JSM

This is my opinion. Finish the project with your dad. 20 years from now you will look back with fond memories. Once the project is done, start what you wanted to do by yourself.

My daily is a 02 Frontier Pickup. Plain Jane 4 Cyl, nothing speacial about her, other than she is awesome! Ice cold AC and good gas mileage. I've got a 16' car trailer that is super wide, not to long and sits very low to the ground that I picked up a year or so ago. I have $650 in the trailer. What was funny was when I bought the trailer I did a test run with the empty trailer and the trailer owner, he was like this is a 4 Cyl? I got tired of renting tow dolly's. I know I rented at least 10 from Uhaul at 47.xx each time and then the hasle associated with it. The trailer has paid for itself many times now and I know I can likely get more than what I've paid it. I'm pretty sure I need a clutch soon, but she pulls great. The biggest I've towed was late a 90's path finder. I think I will always own a truck now. Oh, if you decide to buy a car trailer, make sure it can fit in the garage with a car on it. For awhile I was parking it in the garage with my Z on it. I was able to safely drive my Z on and off while the trailer was parked in the garage. This way you don't have to pay storage and no hassle from the Home owners association.

Correct, I'm not paying anything right now. I was happy that he was lazy and not get his permit at 15 and waited until 16! He's now realizing how nice it would have been to drive at 16, now he's got to wait another year. I'm hoping at 17 it may be a little cheaper.

That piece with the blue arrow?

Your looking for the this piece, but for a 280z, and the part that goes through the two towers? I know the LKQ Tampa had at leas 6 280zx and I thought the linkage for all the FI cars were the same.

To bad your not in FL, I'd give you one. I'm sure it would make my wife happy to get it out of the living room.

Ugh, I guess I'll bite the bullet.

Juan, you want stock 280z linkage, not ZX?

I wanted this for my 280z as I thought there was no bung, but I realized that the car actually has headers. The nice thing is I can resell it when I'm done with it and recapture a few $ back when I'm done with it. I've got a brand new LM-1 that is begging to be used!

For what the seller is asking for all 3 of those cars, I wouldn't believe a single thing he says.

Congrats! $500 is a fair price. It seems all the cheap cars are becoming far and few between here in FL. I haven't seen a turbo car for sale in awhile.

His HS doesn't offer Drivers ED. What I think I'm going to do is get it 100% mechanically sound and leave it butt ugly. That way if he wants it to look nice he has to get involved, and then if he wrecks it, which I'm sure he will do, then I don't have lots of time in it.

It is definitly a blessing, I think. He just turned 16 and just got his permit. He has to wait a full year to get his full time permit, which means he will be 17 when he starts driving on his own. I'm quite happy I got off for paying $2K for a year!

I got this car to fix up to possibly give to my son, it's a bone stock 78. I've got her running pretty well that I can tell and yesterday I finished the brakes. The first trip around the block was pure laughter! Talk about slowwwwwwwwwww....! It reminded me of a diesel. The tires were so bad and seperating I had to go home and swap aonther set. Anyway, I had another 78 auto awhile back that I don't recall being quite so slow, so maybe I've got some more investigation performance wise. It is nice to have a running, driving Z at least to play with.

I'm sorry, I'm conservative and all, but I cant see how torque is going to play much into the eqaution that far forward? You intead to do the strut brace and firewall braces yes?

I was shocked how much work it was to remove the rear bumper shock mounts. It's not hard, just very time consuming.

Lets try not to make this about politics. My reason for posting was for an FYI if you didn't know Sears exchange policy.

I do enjoy my Craftsman set. My dad bought an $800 set for me as a high school graduation present. The quality in 87 far exceeds what they have now in my opinion. I used this HF slide hammer to pull 3 sets of 280z Stub axles. I barely managed to get the last one out when the main peice disintegrated. No swap out on the main peice by HF. http://www.harborfreight.com/17-piece-heavy-duty-slide-hammer-kit-5223.html

So I'm doing brakes on my 280z and of course I didn't have the 10mm 6 point flare wrench, anyway, I had the english standard size to show the Sears clerk what I was after and he points me to the section where they are at. $18.XX for one wrench! After I picked my jaw off the floor, I walked up and hand the clerk the wrench. He says do you want to exchange for the american one? I was like I can do that? He said as long as it's some what close they don't care. I never use the english standard wrench so I walked out with a new wrench that I could use for free! I never knew this. I always thought you had to trade exactly what you had. Thought I would share.

The other thing to consider are part replacements. I had a set of older 45 OER and I couldn't find parts for them. Webers from my research were much easier to get parts for.

Hey Flatty, that is a head gasket, not an intake/exhaust gasket.

I transfered the title into my name on my new 74 260z!

What seats are those?

Scottie, my bad. I searched extensively in my parts bins and no luck. Sorry to waste your time.

What is the carbs condition? Did you rebuild them?