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Its the overall diameter of the tire that matters, not the wheel size. You can use this site http://www.bigcustomwheels.com/rt_specs.jsp to calculate what tire you need to end up the same as the stock 240Z tire diameter. I'm running 215/50/17 on 17x7 wheels which gives me a 25.5" tire diameter.

I sent him an email about a week ago but got no response. So I called the contact phone number on their website today. Its been disconnected, so I assume he's out of business.

Very cool, looks like a potential answer to the dreaded opti.

I was driving my 280Z V8 almost every day until it came off the road for the LT1 swap. It will return to the same status when the project is finished. IMHO there's no point in building the car if I'm not going to drive it.

Yikes! I'll bet driver of the car in the other lane had underpants issues after that run.

Might look cool, but the Corvette only made it for one year because you couldn't see out the back.

POR-15 the poor man's powder coat! I did my battery tray almost 2 years ago to kill off some surface rust that had started. In Feb I started stripping the engine bay for my LT1 swap. I was using a wire brush on an angle grinder and making short work of the Datsun paint. But when I hit the POR-15 it just laughed at the wire brush. The brush didn't even make a scratch in the POR-15. The longer it sits the harder it gets.

I drove a '68 Opel Gt in 68 and was not impressed. Nice looking but it was so slow and didn't handle very well either. The 2007 Opel GT is The Pontiac Solstice in German clothing and won't be imported to the US. I guess GM figures they already have the Saturn version why bring in another clone. LOL. Yeah GM salesmen start to sweat when you bring up Totota.

This is what I used: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Insulation-And-Sound-Deadener-40-square-feet_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ42612QQihZ018QQitemZ280165680230QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

There are a few in my gallery.

The LT1 engines have a bleeder on the thermostat housing. I don't know if the housing would fit your engine but you might be able to adapt the bleeder. The second one in the picture is on the inlet hose coming from the heater and the steam pipe from the intake.

I would put some heat stuff on it at least or its gonna get mightly hot in there. I pulled all the Datsun stock stuff off my 280Z/LT1 and put in 2 layers of heat relective/sound deadener I got off EBay. This stuff is foam with aluminum foil on both sies and weighs pratically nothing. I can't tell you how well it works, I'm not streetable yet.

Thanks, good thing I didn't just assume anything before I cut hoses. No oil cooler. In fact I wish I'd bought the Corvette water pump, it doesn't have that fitting. Getting the fitting out to plug the hole wasn't fun with the pump already installed!

I bought a set from a VW Scirroao to use in my 280Z. After some major mods to the frames to get the Datsun sliders to work I discovered they were too tall. I couldn't get under the steering wheel. Bummer, they are really nice seats.

I'm getting ready to hook up my Vintage AIR heater coolent lines. They say to hook up in inlet to the heater from the intake. I know LT1 engines have reverse flow for cooling. Which way does the coolent run through the heater. Can I assume the flow comes out of the top hose and back into the lower heater hose on the water pump, like in the pict?

Well things rarely go as planned. I thought the combination of the MSA fiberglass early 240Z bumper and the mega-dollar mounting hardware from Datsun Spirit would simply bolt on……………WRONG. I don't know if there is a mounting difference between early and late 240Z bumpers and if so the Datsun Spirit mounts were intended to use late 240Z bumpers. But they do not line up, not really even close. So I cut out the MSA brackets, made new brackets to mate up to the the Datsun Spirit mounts and glassed them inside the bumper. The side mounts on the 240Z bumper is not even close to the mounting hole on a 280Z, I knew that going in. And the body on the 280Z has a double walled fender/inner fender which I didn't really want to drill through to use a nut and bolt. So I cut out the MSA fender mounts and glassed in new ones that will allow me to use the stock 280Z mounting nuts. These do show a bit below the bumper sides but not much.

Good thinking. Muscle Car on Speed 2 did that exact same thing on weeks ago. They covered the foam with aluminum foil and laid glass over that. They said there ere going to make molds after they were done so they could have extra flares. They did it on a '65 Mustang they were building for SCCA racing.

The Pontiac Aztec without doubt. I have to turn away when I see one on the road!