Patjamas

Early this year I bought a 72 240z to be a project car. It was pretty far from top shape, which wasn't a problem for me because I hoped to use it to learn alot about gasoline engines. For a short period I was using it as a daily driver, in the fall. It never ran amazing, but it seemed to have good days and bad days, which I chalked up to weather conditions and the carb setup. One day I was heading home from work and it just died when I was rolling up to a stop sign. Previously that day it HAD been running noticably rough. So I get it towed back to the house and I start checking it

I found this 72 240z locally. I have been back and forth on a project car for awhile now, and i found this for 1700$ and it seemed too good to be true. I'm unsure exactly what I want to do in the end, but for now I can just enjoy the stock setup. The car is pretty rust free, 1 bad cancer spot on the driver front fender, and some surface stuff on the hatch, but its 36 years old so I can't complain. I've been visiting this page for awhile so this is mainly an introduction sort of thing, and I'm glad i can get into the z community now. I'll post more pictures when i actual

Hi all, I have been scouring these forums for awhile doing some initial research. Found a TON of great info about v8 conversions and little z details I never knew about. So my tale so far is, I'm active duty military deploying to Iraq, stationed in Idaho. While deployed I will make considerably more money and wanted to treat myself to a nice ride when I got back. I am a mechanic in the Air Force (mainly diesel engines not airplanes) so I have a bit of experience pulling engines and replacing components, not to say this qualifies me to start converting z's but with my experience, the J