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Just check it before you drive it - it's not difficult. Is it using water?

I wouldn't bother Robbie. Just use a non-return rad cap, and check the coolant level before you drive it.

Email Les Collins or Stew Wilkins - they'll probably have one kicking around to give you Dave.

It's now Sold apparently.

Congrats NSW enthusiasts! It's been a great scheme down here in Vic

So after a conversation with Les Collins in which I expressed my displeasure of parts not up to the task and wanting a proper fix once & for all, a new clutch assembly was ordered from Jim Berry of "Race Clutch" in QLD. Jim can be a right PITA to deal with, but he's forgotten more about clutch's than anyone will ever know. However there was a problem: the new clutch won't fit the lightweight flywheel I had. The new clutch is MUCH smaller, MUCH narrower and requires an offset AND a receiver step in the flywheel to bolt to. My old flywheel couldn't be machined (not thick enough), so this meant that a new one had to be made... Two months(!) and many hundreds of dollars later, Les had this work of art ready for me. It's a once piece steel flywheel (4140) weighting in at 5.66kg - it can be lifted with one finger! The clutch assembly is equally ridiculous - it come in at just 3.85kg It's a 200mm assembly, billet aluminium pressure pressure plate rated to 2500lbs clamping force, along with a 4 paddle unsprung ceramic driven plate. Les assures me it won't be 'too' vicious... Cost - I'm now living on 2-minute noodles

You can install a 260 wiper in a 240, but if you just plug it straight in you only get one speed. Unless you do what nat0 has done above.

https://www.permatex.com/products/gasketing/gasket-sealants/permatex-aviation-form-a-gasket-no-3-sealant-liquid/

List and prices: Z CAR PARTS LIST APR 19.docx

I'll be there in Gav's noisemaker...

You question is a bit "How long is a piece of string", Adam. And it depends on what your expectations are... The big $ is in the cylinder head - if you want performance that's where the bulk of the $ go. If you are aiming for under 250hp (flywheel), then a standard bottom end is fine. Have a read of this thread if you haven't already - it cost the owner, all in with a new Scorcher Dizzy ,$6,000

260Z 2-seater tail lights are different to 2+2 - I'm not 100% sure they fit...

At this stage I intend to attend.

That damage can easily be fixed. Why did you part it out?!

Barely... With little to no oil pressure to the cam lobes, I wouldn't be running the engine for long. BTW, the spray bar should not be used - the block-up easily and have a tendency to crack.

To clarify the test in bold above: there is NO gallery plug in the back of the internally oiled camshaft? If it is indeed not there, that is NOT CORRECT - your camshaft and rockers (actually finger followers) will run dry due to lack of oil pressure coming from the camshaft oil gallery holes. The plug is available from Nissan. And I suggest you sack your engine builder...

Context?

There is already a thread for this event: https://www.viczcar.com/forums/topic/17578-challenge-bathurst-2019-celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-240z/

Did any Z people go to this? My new clutch arrived last week, but there wasn't enough time to get it all installed

Call Stewart at SWMotorsport out at Mulgrave: http://www.swmotorsport.com.au/contact_us.php - he'll sort you out.

Just noticed it then - very slow to add the post.

HS30's came with the little metal guard on the top the Radiator. Later RS30's (with and without air-con) came with the full plastic shroud. Ol mate on Gumtree is confused.

I have seen another couple of S30 chassis cars missing the chassis number on the firewall - no idea why this is, though. The V number stamped into the strut tower is a Police issue chassis number why would have been stamped to identify the vehicle - and that would go towards explaining the missing factory chassis number.

Sort pair go in the front. Longer pair go in the rear.