BRAAP

Small update, (pun intended...) Haven’t done much of anything with the car this week. Skib and Zrac3r wanted to stop by for a while today so I wanted to clean the shop before they came out and my youngest of 3 daughters wanted to help daddy in the shop, so while I was cleaning up after a quick and dirty engine tear down from last week, I handed my 4 year old a Datsun Z car valve spring, intake valve, rocker arm anti rattle spring, air cleaner, hose clamp, and 2 wrenches, pointed to the creeper and she kept herself busy under the M3 for over an hour while I cleaned up the shop! She popped out once in while to drink her apple juice from her sippy cup and to let me know the project was coming along just fine! One of those daddy-daughter moments that you never want to forget! Hope she doesn’t either.

:lmao: BRAAAAP...BRAAAAAAAAP....BRAAAAAaaaaaaaaa...........

Journalist view of the new diversified-military, AK-47...

... and they forgot to remove their probe!

Neither do I, but then again, there are people with that sort of cash just laying around ready to spend on an old Datsun that can be easily snowed, er, I mean they just don't know any better and are otherwise incapable of researching the value of these cars on their own... If he gets that much, good for him on his "savvy" marketing...

Have you looked in your Haynes manual to see what your car could be equipped with and verified that your car does or does not have those extraneous non race essential items?

Just don't... ... in the suit Robert!

Sorry to chime in off topic, but the quote above scares the bee-jeezers out of me. I’d hate to see you grenade a piston or two or pop the head-gasket, but relying on the cold start injector for fuel supply on a running engine is a very poor choice for a few reasons, location of the fuel being injected and the type of injector it is. 1) The cold start injector is not the same in design or function compared to the port injectors. 2) The cold start injectors have no real calibrated flow value, they just squirt "some amount" of fuel into the plenum that some cylinders will get, to aid in starting. 3) Cold start injectors have different spray patterns. I’ve seen vertical straight down on the plenum floor and I’ve have seen some that spray a fan pattern sideways aimed down the throat of the throat of plenum, right past #1 cylinder and just skimming the entrance of #2 cylinder! Those two cylinders WILL be running MUCH leaner with that style if used as a 7th injector! 4) Its function for delivering supplement fuel for cold starting is adequate, but NOT for supplementing fuel flow on a running engine due to the injector design and it's location in relation to the port runners! If you are wanting a 7th injector, you are far better off using a regular fuel injector mounted ahead of the TB, between the AFM and TB, as that will insure a more consistent cylinder to cylinder mixture, (though still not ideal as “wet flow” into the first couple of cylinders will be different than the last cylinders, but a far cry better than the OE cold start injector location), and a regular injector is for more consistent in its quality and quantity of fuel delivered, as well as being a known flow rate! Sorry for the tangent, but I couldn’t let this go without at least commenting. Hope this helps.

For a ZX with 147,000 miles, engine is not the original numbers matching block, mid run of the 3000 "plaques"? Maybe $10,000, IF it is the number 1 or 3000 plaque, AND with less than 50,000 miles AND the original numbers matching engine under the hood, or in another 15-20 years... If people step up and pay these sort of prices, they could be jump starting the market for collectors. If he gets anywhere near his asking price for the car, we might want to start hanging on to our parts cars. They could end up being our IRA!

Engine bay is is the same between the Z-32 coupe and Z-32 short bus, er.. 2+2. Personally, I feel the LT would fit a little easier than the LSx, mainly because the sheet-metal pan is easier to DIY modify vs the cast aluminum. Aside from that, its really more of a personal preference. Both engines are excellent V-8's, they each have their respective pros and cons. Either power-plant will deliver big grins when the loud pedal is mashed! If you haven't purchased one yet, the 2+2's seem to be going for noticeably less $$$ than the coupes and they also seem to be more plentiful in the classifieds. As 2+2 Z cars go, the Z-32 is the hardest to distinguish, coupe vs 2+2, the general public can't tell them apart, mostly only discerning Z-car owners can...

Abroad, aboard, ya know, its all the same thing upside with a beer...

We have another trooper in the land, HBZ’s human antispam-bot! Welcome abroad Aaron! Now if we can get him to get rid of that ridiculous shift knob!...