Stealth-Z

I have a few sets of the valences. For some gas money I will run them down to you from Sacramento. It is a nice drive to Rio Vista.

Before the Arita Speed / Kameari G-Nose kits were offered by azcarbum I contacted an individual in Japan about this kit on Yahoo Japan Auctions. The kit arrived Saturday. Cool part about it was the shipping. It came via EMS through the U.S. Post Office! The box measured 162cm x 71cm x 26cm. Big box, the clerk thought it was a bicycle. The shipping cost was 14,150Yen (about $128.00) This kit is sold on Yahoo Japan auctions for 52,000Yen (about $472.00). Now I did not expect the person in Japan to do this without some sort of compensation. His comission was 15% of the total. I believe about $90 to $100. So the total was around $700.00. The quality looks good. Next comes the fitment test. The seller on Yahoo Auctions Japan claims it was made off a first generation G-Nose mold. In the next few weeks I will test fit it on my 75 280Z. This kit does need additional finishing work. There are no mounting holes. Drilling and additional hardware is required. Hinges are not included. Figure an additional $225 from baddog parts for those. I can say this for sure, it is a hell of alot better than the show-cars pieces!

Excellent Work! They have the right off the factory assembly line look.

Venus is a few miles up the road from me. Ronald likes to sell clusters with front clips. It has been a while since I have been there. He had R32 clusters at the time for $100.00 but did not have any R33's available.

ebay. They show up from time to time on http://www.nicoclub.com. Generally they go for under $100.00.

I am definetly interested. Nice work!

To late on the clutch. I remember seeing it up for bids on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330175143528

Very nice find. I really miss Okinawa. How did you go about finding a non-military position?

Someone PCS and have to dump their car?

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=100696&highlight=L28

This was in 1986. It was in a shop on Hwy 58. The hood (bonnet) was missing and it was originally white in color. I put a battery in and it fired right up. This is what it looked like after a little body work and paint. The photo was taken at the shipping port in Okinawa. My friend Roy was shipping back the 73 Camaro. The G Nose and hood were found at a wrecking yard near the sea wall. This is the Fairlady Z that got me interested in Z's. It also spoiled me because it had no major rust cancer. For a 73 it still had intact floor boards and body panels. When I purchased this one the Yen rate was around 152 per dollar. We were joking that some day 1 cent would equal 1 Yen.

Hey Yasin, Your garage looks to clean from the angle of the photos. What is being hidden in front of the cars?

They are factory G Nose covers. Here is a photo z-ya posted in this thread. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=118028&highlight=nose+cover

Yeah, I did some more research. Used babelfish and it mentioned 10 thousands. I still remember purchasing my first 73 Fairlady Z for San man Yen.

89,000 Yen for the white one next to the VW? or is it 8,900,000. It has been a while, I forgot how they price cars.

If you are refering to this one...it will fit in a 75 280Z. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/75-76-77-78-DATSUN-280-Z-NOS-FUEL-TANK-GAS-TANK_W0QQitemZ320168184719QQihZ011QQcategoryZ33556QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The attention to detail is fantastic!

Could you pull the vacuum before the turbo inlet? The turbo will be sucking it in for the most part. Even when the recirc or blow off valve is in action there should still be some vacuum.

Nice drawing. What program did you use to make it? You should add the 6 ohm resistors are for the low impedence injectors.

Great work! Love the attention to detail.

It is a 2+2. The thiefs left the stereo according to the seller! The commercial does not show very often.

You brought out my curiousity about the L28 FI resistor measurements. The L28 fuel injected resistor pack has two ceramic resistors. There is one white wire and two black wires. A resistance check on them measures out at 6 ohms. Now here is the perfect junk yard fix as I see it. Take three of these packs, connect the white leads together and attach the remaining six black leads to the injector harness.

I bid $41.00 for it because I wanted an uncut plug. I have a resistor pack with the plug cut off. Resistance from the one white wire to all the six black wires is 6 ohms. .....................<-------////-----------Black Wire ..................<---------////-----------Black Wire ................<----------////-----------Black Wire White Wire<------------////-----------Black Wire .................<----------////-----------Black Wire ..................<---------////-----------Black Wire Sorry for the crude drawing. Basically connect one end of the 6 ohm 6w ceramic resistors all together. This end connects to the white wire. The remaining 6 leads go to the injectors. Not to difficult of a circuit to build.

