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Hopefully the rear PITA inner fenders are finished... Out of scrap sheet metal I fabricated a license plate fastner with two nuts welded on and pre bonded with the fiberglass strand body putty to the inside of the rear tub. I had these threaded square " pieces of steel " that I also bonded to the inside rear tub with the fiberglass reinforced body putty for the license plate holder. I will later bond over with fiberglass resin and mat for a more secure bond ............. Any time you are bonding fiberglass, you must grind the fiberglass surface to be bonded or it will not hold the part bonded .... I wanted to make some fiberglass tail light rings to recess the tailights more. I scoured my storage sheds until I found a red plastic bowl which bottom was the correct outside diameter of the tailight ring I wanted and the recess on the bottom was the correct depth for the thickness for the tail light ring. I center drilled a hole in the body of a tailight housing and in the center of the bottom of the bowl recess. Hose clamped a 2 inch thin sheet metal (sheathing) strip around the tailight housing and then found a long bolt to clamp the tail light housing and the bowl together completing the taillight ring "mold". I mixed gel coat and re-inforced body putty and spread it in the "recess ring" at the bottom of the bowl and..... made four rings without the use of any mold release since all the "mold" surfaces I used, fiberglass will not adhere to. I am still laughing about this innovation and will use the fiberglass rings as a pattern for metal taillight rings .All this was done without any measurements >. ...............I placed the rings on the passenger side tailight holes and found they were 1/4 inch too close to accept the rings. I placed the two rings on the passenger tail light holes and marked a 1/4 inch moon shaped sliver to be removed by my air body saw. I cut the sliver out and then bonded the sliver of fiberglass to the other side of the hole..and moved the holes a 1/4 inch apart where my new rings will fit perfectly side by side..............................................................Now that I am thru with the inner fenders I have came up with an idea to snap the Z lights into the funky utility tailights and secure a bolt on barrier strip betwwen the fiberglass rear pan and the Datsun rear panel which looks like cyclone tunnel for air being trapped under the rear of the car and trapped ai rmigrating inside a " leaky" passenger compartment ............... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/larryjohnson97438/album?.dir=/8223&urlhint=actn,ren%3as,1%3af,0

The old silver 78 Z set for a couple more years while I was away with no one paying heed to my instructions to start it. I soon discovered that something was wrong upon re-starting and I know nothing about EFI which I denied like an alcoholic. I entertained carburator replacement but decided to get an EFI educaction when the gas prices doubled. I still know little about EFI but I am learning. The gas tank was clean. I have a fuel pressure guage to monitor the fuel supply and a 240 SX throttle body upgrade and JSK fuel rail. Enough spare parts in the backyard to do some serious "parts changing". A recent thread indicated just re-connecting the ECU plug in can do wonders and my injector terminals are really cruddy. I figured the best way to start my EFI education was to make the parts pretty so I would enjoy furthering my education.. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/larryjohnson97438/detail?.dir=8223&.dnm=879b.jpg&.src=ph "When the going gets tough....the tough get going".....from former consumate bully Attorney General John Mitchell (married to cigar smoking Martha Mitchell) serving under the Nixon regime who later resigned his post and fled.

Research the recent threads started by "Tim 240 Z" and you will find a short time ago he posted an information website concerning 'what glues to use on different materials" a specific glue maybe found to hold the insulator together

What is the height of your coil over springs. They look 12 to 14 inches ???? For members sourcing parts ....Here is a website with maybe the best bargains in coilover parts .. The adjustable sleeves in 2.170 inch size will fit the 280 Z (2.166") http://www.a1racing.com/index.asp?PageAction=ADVSEARCH&Page=1&txtSearchAllWords=&txtSearchExactPhrase=coil+over+sleeve&txtSearchWithOneOfTheWords=&txtSearchWithoutTheWords=&lngLookinCategoryID=0&txtSortOrder=1&intResults=50&btnSearch=Search&AdvSearchAction=GOFETCH

Tim 240 Z recently posted a "glue" website. Try gluing it and find another part.

Tony ----great project that will assist the down under members but the closest I haver ever been to a OZ Falcon was watching a Mad Max movie. I saw once where one of your countryman mated a VW engine to a Russian Ural motorcycle

$5000.00 ............I would buy a completed Hybrid Z that someone put $15000.00 into and then spend the remaining $2000.00 on a tank of gas

Rusted or scored cam lobes? If the lobes are rusted they can br cleaned up with 3M Rolock Scotch Brite disks mounted on a mandrel hooked an air tool. Thr head and block deck will clean up with these miracle disks. Flip the head over and use a the striaght edge of a carpentor's square or a contractor's level. Eyeball the flat surface of the head and the straight edge of the tool looking for any gap in every direction btween the surface of the cylinder head and the straight edge. You can even measure the "possible" gap with a feeler gauge. A lot of heads and cams can be saved even if they look like crap. Remove the valve lifters and level the head valves up and fill the cavities around the valves with kerosene or diesel... Check in the morning for leakage around the valves. You can even do a valve job with a small suction cup, mandrel and a reversible drill and some lapping compound after removing the valve springs and split locks

Does it come in bulk quanity ? I got a project I could completely cover with the material and then sculpt to my satisfaction. JB Weld held for a few years in a L20 B cylinder head that was beyond any other repair and kept the exhaust from leaking into the radiator and blowing the top tank off.

