Mr Camouflage

Yeah the radiator is on a wierd forward angle. the airbox sits in the space behind/above it. (its been replaced with a aftermarket air filter in the pictures above). I'd agree that its a weird place for an airfilter, but i guess no stranger than having it in the engine bay with all the hot air in there. Now if there was a vent in the bonnet....

Errrrr, well, no, but I've never seen any on the streets. I've seen plently of 260z 2+2's and some 2 seaters. We never got the 280z at all. (as far as I know) I think we got the 260z up to 1977. We got the 280zx 2+2. I've never seen a 2 seater 280zx in australia. They are easy to tell apart from the 2+2 from the side rear windows. I didn't even know 2 seaters they existed untill i saw one in a movie, dunno what movie it was but i think it was a blue car. (I was watching rage saturday night and saw a white 280zx 2 seater in a madonna video for Borderline) I've only seen 4 seater 300zx (z31) on the road. Nissan Australia probably didnt think there was much of a market for 2 seater cars in Austrailia. We have 2 seater z32's, but they are secondhand imports from japan, not australin compliance nissan sold 300zx's. Anybody know any different?

That's a 2 seater 300zx is it? Here in Australia we stoped getting the 2 seater versions after the 260z, which is a shame 'cause 280zx 2 seaters dont too to bad either. I'm not a fan of the 2+2's.

Ditto. Primer if very porous so the paint will stick to it, but it will also absorb moisture and cause rust that you wont be able to see.

Yeah though you might say wings. But the term wing really only applies to aeroplanes in my book. I call them fender, or guards. whatever term pops into my head first when i'm trying to describe the things that go over the wheels.

Nigel, ummm, I think you're forgetting some of the real australians that were here first. You know the ones I'm talking about. Its reall easy to talk Kiwi. just switch all letter I's to U's, and finish every sentance with the word "ay"

Hey Alfa In regards to your panels being out of whack, All you really need to do is get a mate and some spanners and loosen up the bolts and rehang the pannels correctly. The last owner was probably lazy and didn't do it properly after repainting it. I see what you mean about your bonnet not lining up propperly. Mr C P.S. So what does your dad call fenders then?

Alfadog. Would you want a car made out of Bondo? I dont think so. Most of this stuff is light weight polystyrene based putty. Obviously not as strong as metal. (Bondo is the putty you mix with harder and smear on the pannels right? otherwise known as bog.) If you've seen and old car thats been bogged up and resprayed you'd understand why you'd want to do it properly. The bog tends to promote more rust (I suppose by absorbing and retaining moisture under the paint). Then you get the rust causing the bog to blister up as it expands resulting in the uneven lumps in the paint. So this is why when buying a car I always favour cars that still have thier original paint jobs. If you ever had a bingle, most pannel shops just hammer the high spots flat bog it up, sand it smooth and paint it. Where as a propper restoration body shop can actually pannel beat the pannels back to the original shape so that little or no bog is needed. They can also cut out the rusty sections and weld in and shape new metal sections. My dads old L300 is a perfect example. It has rusty sections as big as your head where the bondo has fallen off the car because the pannel underneath has rusted. I used bondo on my 240z when i was 17 because I didn't know any better, but I would have hated to see what condition it was in about 5 years later. (I sold it after about 3 I think). What do you mean the pannel has warped. Is the pannel not aligned correctly? Has your car ever been in an accident? Mr C

Beware of Chrome Spraypaint. Unless paint technology has progressed rapidly in the last 5 years about the best "chrome" finish i've seen from a can was at best a metallic silver type paint colour. If you're after a chrome finish theres no subsitute for real chrome plating. How about painting them the same colour as your car paint Alfa. Mr C

I think you mean Kiwis Mr C

I believe the french say Zen. Mr C.

http://www.nissan.com.au/z/ Check out the nissan 350Z site. theres a quicktime 3D 350Z to play with and a nice photo of a 240Z and a 350Z driving down a road (lools like in the USA) amongst other photos in the gallery. Plus all the usual specs etc etc. and when you get bored of that you can look at concept cars or the 200sx. Mr C

I wonder what his "one of a kind" tail lights look like.

Also see thread High Powered Zed, from about a month and a half ago. Same car. http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3371

How this for strange......

Yep Thats what I though they were. Standard on the 280ZX turbo I believe. Which I dont think we got here in OZ, so I guess that would make them almost impossible to find down under. Auxillary's got them on his car with the recessed parts painted black, and they look cool.

It's already done. (You probably read this in the other thread about the same thing Rick, but for the benefit of others....). If you started the thread, you hit edit on the first post. THen check the delete thread box of the edit page and hit the delete now button, and the tread and all reply posts are deleted. So if anyone has any irrelivant threads they started that they want to delete, or wish they never started, thats how its done. So Mike, when's the classicZcars user manual coming out? Mr C

Ummm. What sensor light?

What a mess! If you find a car in a shed like this, just close the door and walk away. http://www.cars-on-line.com/66datsun2856.html

My Vote: Fairlady Z 432 ®. The engine is an S20. Some harder trivia please. Mr C

Found this at the clarion website: Clarion uses the industry standard wiring colors. Not every unit will have all of the listed wires SPEAKERS: White=left front + White/Black=left front – Gray=right front + Gray/Black=right front – Green=left rear + Green/Black=left rear- Violet=right rear + Violet/Black=right rear – POWER/ACCESSORY Yellow 14ga=battery main/memory Yellow 18ga=battery CeNet power/memory Red=accessory (ignition on) Black=ground Blue=antenna turn on + Blue/White=remote turn on (amps) + Orange/White=dimmer Brown=phone mute Orange=parking brake video lockout White/Red=CCD (camera) input instant on + http://www.teamclarion.com/SharedWebDBs/clarionsupport.nsf/edl/C1A Mr C

Can you post a picture of them so we all know what you mean by snowflake?

This was posted before somewhere as a link to somewhere else I think, But I couldn't find it. So here's a pic.

Hi Cuong Have you seen the pictures of the black 4WD 240Z? Mr C

Ok I'll start the ball rolling....... If you want a turbo on your 240z L24 you have to get: an exhaust manifold for the turbo and exhaust to bolt onto. an intake manifold, theres 3 ways to do it blow through, or suck through I believe, though I havent bothered reading anything about either because option 3 is the best, Fuel injection. Hey you never said how much money you want to spend! you'd have to tap the block to get an oil supply fot the turbo, and water for cooling has to come from somewhere as well. Size of the turbo would depend on engine capacity and compression and how much boost you wanna run. Turbo engines generally run lower compression that non turbo engines. How many turbos can you put in????? Yeah so its not as easy a just bolting on a turbo. Probably easier to souce a 280z turbo engine and do a swap. Mr C