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Ok guys, any more discussions about the process of selling on the site should be discussed in the following thread: http://www.viczcar.com/forum/index.php/topic,10515.0.html Let's leave Pauly to sell his ZX and get some guitar money .

Your brave, but if you have the time and patience go for it. You'll find lots of help here. Don't expect it to become an investment and just enjoy it for what it is and you'll be happy.

Awesome, it would be a dream of mine to drive the Swiss Alps in a classic car like the S30, with any luck I'll do it in a more modern classic in the not too distant future. I like the light covers you have installed and the period wheels are good also in gold. Did European spec cars come with the wing mirrors or were they fitted later like that?

@dat2kman - I don't know what's been said exactly - I've seen bits and pieces of PM's and what not. Can we please try and be a bit more constructive with criticism? I have no problems with what you have written in this thread, but it looks like you guys have been in a verbal exchange over PM that is a bit heated. Please both of you tone it down a bit and play nice.

Ok it seems you guys are not getting along very well here. @navanskyine - Will these or will these not fit a standard 240z / 260z? If not please clearly state so in the add above. Clicking through to links that make you sign up to services is not an ideal way for people to find out. I just tried the link above and it didn't work for me. I just tried: http://www.facebook.com/FieldGarageAustralia This told me: Whilst stud pattern might work I'm not sure about offsets - that's not my area of expertise. I think you need to clarify this for any potential buyers. Nobody wants to buy wheels that won't fit without modifications - well they might but please let them know that this is the case.

haha I've been playing it in the office also, my whole team is now in on it and love it. You'll hear someone start singing it randomly out of nowhere trololololololo.

The topic is looking into the future not dwelling on the past lol.. although of course I'm somewhat responsible for turning this thread into some kind of bastard child. My apologies to the original poster but you wanted philosophical and look where we are now!

@Peter just let me know when you are here in Ireland and we'll definitely have a Guinness or 2.

Thanks mate, but I'm not sure if staring at a screen all day everyday for the rest of my young years is the way I really want to live my life. I enjoy many aspects of what I do and would consider myself good at it, but sometimes you also gotta follow your heart and do something new.

sco_aus - very valid points. I don't know about batteries and their environmental toll compared with oil and hydrocarbons. I would need to see some studies that have looked into this. From a European perspective I have definitely noticed people use bikes a lot more here. It's a shame that in Australia I only see the hardcore cyclists getting around on their bikes. At least that's how it is in Melbourne. Come to Dublin or better yet - actually much better yet. Denmark in summer and you'll see why it's nice to have cyclists around. There is nothing nicer than an attractive woman riding a bicycle. I'll leave the rest to your imagination, but it is definitely a shame not to see such pretty things riding bikes in Australia. Not only does it reduce congestion as you say (Should see how many bicycles they can park in a round-about in Belgium) but it's better for your health as mentioned and could go someway toward reducing the obesity epidemic. I disagree though I do think we have had an impact on the environment due to the industrial revolution. Many studies of the Arctic reasons show decline in ice density and more and more carbon in our atmosphere. Drilling deep enough there is ice from many thousands of years back and they can measure what was in our atmosphere at those times. Cancer increase I believe is majorly linked to burning of fossil fuels, but also more so to do with our diets. If you look at the food we consume now compared with what our ancestors ate. The nutritional value is next to 0. Most food is made for profit not your health. Pesticides are a bi-product of oil, so spraying our food with that *shit* - I believe is heavily responsible for the cancer rates we are seeing today. Along with smoking (no brainer) and alcohol consumption. Here is a study that went out last year. Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review - what I find funny is we needed a study to tell us Fruit and Veg was so good at preventing cancer. Funny how far off topic I feel we are starting to drift

