Victor Laury

The method in the Jaderunner link was how I did mine. Plug-and-play no cutting required

SoCal to Cebu City should be a VERY EASY ship! I live in a Philipino neighborhood near Downtown LA, and there bunches of Philipino shipping outfits specializing in Balikbayan boxes (Boxes of presents for the folks back home).

I had to wear my sweater last week in Los Angeles. it's normally cooler this time of year than it is this year. We did have a major storm blow through last week, but I'm still on my hill (insha Allah!).

Yes. And get this, It's on Florida's "Gold Coast" The beach of Melbourne is about the only beach on the Florida coast that gets any real surfable waves. Spent many a day getting baried into the sand by a Melborne breaker.

Too bad, as those Yoko's look tough on your car! When I saw them at the picnic, to my shame, I coveted thy neigboor's tires.

You are correct. Speed Star Racing manufactured the RS-8 for RS-Watanabe. They discontinued production for the 2005 year, where RS-Watanabe replaced them with the 17'' GR-8. The RS-8 were advertised on the RS-Watanabe site http://www.rs-watanabe.co.jp but no longer appear there. Speed Star Racing went bankrupt in early 2005 and their site went dead http://www.speedstar.co.jp They have since been purchased by Tanabe. I've been monitoring Tanabe's web resources for news on weither they would continue production. Well it's now settled, as their web site now, not only includes the full line of SSR wheels http://www.rd-tanabe.com/ssr/index.html, but even a new model, remaniscent of the famous and rare Brite Star http://www.rd-tanabe.com/ssr/collection/ssr_sp2r/index.html. Unforutunatly, not in an offset or PCD for any Datsun.

My old neiborhood Sweetwater/Fountainblu Park/FIU. Wish i could just drive over. Heat up the Cafe Cubano! Take lots of photos.

From what I understand, It was quite a fight between Mr. K and Nissan Corp. In the early 60's (hack maybe even 1960) He tried in vain to keep them from even shipping the cars with the Bluebird badges, resulting to meeting the shippments at the Long Beach docks with cases of "Datsun 1000" truck emblems to replace the "Bluebirds"

I'm amazed that to learn that these fit at all. They were mainly developed and marketed for the Silvia/180SX/240sx line. I thought for sure that they'd rub springs without spacers

All my cars have Nissan EI "Matchbook" ignitions, running full 12 volts (no ballast) - On the roadster, I have a Mallory chrome job, that I can't remmber what the part number was. 6 years of service so far. On the Z, I have the ZX coil, 5 years and going strong. On the 521 I just installed a over the counter coil from NAPA for a 79 310. It's the smaller diameter, so it fits the original holder. It hasn't been there long enough to give any reliability info yet.

I think this was discussed several years ago, it just happened to me, so I'd like to bring it up again. Over the years, I bought enough polishing gear and supplies to learn that it is terrible laborious and nasty job. So, when a nicely polished L-16 valve cover came up on Ebay, I bought it, even though I have 2 good ones to polish. When it was delivered, I was happy to note that it was a wonderful job, a very highly polished valve cover with no dents, holes or imperfections. It was as good of a job as I could ever do, if I started with a near perfect cover. Turning it over. I saw what they had done. They had abrasive blasted the piece first and the interior was full of blasting material! You DO NOT want this abrasive in your crankcase oil! I spent over an hour, removing the baffle and cleaning all the nooks and crannies of god knows how much abrasive. Over all, It's still a good deal, compared to the effort it would take to polish one myself. If you buy polished parts inspect and clean thoroughly before use!

That guy called in sick that day! Some day, we'll have a true concours system, and you'll get points deducted if the area is not painted or painted too well

it would appear that a ground was added for the dizzy body. I have 3 cars with the matchbox EI dizzy and not one have this. The wire was the original wire from the old point dizzt to the neg terminal of the coil. When i do the conversion, I tape these up instead of removing them just in case I want to go back to original. (Fat Chance! the EI just works too dam good)

Slidesquad Dave coming out the 3rd street tunnel downtown Los Angeles (i think). No doubt he like the acoustics in there!

Yup, I'm proud to know yous guys. Happiness is.. I converted my truck to the Nissan EI matchbox dizzy today.. Started up on the first turn of the key. Timing was dead on without adjustment. Bye bye funky dual points!

I can say that it has been SOP through the 60's, based on the roadster's and trucks I've worked on. The only cars i've seen body color are so called "Restorations". Roadsters came in black (505 thunder black) Even that car (the one I change a grill on, 68 SPL) had the area painted flat black. I think the instructions to the fellow at that station of the assem line was, "Paint the area black" with no special instructions on exceptions.

Quickly and poorly hand painted with brush strokes and gaps in a flat or more like a satin finish black

I have found a new product .. I've used the good ol black sharpie as a detail tool for years... NOW they have a metalic silver sharpie that is absolutely PERFECT for redoing those letters! Much more control. The worse thing is a paint brush in my monkey fisted hands.

The U.S. Market cars did not have rear sway bars. To answer your question "SHOULD all 240's have rear sway bars?" Absolutley! Get some on that puppy NOW and You will know this to be true on your first drive.

Yep! That's what a sports car is for! Good for you Dave!

Back to the subject at hand.... Thanks Tom! Merry Christmas to you too! Merry xmas to the entire Classic Z Car Club, Worldwide! Get your Xmas on! If I could, I'd be Datsun Santa, in my magic flying red 64 320NL pickup. My Datsun Elves would load it up with chrome trimmed headlight covers and solex 44 sets, new door panels and new tail light assem. Flying around the world to bring rare and needed Datsun parts to good Datsun boys and girls (maybe 2 trips to Australia!) Ho! Ho! Ho!

Is my yellow roadster in it? I heard that it was! If so, I got to get one!

the grill is correct. It just looks awkward without the bumper. That's going to be a good looking Rootbeer/tan! keep up the good work

Enrique, I swear you just wrote what was in my mind since I first saw one of these contraptions. And we all know where the design cues came from. The Nissan race cars of the early 80's Didn't Alan post a photo of one of the s110 gazelles (200SX's to gringos) in full factory GP livery? It had box flares and an E-Nor-Mous front scoop/air dam that juts way forward. True the bosozoku cars are a bit too far... But their creators are Nissan fans.