GTI-Z

I have a rear fibreglass bar for a 240 that was from Otomoto if you are still looking for one. PM me for details.

Gavin, re-skins of rear seats for a 2+2 are available from this company: http://interior-innovations.com/index.php/welcome/product_detail/41 I remember seeing the link a couple of years ago on this forum.I think it was a member here that provided the patterns.

Sorry Gavin, the Topy wheels are stamped 8 71 so no good for you ! 1555 has the later console (as mentioned in another thread) with just the choke lever and the silver coloured ashtray lid. Just checked back on the carbies - they are three screw Hitachi's. I purchased refurbished carbs from ZTherapy a couple of years ago and they are three screw as well. Brad

OK, I thought I should put the gearbox back in to get some sense of how the gearstick fits through the hole in the transmission tunnel. So here it is: The hole doesn't appear to have been re-cut at all and as you can see fits right through the centre. Below is with the console in place - later version as mentioned in your previous post. Brad

Gavin, I'm assuming that the later console is the one with the ashtray just behind the gearstick covered by a silver coloured sliding cover. I'll add a few more pics tomorrow when I get home (stuck on night shift at present). Alan, that's one of my faults, I can be a bit too trusting at times !

Whilst pulling apart, refurbishing, cleaning, purchasing and putting back together my 240Z, I have noticed a few little quirks in the build of the car. The chassis is HS30 - 01555 built about Oct 1971 which puts it around that period where there was quite a few changes to the model. Whilst I am fairly certain that the car is pretty much original, it is interesting to see what happens when Nissan have some old parts in stock with new coming in. 1. The gearbox is a 71A with the flange at the back. 2. I missed out on the hand throttle and have the later console. Yet my owners manual shows the hand throttle and use of instructions. 3. It appears that it has the earlier style fuel cap 4. My seats appeared to be half and half. That is the reclining mechanism is the lever on the side, but the bottom support of the seat is the rubber strapping. I found this out when I ordered new strapping from MSA but was told that it didn't come on my model, that I should have the Z shaped metal support. A photo of perished strapping sent back elicited a remark of surprise from the salesman (along the lines of "well I'll be buggered")

I'm usually out there every year with my Morgan but will miss this year as I have to work. Looking forward to taking the 240Z for the first time next year.

HS30 - 01555 Complete car with matching engine L24-060839 http://www.viczcar.com/forum/topic/6874-brads-71-240z/

I bought a three year old Series 2 TRX in my younger years. Not a bad handling car compared to what was available at the time. The Series 1's were Datsuns and the Series 2 & 3's were Nissans. The auxiliary gauges were vacuum fluorescent bar graphs. Every now and then these gauges would just go out, requiring a strong whack on the top of the dashboard to get them working again.

I remember when I bought my first Z (a 260) back in 1982. It was a 1974 model (chassis ~ 926 I think or close to it) and I replaced the steelies with a set of late model 280ZX 6 spoke wheels. If I had bought the wheel nuts from Nissan it would have cost about $110 on top of the cost of the wheels. Quite a bit of money back then for a 2nd year apprentice !

Found another Z ! Don't think much of the hubcaps - could be from a 200B. Wellington St 030-032 Flemington-Kensington 1984 sheet 06 30 by Graeme Butler, on Flickr

Second row on the right looks to be about the grade of structural steel tubing used in the chassis (STKM 45 & STKM 13C)

Spaceframe chassis for one of these ?

And more thanks to Phil. I also purchased the 12 piece Rhino Tools set, but I saved the $10 on postage and picked them up in person. Apparently they had sold about half a dozen sets in the week after the first posting in this thread. Nice to be able to pick up a screwdriver and not have to worry about stuffing up the screw heads. Brad

About 30 seconds of video here: http://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/nissan-sets-fastest-ever-drift-record-20160408-go1i2p.html

I downloaded my service manual from this website: http://www.xenonzcar.com/s30/reference.html They have them for quite a few year models. Comes as PDF's so you can just print off the sections you need.

Here are a couple more pics that show the ridge shape underneath. Would indicate that it is most likely an early home market metal badge. Won't be going in the bin then !

Its not the original bonnet as the car had some front end damage. The damage may have occurred after about 1973 as one of the replacement guards appears to be from a 260z as there is an extra hole drilled to suit the longer guard badges from the 240z.

Sorry its taken so long but I had to create a gallery to upload the pictures. The rear of the badge is flat but doesn't appear to look like the back of the badge in Gavin's picture. Brad