nizm0zed - Information lives on the internet as long as someone is paying to keep it there. There are certain spiders / bots that crawl the web and index content literally forever, but anything behind a login or difficult to crawl (blocked by servers / webmasters) is not indexed. Also anything that is not crawl-able like content that is only accessible in Flash or via Javascript based links etc.. Take a look at viczcar.com in 2004 http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040801000000*/http://www.viczcar.com/ On the other hand however look at Geocities.com - Yahoo! decided to retire Geocities after many years of free web-hosting. Now don't ask me why they took it offline (along with all that useful content) - especially automotive sites / hobby sites etc.. Then again I can't tell you why Yahoo! has done anything they have been doing recently. The decline of Yahoo! and it's story could fill a book. However the brief and good version is here. Anyway my point is many of these free sites may not be around in future so where will the content go? Offline probably, unless people offer to host sites when they have run their course. I offered to host 240z.id.au a while back because I thought the content was too valuable to be lost and offline. However I haven't been in contact with the owner of that site in a while. He did appear here once or twice. Again the point is you need to have someone willing to foot the bill and maintain the availability of such content. Probably the best example of free content is Wikipedia. The site is non-profit and runs based off donations (like here). However what happens when the site is sold and turned into a money machine. What is wikipedia worth? In the beginning I used to fund this site entirely from my own pocket (and Sulio / AKA Toecutter's pocket) and that was fine. Till we got busier and more and more people started to visit. The hosting costs went up. I started to look at advertising, initially it didn't make much money as I only put it on the homepage. Then I put it on the forum and we started to actually make more than $10 p/month. Now advertising significantly contributes toward running costs and we get donations each month. At the beginning we got lots and I was amazed at how much people contributed, but overtime you start to see the same names - which I really respect and admire. It would be nice though if others joined in also. Can I say Auszcar.com will always be here? I don't know if I can make that promise. I'll do my best that's for sure. Remember sites like this and others are voluntarily run. As such they require time involvement and money from someone. So how long will content live on the internet? For as long as someone is willing to pay to keep it there. I totally agree with the Playstation Generation (I'm Nintendo Generation thank you very much - original NES console for me in 1989). I think, well I know they think in terms of bolt-on upgrades. Too much video games and manga cartoons I think. Of course they're not all like that though - I hope

Aaron that's awesome, your tail lights are easily worth $800 US dollars now .

Very nice and very restorable. A good collector car.

I'll be around I think from the 6th - 25th, I'd like to catch up with some of you if possible. @Ash - I'll come into the shop more than likely for a few bits. Might send a PM with some part requests .

Found some in the US of A. Anywhere locally in Australia to save me shipping? http://www.racepages.com/products/?D=nissan+240z+brakes&Nty=1&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&rid=13511DCEDE4F&Ntk=Main&N=4294962600+4294966974+2769&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntt=nissan+240z+brakes

By the way does anyone have experiencing sourcing 240z rear drums and components in Australia? Any idea how expensive it is? Tossing up between replacing 240z drums and replacing with a caliper conversion kit upgrade.

Hi Guys, So time is getting closer and I am trying to plan a head a little here. In terms of spark plugs what do you think is the ideal plug for my car? I'm thinking: NGK BP6ES-11 My engine is: - 240z carbs - L28 (Flat Top Pistons) - E88 high comp head (early version) - From memory comp test is 250PSI in each cylinder! So high compression (11:1??) - Mild Cam profile - Electronic Ignition (ZX) I'm also going to need the following items: - New NGK leads (think it's worth using these they fit real well) - Fuel Filter - Oil Filter - Fuel hoses - Distributor cap - Distributor rotor button - Brake lines (may as well do front + rear) - any good suppliers for braided lines? I may ask Ash at Moorabbin Auto Spares if he can get most of this stuff relatively easily.

Cool just sent you a Google doc with some questions in it to help create the article. Let me know if you have any problems?

Haven't used an ipad myself yet, but I imagine there is some kind of application that allows you to resize images relatively easily either built in or in the application market place.

