesive or clamp arrangement as you worked your way around, and then you had to put that hard piece of vinyl over that. Suuuppper annoying, especially to get it perfect. The McMaster stuff combines the rubber and vinyl in one, so all you really gotta do is run it along the door and cut it to length. Fast, simple, effective. The only thing you gotta make sure is that you get a good seal where you mate up the weatherstipping, and goodbye water. If you still get water through your door, odds are the weatherstipping on the outside part of the window are trashed. Mine sure are - dryrotted to Hell.

Techno Toy just sent out an email for their new, custom made S30 steering rack. Check it out: https://technotoytuning.com/nissan/240z/ultimate-steering-rack-240z

If, God willing, my car makes it out the shop in time, I'd at least like to show up the 29th and 30th. But, then again, this is a two month suspension thing turned nine month head rebuild slug, so who knows if I'll actually make it out of purgatory by then...

Are you saying NGK discontinued BP6ES or BP6ES-11? BP6ES-11's are just pregapped BP6ES's - functionally same spark plug, one you just have to gap yourself.

Thanks for labeling the hand - wasn't sure what I was looking at there. Ha!