There was a Scarab conversion package being separaetely sold on eBay that included drive shaft and headers

I can always get excited and day dream about a 302 but in my realm of knowledge, budget, ability and reality my limitations would be confined to a simple wired 383 carburated SBC stroker

Tim ...you must tear into projects with power of a Louisiana hurricane ! Pretty fast solo drywall job for an afternoon. Hope one of the kids, tools, or -parts did get sheathed in also that afternoon. During a garage drywall job, I nailed a copper water pipe directly in a corner stud wall....Got it repalced but too damp to hold solder ...used a wad of bread dough to sop up the inside pipe water dampness where the hot vapor would not blow out the cooling solder in the joint.

Jack! Jack! Jack! true true and true but are not all these dinosaures a conversation piece???to boost our egoes. My project is just socio/psycho needs I am tring to compensate for.

I wasted 20 years in a marriage doing the right thing and to do it over again..I would not make the biggest mistake of my life. I had a very responsible girlfriend I was in love with, only to leave her for a pregnant one (things happen) 15 years later my problem wife tries to get pregnant and all that developed was me contracting a dose of clymedia from her. Then it took me another 5 years to find out the clymedia was not caught off a public toilet seat but from her phsyically accepting sperm behind my back from another gene pool (neighbor suspect) because I was shooting blanks. Go figure. it happen a lot......

If you are doing legal resesarch for your state laws, then you can most likely do your own legal work and get by with just the filing fees. From what little I read of your Pa. statute citation..the garage owner after you quit paying storage fees, could make a claim...what you want is the legal proceedure to COA and provide you with compensation..Since the fellow is out of state it may cost more to serve notice of complaint and summons. County courthouse libraries and public law schools are open to the public in Oregon due to federal funding The State Bar Assocation should have a civil proceedure manuals with forms at the public law libraries and your local office supply houses usually will have updated Pennsyvania Stevens Ness legal forms. I just picked up a set for wage garnishment that incorporated a lot of new garnishment law for Oregon. Oregon county courthouses have a bulletin board for posting mechanic leins and storage leins and the Oregon DMV sent an application guide,statutes and forms for seizing a vehicle by legal means. This ia all very simple in Oregon but to be immune from liability and prosecution the tow company owner should have had an authorization signed for the removal of my Z and any 2nd party signature would have worked for him then.... and provuded immunity for himself. He offered no documentation or authorization to the Consumer Fraud Division. Since I am managing the Sheriff's Dept with my voluntary investigation..I have not told them of the State'e order to return the car to allow more dust to settle giving the creeps more time to hang themselves because all he needs is a authorization signature which could be had (?) from the deadbeat renter which will escalate their problems.

IF you found those wheels..you will find the tires ..A good addition for a Z

You adressed your "cheesey fix" inappropriately... Caption should have read: Great product for temporary exhaust leak. Then followed by a glowing endorsement of the product as a temporary measure allowing the needed attention to more pressing issues associated with yout Z car. You think it could be applied as a liner for the cylinder walls until new piston rings are installed????? ? How does it work on rust repair??????

Paying child support may be an option....marriage could be a punishment.....girlfriend could seek retaliation.........do not make any (rash) decisions for the next two months. You know what the right course will be. and good luck

I have previously used a high speed rotary hand tool on another fiberglass headlight opening that was hard to control and wandered.The rotary tool may have been great cutting drywall or plaster board but fiberglass is a lttle tougher and harder which would make a dremel very slow going. The small air body saw and it's tapered blade is ideal for cutting a radius in fiberglass that can exceede 1/4 inch thick. The 4th low cost air body saw I obtained from Harbout Freight worked for longer periods of times. A more expensive air body saw model would no doubt be ideal for cutting fiberglass due to the high degree of dexterity control you maintain with the small tool. When operationg properly and not jamming to a stop....this is a remakable tool and if operating correctly every the entire job of cutting out every opening would not have taken 30 minutes... .............................................................No bull ...I still have to do more work on the passenger side inner fender vent surround for a proper fit. I could have trimmed and fitted flashing or formica counter top material inside the fender as a mold for the inner fender and removed the rear tub to securely fasten the flashing/sheathing or formica inside the fender to lay enough fiberglass to take a set to hold the shape. Then remove the "mold " to finish the completion of the fiberglass lay up. I would have had a lighter and better fitting inner fender. I have lost about 1/2 inch in wheel well depth by using these crappy inner fenders . in other words I could have made the entire inner fenders easier and gained another 1/2 inch of upward movement for the rear tires. (which at times maybe needed). The problems cannot be seen and may aid in drafting air from out underneath the rear of the car which appears that a lot can accmulate at speed and why Ferrari made this vent to "air out" the rear end. The vent was definitely NOT made to air out the rear fender wells.

