Sparky

Just a heads up for the SA/ Central Texas area, there is a primered 240Z at the local pick N pull with fiberglass rear flares, I'm not sure what the style is called but they are like a big version of ZG flares but smoothed in. Anywho, they are bonded on right now but with the right tools you could easily cut them off in less than 30 minutes. Not much else is there, bunch of junk S130's, Z31's and S13/S14's. Hope this helps somebody in the area!

Take it easy there Ed, what a mess to be in. Both my Girlfriend and I have friends and family in H-town, Nothing but bad news coming through the pipeline especially down near Galveston. Looks like they are trying to keep everyone out until Wednesday...we will be heading over there as soon as we can to help with clean up.

I've never run it at the strip... honestly it hasn't run long enough to get it over there! I'm think that there are about three LS1 S30's as well as one LS1 Datsun Roadster floating around S.A. now, They don't get out very much though. Nice car!

So your telling me that there's one more LS1 Datsun in San Antonio? I'm going to have to watch my back now eh! Great Gas milage, The LS1 really seems to be the ideal swap for the early Z cars.

Yeah, what he said!

That thing must be a handful to drive!

Looks good, That colour is going to look great once you get it all sorted out.

Beautiful Z you've got there, very nice indeed. The vacuum caps on the T-bolt clamps is a unique touch. I have an extra suede shift boot with orange stitching left over from when I did the interior of my car. I Think it might be a little too small for the opening and thats why they made two but you might be able to use it anyway, your more than welcome to have it....

I would be willing to throw a little cash your way as well, might not be much but every little bit helps.

LOL, Sounds like a terrible 80's band name, "The Unfastened Masses."

The physics of accidents are not linear. Imagine you hit some debris in the road. As the front end hits the debri the car and mass inside the car experience a singular force but in multiple axis depending on the mass position inside the car, lets say your front tires hit some debri causing a vertical force on the front of the car and a horizontal force on the rear, this may be enough to de- "wedge" or velcro certain items, now as the rear tires make contact with the debri a vertical force comes into play acting as a spring board launching the now unfastened masses into the cabin. This is not some far fetched never going to happen scenario, while a simple straight on rear end might allow everything to stay in place, most accidents involve multiple steps and multiple bumps/forces. The worst possible scenario of a rollover accident WILL cause those items to become loose. Nobody has called you stupid and I'm sure you did spend a lot of time thinking about how you installed your stereo but the forces involved in accidents and collisions are wildly unpredictable....two quick examples: Driving along with a friend of mine we are rear ended in traffic, the stereo flies out of the dash, bounces off the gear shift flies into the back of the car and smashes another friend of mine in the face.... we would have never though it possible for the stereo to 1, come out of the dash, 2, make it past the gear knob as the stereo sits much lower, 3 bounce off the gear knob and fly perfectly between the seats to make contact with my friend face. Next my sister is a passenger in a car that looses control after hitting a bump during a transition from paved to gravel road. The car digs and rolls multiple times, my sisters seat belt breaks and she is tossed around inside the car only to be ejected out the back window before the car smashes itself into a tree. Photos post accident show the entire passenger side of the car smashed to the trans tunnel and the roof collapsed as well, without her seatbelt breaking she would have not made it. The point? Accidents are unpredictable. It's because of this that we take extra, seemingly unnecessary steps to account for every scenario. Besides, it's always the one thing you don't account for that always happens.

Exactly, and this actually happened not too long ago, a gentlemen in his 240 got rear ended and his speaker box flew to the front of the car smashing his skull. If I recall correctly he later died in the hospital from head trauma. It wasn't even that bad of an accident. It's a damn silly way to go, make some straps and bolt that ♥♥♥♥ down correctly.

Now that you mentioned that, I keep seeing this: and this: It's a trap! In spite of that and all the other previously mentioned crits I would still rock that as is... beauteous maximus

Couldn't agree more, I bought a sump from a hybridz member and couldn't be happier. It looks clean, no cutting of the car needed, and the ease of re-installing a basically stock tank is so nice. I went the double whammy route and installed both the sump and a surge tank... After all your work restoring your car to have to hack at it.....ouch.

I'll fly out there and drive it back for you. Considering I don't have a job and I live in texas it sounds ideal to me!