@nizm0zed - I tend to agree with many of your points. I actually think (despite what others may say) that learning many of these skills will pay dividends to you. Although it's a dying art there will always be those willing to pay top dollar for someone who is very good at what they do and has a very niche skill set - a true artist if you will. Although I'm in IT right now, I've seriously been thinking of changing career and going into something more hands on such as vehicle restoration. I like the idea of doing something more creative and a 'true skill' like forming panels etc... I also like many of the classic cars for their beautiful lines and the resto-mod scene I think could be a big opportunity as oil supplies hopefully become reduced in favor of more viable green alternatives - more and more people will look for alternative power sources. I see the electric car really becoming the power plant for many classic cars. Since fuel economy / parts availability and practicality will dictate that it's not very viable to have a totally original engine in your hot rod. What could be better than driving some of those old muscular shape cars around and not having to worry about fuel economy etc.. Check this out! You are forgetting 1 thing though when you mention loosing certain skills to time. We have the "Internets" and this is a great way to find out how to do things. Although it's one thing to watch and another doing. At least this is 1 way the skills can be documented for future generations. @Lynton - I tend to agree with you, we live in a consumer based economy. I still don't understand what creates all this demand for mostly crap made in China. I was watching a show called "American Restoration" and on the show the owner of the business mentions that there used to be a lot of pride in what people made in the early 19th century. Everything was made by hand and built to last. http://furniture.about.com/od/furniturecareandrepair/a/Qanda-With-Rick-Dale-Of-History-Channels-American-Restoration.htm 1 thing I've come to realise is that we can't go on like this. Creating, consuming and throwing away. It's simply not viable given the resources we have on this planet. Instead we need to find ways to restore and revive. Right now creating more and more junk is cheap for companies to do. Restoration is expensive because you can't automate it. What worries me most, is that people don't see the value in paying for something hand built / made. We expect everything at a cheap low price. Even if it means some poor kids in Pakistan or India are exploited to produce them. I'm thinking about clothes in particular, some people are paid 15c per garment and then it's sold to us for 30-50 dollars or something like that. I think this perception of entitlement and what's in it for me needs to change. But the best thing you can do is stop buying useless crap being made on foreign soil and start investing in local business. Eg: instead of buying a table from Ikea, buy it from the local craftsman etc..

I bought my first Z at 17 years of age. That is nearly 13 years ago now. God I am starting to feel old haha. Anyway I've had a 260z 2+2 which was a write off due to another driver. That was around 19-20 years of age. My current 240z I got when I was about 21 and have had now for 8-9 years. I don't plan to sell it EVER! if I can avoid it. Since starting this website I feel like I'm stuck with Z's for the rest of my life haha.

I think the way we define classic cars is often attached to nostalgia. I guess it will depend on how the 370z is viewed over the next few years. Many cars like the EH Holden for example are classic because everyone had 1 and they remind people of an era. The 120Y will probably become classic as a quirky Japanese car that many had and found very reliable and economical to run but not for thrilling people with it's performance. Another thing I find interesting when I view many older cars is build quality. Some of the old classic cars from the 20's,30's,40's,50's were really built to last and were in many ways an art form on wheels. When I look at the 370z I just think cheap performance, I'm not excited about it in the same way. However perhaps I just like vintage things - something that's proved it's worth via time. For me perhaps the 370z hasn't done that yet. I think between the 370z and the GTR the GTR will be a very sought after machine in 30 years time. That's a true hyper car in my opinion and a real benchmark performance machine.

Should be able to get the leather rejuvenated provided they are not ripped and it's just colour damage / cracks. If you bought them on eBay and they were not as described couldn't you challenge that? Or not worth the hassle I'm guessing? Think they look good in a Z. Let's see some outside shots and from behind?

So has anyone got photos of Rota RK-R's on a 240z? In 17" since that's the only size available it seems? I have always wanted Watanabe's but if you can get almost the same thing for a fraction of the price I'd seriously consider it.