Arne

Since the 8801 has specs for an exhaust gas analyzer, there may be a Nissan TSB that gives the date of the change. Maybe some one who has a library of the bulletins could look that up for you?

I'm also running 195/70-14s on 6" wheels on my 240Z. That is the stock size on 280Zs, and is the same height as the stock 240Z size of 175-14 but about 3/4" wider. It's a good all around size for moderate use.

For 14" tires with stock diameter, there are three sizes to consider - 195/70-14 (common, but not a lot of performance rubber), 205/65-14 (rare size), and 225/60-14 (not common any more, some performance tires may still be available). A fairly popular 14" size for Zs these days is 215/60-14. That's a little shorter than stock, but not a lot. A good width for the 6" wheels you are looking at, with a bit more selection than the 205/65 or 225/60 sizes.

I think you need to ask yourself what you want and need to do with this car, and we still haven't heard about rust. On the one hand, $1200 for a restorable Z that has minimal rust is probably a good deal. But I think at this point you need to acknowledge that it might take considerably more than you are thinking about to get the car running and back on the road. We know it needs brake work, and the engine, drivetrain and running gear are a total unknown. Plus the emissions ramifications. I don't think $1200 is too much to pay for any S30 that is straight and mostly un-rusted. But are you looking for a car that needs as much as this car might? What's your time frame?

Agreed. NGK plugs and wires here, too. Will, I think you meant BPR6ES-11, for the wide gap plugs for electronic ignition.

Yes, and yes.

Well, the parts going to many willing recipients is very true. Although I'm beginning to run out of good stuff. The two biggest value parts left are a nice E31 head and a quite nice gas tank. I plan on posting those in the classifieds very soon.

If all the parts are truly stock (rear end and speedo gear), then the spring inside your speedometer itself must be weak. Because the tire size you are running is basically stock height as well. I'm betting that the odometer is pretty accurate. There's only a couple of options here. One would be to change the speedo gear to compensate, but that will throw off the odometer. The other is to repair or replace the speedometer itself.

Oooh. That would be Barrett. I bought the yellow car from him somewhere up that way. I think he really wanted to see the car fixed, even though he hadn't owned it very long. He's probably not very happy with me right about now...:disappoin

So considering how few cars still have these, has it been determined that all of them did in fact come with them?

Actually, the key issue is that the throw-out bearing collar and the pressure plate must match. The rest is not as important. So buy a pressure plate for the same year as the car that the t.o. collar came from.

Man, I love Ken's yellow '71! I still wish mine was yellow -- but not quite enough to change it's color.

Don't know, I've never seen a set of Tokicos in person. Anyone else?

Geezer, that's not what the 3rd of the three scans you posted above says. It says, "Key numbers are no longer entered on car invoices, but are listed on a label on the glove box lid."

Doh! Very true, Stephen. I knew the disk was a larger diameter, but also know better than to assume the flywheel itself was larger too.

Before you try to start it, do a search here for a thread titled "waking the sleeping beast" which is full of advise on how to properly resurrect an engine that hasn't run in years. If you simply change the gas, hook up a new battery and crank it up, you could do enough damage to the engine (especially rings and bores) to require an engine tear down. This needs to be addressed systematically if you hope to not have to rebuild or replace the engine.

Overall spring length has very little to do with how much they will lower the car. Spring rate is far more important, and you can't tell that from the length, wire dimeter, or number of coils. For example, Eibach springs for a 240Z (typically metallic black in color, and labeled 'Eibach' on the springs) lower a 240Z by an inch or more, and are about the same length as stock. Tokico springs also lower a 240Z about the same amount, but are so much shorter than stock that spring compressors are not needed to change them.

Gary is correct, the 2+2's had a larger diameter flywheel, as did (I think) manual transmission factory turbos. Other than that, all the same.

The synchro ring is about $30. I routinely replace them just because whenever I have a transmission that far apart. Especially the first and second gear synchros, as those two get the bulk of the wear.

I got mine at the dealer. I'm pretty certain that they are all the same, both four and five speeds. But disassembling a transmission is not for the faint of heart.

Shoot the messenger? Not hardly, Bryan. What you posted here makes huge sense. After all, why should we think there would be any consistency in the carpet style and materials in 240Zs? Nothing else was consistent.Shoot, everyone always says that 240Zs should have loop pile carpet. But there are obviously varying degrees of "loop-ness" to the carpet. The pictures of the different carpets posted in this thread show that clearly. Look at the pictures Jim posted just above -- very "loopy". The pictures from Mike's '72 look to have pretty defined loops too. Yet some of the '71s (like mine) show some loop-effect, yet the overall effect is almost that of plush cut pile. Heck, I had thought for months after I bought the car that mine were replacements, simply because it wasn't an obvious loop pile carpet. Only recently did it become apparent that mine are still original as well. This certainly supports Les' statement that "...back in Japan they made the carpet kits using what they had available..." as we are seeing the direct evidence in pictures here. This truly complicates my choice of replacement carpet. If I want to maintain the original style of my car as close as possible (and I do), loop carpet may not be my best choice. I may want to go with cut pile on mine to be as close as possible to what it came with. Because cut pile may look closer to my original than loop. Pictures of mine are attached. Not only does the pile on mine not match yours, Jim, the jute is not stitched to the carpet at all, but is separate. I can remove my carpet and the jute still lays in the car. I'm thinking of selling my current camera to get a new one, Jim. Le tme know and I'll make you a deal!

Sounds like the second gear syncho ring is worn to me. Not an uncommon problem with any used manual transmission, probably not year specific. When you consider how many miles most of these transmissions have on them by now, why should it surprise us? My '71 4 speed was the same way. I replaced all the synchro rings when I had it apart for bearing replacement, shifts into second (and all gears) beautifully now.

VW convertibles regularly go for more that similar condition 240Zs. Sad, but true.

Any parts house that sells Dorman products can get a repro version, locally they run about $2.50 each. Better than the dealer if you can't find used ones.

Dan, send a PM to Jim (Zup), as I think he is who I sent the sticker from my yellow car to. It was still quite readable. Can't find a picture of it right now.