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A few months ago I put on some 350# springs on the rear that I bought years ago and never got around to installing. I think these are close to the perfect rate. They hold the strut about in the center of travel with no preload on them. I also installed the TTT rear sway bar. That made a big difference. I should have done that 10 years ago. I kept reading people going back and forth saying no rear bar is better, and some saying a bar is better. A rear bar is definitely way better, at least on my car. I also did the anti venom mod on the T56, and it shifts much better.

I did this last night. It made a difference in the shifting, much smoother and easier. I didn't read the amazon listing, so the new packs of the Dorman 65277 only have 1 20mm washer, not 2, so I ran to the Honda dealership and got a Honda 94109-20000 washer. The Dorman is thinner and copper, the Honda is thicker and aluminum. They are both crush washers. I would say it made it 30-40% easier and smoother to shift. Cost about $10 and once my car was in the air took about 30 minutes because my cat was right in the way, so I had to drop the front of my exhaust to get my hand in there. I have V bands, so it was easy to do. The Corvette and Mustang crowd call it the anti venom mod.

Apparently this is old news, but I just found out about it. You add 2 copper oil drain plug washers under the shifter detent bolt, and it makes the T56 shift much better. Anyone here done this? https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/want-smoother-shifts-try-this.686622/page-13

https://a.co/d/9XKdee7 Just got this one. Haven't driven with it yet to see the stability, but you can put it up high and out of the way, and bend it into all kinds of positions. You have to stick a metal ring onto the back of your phone for the magnet to hold it.

https://www.amazon.com/eSamcore-Detachable-Bendable-Aluminum-Accessories/dp/B0CS5Y75DS?crid=2EMDXE1QAZW0N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.LJ63zaP-fwTEX81KyOmXcZWnqbwEQyxTGnYN4p01FB2fhawGloi1TEnplAbQqG1s08LwQ0VUVQ9sIHJ1Q1VqlQWCpQz2obhbEqjg7ajdZBoatYvrrp68EPTlJ81LOX_3Hux-0tund0aLqEvXyZVc_m7E7WEdAyUtGlShbRi363a8pCVkXxXIixUmDGj4BPuOcJCe8S9vQ_IS8omWPC5AEqb482m0CYjmt4OvCmvG980.amYLxmZUEVryWcFKNUFLOhzkAMhJwYrTNoVwKcI10TA&dib_tag=se&keywords=baseus+co2+magnetic+phone+holder&qid=1750781730&sprefix=baseus+co2%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-5 I was looking at this, wondering if it could hook over the top of the frame above the window. I have a suction cup one that sticks to the windshield, but no matter where I put it, it seems to be in the way.

What is everyone using to mount their phones so its easy to see GPS?

How do you download it to back it up?

If I know the answer to a facebook post is on here, and I'm not busy at the time, I'll try to put in the link to here, or say its on Hybridz. I don't know if that makes a difference. Once a few years ago, someone asked "What's Hybridz?"

When I got my car 13 years ago, it only came with 1 key. 78 280Z. I went to get another key made and they only had something close, it only worked on the 1 worn lock. About a year ago I was in an old hardware store that's been there forever and saw the key rack, so had them check. They still had a few blanks that even said Datsun on them. On 1 side it says DA21, the other side says X7 DATSUN. This is the key that works in a 78. I had one made for the car, and bought a blank to have for a spare.

Hypothetically, most of the Z forums nowadays are pretty dead. There may be a handful of posts on each one every day. Even though a lot of the information in forums is old, there is still a lot of relevant information on them. It would be sad to see it all get lost. I guess social media or smart phones are to blame. I'm not sure if there was an app for each forum (like a hybridz app) if that would help at this point or not. Everything that is posted in social media pretty much gets lost and is very hard if not impossible to find again, and its mainly just pictures and comments, nothing too technical. Does anyone think that there would ever be a world in which forums would merge before they got totally lost? Like several of the Z forums combining into 1 large Z forum (if that's even possible with the different software they use) to get the handful of people on each one all together so there are decent numbers on one. I worry that one day several of the old forums will cease to exist and all the information in them will disappear forever.

I went to Sweden about 15 years ago, and at night we asked people wheres a good place to go in Stockholm. I guess it was after midnight, and several people said Applebees of all places. I thought that was weird until I got there. It was packed, then then I saw why. People were street racing all kinds of crazy stuff that you could see from the outside tables. I saw everything from a Lambo race a 4 wheeler to a ferrari racing a street bike. It was kind of wild.

Ran across the Roadstr app on youtube. Seems to be bigger in Europe than in the states, but shows a lot of groups here. Its one of those apps that you can make a route for a drive and share it only to your group, and everyone can follow it. Anyone here have any feedback on it or any similar apps for group drives?

The thinnest bottle I could find was an EMPI 15-2060-0 from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FB83UUI?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1 I got a piece of ABS from McMaster Carr that was 2.5" wide x 1" thick and shaped it to fit the bracket the best I could. I have it installed but waiting on a plug to come in to wire it up. I ordered this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0E7S8I?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title, you just have to depin it and switch the 2 wires so that the red goes to positive on the pump. The positive on the Datsun harness is blue with the red stripe. The bottle has a terrible cap, but it fits in the space and works.

I got a black ABS pipe fitting from Lowes that fit my hose, drilled out the back of the factory box to accommodate the larger pipe size, and glued it in with the BLACK ABS plumbing glue. Have to use the black, NOT the clear.

10 years later and I finally got around to doing it. I used the sheet of ABS I bought 10 years ago and has been sitting in my garage since. I got a big piece of very thin plastic, probably thinner than poster board to make a template and kept trimming it until it fit OK. Once the actual piece was in, used a heat gun to make it fit the best I could. It's not perfect, but will probably keep 98% of the crud out from behind the fenders. I removed the 2 bottom fender bolts and pulled it out some, and so much crud fell out.