Victor Laury

This shot is from my balcony taken today, at 5:00 pm, as the sun loses it's battle to the blanket of smoke from the many SoCal fires

Third fuse down on the right side?

My place is not very big. A 3/2, 1400 sf. No garage, vertical back yard! But I got the best veiw in the city.

Well, I see them. And yes, that's what we call "Iron Cross" style 280ZX rims. You should be able to find them in Texas. Every Z shop here in Galliffornnia seems to have 2~3 sets to sell.

Well, You got the photo from our "Blast from the Past" forum. But, if you have them, How much do you want? Are they in as good condition as the ones in the photo? I'm a half mile from Glendale.

Sounds very much like fuel supply. Change your fuel filter and write back the results.

You can't beat having a search box in the galleries! I did a search for 77, 76, 75, 1977, 1976, 1975, 280Z and interior. Cruising the galleries, you can't help finding it remarkable how many beautiful cars it contains. in Mdyer's 1977 280, you can see the corner of a black armrest Cuong Nguyen's 1977 260Z the armrest is matching lance75_280z 1975 280Z has black armrests in his Brown interior Trys_Hard posted this cream interior with black armrests sparkynacho posted this brown with matching And here's another, posted by grhens v12horse's car is a 260Z but, it has contrasting pieces like the early models

Shannon, A lot of us have done it. It's not a walk in the park, But it's good goal. It is a "merit badge" of Z ownership job. Own a Z? Drive it like a sports car? You will need a new clutch sooner or later. Have a shop do it? you'll miss out. If you decide to do it, You'll get lots of help here.

And I thought I was the only one! I dropped the diff mount crossmember.

Carl and Allen, The bottom one in Allen's photo (The Red one), Looks like the rear bar I installed (via Drilling) on my car.

Meanwhile, We got truck motor, long stroke KA24's. I like the kit! Not a Slieghty, a Zatey, in our case, a 240ZSX? Zorty? SXZ (pronounced sexy)? < if I had one, it would be a SXZ! Woo Hooo! I already know a car ready for this conversion I could get for a song!

In that case Rod, youv'e found the right place to hang out, learn, and keep ears up for THE Z car!

Never fails me, I use the clutch alignment tool for this operation. Pack the the area behind the pilot bush full of grease. Pack as much as you can get in there. grease the snout of the alignment tool. You can do this with a plastic tool, no worries, you don't even have to hit it too hard. As a matter of fact, you don't even need the hammer, just smack the tool with the heel of your hand. The bush WILL move.

The Policeman has no gun? Do that in Los Angeles and you'll walk back to the Station, naked.

I guess the ole joke - "Genuine Naga Leather" "from only the best hides of the Naga beast" is too used up to mention here.

Wasn't there another configuration to get a larger displacement and a "square jug" (Bore = stroke)? I can't recollect - a L24 crank in a L28 block for a destroked L26? Or something like that?

Ha! It's got no driver side rocker - eaten bare off gone - MIA!

A De-bumpered 260 or 280. Nice AR Libra wheel set is almost worth the asking price. At 800.00, unless it's a complete basket case, why not, could be fun.

Understeer - push - pushing - the tendency for the front wheels to slide in cornering. Extreme - you turn into the chicane and the car doesn't. Oversteer - Loose - in a race with my arse - The tendency for the rear wheels to slide in cornering. Extreme - you turn into the chicane and come out backwards. All cars can do both, but some car configurations will cause one to be more prevalent than the other. The driver can control one by inducing the other. Or, the real trick (art) is to drive the problem child Neutral.

Ooohh! How bout a project photo-documentary?

Gary, Your photos are now up. I can't understand why you would sell either one of those beauties. New Project?

Both the car and that excellent photo are keepers

What is up with this elephant oil cap. I see them on ebay, being touted as if they were they holy grail. What's the story on these? did they only come on a particular year? Or are they a non North American market item? I have one in my spare parts collection. Should I shine it up and put it on? Right now, I have one of the super-rare 710 caps on my car. It's neat. If you look at it up-side-down, it says "OIL" isn't that cool?