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If not insane, it would be quite funny. Just don't smile.......you'll get bugs in your teeth. Reminds me of a time I was in Frostproof Florida and I saw an old 60's era Cadillac Fleetwood driving down the interstate with NO TIRES, just rims. I figured the rednecks had to go get their Bush Beer and Dorals and not having any tires on their car wasn't going to stop them. Vicky

James Are you trying motorsport@sbcglobal.net I do believe you can get a direct answer from Greg, the owner,via that e-mail if you direct the problem/question to him. I've e-mailed him before and always received a response that same day. He's a good guy. Best of Luck Vicky

OK after calling numerous Z vendors, closer to Fla, for an air pump (pulley bearing shot, what a terribly embarassing noise) for my 72 and finding none in stock, I call MSA and they have one left. Ordered it at 5:00 pm on Wednesday (10/6) and I received it Saturday (10/9) at 9:30 am. It was shipped regular ground form Cali to Fla for $7.00. Now that's what I call exceptional service. I know not everyone here likes MSA but they have always come through in the clutch for us. The 240Z is now back to being silent but deadly :devious: Vicky

Old tires heated up the street can cause tread separation, no? If there were any minor cracks, could that not lead to a failure of the tire after such extreme driving? The purchase of the BF Goodrich T/A Radials was a great choice ezzzzzzz! Vicky

2-4-T-Z Man has a beautiful convertible Z roadster. Quite unique. Check out his gallery. I've seen the car in person and it's stunning. Vicky

Yeah, I guess so. I can somewhat relate. Last March we won a Chevy 350 at a car show. Bought a ticket for the drawing for $5.00 and won an engine! Pretty wild. All our friends where saying "now ya got something to put under the hood of that Z". My husband basically told them to go H. E. double hockey sticks. The 77 was done, at least engine wise. My suggestion was to put the motor in the 78 and have a 3rd toy as you say. My husband would not think of it. He says the only V-8 Z he will own will be a Scarab. Go fish I tell him (I do have a few lines on a couple Scarabs however). Sold the motor for $1,200 and bought some tidbits for his 77. Best of Luck with your future project Vicky

Did you just "look" over the car or did you actually feel, push, pull and adjust? Looking at a car doesn't show any potential problems. Before you go out for any type of hard driving, especially on a newly purchased old Z that you know nothing about structure wise, you should always make sure things are sound. You took your life in your hands my friend and I'm glad you are OK. Enjoy the Z and don't baby it but do make sure things are in primo shape if you want to do 120 on public streets :classic: Just my opinion so please don't take offense. Vicky

73 Z? Transplant... to a 318, nooooooooooo! Don't do it!!! Isn't that the "dog" engine of Mopar? Sell the 318 and get some trinkets for your Z. Vicky

That Z gotta "Hemi" :tapemouth Vicky

Hi Andrew I've heard both actually, parts and profits. Everyone of the cars made was sold. But who would be losing out, the build shops, Nissan? If they were loosing so much money why would they even go as far as to build around 40? I know the Nissan dealership in Tampa was really trying to make alot off the 5 cars they had. The sticker in the window of the car we bought was $38K!!!! I called Pierre (one of the shops contracted by Nissan) and he said NO WAY. Ferman Nissan paid him $28,400 for the car and we paid $28,800. (I requested that invoice when we bought the car) Pierre told us that most of the cars he did were in good condition and fairly complete which can lead to less costs in obtaining missing or unoriginal parts. Plus they wanted to use OEM rather than after market parts to keep the cars as correct as possible. I can't imagine trying to build 40 of those cars today. You know that many of the OEM parts are dryed up. But I bet they would still sell. Vicky

......and that's a good thing!! Vicky

Many of the vendors I called said the part was no longer available. I would think some might jump at the chance to buy old pumps. They can rebuild them and sell them for a nice profit. Couldn't hurt to call a few and see if they might be interested Ed. IMO no part on our old Z's is worthless, as time goes by, these things are getting harder to find. Case in point. Look what happened to the Vintage 240Z program. Ran out of OEM parts. They found out that only 40 some cars could be built as opposed to their goal of around 200. Pretty bad. Vicky

No coffee IN the Z, right? Congrats on the new job. Oh yeah, that's the best looking blue Z I've ever seen. Love the color Vicky

Scott in the doghouse over my 72, no way! If you only new what I've done to his car. I unbuckled the seat belt thinking it would retract back, but no. It was laying on the threshold and I slammed the door on it. Nice chip in the paint job. I felt terrible but he never even got angry. What a guy! MSA will have another Air Pump as I'm sending mine back for a core refund ($75.00). From what I understand this is one of the hardest parts to get. Vicky

Now that's the first time I've ever seen a wing AND a spoiler!! That car MUST haul azz and need all that downforce to keep it on the ground...........NOT! :stupid: Vicky

My husbands motto during his entire engine construction "For maximun hp, build your engine from the inside out". He took the L28 as far as you could go and still keep it kinda, sorta, well you know.......street legal Vicky

$106 total shipped ground to Florida, which I thought was pretty good. Carl, the air pump pulley is making an pesky noise. Scott says when looking at the pump you can see where the bolt was not tightened enough causing it to run out of alignment with the water pump & alternator. This then caused the bearing in the pump to "chirp". It's quite embarassing to drive it with that noise IMO. Probably should have followed the owners manual and did a tightening on the car after so many miles. I would have to say this is *****'* fault. Vicky

Wow. Wish I would have know about them yesterday. Called all my known Z vendors for an Air Pump for the 72. No body had one so I had to call MSA. Got the very last one they had. Maybe this guy could replace Midwest Z.....no? Vicky

Then Datsun decided on the massive crash bumpers for the 280Z's so they could just ram the pedestrians right out of the way. :stupid: Vicky

My husbands car has the adjustable (G-Machine) rear toe. He explained the whole thing to me this morning, the bushings, how he can adjust, etc. Sorry Tom, to sound as if I've been smoking something. I'm just trying to lean all I can about the stock version, preferably my 72 240Z. I have nothing to compare the '72 240Z to since the '77 280Z is so heavily modified. (Thanks for the transverse link picture Carl) Vicky

A rear tire out of alignment could be blown strut, no? What about camber adjustment, doesn't that correct toe in and out. That's if you have adjustable struts I'm guessing. Anyone have a picture of a transverse link? I'd like to see that. Vicky

I noticed this when the engine was out of my husbands 77 280Z. Man, what a "tall" engine. Looks taller then a SB V-8, and I'm including the oil pan. Anyone ever measured the complete height of the inline 6 and compared it to a SB V-8? Betcha we're pretty close. Vicky