some of you may like this...

[<jay>]

I too sent matty a pm about this..........I also sent the guy from dublin who was supposed to have bought it a pm.

[banzai g]

very nice !!!!!

[Eber]

color match the over fenders and you have a winner. An RB30 couldnt hurt either eh Rob!

[Nocturnal]

S30 Devil Z....

[Skyline Squeak]

gorgeous car!

[nismoman]

if you read the guys comments i dont think he knows what he,s bought 240z,s had a L24 engine, it seem to have a lot of differant bits on it to the 240z,s i,ve owned but i wish it was mine,i would buy another one if the right one came along

[<jay>]

not many 240's have the l24 now, they were all upgraded to the l28, however by the year its a 260z not a 240z. he obviously asked newera to import a 260z for him now its on sale here...

Maybe he has decided to withdraw from the sale I dont know.

[Kadir]

Now this rocks..

[Miguel - Newera]

Jay, don't jump on him like that please.. I only told Matty we'd bought this car not that we'd had an order for one, so he's naturally assumed it's for stock - and in his enthusiasm when uploading sharing these pics with you guys he made a mistake.

Actually in this case it's not for stock, this one was sourced for Addperformance.ie who is our sales agent in Ireland. They ordered a 240Z for their return customer. Sorry guys, this one's not available therefore!

It's an S31. In Japan they never marketted a 2.4, 2.6 or the 260Z LWB shape so although a 1978 model this one's the shorter wheelbase 240Z equivalent body, which originally came with a 2.0 litre straight six (Chassis plate shows originally 2000cc / 130 bhp). It's got considerably more than that now thou
It's had an L28 engine fitted, with triple solex carbs (New), exhaust manifold, exhaust, coilovers, etc, etc.
Took it for a short drive. Sounds friggin' awesome with those triple solex carbs and looks far better than my poor pics show...
DCD may be shooting it... If so, you'll see it in it's glory on his blog later, I guess.

Hopefully this demonstrates what we can source given the task. It took months of looking at various examples until this one was found.

We'd love the opportunity to seriously hunt for a nicely restored Hakosuka Skyline for UK or something truly challenging like that...!

Old Skool Rules!

[<jay>]

cool, thanks for clearing that up............lovely example you found there, I too have a 260 with a l28 fitted with triple dellorto's and cam, the new owner is going to love it, especially the sound!!, nice to see another z in Ireland too,

Nice job

[BenGTR]

yeah thanks for messing up my day...

[JETGTR]

Devil Z mmmmm

[matty32]

yeah sorry i didnt know it was sold (as i wasnt involved in the sourcing of this car)

still we can always get another for you BenGTR

[PS30-SB]

Originally Posted by Miguel - Newera

It's an S31. In Japan they never marketted a 2.4, 2.6 or the 260Z LWB shape so although a 1978 model this one's the shorter wheelbase 240Z equivalent body, which originally came with a 2.0 litre straight six (Chassis plate shows originally 2000cc / 130 bhp).

No offence, but if you are going to be sourcing more S30/S31-series Zs for customers ( or "for stock" ) you might want to brush up on your Z history a little......

The Japanese market did actually get L24-engined S30-series Z models. I own one.

The Japanese home-market S30-series Z range - at launch in October 1969 - consisted of sub 2-litre engined models in order to stay within a particular taxation class. Four models were marketed: The S30-S 'Fairlady Z' & S30 'Fairlady Z-L' ( both with L20A SOHC six cylinder engine ), and the PS30 'Fairlady Z432' and PS30-SB 'Fairlady Z432-R ( both with the S20 DOHC six ).

But from October 1971, three L24-engined models were added to the domestic range: The HS30-S 'Fairlady 240Z', HS30 'Fairlady 240Z-L' and HS30-H 'Fairlady 240ZG' Group 4 homologation model. These models were carried through to late 1973, when the Japanese 'Oil Shock' ( following the 'Yom Kippur' war ) hit hard.

Nissan did sell some RS30 'Fairlady 260Z' models ( with L26 SOHC engines ) in Japan in late 1973, but these were soon recalled due to problems meeting emissions standards, and fitted with L20 engines - with their body number prefixes altered and engine-bay identity plates changed to suit.

G-prefixed 'Fairlady Z 2/2' four-seater models were sold in Japan: from early 1974 right through to the end of S30/S31-series production in late 1978, alongside the two-seater models.



I'd dearly like to see you source more of these models for European buyers, and in fact I have recommended 'Newera' to several people who have asked me about importing Japanese market S30 & S31 models. But I think many people expect them to be sub-£5000 cars - which is completely unrealistic. Unfortunately, I think you are going to have to lead the market by example if you want to sell more of the better-condition old Japanese cars to Europe..........

[Miguel - Newera]

PS30-SB Thanks for the history lesson! I learnt some things there Appreciate you taking the time. Do you know the exact numbers of production of different models, per chance? Would certainly be interesting to know although only a fraction of those still exist of course.

Last week there was a Z's meet at the GTROC Japan's monthly gathering at Daikoku. We saw 3-4 older Z's there, all of which had various levels of corrosion. One example in particular was pretty impressive with a 3 litre engine blowing through twin open trumpets at the rear, complete with wide arches, deep watanabes on slicks, full race preparation and enough soot deposited on the rear number plate (Presumably from flames) to make it illegible. Even the owner had a 1970's styled hair cut. Sounded amazing as it arrived too... Some pics were taken so if we come across them we'll post here.

I remember about 5 years ago on a wet track-day in Tsukuba seeing a well driven 3 litre 240Z be pretty much the quickest car out there. It was pulling away from GT-R's on the straights and killing most things on corners. Very nicely prepared car that... Interestingly, there's still a specialist market out here supplying restoration parts for S30's, etc. People still love these cars in Japan.

Devil Z's