HS30-H

If the car in question is an original European market car, then it would have had a 5-speed fitted as original equipment. munters, If you need any help with original documentation to help your cause, then let me know. We have helped several European and Scandinavian owners beat and/or circumvent their local restrictions in the past, and you're not the only one building such a car in Switzerland I believe.

Discussed on this forum several times in the past: Marugen Shokai

No need. There's a company already out there making them at least as good as ( if not even better ) than OEM quality.... ....and the company that makes them - as I have already mentioned more than once on this thread, and not for the first time on this forum - is called MARUGEN SHOKAI. They are based in Hokkaido, Japan.

The factory items fit just fine. And that's why I'm saying that people should be careful about what they are attaching the "ZG" name to. Clearly there's factory, there's equivalent to factory ( EG Marugen Shokai's best ) and then there's - well, everything else on a case-by-case basis. Non-factory should not be called "ZG", as it implies factory. The words 'replica' ( itself implying a required degree of accuracy ) or 'copy' should be used. Factory HS30-H model Fairlady 240ZG cars didn't use any kind of sealing strip or welting between the overfender and the car's body, and Nissan never recommended the use of such a seal either. There should be no need for it. Nevertheless excellent quality, accurate, properly fitting replicas of the factory items are available. I suspect the problem here is something to do with your idea of "reasonable price range" differing from mine. If I pay peanuts I expect to get monkeys. Don't know how much the OP paid, but I suspect it was the market value for ill-fitting, inaccurate copies of inaccurate copies produced to cash in on a current fad...

So we agree that the factory items fit well. The point I was making was that there's factory, and then there's everything else. Non factory stuff ranges from excellent ( EG Marugen Shokai's deluxe items - which are at least as good as factory ) through to total garbage ( no names, no pack drill ) with a wide spectrum in between. Items like those bought by the OP would be more correctly named "ZG style". In many cases they are absolutely nothing like the genuine item.

Which ones are you talking about?

Genuine Factory HS30-H model Fairlady 240ZG overfenders DO. Tenth generation copies of copies probably do not......

The definition of the term "Euro" needs some refining in this context. Over here ( in Europe ) I would say that the 'Euro' HLS30 models were quite different from their North American market HLS30-U model siblings, even if both were LHD. The 'Euro' market model HLS30 ( the bulk of them being sold in France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Portugal ) had different - stiffer - spring and damper rates, a thicker front anti roll bar and a rear anti roll bar, front and rear spoilers, a faster steering rack ratio and the close ratio 5-speed trans and 3.9 diff combination in comparison with the North American HLS30-Us. They also had the distributor with the faster advance curve, as mentioned by Leon, as well as much less in the way of anti smog equipment. As the OP is asking about RHD models, these will be pretty sparse in the 'Euro' zone. The search will be limited to the United Kingdom, which got the 'HS30-U' model with all the above mentioned specs but - of course - in RHD. To the OP: If you look for '70 to '79 ( actually 1978 ) production year models of S30 in Japan, bear in mind that the chassis prefix changed to 'S31' in 1976. S31s are S30s too....

Step one will be spelling Australia correctly...

Are you offended at the correction, or the way the correction was made? I don't think you can argue that the correction wasn't, er, correct. But then I'm speaking only for myself, and you appear to be speaking for "...just about everyone else...", so who knows? But speaking as a confirmed amateur, it's always nice to receive a 'tip' from a "Pro". Thanks. ( A "Pro" in what field, I wonder....? ). In my opinion, this thread would be way off track without the occasional nudge to bring it back to known facts. Without that it's just a "look what I found on the internet!" thread. Perhaps you prefer that?

