Steuart,
It was good to meet you and everyone else at the Halfway House event last Sunday. I must say that the silver, late model 260Z of yours looks nice (but I would say that)!
Apologies for my two young children being there, but they did cause a bit of amusement to everyone! I should have asked to check out the Mothers' Day menu whilst I was there for the next meeting which coincide – just need to decide how to break the news now.
Daily driver is still in the garage with the cylinder head off and couriered somewhere so they can X-ray it for a manufacturing defect! Headgasket is not now at fault, I am told, after the engine was stripped down into more parts than a Meccano set 10, but exhaust gases were recorded in the engine coolant apparently!
Still, the best bit (and I do feel privileged) has got to be that I get to drive about in a twice-round the clock courtesy car which has a characteristic grinding noise when the brakes are applied and a drivers seat which, when fully back (and if I can get it past the 45 degree angle point), allows me to use the rear window as a head restraint. Ah the joys of motoring! Still, I managed to fill up the tank from below the red line (running on vapour, I think) when I picked it up to brimming for about half of what my daily driver takes. Only problem is that what I have saved in petrol adds up to about 5% of the repair costs so far!!!
Thanks for the offer of the Unipart bits, by the way.