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Welcome to the forum Carol. Sorry to hear about your recent loss. The guys have already given some good advise, however there is lots more to be had here. Here's a link which explains the common rust areas to watch out for. It's based on a 240Z but is applicable to the 280Z since they share the same general body shell design which didn't change significantly until the intro of the 280ZX in 1979. Good luck with your restoration. http://zhome.com/Classic/CommonZRust/RustPrevention240Z.htm

Welcome and happy hunting!

Welcome to the club Mike.I look forward to your story and some pics.

That looks great Jeff. Thanks for the images. You have given me some ideas on a mount for my own rig.

Yes it was, but at the moment, my local JY has only 73, 74 & 81, & 84-89 Zs so no luck there, unless it can be obtained from one of those. On a seperate note, is it really necessary to replace the ammeter with a voltmeter when swapping in a later internally regulated alternator. We have guys doing this all the time using using only a resistor in line and I have yet to hear of any issues with the older ammeters.

Good point as far as raising the weight, however what you'd really be doing is putting it back to where it was in the first place. No gain, no loss. That said, I didn't consider the type/shape of the stock mounting bracket so I guess this wouldn't work anyway.

Sounds like the quickest path would be to find out what year cars they are, what it looks like, and have someone locate one for you here in the States, and have it shipped to you.

Optima offers height adapters where needed. I thought I was going to need one for installation of a Red Top in my 4runner, but I ended up not needing it. I was planning on using it in the Z if needed. If I have time later this week I'll, pull the batter from the 4runner and see if it fits in the Z using the Optima height adapter. Optima height adapter http://www.optimabatteries.com/publish/optima/europe/en/config/technology/hold_down_and_height.html

I recently had to deal with this whie pulling a motor from a car in a junkyard. I had no choice but to vent it to the atmosphere. I said three hail Mary's and donated some money to the homeless as pennance. If you can do it properly for a reasonable sum, free would be nice, I'd say go that route. I wish that had been an option for me.

No way to answer that without some pics. Do the spokes have holes in them just depressions? BTW, all 240Zs came with walnut steering wheels stock, perhaps even the 260-280Zs. Dunno the latter.

Simply put that sweet sound is music to the ears. I can only wish that my car sounds half that healthy one day.

Wow, that's just bizarre! Steve was a very entertaining and informative individual. He will definitely be missed. Not just for his performances, but also for contribution to the furtherment of wildlife preservation and advocacy.

True. Thanks for validating exactly what I said.

Welcome to the board Mike. I just found 260Z in my local JY. Let me know if you need any odds and ends. I may be going back there this coming week.

A better measurement for comparisons would be the center of each wheel hub to the top of the wheel arches. This would eliminate differences in wheel and tire sizes and provide an accurate measurement of difference between one spring set and another. Of course that's a bit different thatn ride hight which is what you were really loking for anyway wasn't it?

You really need to utilize the search feature more... http://zhome.com/ZCMnL/tech/GearRatios.html http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/6212/diffswap/diffswap.htm http://www.geocities.com/z_design_studio/transmission.html http://www.geocities.com/zgarage2001/z.html

The worst thing about this site is that I can't stay away from it and waste countless hours reading posts when I should have spent them working on my car instead. Seriously though, the search feature sucks big time. I now use google to search the forums when I'm having trouble finding what I'm looking for.

There may be some people interested in it for it's historical value, however I don't believe you will find many interested in buying them for use on their vehicles. (1) They are ugly, (2) you must cut a hole in your hood, (3) They were a patch fix(bandaid) for a problem that Datsun/Nissan was desperately trying to fix. Note that this is based one one person's opinion and the the community as a whole. I'll let the opthers speak for themselves.

You are correct SavannahZ. The rest of the world got the 260 for a number of years. As you seem to be aware, it was only availaalbe here for a single year. Do a search, there are several threads that mention this. It's a big world out there.

Isn't cold air dry air? Could this have something to do with it?

Ok, that's scary. Somebody help this guys out.

Nice find and nice handle. Does that reflect your profession or did you choose it because it rhymes and it's all you could come up with?

They look like clones to me. Note that the spokes are much larger and are impacted by the mounting holes. You don't see that on any of the Panasports.

Perhaps I'm a bit naive but I took this post as a legitimate attempt to gauge interest in clean rust free cars from the west coast from someone in the business of identifying a market niche and filling a need. Perhaps I'm not as jaded as the rest of you when it come to site spammers. Not to pick on you Zak, but when I read your post I immediately sensed hostility and sarcasm on your part. Not malicious but certainly not innocent either. Hopefully this will not drive this guy away thinking we are all a bunch of assholes like you find in so many of the other enthusiast sites out there. If in fact he is legeit and can help one or more of you find some decent cars at a fair market price, that would be a real shame. I can also attest that there are quite a few clean, rust free or fairly rust free Zs here in Cali selling at reasonable prices. Hundred, I'm not so sure about that but like Moonpu pointed out, he said he "could find" not "did find" or "have on hand". Perhaps if you see a post that you think is spam, the best thing to do is ignore it and let the more emotional posters ferret it out. Oh wait! That's what's going on isn't it. ROFL