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Now you're giving me ideas. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take much smooth talking to get my co-workers to film my Z in the snow with the company's new HD camera. Why does the man in the first video happen to have access to a full on dog costume?

AFAIK there is no such thing as an E80. The only instances I have seen which refer to E80 cylinder heads are misidentified heads that later turned out to be an E30.

Very highly unlikely it was part of the restoration program. They only made it through 40 - 50 cars before the program ended. More than likely the Z you found simply had a reman engine installed some time in its life.

Looks pretty well tweaked on the P side. I wonder what the framerails look like in the engine bay, if they took much of the impact force or not.

I've detailed other toys in a very similar thread a while back, but I just re-discovered this one. It's the oldest vehicle I own, my 49cc 1969 Honda Z50A My dad fixed it up and gave it to me for my 8th birthday. The tubes in the tires still hold air. I rode it for the first time in approx. 15 years last week. Started right up and ran pretty well with some new gas. I've got a new seat cover for it and I'll be ordering a carb rebuild kit (I suspect something's gummed up now 'cause it won't start again).

Looks to me like the car belongs to the subject of this video:

52 lbs for a P79 I weighed with what you describe attached. Different castings can vary by a few pounds too.

So Mr. Gray Suit had time to put on driving gloves while running to his Porsche?

Was this an A/T car? #1 is in section EE #2, #3, #4 I'd check section AT if it was an auto car, as well as section EC because the '73 cars had more emissions equipment as well. #5 the Flow Guide Valve is in section EC of the FSM on multiple pages. #6 is in section EE I know that most of these are covered in the other books you mentioned as well.

xenonS30.com is your friend. The FSM is available there for download.

I personally use my '92 Cherokee 2 dr. to haul old Datsun parts around in. It weighs less than 3000 lbs, has a tight turning radius, one of the most reliable drivetrains around, the back seat folds down flat for lots of covered cargo space, and I can tow with it. I towed my Z home on a car dolly and I hauled the 510 home on a trailer with my XJ too. I've filled the back with engine blocks on a number of occasions, cylinder heads, you name it. Oh, and you can buy one for dirt cheap if you look hard enough. They are pretty much at the bottom of the curve right now. Other than that I'd recommend a cheap pickup truck. I once owned a little Dodge D-50 (Mistubishi) that was a great, simple truck.

Its been relisted. No axles for your 35K?

I heard they were going to have one of those at SEMA this year. Someone please get some nice close up pics of that badboy:flamedevi.

Looks like you got some sweet new shoes for the Z, nice.

I had noticed those discrepancies before. It's a good thing there are other reference books and this forum.

Great, as soon as I discover this thread the video was removed by the original user. I love them old warbirds.

9/77 280Z

I actually was keeping an eye on him. I anticipated that something like that might happen and knew that no one was in the left lane. That was why I was so surprised to find myself backward as I didn't think my maneuvering had been that serious. I think I was just planning on giving him the stink eye or something to that effect.

Hmph, no pics of the skid marks because they are already gone (it rained most of the day yesterday and its a busy road). I figure that I swerved left, corrected too far to the right, felt the weight of the car shift back to the left hand side and spun clockwise then rolled backward until I was part way in the shared left turn lane. I think. Gotta break out the Logitech G25 and racing sims to get some practice.

Good job. Can't wait for the writeup and long term use verdict.

No! Sensei Dorikin I can do better! I've got some 14" meshies with Falken Ziex 195-60-R14s on all corners. Good idea with the lights too, thanks. I assumed that I somehow over-corrected, but I'm still trying to figure the whole thing out in my head. For some reason I don't think I watched the spin so I'm not even sure which direction the car went. Either I swerved left, then right then left again and lost the back end, or it was only left, right, tail spin. I do know that I felt the weight of the car shifting from one side to the other and that I had my foot on or near the brake pedal at some point but that my other foot stayed off the clutch the whole time. I also remember being surprised to find myself facing the wrong way though. I didn't even feel the car spinning. Something terribly exciting happened (luckily not serious) and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and no tangible memories of it. It'd be great if there were any racing/driving schools closer to me. I've never had the chance to learn any good vehicle control.

Short story: Avoided an idiot in a Chrysler, wound up facing the wrong direction on Main St. in my Z. Longer story: Apparently in an attempt to enliven my morning commute, another motorist decided to test my reaction speed this morning. I decided to drive my Z this morning, and was in the right most lane of two which travel in the same direction. My morning commute takes me on a freeway overpass complete with on and off-ramps, each with their own signal lights. I was traveling East and another motorist in a Chrysler Crossfire happened to be exiting the freeway from the northbound direction. We both approached the same intersection (with a green light in my favor, red for him) and I was jauntily motoring at the speed limit of 45 mph when he decided not to look and instead pull out into the lane I was currently occupying. Lucky for me there weren't any other cars immediately to my left or behind me. I had to swerve sharply into the left lane to avoid hitting him. I attempted to correct my maneuver by steering my car straight again, but my inertia instead carried the back of the vehicle around 180 degrees. I wound up halfway in the left lane and the shared left turning lane facing oncoming traffic. It happened so quickly that I hadn't had time to put both feet in and stalled the engine. There hadn't been any contact between our cars, and he had pulled off the the side of the road. Adrenaline hadn't kicked in either so I just started my car back up, drove down the shared left turn, pulled a u-ie and parked behind him. Since I was still calm I just got out and told him to look next time. He apologized a couple of times, but I left it at that. I'm sure it left enough of an impression on him that he'd be quite shook up. So that was my excitement for the morning. If the rain doesn't wash away my skid marks (it was dry this morning) I'll go back and take a picture of them. I've never had to do any sort of maneuver like that before.

Believe it or not there are plenty of people here who have asked the exact same question multiple times here, and many of them have been answered. I'd start by changing its vital fluids, getting a new battery (and checking out how much corrosion is underneath the old one, yetch!), checking all the hoses for brittle and cracked ones (or swolen), making sure the carbs aren't gummed up with varnish, filling it up with gas and breaking out the starting fluid. Looks like you came across a very complete early car though. It still has the metal engine fan, original braided hoses everywhere as well as the early vertical rear defroster. I'd be interested to know what color code it is (sticker on the radiator support, passenger side) out of personal curiosity.

So, uh, anyone got plans for a dark energy engine? That stuff seems pretty abundant. Of course, the fundamentals of such subatomic physics as string theory and the Higgs boson could be useful in our attempted application of loosening the theoretical string tension on other dimensions and changing their size / the time it takes to travel through parts of them. Though apparently future societies/nature itself are attempting to thwart our studies of such things by sabotaging our current particle colliders. No really, I'm not making that previous statement that sounded utter like nonsense up. Link to story about the nutters who believe it might be possible: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6318034/Could-the-Large-Hadron-Collider-be-held-back-by-its-own-future.html Or are we supposed to feed improbability data into a finite probability generator and give it a really hot cup of tea?

Where is it leaking from? Is it definitely the oil pan? Is is coming from where the pan meets the block, from where the front cover intersects with the pan and block, or somewhere else? I personally used a cheapie cork oil pan gasket from the auto parts store dry with clean and straight surfaces on both sides (full rebuild) with an AZC oil pan and didn't have any leaks until I mangled it taking the front cover off a few months later. I've got one of those super duper MSA doo-hickeys I plan on replacing it with, but not before getting both surfaces dry and coating the gasket with a little Gasgacinch on both sides. It is enough, that's what the Service Manuals call for. More than that and you'll likely warp the stock oil pan.