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Not sure if it's the fuzzy pic or not, but it looks like the rockers extend lower than the production cars.' And, I don't see an inspection lid that ought to be sticking straight up with the way the front is buckled...... BTW, Kats I like the wheels, it's a shame they didn't put them on all the cars instead of the plain steel wheels with the hubcaps... are these similar to the ones on the 432R in you photo on another post or and I seeing things?

Another tell-tale is the rear cover, the "bridge" or raised area where the mustache bar mounting studs is much shorter on the 180. Also, the vent on the 200 is much further from the mounting flange of the rear cover due to the rasied areas being longer and is also I believe more centered in the cover, the 180 is mounted more to the right side of the cover.

The blue car I was referring to is the Export Model car.. guess they hadn't gotten around to changing the taillights for the show, or it wasn't intended for the US..

yeesh.. I know a car like that would never make it in the US.. can't imagine anyone wanting to be sandwiched in between a Cadillac Escalade and a Ford Excursion on the highway while the SUV drivers are talking on the cell phones and disciplining the kids in the third row seat......:cross-eye It ain't fair Daniel, you sound like you're having way too much fun over there......Meet up with Doehring yet for a ride on the Autobahn?:classic:

It just struck me as a bit odd after seeing your pic you posted of the blue Fairlady in another thread... the blue car had one that said 240Z and was shaped similar to what our early cars came with and the 432R had the round one but also had the hatch vents...so, the 432R had emblems that said FairladyZ on the front fenders and on the rear only correct? Oy, too many differences to keep track of them all.....:cross-eye

Alan or Kats... I noticed something in the picture of the 432R from the rear... It has the later style C-pillar emblem that covered the C-pillar vent, yet it seems to also have the vent grilles on the hatch... Was this something only seen on a 432R or is this another of those mysterious oddities?

What I see are the 3 "gills" for the vent on the C-pillar or is that tape or painted on......hard to tell with all the stickers on it... and the stamped steel mag wheels... course, they may have had them elsewhere but the US only got the plain steel wheels..:disappoin Kinda like the way the wheels look BTW, with a set of trim rings they'd be kinda neat... Other than that, it's kinda hard to tell anything considering the condition of it...

Hmm, your car had a PO just like mine did then..... didn't take of the bumpers, or any of the trim when changing the color.. at least yours is close to the same color.. mine went from silver to, well, I'm not sure what color it really is but it ain't silver....:cross-eye

And people want to see what I have stashed away in my garage....Carl has me beat by a wide margin.....:disappoin

Bet you didn't realize how much the paint had faded till you took off the marker light did ya Victor? One of the perils of taking off emblems and such.....:cross-eye :disappoin Give ya 20 bucks to polish my pickup.....

For those of you who are still looking for one, I found these on Ebay today, the seller has 5 listed. http://cgi6.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=ma_nny&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50

Well, at least I'm not the only one that has done something like that....... :devious:

12mm x1.25 is the correct size lug nut. I usually get mine at the local Advance store, they usually have them in packs of 4, just make sure you get the right ones for the way your wheels are designed. Not all wheel use the conical style nuts.....

Only way it would be in "as new condition" is if it had never been out of the box or had any coolant in it. There will always be some corrosion as antifreeze has more than one corrosive ingredient...whether it's from contact with outside air or steel, aluminum, or copper. All in all, I'd say it's possible it is new and that is just corrosion from having anti-freeze in it for a long period of time.

I don't have any spares to sell, but FWIW, buying a used one may not last as long as you'd like..... You should be able to buy a new one for under 100 bucks.... try MidwestZ? I do know Andy Russell sells them for 80 dollars according to his last price list he sent me... but, I'd imagine Chloe can sell it for about the same price and you'll get a members discount to boot....

