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Did you have any ideas about making the brackets? I have a few of these radios in my stash, some missing brackets, but they are quite thick gauge steel and not something you could easily "make" with regular hand tools. I would be interested in making more to suit my radios, perhaps something we could make open source or available to the community, since they are often missing. Along with the original wiring loom/connectors etc..

Yes, Chris from S30 World was in Australia a couple of weeks ago, we took him to see Les Collins and he got to meet a couple of members here. He was only in for a quick stop over, so planning wasn't the best, but the 432 was a project he took on late last year and was something we discussed in Japan with both @HS30-H and Kats helping contribute to sourcing some of the original missing parts. It should be an excellent restoration and the owner seems to be quite comfortable with what S30 World are going to do. Be good to see one done right!

It's a strange AI fever dream for sure. One minute it's a Z, the next it's a Mustang, and a Mercedes badge I saw pop through and at one shot it looks like a Volvo P1800 being worked on. AI slop is everywhere.

Yep that photo above is a North American AM/FM radio. We didn't get that radio in our market. The brackets are indeed different again the TM-1081ZB(S) radio(s). As the manual above states that is a KM-1520ZC radio. Although I suspect Huw just used those photos as reference and are not the actual photos of his own radio.

Nick is a member here, but can't recall what his username on here is. He is selling his project 240z with Maserati engine swap. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/177946514562

Hi Huw, Do you still have the brackets on the chassis of the radio? Reference pics of a NOS TM-1081ZB(S) radio I took from an eBay listing a few years ago. https://goo.gl/photos/sXHcEMFqGQPd3K5ZA there is a square bracket that sticks out on the driver side and a smaller one that is more flat in profile on the passenger side of the car. Best photo i have to hand is this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/zFHAiWNqnZG18dLU6 (Passenger side) https://photos.app.goo.gl/Pk6CZgu1zATjSLWG6 (Driver side square bracket)

Found your Performance Forums thread for anyone else interested in seeing the photos. https://performanceforums.com/forums/forum/car-corner/pf-street-cars/7331507-fu-king-rusty-datsun/page16

Hey mate, I think the images aren't loading because they are referencing performance forums attachments which may not allow the images to load from their web service. So they are coming through as blank. Perhaps from your computer it doesn't look that way because you were logged in to their site?

Welcome, have you got a car yet?

Hi Folks, There was an issue with the forum recently, I am in the process of troubleshooting it. Looks like a post update issue with a template file and a custom 'hook' call was causing it to break the template code for the page. I've just cleared all caches and made a few small changes as part of debugging. It looks to be working again, although I cannot exact explain what change I made that resolved it. Perhaps a combination of clearing old template files and forcing them to be regenerated fixed the issue? Hard to say for sure, but let me know if you still have issues going forward? I can raise an issue with the IPS support team to have a look. Our current hosting environment may need to undergo some changes to meet requirements of the newer version that will be pushed out soon. So I may need to do some ongoing updates/changes in due course.

Engine bay looking so much cleaner! Any feedback on tuning of OERs? How does Les find them compared with Mikuni/Solex carbs?

We're not that old, first thing to do would be confirm where the oil burning is coming from, if the motor has sat a long time, it may simply be dried out valve stem seals leaking oil from the top end of the motor into the combustion chamber. Replacing those may fix your oil burning issues. Otherwise it will be bottom end oil control rings. But it's worth a shot, since I had that issue years ago and replaced the seals and it was fine after.

Big thread bump from 2010, but I managed to meet the owner and got a ride in this car recently in Japan. The owner Tomitaku San was a great guy and he spoke about as much English as I did Japanese, but we had a few laughs as he drove it through the Japanese country side. Will share some videos soon. Also the original SpeedHunters link in this thread is broken, but you can still find the article here: https://www.speedhunters.com/2010/04/car_feature_gt_gt_office_tomitaku_s30/ Although SpeedHunters is kind of on hold or taking a hiatus as of late. At least the images and content is still there. I also on the same trip managed to meet Dino Dalle Carbonare who wrote the article back in 2010. Which was also great. The trip was part of the S30 World Team 2025 expedition to Japan, of which I have become part of, to try and help promote and celebrate the S30Z worldwide.

It sold, so someone saw value in it. Looked superb.

Well I finally got one of these switches, only problem is, they now cost around $300-$400... not cheap.

Yes same car, think it's been sold on a couple of times since it left our shores. FYI: The radio is slightly wrong. It has the correct faceplate but it's not a TM-1081ZB(S) radio. Note the white tuning indicator. I think it's a later 260z style radio behind the face.

Eager to see how this goes.

Hey mate, Did you have a price on the block?

Thanks guys, sorry for the late reply. I was unfortunately sick in bed the last few days with some kind of nasty gastro thing that went through my family and I happened to be lucky last in line to get it. So no cake on my birthday, could not stomach it. It hasn't been my month, got a nose fracture playing football a couple of weeks ago and got a letter saying I'd been nominated for jury duty on Friday. Hopefully I'll have a better birthday next year for my 44th.

Strange first post? Why Supercheap Auto? The best thing to use is soapy water and a microfibre towel in most instances. Only use more harsh chemicals if you have a more persistent stain issue.

Oh, I've known of this car since the 90s! I used to see photos of it on the NDSOC website which was hosted on Alfalink.net back in the day! haha. Those wheels have been on it all these years too!

A shame it was v8 swapped, sold cheap or you missed out? haha. It was a good buy from the look of it.

Do you have a link to the listing?

Thanks mate, I've added it to my registry. Side note, I need to finish converting my spreadsheet into a BigQuery table. Then work out a way to make the data more accessible to folks. So people can confirm if a car is in the register or not. I'm just cautious about making it available to the wrong people who may want to rebirth cars down the line...

You can try fix the original mechanism, but in my experience once it was back in the car (after having it on a test bench) it stopped working again. And it's pain the butt to get in and out again. The original mechanism clogs with dust/dirt (doesn't take much) to stop the gears moving and it's reliable long term. The best repair is to get hold of a later 280zx era clock with Quartz movement in it and install that in the 240z Jeco clock (with 240z face etc..) and then hope that performs better. I had a few clocks done this way and restored by Ron at Zclocks.com, the only problem is that ZX's and their analog clocks are getting harder to source these days. Ron at Zclocks.com was looking for an alternative mechanism to replace the ZX ones to repair Jeco clocks and may have found something, it's been a couple of years since I talked to him. Is it worth having a working clock? In my opinion absolutely, I hate gauges that don't work!