I'm on a chair. It just looks like a horse to you. Now be quite. Only if they moved the 'factory' to the USA while nobody was looking..... All joking aside, when talking about S30-series Z cars 'the Factory' usually implies the Nissan Shatai plant at Hiratsuka, Kanagawa ken, Japan. And/or Nissan Motor Co. of Ginza, Tokyo ( now moved to Yokohama ) and its affiliates. Numerous components / sub assemblies came from various outside suppliers ( all of them in Japan, unless you know better...? ) and they too had their own 'factories', but when we talk about the 'Factory' it usually should mean Nissan Japan. A piece of service equipment sourced for convenience by NMC USA from a USA-based supplier is several stages away from 'Factory' any way you look at it..... Nitpicking, splitting hairs, whatever. I think it's important to understand it, and to make the distinction. Just as it is important to strive to properly identify and understand the parts in threads such as this one. Without that, it's just internet rubbernecking.

Nah. It's just a halo effect, caused by light bouncing off your own mediocrity.

Fixed that for you.

Please get it right. That's not a genuine Nissan 'LY'. It's what the guy who made it is calling a 'CF-L', and it's a hybridised single cam 12-valve hemi RB head ( with lots of extra casting work and machining )on an L-gata block.

Actually, only two ( possibly three ) S20-engined Fairlady Z432 models were used by the different prefectural Highway Patrol police forces in Japan. There were many more 'ordinary' L20 and L24-engined models used, including 2/2 variants ( which were much handier for carrying equipment ). The L24-engined models were not on sale in Japan until October 1971.

That's a speaker for announcements / instructions to be broadcast to the general public by the officer in the passenger seat. Reason it's on the left side ( only ) is because instructions were expected to be given to other cars which were on the inside ( Japan being RHD, and driving on the left of the road ) with the patrol car on the outside ( fast ) lane of the highway. This car was intended as a ( relatively ) high speed pursuit vehicle for multi-lane highways, and a 'normal' speaker would soon fill up with insects, dirt and who knows what else, as well as creating drag / noise. That's the theory, anyway.....

Yes, Watanabe san visited my good friend Matsui san at 'NP35' and took the photos for his blog there. Matsui san is working on a project with me at the moment, and the parts are currently in his workshop. Being part of a factory 'works' race program, lots of quite special parts were used with it. Specially-selected ( L24 ) block casting, special narrow rod journal crank with extra crank dowelling and improved metallurgy, factory narrow journal race rods, pistons etc etc etc. It was designed to work longer at prolonged high RPM, and with the possibility ( in Safari Rally mode ) of less than ideal fuel use in-field, which the computer would compensate for.....

Yes, but the remote-adjustable 'power' mirrors came along a few years into production.

Some scans from the Nos Hero article:

Whenever I receive directions I tend to thank the person giving them there and then. If I wait until I arrive at my destination, they can't hear me anymore.......

I don't know what you mean by "common head", but that manifold and head are a pair and the throttle bodies were original to it ( and nothing to do with the LY Crossflow specifically, although the same items were used on works LY Crossflow engines ). The head pictured is the 'FIA' E4621 head, also known as the 'Safari' head, and was used by Nissans works race and rally cars during 1972 and 1973. It was designed to be used with the race version of Nissan's 'ECGI' electronic injection, with the throttle bodies illustrated. The parts in the above photos belong to me, although they are currently 'on holiday' in Japan, staying with a friend of mine.

You're welcome.

The plain chrome non rubber-trimmed bumpers were nothing to do with "Europe". No European market models used them. They were used on Japanese home market 'STD' models of S30-series Z. ie the no-frills, base-level trim versions: 'S30-S' Fairlady Z, 'HS30-S' Fairlady 240Z and super lightweight 'PS30-SB' Fairlady Z432-R. Rubber-trimmed bumpers were standard equipment on the home market 'DX' / 'Deluxe' models: 'S30' Fairlady Z-L, 'HS30' Fairlady 240Z and 'PS30' Fairlady Z432. The 'HS30-H' Fairlady 240ZG model had a painted rear bumper with full-width rubber trim in three sections. All Export market S30 models got the rubber-trimmed bumpers, and the only exceptions were the North American models when the new safety legislation-compliant bumpers were phased in.

There was a good four-page article on the car in the April 2006 issue of NOSTALGIC HERO magazine ( Volume 114 ). You should be able to find a used copy on eBay or Yahoo Japan auctions.

Why not combine two of your interests, and join the military. That way you can visit "Abroad", meet foreign people, and shoot at them with guns.