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I would be interested in LS stuff my self. It would give me a reason to keep my Z32.

Minor improvements but nothing to keep it from being done. Swap at will. Did you break the casting where the pivot mounts or did you just snap the head off? It shouldn't be hard to swap just the pivot and save yourself a transmission pull. You might want to look into THIS.

I went and looked up the P/N for the conversion lines.The lines are3/8-24 inverted to M10x1.0 inverted. Poly-Armour PAA-0310 @ Advance Auto . The unions are M10x1.0 inverted to M10x1.0 inverted. I used these from AGS. They were a bit better quality then the Dorman unions and just as cheap. You need 2 lines and 2 unions. Just twist them up(use a tubing bender) like so: Attach your new adapters to the M/C hook up your unions and install normally. Everything will fit behind the stock heat shield.

You can also buy conversion lines and splices from the autoparts store. My Master had been replaced with aftermarket leaving me without the proper flares. The lines cost about $4.00 and just had to be twisted into shape. You can also reflare the lines but I wanted to leave the option to go back if i didn't like the cylinder. If you go this route pull your own part numbers and go get the parts yourself from behind the counter. My local Advance sold me the wrong splices twice before I went back and pulled them off the rack myself.

1 poly trans mount bushing, 1 poly bump stop, 3 nuts, and one washer from my spares bucket.

Keep an eye on craigs list for any of the big 3. If buying new the Hobart handler 140 is pretty tough to beat. The only gripe would be the tapped voltage control. Everything else rivals the other 2 big names. I was looking for one when I stumbled on a fresh post on CL. I ended up picking up a lincoln 135sp+ with a full 125 tank of argon, gloves, cart, and mask for $450. Looks to have been used once or twice. I couldn't walk away. I would without a doubt be looking for something set up for gas out of the box.

I have a 73 with a hair line crack in it if your interested.

Are you sure they are S2000 seats? They don't have the same head rest.

Thanks. I do what I can with the time I have. Which brings me promptly to the next point. I need the cars off the shop property! If anyone needs anything let me know before they go off to the crusher. My 73' is still mechanically complete with a lot of good interior bits. Its got 3 screw SU's and I was told it was a good runner. PM me a offer if anyone wants to buy anything. When I get some Photos I will set up a classified ad. Iv'e had some free time this week so I have been able to spend some time with the 77' going over things. I have found a few more rust spots but nothing major. Most of the car is spotless but I will get into why later. The driveshaft has been installed and went in without issue. Both axles are bolted up but I do not have any nuts for the diff side flanges. The "K R180" that was in the parts car didn't use flanges so I didn't have anything handy. Brakes installed but still untested. The engine now runs smooth with all 6cyls firing. 2 of the stuck injectors freed themselves and 1 had to be replaced. There is a bad splice for the #2 injector so I will have to get that fixed shortly. Hopefully I will have it together enough to take it for a lap around the block soon. I'm getting excited. I have been looking into the wheels that are on the car : From what I can tell they look like Dan Gurney Victories. The rim is 7" lip to lip and its 14" diameter. Western wheel made this exact style wheel in 15x5.5 but I can not find any identifying marks on the one I pulled. One site I found listed that American Racing also made copies of it but like Western it should be labeled. The only thing I found was a sticker labeled "SEMA SPEC 5-1A". They are not the most attractive wheels but they sure are light and period correct. If there are any old school wheel experts out there who can help feel free to chime in. Iv'e always wondered what the black tar stuff all over the rear interior of the car was. Its sticky and gooey and gets all over anything you touch it with. I assumed that it was sprayed to cover up something one of the PO's didn't want to be seen. While I was sitting in the car a few hours ago just enjoying the sound of the engine running. I noticed all these little plastic plugs everywhere. I remember seeing one or two of them when I bought the car but never really questioned it to much. I don't know why I suddenly gave a damn(exhaust fumes?) but I started looking for them and they were everywhere. This is good News! I read about this from a piece about Dan Juday's Car. Link to PDF. The brand is different but I imagine the product is about the same. This particular brand is Tuff-Kote Dinol. This means my car is protected from the inside so I should just have to worry about the outside. This will work perfect with my plans to use 3M's Panel Bond in lou of welding for the body repair. No worries of anything catching on fire and I don't have to wash away my rust protection. It's win-win.

If my Z32 was gone I'd take this in a heart beat. Keep at it. Someone will pick it up.

I have a 78 parts car that I might be able to pull what you need from. Should be the same as the 77. It could be a while depending on what this storm does. I can verify condition tomorrow. I'm pretty sure only the EFI harness was altered. I know I have headlights but I will see if I have a Spare set of markers. I always pull them the with pigtails intact.

