What did you do to your Z this week?

richiep

Club Member
15x8.5 et-6 fronts, 15x9.5-19 rears. In “black” (ie gun metal grey). With tyres, although they may be removed for shipping:

BidJDM was the service I used. I use that and Rinkya on occasion.
 

TimW

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Well, it's been a few months since my last post on my favourite thread. I have been lurking, but have had little to contribute. I've not been up to much due to some health issues, but I've been monitoring and maintaining humidity levels in the garage to protect my precious's. :). The target being 12 degrees with a humidity level of 50%. Definitely worth the investment, not entirely sure of ideal levels, if anything I didn't want to make it too dry and end up with the associate/adverse problems so, I just went with what is the consensus in google.

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Went to see DC Engine Builder (aka Dave) yesterday to pick up from where we left off before my health wobbly. We arranged for the block to go off for dipping and selected the block paint colour. Sea Sick is what I think what we agreed on. Also got a price and agreed to send off the crank, pistons (when we get them) and rods to be balanced. He and a chap named Vytas are doing a wonderful job. As most know I'm a bit anal, the detail and effort they're going to is nothing but amazing.

At the same time I picked up the flat top carbs and have decided to do the refurb for the most myself. I've heard a lot of negatives on the flat tops. But, for one I'm curious to see if I can get to tune them as well as my Hitachi's in the maroon Z and two, "Christine" as I've named her is to be original spec with as many original parts as possible, so they've gotta work!...

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status

Well-Known Forum User
There is a tool for keeping those carbs ingood tune as I had them on my first Z and using them with a colour tune the car always ran perfect can’t remember wot it was called or looked like as it was a long time ago but I’ll see if I’ve still got it as it’s something I wouldn’t throw away
 

richiep

Club Member
Working in earnest now on the changes to my Fairlady Z’s intake setup - carbs are now on the bench for a clean and transfer to the Harada manifold. Need to port/polish the manifold’s runners first though. Also doing the work on the cold air feed setup:

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Tony 260Z

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Well... I took the rebuilt 240 out for her second brief road-trip today. Had my o/h in the car so nothing lairy. Car feels quick but needs a bit of fettling. Power delivery is a bit binary - there's a slight flutter coming onto the throttle from tickover but as soon as that goes it really wakes up. Exhaust is a bit low in the middle but I reckon it can be tweaked up a couple of cm. Aircups work perfectly for extra height with speedbumps etc. Exhaust is loud and triples make for quite a lot of banging through the pipes which is good for waking up neighbours, scaring small children and getting disapproving looks from old dears in the High Street. Gaz coilovers control the ride more smoothly than lowering springs - it's still hard but not teeth-jarringly so. Wide tyres make parking interesting. I'm very pleased with it and it's always fun to see the owners of modern performance cars jaws drop when they get out-cooled by a nearly fifty year-old Datsun :)

Next job... wiring in the gearstick ;-)
 

uk66fastback

Club Member
As usual, absolutely nothing to report, but I did lean some ladders against it and watch in awe as when the garage door rose, it showed how much dust was on it in the sunlight ...
 

Jimbo

1978 260z in yellow
Club Member
im waiting for either my dating letter to come through or april to roll around, whichever comes first so i can make mine historic.
other than that nothing yet this year let alone this week lol
 

Paul_S

Club Member
Well, it's been a few months since my last post on my favourite thread. I have been lurking, but have had little to contribute. I've not been up to much due to some health issues, but I've been monitoring and maintaining humidity levels in the garage to protect my precious's. :). The target being 12 degrees with a humidity level of 50%. Definitely worth the investment, not entirely sure of ideal levels, if anything I didn't want to make it too dry and end up with the associate/adverse problems so, I just went with what is the consensus in google.

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I've got a climate monitor in my garage too.

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It's web enabled so I can stress over the humidity levels wherever I am! :willynilly:
 

johnymd

Club Member
Been working on the latest silver project today. Nearly finished all the ECU wiring and moved onto the alternator wiring. The car is completely rewired so I've run 3 wires to the alternator location. Main live for power out of the alternator, sense wire to go back the starter main terminal and the exciter feed that is powered from an ignition live and passes through a charge light. Then I noticed the alternator I have fitted is not internally regulated. After a quick search of the workshop I find I have no more alternator let alone one with an internal regulator. A trip down the local car spare place and the closest they can find with a v-belt is a transit type but the single ear is offset too much. They have nothing listed or available for 280zx, maxima, '87 patrol or any other car I can think of that had an l-series in it. Went home for some internet searching and come up with an mx5 alternator. Looks very similar, has the same mounting ears, same 3 terminals, internal regulator, v-belt, and its the modern type design with internal fan. This must be the na version though. Didn't like the price of new ones so managed to find a second hand one for £35 and will be delivered Tuesday.
 

richiep

Club Member
New addition to the collection arrived just now from Nippon -
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I love these magazines (although book would be a better description give the size and quality).

Also made a bunch of progress on the new intake and airbox installation. Intake manifold ports polished and I’m now cutting the holes in the airbox backplate for fitting up. Had to order some new throttle arms (that fit on the end of the spindle) for the Dell’Ortos though as the ones I was planning to use were catching and stopping the butterflies fully opening.

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johnymd

Club Member
A few steps closer to start the new project.

All FI wiring is now finished along with the throttle cable setup.
 

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