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Well. Stopped thinking about buying a Zed and actually did. You might recognise this from the classifieds, it is Linton’s second car he was in the process of working on, after the orange 2+2 he splendidly restored. AKA known as “the Ratson” because it previously came with free rats. 🐀🐀🐀🐀 RS30-00981 260Z 2 seater It will take a while, and be very much one step at a time. We’re competent with mechanical things, can get by on electrical bits and pieces, but welding, body work, sheet metal fabrication, and spray painting we will be learning as we go! Plan is an L26, manual, with some upgrades such as triple webbers, disc brake rear end, and maybe a Subaru A/C system. Yellow, with perhaps a body kit. So after lurking around here for a while now, we’re no longer an imposter because we actually own a Z car! Our second Datsun after the 1600. Cheers, Richard

The painted suspension going back in with new bushes:

With Daniel wanting a lower Z, we needed to have the strut tubes shortened so we could maintain effective bump travel. I took some measurements, then sent the bare struts off to be shortened and the gland nut threads recut. Being that the struts are 55mm (with the long rear tube), the rear needed a spacer in the bottom with a spigot to engage the bottom of the Koni insert to pack it up and keep it central, so a pair were machined up out of aluminum. We then assembled the struts with new Lovells lowering springs and their rebuilt braking components so we can fit the struts to the 260Z and get it rolling on it's wheels.