I've had a car fall off the floor jack once or twice, once had it fall off the jack as the jack was sinking into the hot pavement of the driveway and started falling over...:stupid: Haven't had one fall off the jackstands... yet.... I always buy the jackstands with the widest bases as I can find so maybe that's why I've been lucky so far... Now I know why you asked me about the pic of my car on the stands.... Glad you didn't get caught under it.... I once knew a guy who had a 68 Nova fall off the jack stands while he was under it changing the oil... luckily for him, the frame of the car came down right across his chest. He layed there for 30 minutes waiting for help and held the car on his chest the whole time..... needless to say he was a guy no one wanted to annoy...:devious: Worst, or silliest thing I've ever done, was taking a transmission out of a Z while lying on a creeper. I let the transmission down onto my chest and thought I'd just roll out from under the car and then lay it on the garage floor..only bad part with that idea was after I had it on my chest, I realized I didn't have the car high enough for the transmission to go under the floor of the car...:stupid: so that meant, I had to try to get it off my chest while making sure I could keep the trans in the tunnel so I had room enough to get it off me so I could get out.:cross-eye :stupid:

Looks like a your camber plates are the same as what I have from Ground Control, so they may be from the same supplier or a copy of the same.

They don't look too bad.. but they have so much offset I'd think you would have to run wheel spacers or you would end up with the rim touching the springs or spring perches....Probably like the ones Modern Motorsports sells so you can fit "Honda type" fwd offset wheels... You would almost have to buy them, then the spacers and measure them after you install them before you could determine what width tire would fit according to how much clearance you have.

Yup, you're right... my 71 FSM does show a pic that it looks to be bare steel or at least not black..Forgot all about that pic...:stupid: I do know that the one off the 75 I had that I think I threw away:stupid: :cross-eye was black.. and one of the 240's I had had a black one on it, but that would have been either a 72 or 73.. been too long ago to remember, and it could have been painted by a PO.... Sorry, my faux pas....

The oil pump should be primed.. but the only real way to do that right it to dissasemble the pump and put some light oil or assembly lube on the rotors of the pump. Another thing to consider would be the oil pump pressure relief valve... I'm just thinking of the obvious "slap yer forehead" kinda things we sometimes forget...

Hmm.... pics of the it in the Nismo parts book (replacement part which is NLA) show it black... Mine was black.... Maybe we need more help on this one, as it's quite possible different markets got different things as is usually the case.

You didn't forget to install the oil pump drive spindle did you?:cross-eye Just kidding... Did you pull the distributor cap just to be sure it's turning? That would be one way to tell if the maybe the drive gear isn't engaged on the spiral gear.. but doubt it would have bolted up OK if it wasn't engaged... Did you do anything to the oil pump? Some people will put a little vasaline(sp?) over the screen on the pickup so that the pump will draw a vacuum and pull the oil up quicker.... If you aren't getting any oil up top it almost has to be the pump or the spray bar. But it could be something like the pressure relief valve in the oil filter mount... Did you do anything with the soft plug in the front face of the block on the oil gallery to the left of the cam chain tensioner? Or the one in the back of the block? Last but not least.. and this may sound silly.. are you sure you put 5 quarts of oil in the pan? If it's a quart low it might take a while before it picks up...

All depends on when Mike logs on and OK's them.... Don't tell him, but we've been volunteering to help him with moderating duties, but he hasn't gotten around to giving any one their "crown" yet... Or, you could send him a PM and ask him to approve your pics and let him know how long you waited...:devious:

Thanks, now you proved I would have had it bass-ackwards..... that's the first time I've ever seen a photo of one installed....:classic: But now you have me wondering if I am missing a piece. Looks like that one has another piece that goes from the top of the strut tower down to the floor near the tool compartment doors.... And since that one is mounted in either a 77 or 78 280 judging by the strut tower trim, I'm wondering if this was ever offered in the 240's or 260's... I know the dealer option page at zhome doesn't show it, only the chrome cargo bar the mounted on the luggage riser.

Vinyl side, and yes, it needs to be stretched out a bit... it's been wadded up in the box for who knows how long.....