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Marty, as Carl said they won't interchange... but before you get one from Courtesy, try Andy Russell. His price list has them down as $69 for the 70-71 turn signal switches and the headlight switch for the 70-71 is $80... hard to beat those prices anywhere...:classic: z@datsundude.com

As far as I can recall they had them, and yes, they are hard to find. I'm not sure if they actually have them or not, but seems like I saw them listed on Courtesy Nissan's site...

Wonder if it has the "low-rider" electric/hydraulic suspension too....:stupid: :cross-eye

Almost big enough to hold all my Tom Clancy novels...

You could use the 280 strut housings, but to get the car level you'd have to either go to coil-overs or remove and lower the stock perch. The front end would end up over an inch higher than the stock height, and that would really make it look odd to say the least.... Still have to go to the microfiche to verify, but the 70-73 strut housings are the same, but yet early 74's and the 74.5-78 were all different. So, not knowing what the difference are, seems there may have been 3 different strut housings, but for sure the 74.5-78 are not the same as the earlier one.

The more pics you post, the worse it gets... at least from a labor point of view. Looks like you'll be needing floor pans, along with rails under the floors. The biggest concern I see right now is the condition under the battery tray. If it's bad, then you really will have your hands full. It's gotten into the firewall to some extent, along with the floors, and the frame rail. What part of VA are you in? We might be able to find you someplace to have it looked at and get an estimate on repairs. The good floor pans are approx. 350 bucks, and if the rust is in the front half of rails in the engine compartment you're looking at another 250 or so.. plus the labor for installation and metal for making patch panels.... :disappoin

Instead of a brass drift, you could always buy a set that does it all. Installs seals and races.... Can't forget the obvious Z related tools such as a clutch alignment tool, head bolt tool, cam chain tool, and at least a Uni-Syn... After you get the obvious hand tools, the air tools are next on the list along with a good compressor as previously stated. Next on the list would be a Mig welder, and perhaps a sandblaster of one type or another. Engine hoist, engine stand, large bench vise, bench grinder, small drill press.... the list can go on and on....:cross-eye

Actually I believe it is called gold cadmium plating... Zinc chromate is a light green color.. usually the insides of airplane panels are painted with zinc chromate primer.. Eastwoods has a kit that will supposedly will duplicate the gold cad look on parts, it's a 3 part aerosol kit, with gold base coat, red zinc and green zinc, never tried it but it's only 35 bucks if you want to try it. The also have Tin Zinc plating, which is a shiny silver. Zinc phosphate which is a blue/grey, and a charcoal grey zinc phosphate coating as well as silver cadmium which is a bluish-silver...oh and a black oxide coating... www.eastwoodcompany.com

Nope, sorry. The 280 strut housing is longer and also larger in diameter..... Not sure about the 260's though... don't know if they changed prior to 75 or not....

Actually Mike, it was a Superbird I was watching on Ebay this week. All original, 426, 4 speed, one re-paint in Sub Lime, 24K miles.... didn't meet reserve with a bid of 160K...:cross-eye

Like Mr. C said, there is no adjustment in the rear unless the lower control arm bushings have been replaced with adjustable ones. So it is either a bent suspension piece, worn out bushings, bent stub axle or flange, bent wheel, or something that is not so good ......

Well, we had 78 Friday, then woke up to snow on Saturday with about 4 inches total and more flurries Sunday. Yesterday it was 81 and today is supposed to be even warmer.... This weekend is supposed to be back in the 50's for a high... Wish someone would quit playing with that thermostat....

Guess we could call them non-North American Market lights and bumpers.....

AH HAH! I knew there was going to be something you would find wrong with the car for that money...:devious: Auto? At least it isn't yur favorite color.... :cross-eye

Guess we now know where GM got the front end for the C-4 and C-5 Corvettes don't we? :cross-eye :disappoin

Sorry Victor, but if the urethane was prepped right, it shouldn't be flaking off paint like that... I'll stick with urethane airdams.... think of it this way, if you crack the paint on the fiberglass one on something, you probably just cracked the airdam too... I've got a urethane airdam that was on the ITS car when it went into an embankment front end first... some of the paint did chip off, but it's useable as it is not hurt at all...I've never seen a urethane deform at race speeds enough to be noticeable from the pit lane... If you go with urethane, be sure whoever paints it, sands it, primes it, and most importantly puts the right amount of flex additive in the paint.

440 would end up putting more HP to the ground than a Hemi if the amount of money spent is equal.. Hemi's and parts are just too darn expensive...Only thing wrong would be the money you'd have to spend on as many aluminum parts as possible to keep the weight of any of the big blocks down.... My money would be on the the new stroked 360 crate engine with 400+HP for under 5K...:devious: By the way, I found the pic of the 354(?) Hemi in the yellow Z over on hybridz... guess the pic has made its rounds of nearly all the Z sites...

Saw one on a site in the last week or so, a yellow Z with a Hemi in it.... now if I could just remember where the heck I saw it... Being a Mopar man since way before my first Z, I kinda liked that one....:devious:

Kinda makes you wonder who or what they are copying now doesn't it?:cross-eye :tapemouth I guess the AMC Pacer might have been a little ahead of its time after all, nearly everything now is rounded and without character....:stupid:

The early cars here in the US came from the factory with metal badges... however, if they were replaced, the only ones available were plastic ones from Nissan. Don't know if this was the case everywhere else in the world.... I think they may have changed over to all plastic badges in the later 70's though...

Mine has been classiczcars.com for a while now, before that it was 240z.org...... hmm... I think there's a pattern there somewhere...:cross-eye

Actually George, a Pitman arm puller should make it easier than the pickle fork... Just spray it with some penetrating fluid, put the puller on it and put as much pressure as you can without it slipping off, if it doens't separate, take a hammer and hit the end of the steering arm a couple times and it should just pop right out.... As far as which way the threads are... well, I'd have to go look myself. There's a joint in the steering rack, so turning it won't hurt... and the strut hanging like that shouldn't hurt...

Why Rednecks Make the Best Marines Dear Ma &Pa, Am well. Hope you are. Tell brother Walt & Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before may be all of the places are filled. I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m., but am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt & Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing. Men got to shave but it is not so bad, they git warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings, like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc..., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie, and other regular food. But tell Walt & Elmer you can always sit between two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till noon, when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much. We go on "route" marches, which the Platoon Sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it is not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys gets sore feet and we all ride back in trucks. The country is nice, but awful flat. The Sergeant is like a schoolteacher. He nags some. The Capt. is like the school board. Majors & Colonels ride around & frown. They don't bother you none. This next will kill Walt & Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk and don't move. And it ain't shooting back at you, like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is to lay there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes. Be sure to tell Walt & Elmer to hurry & join before other fellers get into this setup &come stampeding in. Your loving daughter, Annabelle

Wonder if it's the same schmuck that paid 146 for the wiper blades....:stupid: FWIW, the hatch emblems unfortunately are getting a little more scarce, or at least there seems to be supply problems...:disappoin But not 150+ dollars scarce....:cross-eye

If you found a roll pin loose in the distributor, it had to come from something fairly important....wonder if it's could be off the star wheel(reluctor)on the shaft itself? If you look down on the top of the reluctor there should be one roll pin in it to hold it on the distributor shaft, it's the only roll pin I can think of in the 280 distributor.....