Interesting belt setup they are using. Wonder what belt it is? Idler looks smaller than stock RB2xDE(T)'s.

This 75 280Z was to good to pass up. It was on the Sacramento craigslist described as a 1977 280Z in May of 2007. The bumpers were what caught my attention. They were not the 77-78 style. For some reason I figured why not go take a look. The Z was actually located in the town of Cool. Cool is south of Auburn California. Kind of a remote location. Upon getting to the location I discovered that it was infact a 1975. Here in California 1975 and older cars do not have to submit for bi-annual emissions testing. No one in California seems to want the 76-78 S30 Z's because of the required emissions testing. Technicaly you are still required to keep all emission equipment functioning and intact. Potential to do other things with it made it to difficult to pass up. This one was parked in 1992 for failing emissions. The previous owner never bothered with it again. 2006 rolls around and the neighbor of the Z's original owner shows some interest in getting it up and runing again. He has the fuel tank boiled out, replaces rubber hoses and installs a new fuel pump. In the engine compartment he replaces the fuel injectors and all rubber hoses. He managed to get it to start but it only ran for a few minutes. For all his time and effort on the Z the original owner gives it to him. Durring 2006 the interior is partially removed. For years the Z sat in a covered enclosure. Unfortunetly the last 3 or 4 years it sat outside exposed to the elements. The original white interior was soon destroyed. All the plastic interior panels nearly disintigrated when pulled out. The tops of the door panels looked like they had been on fire. The carpet was completely dry rotted. Once it got to my home, the wife guted the rest of the interior while I started on the mechanicals. There was suprisingly little rust to be found. If any it was surface rust everywhere. A little rust mort cleared it up. Nice thing about this area, rust is not a major issue if the car has been here all its life. New struts and springs were installed. This was necessary because of the rubber mountings for the original struts had rotted apart. It was amusing to jack it up and the rear wheels kept falling and falling. The 280Z front ends have never been to appealing to me. So on this one I decided to change it to the 240Z style. A while back I saw a photo of one of the BRE track cars. The paint style looked neat so I decided to paint this 280Z in a simular style. I removed all the chrome, glass and other accessories from it before painting. For some reason I do not consider a full paint job to be taping around door handles and rubber seals. In any event, all the rubber seals needed replacement anyway. The windshield is laying in the sill. August 2007. Reasembly is a bit slow. Changing to the 240Z front end requires some modifictations. It is not a bolt on setup. The front spoiler ads to the BRE like appearance. 280Z's have alot more metal in the front end than the 240Z's do. September 2007. The new black MSA carpet kit is installed. It goes in quite well. It needs some cutting here and there but other than that it goes in smoothly. The newly repaired seats are in. The dash has a full cap cover installed along with a protector to cover it as well. The fabric dash piece was one that came with another parts car so why not protect the dash cap? The tires on it were new when it was parked in 1992. They still had the new tire flashings. While there were no cracks on the sidewalls, there were cracks on the inside between the treads. No use taking chances. Might as well get new tires. The wheels are Caroll Shelby branded. Probably made by Western and sold under his name. Not sure and really do not care. They look good to me. As long as the wheels were off I went ahead and replaced the brake drums & shoes and the front rotors & calipers. Upon lowering front end the jack slipped off the front cross member. Of course it went right into the front of the oil pan. It dented it enough that the rod made a nice thunk thunk sound when the motor was started. Oh well, might as well pull the motor to replace the pan. As long as I am there may as well do the clutch as well. Plus a 5-Speed would not hurt either. As of September 29, 2007 this is how it looks now. At one time I was going to install a 240Z rear bumper. After remembering a guy bumping into my 78 280Z at a gas station I decided to put on the larger style. Of course many say it is ugly. I think the 77-78 style looks okay. The red strips down the side are decals. Most likely they will be removed and painted on instead. The 240Z grill still needs to be installed along with proper brackets for the front bumper. There are other small details that need finishing but for the most part it is now presentable.