THE 280 RUNS!! sort of. I had to fix some wiring but it fired up today. It is only running on 3 cylinders due to the fuel injectors not firing. I and going to try to clean them up before replacement just to make sure its not just the connection. I was expecting huge amounts of black smoke but from what I observed there was no smoke of any color or strange smells. Lets hope it turns out to be a good runner. I replaced what I suspected to be a bad fuel pump but that wasn't the reason it wasn't running. I feel silly admitting this but I was a victim of the red ECU ground wire. Who decided that that would be a good idea? "All ground wires are black. Everyone got that? Good. Make this one red." Bah. Once I tracked that down it fired right up. The bad fuel pump did actually test out bad but swapping it out was just a bit of luck from leaping before I look. Just for giggles check out this Pump wiring from the parts car. Needless to say, I cut all that out and spliced the wires together with solder and shrink tubing. While I had the iron out I removed the fusible link from the ECU and replaced with a blade fuse. I kept the new link(Blade fuse) and ground(now black) removable from the ECU harness with Gold plated bullets. The connectors are the same ones that I used for my RC truck which saw over 100 amps and went under water on a daily basis. They should hold up fine in the Datsun. I hate tracking down electrical problems due to poor quality of connector. I will upload a short vid of it running as soon as I find some hosting. -Ron

It's been a while.. where do I start? I got kicked out of the body shop. Well not really kicked out. My better judgement told me to get the hell out of dodge. The Owners (the painter and the manager) are getting a divorce and the business had become one big weapon. The painter had been working doubles and weekends just to keep his head above water while the manager siphoned the money out of the checking account. I could tell things were getting weird months back and started pulling my stuff out of the shop. Currently things have become stable and they are still open but it just feels uncomfortable being there. Sadly I did not get everything out before the sh-t storm. They still have my front bumper for the z32 as well as my 2 parts cars. The bumper has been there waiting for over 6 months now and I don't have any real hope of it getting done soon. The parts cars are sitting behind the building and I'm not sure they even remember that they are back there. I quietly sneek over pull what I need and slink away before they notice. Luckly there is no money to be made from the parts cars so the manager will let them sit until I tow them away. Good times. On the bright side this whole process had got me motivated to learn paint and body. I picked up a 60gal 5 hp compressor a HVLP gun and a DA and jumped right in. My goals are to get everything I can into epoxy and ready to be top coated by a professional. I might try my hand at a few bits first but the end goal will have some heavy pearl or crystal and I'm not confident I can pull that off on the fist go around. Enough of all that on the the 280. I got all the suspension in as well as completed the R200 swap. While it all was apart I replaced all bushings as well as the spindle pins. To try to keep myself from motor shopping I decided to get the engine running before moving any farther into the body work. First step: get it turn over. First problem: I don't have a transmission or flywheel installed. I started to install the automaitic flexplate and quickly realized that I had lost 2 of the bolts in the process of vacating the shop. I don't want to go back to look. My options are buy 2 bolts or do a 5-speed swap. I did what any reasonable person would do. 5-speed swap. Member JSM had exactly what I was looking for so a deal was struck and off I went to pick it up. I try to make it a point not to go to Orlando but for some reason that's where all the Z's and parts happen to be. This drive did nothing to change my mind. It poured the entire drive like it was following me. It finally cleared up about 15 miles outside of O-town. Despite the weather and traffic we made good time and had to kill about an hour so my wife decided to go to one of the outlet malls to shop for clothes. While we were checking out at the back of the out door mall that storm came by to say hello. I'm no stranger to rain and lightning but in a mall full of tourist you would think it was the Zombie Apocalypse. After wading over hordes of scared tourist with 2 kids and wife in tow we finally were back to the car and on the road again. OK only 20 miles out I should only be 15 mins late. Wrong. All those scared little bunnies are even worse on the road. When I wasn't waiting to get past an accident I was driving 10mph on a 6 lane expressway. I finally arrived almost 2 hours late still soaking wet from the run at the mall. JSM was a pleasure to deal with. We pulled the transmission off the motor and striped the plate and bolts that I needed. We chatted for a few and on my way out JSM kept thinking of thing I might need. We just kept tossing more things into the car. See this Is while I love Z people. You can't go get anything without leaving with a bunch of extra stuff that you might need. No changed deal no extra cash just a desire to keep one more on the road. Thank You JSM. I promptly installed the transmission to get her fired up. To my suprise the ignition is stuck in the on position. No matter I can just hot wire the starter for now. I jumped the solenoid and the hot post with a screw driver and was rewarded with a dull drone and no movement. Bugger. Ok swap in a spare starter. Success. I can turn it over! Now lets put gas in and see what it does. I flip the door open and put the key in... denied. Aftermarket gas cap and I have no key. This is now getting annoying. I tried every trick I could with the tools I had to get it out but in the end I forced it out and buggered up the spout enough to justify replacing it. Discouraged I called it a day. This morning I snuck over to the shop and pulled the ignition switch and fill tube off the 78 parts car and swapped it into the 77. I had to swap out the bad switch on the 78 ignition tumbler but it was quick and painless. Happy with myself I poured 2 gals of gas in it and gave it another go. It turned over without issue from the key but It didn't fire. I noticed that I couldn't hear the fuel pump turn on. I checked my links and they are all good. Next I moved on to the plugs under the passenger seat. I have 12V going to the pump. My only conclusion is a bad pump. I will get over to the shop soon to pull the good pump off of the 78 and give it another go shortly. I really want this to happen soon so I know weather or not I'm shopping for a V8. Until next time, Ron