Mr Camouflage

You forgot an option: Dont care.

With such little use for so long, is it possible that any of the internals have corroded? eg, could camshaft, bores or rings have rusted?

As for the visible differences between the 240 and 260z (2 seaters): Externally the most notable difference is the rear. The 240z has tail lights that are brake/indicator/reverse lamps in the one unit each side, surrounded by a metal panel. The 260Z's lights are surrounded by a plastic panel, with the stop/indicators each surrounded by a chrome (may be chrome plated plastic) trim. The reverse lamp is noticably separated from the stop/indicator lamp. Otherwise they both look similar. The 260z has a lower front radiator crossmember as the 260 had a taller radiator. Badges: "datsun" on the 240z guards, 260Z on the 260. (series 1 and 2 240z differences are already posted above). Internally. The 260Z has a different dash board, center console, steering wheel, door trims. Look through the gallery, you'll soon be able to see the differences.

No they just stop working. If you open them up, clean them out, oil them, put them back together you can get them working again. Worked for me.

D'oh. Would have watched or taped it if i'd known.

The Roy and HG had a show, and the 2 singers were called the Nissan Cedrics. They even put a CD out through teh ABC. Sandman (the guy that was on triple J that sounds like the guy that does the Superannuation adverts) wrote a song about the Datsun Homer Van. I remember finding it on a datsun site somewhere. Here it is http://www.datsunworld.com/av/Homervan.MP3 its pretty bad. for more datsun songs go there: http://www.datsunworld.com/datmusic.htm Saw the Cedric again today got a pic of the dash, but the glare off the window makes it hard to see.

I think what alfa is getting at, is that, if you are using the stock 240z radiator, you may have problems keeping that engine cool. You might wanna hunt around for a RB26 intake manifold so you can reduce the length of tubing between the turbo and the intake side of the engine, which will reduce lag, and also the lenght of hot pipe the nicley cooled air has to travel through before going in the engine.

Opposite Direction. I saw your car, and then noticed you were looking over at mine too. Reminds me of a thing that happended to my dad. He had a beige mitzi L300 van, and one day he got to a roundabout and at the 2 other entries to the roundabout, there were 2 other biege L300's. Z meeting is this sunday.

You never heard of the Nissan Homer Van? They were sold in Australia. Shame Gavin Shame! Go straigt to www.ratdat.com and read the history pages.

A freshly painted car can hide a multitude of sins.

Yep sound right. I use that rust converter stuff on all the pannels i strip. Its just phosphoric acid. After its dried i hit it with the wire wheel attachment in my angle grinder.

Probably a hand me down, like what Gavin was talking about in that movie. When Nissan released the Cedric foriegn markets in the 70's they renamed them as numbers like the fairlady, so the Cedric became the 240C, 260C and 280C. So the C stands for Cedric. Lucky for us they didnt call the Fairlady the 240F.

Yeah, they are on upside down. This is the right way up http://viczcar.com/Photos/Meetings/Meeting2/images/DCP_0038.jpg

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So you'd need good bumbers then.

Sure, just undo the bolts behind the front bumper overriders, turn them the right way up, and put the bolt back on. Then theres that non standard side mirror, the holes from that will have to be filled. Other than that the car looks great. (p.s. Ok i know you really mean the flares. Why would you want to remove the Nice factory ZG flares? Just buy a z that doesn't have them. If they were fitted properly, ie. to allow wide wheels to used, the guards would have been cut out, which means an expensive time at the pannel beaters welding in new wheel arches.)

Nooooooo, dont do it to a 240Z. Use a 260Z. Theres a guy in Perth putting a 1UZ on a 240C, but thats a different story. But if you must.... I've been asked this question before, so one day I measured my empty engine bay and jotted the measuremets down on the back of a piece of card. here they are

Start with getting the wheel balanced.

I had a look at the history pages at ratdat.com, It looks like a 1962 31 model Cedric. http://www.ratdat.com/history/1959to1972/1959to1972_pic.html Hmmm, cant seem to embed linked images anymore. go here to see their photo http://www.ratdat.com/history/1959to1972/images/1962_31.jpg

Spotted this old nissan in a uni carpark this morning. Had to snap a few pics and share

Like Datto-Zed says, Yes there was a Z31 3 liter V6 Turbo model. It was sold in the Australian Market.

Hey Tom, Saw you driving down morley drive on sunday, Think you saw me too, in the white R31 coupe.

That would put most America car companies out of business, saab and citroen too.