EricB

Take a pic with your Z? It's halfway right now... Totality happens at 8pm PST... FYI -e

Trust = GReddy It's the same company... GReddy is a more recent name that's all... I've actually heard the Trust header is not so hot on the Zs... My $0.02 -e

BTW I just got my harness in the mail and I wanted to tell you all still on the fence that it looks fantastic - very professionally put together... if the rain ever lets up (ha someone from LA complaining about rain!! then I'll put mine in... -e

Guys, I just got a reply from the seller of the Skyline... apparently it didn't sell yet after all... >From: Brian Galloway ss427bb@hotmail.com >Sent*:*Saturday*October*16*2004*1:27*AM >Subject*:* Question from eBay Member > >Car is still for sale.. Considering offers of $13,500 and better.. Current >offer is $14,000. > >Thanks for the interest... To which I've replied asking if he's now ready to show the car in person. -e

Guys, I just got a reply from the seller of the Skyline... apparently it didn't sell yet after all... >From: Brian Galloway <ss427bb@hotmail.com> >Sent*:*Saturday,*October*16,*2004*1:27*AM >Subject*:* Question from eBay Member > >Car is still for sale.. Considering offers of $13,500 and better.. Current >offer is $14,000. > >Thanks for the interest... To which I've replied asking if he's now ready to show the car in person. -e

Ben If you look through the gallery with "240ZR" you'll see pics of it come up - factory prep'ed ZG run by SCCN (Sports Car Club Nipon - if I'm not mistaken) -e

Weird, Ben, you would have thought the seller of the Skyline would have put that in his post, saying something like "you've all already seen the car since it was at the Natl Z meet...." Anyways I wonder if whoever bought it (providing he does get it and it is in decent shape) comes forward and drives it around... it would be a shame if it went underground again... would love to see it around at the local events or on the local back roads around here on some lazy weekend afternoon...

Alan, In your post you said some 432 bodies received LR24s late in their life. Are these smaller displacement versions of the LY cross-flow, or are they something else? And when you say that propelled the 432 into yet another class of competition can you elaborate as to who the Zs went up against then? I've seen plenty of old pictures from Fisco and so on of 432s sharing the track with so much more exotic purpose built but I had always assumed that it was merely a case of several groups running at the same time (like JGTC300 is on track at the same time asJGTC500), I didn't think the Zs were actually in the same group as them and racing them... wow. -e

For what it's worth, the first time I put my then nearly-stock Z on a set of scales I was real surprised to find out that the front to rear weight balance was very close to 50/50... As I recall it was something like 52-48... I don't know what I expected but I guess it wasn't that... Aero wise, the Z has the more slippery shape (especially ZG of course) so provided identical power plants I would bet on the S30 over the 2 and 4dr Skylines... I guess it could also come out to suspension and I do know the rear of the Skyline is set up differently than the rear of the Z - maybe someone here with more time on their hands can wax poetic about the pros/cons of either setup? -e

Got it from fellow 240z.org member sennavsprost who now lives up in SF - that's why I assumed it was SF... But you're right it does kind of look like the 91 - maybe it's an older pic?

Seen over the weekend in the SF Bay Area...

oops... i replied to the thread last night but somehow it doesn't appear here - must have gotten lost in cyberspace.... first thanks for the kind words from lachlan, alan, and gav - don't worry guys i wouldn't jump into this thing with both feet without taking some prior precautions.... There are a lot of ifs and maybes for me to be able to unload my Z in a week AND get this KGC... As Alan has pointed out yes I do know what a clone GTR sells for in Japan and I know how available they are if you know where to look... The thing is when you think about all the work of going there, finding one, paying for it with an international wire transfer, understanding the red tape in Japanese car registration and how that applies to a car that is being exported, finding and organizing a reputable shipper, getting it across the ocean, dealing with US customs, getting the right import papers, getting a new title made a CA DMV, etc, etc, etc.... All of that is of course totally do-able but a big headache as you can imagine. Here (if this one really is in decent shape) we have one already here, and suitably hopped up with the right bits, super rare in the US, etc... I think of it in the following manner, supposing I did buy this car here in LA I consider it would be a lot easier a couple years down the line to find another clean Z here in LA and turn it into what mine is now than to do the whole shenanigan I wrote about above in getting a Skyline over here... Know what I mean? Now who knows, maybe I get no offers for my car? Maybe the only offers I get don't make it feasible to do the swap from Z to KGC? etc etc etc Regardless I'll keep you all posted. What you might not know and this is probably the reason I am after this one is that I already missed out on another Skyline - it was a Ken&Mary and languished in a local junkyard for a LONG time before one of the AE86 Toyota guys found it and bought it - the tragic thing is that while he knew what it was he had no interest in driving or restoring it - it sat in his yard for a while while he refused my $$$$ offer and then he got rid of it for a fraction of that to some friend of his... It had a built Turbo L28 with a lot of Nismo stuff when I went to look at it in person and was in considerably worse shape than this one (no interior, blown out rear window, no side glass)... Oh well, right? -e

Hey guys, You know me, several of you have seen my Z - you know the specs: '73 240 orange/black w/ newly rebuilt F54 L28, newly rebuilt E88 with big N42 valves, new electric fan & 180deg thermostat, new triple Mikuni 44, MSA 3-2 header, Japanese Trust exhaust (just like Fairlady 432), Japanese tail lights, Japanese head light covers, Japanese Watanabe steering wheel & NARDI hub, Euro bumpers front/rear, Classic Datsun Nissan OEM fender flares, 15x8.5 front & 15x9 rear Watanabe's with new Yokohama sticky 120 treadwear rubber, 2 ZX 5spd's, one 4.11 R160 open diff, one brand newly rebuilt 4.375 R180 with Nismo LSD, great interior with the exception of no dash pad (still waiting for those SanDiego guys to finish they fiberglass Z dash). Basically: SEE my gallery... I want this Skyline real bad but can't come up with the $$ I expect it to sell for that quickly so I want to know if someone would want to buy my Z this week so I can then buy the Skyline when the auction ends in 7 days. Ideally I would have wanted a Z and a Skyline in my garage but with this one being here and ready to go that saves the hassle of going to Japan, finding one, buying it, having it shipped, clearing customs, etc... I figure I can always find another Z here at a later date? -e