Chris Carey
Central Florida Region
ITS/Vintage Datsun 240Z
Favorite tool to remove undercoating---- A curb!
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you."
Building new only comes around once.......................
Looks like you may have an 240 tube on that corner.......Maybe, or just a ton of rust in that tube......
But , anywhay......I have whatever tube you need, but there is quite a bit of savings to be made......compare the doors, struts, etc.......hatch,window, ...hell, call it a 240 and use the smalll bumpers, without those dang shock obsorber bumper anchor weights.....Why not??
30 year old ITS car
I think, but may be wrong, that the 260z used the 72 and up struts.
The "early" 240z strut had less material at the bottom of the tube. We ran into this one time before.
NC Region
1980 ITS Triumph TR8
Hey Ron and Jeffery,
I got's what you need.
You need early or late? 240 or 280? Front or rear? I probably got it stashed away. FWIW, You probably want a 280 housing as the ID is larger than a 240 but it is otherwise dimensionally the same.
Ron, send me an email to my work address and I will measure and see what I have on hand.
Paul
Paul Ballance
Tennessee Valley Region (yeah it's in Alabama)
ITS '72
1972 240Z
"Experience is what you get when you're expecting something else." unknown
Hey Fellows,
Thanks much.
What we need is a "thin" bottom strut since we've already made one short one for the left side. Here is what we've made, and we need a stock right side one.
It'd be best to email or PM Jeffrey as I'll be out of town this week. Jeffrey, maybe PM email Paul and David and see what they might have around in the barns of spare parts.
Thanks a lot fellows!
Ron
Oh, those are the super trick, light weight illegal ones that the fast guys use!!!
Back to reality
The 240 and early 260 housings are just a couple thousanths over 2". The late 260 and 280 housing are like 2.16x". The Koni's require the larger housings. You need a late 260 or 280 housing. I had to make all new ones when I changed from Carrera to Koni a few years ago.
Mike
Thanks for the info Mike. The strange thing is the strut tubes that are on the front of Ron's 260, which I know koni's fit, are from an early 260z, mine. He needed mine last year and now that I am building my car we need to replace them.
So I guess we better have them measured before we buy.
Jeff Roussel
Soon to be ITS Datsun 260z
This is my recollection as well. There are two sizes for the first gen Zcars. The 240s are smaller, 280s bigger. 260s are one or the other depending on if late or early 260
This I'm not so sure about. Although my car is a 280 (so I have no direct knowledge) I'm almost positive the Koni can fit in the earlier 240 (smaller) housing. To make it fit you definitly need to sand all the paint off the outside of the insert. If the inside of the housing is crusty, it would need cleaned up as well. It is a tight fit, where as in the 280 housing, there is plenty of room. I seem to recall John Coffey (sp?) posting pictures on hybridZ dot org showing him installing them in a 240 housing.
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