I've been looking into this as well considering that 90% of the streets I commute on are 35MPH streets and my commute is less than 5 miles one way on average. While my bike is fun, I can't keep arriving at meetings sweaty. The Honda Ruckus is my number one pick so far, I love the clean utility nature of it, nothing too fancy, just an engine, lights, wheels and a seat. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the lack of top speed, but I can see myself keeping it for sometime and modifying it accordingly. another thing to note is that as CC's go down, insurance cost goes up. My agent couldn't explain this to me, saying only that "thats just the way it is." I found it odd that as the likely hood of dismemberment increased, your costs went down....maybe this is because the odds are that nobody would be alive to make a claim? anywho, I say go for it, no shame in riding a scooter at all.

My vote would be for a honda N600/Z600, they are cheap for what they are and since your swapping the engine out anyway it wont be a big deal to search out replacement parts...there is a 360 on ebay now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda-NIII-S-JDM-1972-Honda-N360-NIII-S-Hatchback-N400-N600-Civic_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6260QQihZ016QQitemZ260247695349QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW#ht_7639wt_0 I would avoid the S600 models as they command a much higher price and are worth much more stock than modified. Fiat 500 would be fun and very unique. Any 7 style car would be super fun. not only that but Moto conversions into 7 style cars is well documented so there is plenty of support out there. Opel kadett wagon would be fun...they are small, have tiny engine bays and can be very cool machines, they might be a bit to heavy for you though. BMW 700? now that would be fun, RWD already setup to be aircooled with a moto engine, ultra small. fun machines that can be had cheap. Frog Eye sprite Healey sprite I wouldnt even bother with a 240Z, 510, or celica. I would go with something that forces you to use a space saving package and also something that no one would ever expect to be fast or even remotely quick..what kind of fun would it be to race someone in a moto powered 240z?

Woh, "Nissan 280ZX, so easy even a cave man can drive it!"

Drool! This concept along with that 510 concept are class acts, I would be all over either of these were they to be offered. Nissan, are you listening! There are a few things that I would change, but if it were to be offered as is I would sign the dotted line without hesitation. excellent work. The worst thing about it is that it's not in my driveway.

Woh that looks good, nice colour combo! clean clean and more clean!

My girlfriend and I are going on a post graduation celebration cruise to Alaska...probably the most relaxing thing we can do after four years of craziness. We will be stopping in Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway and then Victoria BC. my query today, is what do the experienced cruisers and alaskinites recommend? Naturally this is a cruise and our port times in the above cities are limited...I figure that most of the time we will be sitting on deck and relaxing. but, for that limited time we do have, I would like to do the least touristy things as possible. Eventually I will post a question or two about something thats Z car related, unfortunately the way things have been going lately I've had no time to work on my 240 since december...thanks for putting up with me!

yup, I'm sure somebody here could have used some of those parts, but Z people are the most frugal people out there and our cars have not attained the value that other cars have, I'm sure if that was a 55 belair, or 65 Austin healey MkIII it would have been stripped to the bone. I've stripped Z's with the intent of selling the parts only to be offered pennies on the dollar of the time it took to remove them...never again. I end up giving tons of parts away whenever I've sold defunct projects in the past. in other news though...check this out! thats intense! love to have on of those on my DD so when I get cut off or bumped by other stupid drivers around here I could just pull up to them, pin them, and rip their engine out....ha! that would show'em! errr

I agree that the stock location (more or less) would be best, as mentioned before it leaves less work for people that might have nice intercooling and exhaust plumbing already. One thing to consider if the turbo needs to be moved forward, please consider those of us that run Air-conditioning by leaving plenty of room for the compressor.

Ditto, Seems that their turbo headers for six cylinder vehicles range from 200$-350$ Somewhere in the middle seems like a good price, perhaps two manifolds could be made, one with a T3 flange and then one with a T04 flange?

I went back to the junkyard the next day with my jigsaw and 200ft of extension cord and cut the corner off of the CVCC's hood. I figured they were already there and just about perfect as far as I could tell...why reinvent the wheel eh! My painter/body man was quite skilled so I had him weld and blend my new louvered panel in place. Traditional methods are cool but can be prohibitively expensive, especially on the shoe string budget I had on this Z.