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Wash your hands of it and quit paying storage and take the loss. unless you are judgment proof or free of garnishment and/or attachment;..No matter what you do.......you are between a rock and a hard spot by either legal duties or costs. The most dangerous course but the most savings can be salvaged by a new "lost" title and re-sale. With all the options avaiable......it is your choice and your consequences..........Now here is a story of grief that a person can get himself into......................A 75 280 Z was removed from my personal residential property by a tow company without authorization or documentation over a year ago (Statute of Limitations ..2 years.... A third party and former dead beat renter (6 months past due) in my absence had the vehicle removed to cause me some grief (or payback?). The "stab you in the back" tow company owner has done everything to avoid me and his responsibility in any type of settlement....Used Z's can be very expensive to replace....Recently Oregon's Consumer Fraud Division after reading tow operator's statement has officially found him liable and ordered the immediate return of the vehicle to me and coincidently the vehicle has been listed as stolen by the Sheriff's Department (a real big problem)..... I have been getting all my "ducks" lined up. I have a full tilt boogie current law suit that has already netted two $269,000.00 judgments against two parties (dead beat renter) and next month one party will get a first hand view of 20 years of employment garnishment over his empty head... .Mr.Tow owner and operator will be enjoined in that law suit and it will cost him abiut $5000.00 at the minimum upon the invitation to just to get to bat and answer the amended complaint (and he will strike out). There is yet another # 3 party that has been avoiding his responsiblities and thinks he is well hidden from service and summons. Big surprise for him....And the 5th party and last will will get a nice Christmas invitation and summons . No need to get all the ingredients in the stew at once and you can only shoot one duck at a time anyway. The point is about these people... win, lose or draw they are in serious legal $ trouble and the question is: who will they pay, me or some lawyer. or both. You do not want to get involved in something like this by pissing on some fool's parade because he could be gifted with either time and patience or money.

My Chilton's sez 109 ft lbs for the American L 20 B 4cylinder flywheel to crankshaft

Find that 327 and build the 302...Some came with tube headers and cross fed dual 4bbl carb manifolds. Between 50 and 95 mph .. a person was literally pinned to the seat during rapid acceleration in the Camaro.. A friend of mine had the muscle cars in the 60 and 70's and the Camaro on the road/highway/street would run circles around the others including a 440 Hemi Try Craig's list.. I have seen them offered there go to the "Cruise's" and ask those old timers about a 327 ..Probably everyone there has 3 0r 4 at home with 4 bolt mains

http://www.a1racing.com/index.asp?PageAction=ADVSEARCH&Page=1&txtSearchAllWords=&txtSearchExactPhrase=coil+over+sleeve&txtSearchWithOneOfTheWords=&txtSearchWithoutTheWords=&lngLookinCategoryID=0&txtSortOrder=1&intResults=50&btnSearch=Search&AdvSearchAction=GOFETCH 2.170" id adjusting sleeves to fit 280 Z struts $ 17.25 a piece. with eBay name brand coilovers from private parties averaging 10 bucks a piece some cheap coilover conversions can be had without having a machinist bore out the sleeve to fit a 280 Z strut. MY complete under $150.00 coilover conversion will come in at a third of commercial conversion kits. the Heavyweight rear progressives cost more than other parts but the front progressive came in on the opening bid and they were new.

I had a daily driver 19 77 620 pickup that went over 5 years without an oil change. I kept adding STP until there was no oil loss at all after 2 years. The JB Weld repair job in the cylinder head gave out and I left it in Klamath Falls on some proprty I sold and never returnned for it despite a recent paint job, 5 speed and a Weber DGV. A quarter of a million miles on the running gear and the clutch would slip a little when I forded a creek. Had a new set of 6 ply tires on it too. I kept finding these never used spare tires underneath these Datsun junker pickups I was buyng and after awhile I had a brand new set . Best pick-up I ever owned and I had about 50 620's between 73 to 79 and made a lot of pocket money reselling them.Still have a 78 long bed. Should be a kit marketed to determine when oil is too dirty or worn out, I never was too good of a judge to deternine longevity of oil after owning all the Datsuns I enjoyed over the years. Modern oil may last longer than we are led to believe.