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Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I'll be checking in every few months as I prepare to get the old girl back on the road. The Camaro comes first since it's the closest to being roadworthy. It just needs a new wiring harness, which I already have, a different offset for the front wheels to eliminate rub on turn/compression, and some exhaust work. The Datsun however needs more attention after sitting for the last ~18 years and being partially disassembled at one point. Sad I know., but I'll get it going again. Man I can't believe how time has flown... Weeks seem to go by like days and years like months.... At this rate I won't have time to work on this thing until I'm retired.....which can't come soon enough by the way...

Try snapping the throttle open and see what pressure does. It's not RPM that causes change it's manifold pressure. If you just ease the throttle open intake vacuum/pressure won't change much. The numbers look good, actually very good, 26 psi indicates very good intake system vacuum.

Nice looking car. Not perfect but a nice driver

How bad was the old one?

In Utah we have no safety inspection anywhere, emissions are by county. In the counties that are trapped between 2 mountain ranges they do have emissions inspections and it so happens that the trapped counties have the majority of the states population. If you cause an accident due to some safety issue you didn't get fixed it's not pretty. Rust... Yea, we got plenty in northern Utah where they use massive amounts of salt when it snows (plenty of salt beds around the Great Salt Lake). I really don't see safety issues other than cuts if you grab a rust hole.

Goggle “Throttle Pulley”. Came up with several sources. efihardware has nice stuff.

Great! I’ll send you a PM here and we can exchange better contact info.

I'm pretty sure this one was electrical. I put the circuit boards from the working clock onto the gears and face of the one that wasn't working, because they looked a little nicer, and the clock has been working since. I suspect its either the crystal or that part that the gear with the magnet? goes in that makes it turn, because it wouldn't turn with all the other gears detached from it.

Haha!! That's what I tell myself. 😃

Not that its a huge amount of info to go on, but I got some NOS hose clamps which are correct fitment for the 520 truck heater, in their bag, and they are clear/plain zinc. I'm working on a different era of hose clamps, period mid 1960's for the CSP311, and it seems Nissan was in the midst of changing and constantly changing, thread, head and style of clamp, and for different places on the car. I think its also a moveable thing through the S30 pruduction years.

Don't know if this has already been posted, but Urban Cowboy FTW.

Hooking up a vacuum gauge is somthing else that helps find problem. You can get them at chain stores with loaner programs for free.

After replacing the insanely expensive cracked windshield in our 2025 Mazda CX-70 next week, I’m going straight to a shop to get Tera Shield installed on it. ZRAuto. Claims its three layers, clear for ever, blah blah blah. No idea about price yet. If it saves me one windshield it will pay for itself. That’s the brand the place I’m going to uses. I’ve looked online, and found a couple of retailers selling DIY kits in the $200 USD price range. Might try the DIY stuff on the Datsun just to say I did it.

I completely agree with you. PDF manuals are much more convenient..

Perfect....Many thanks...very appreciated

If your interested, here is my topic about the restore of my 280zx. At first i could not find it my own started topic, under "my started topic's" @Mike i had to do the search option? 280zx 1979 2+2 slick roof restauration - Classic ZX - 2nd to 4th Generation - Classic Zcar Community

Hello All, I am swapping to a 250z(N36) fan 240z(E46) balance tube. I'm trying to figure out which throttle linkage it requires. Do I need a full 240z throttle linkage from balance tube to fire wall or would replacing the shorter "J Rod" from the shorter 260z to the longer 240z be the only thing i need. Thank you

With 12 months and only 1 digit, what does Nissan use for the last three months: "A" and "B"? Or something else? I have caliper here that has "X" in this position. Maybe the 10th, 11, and 12th months are "X", "Y", and "Z"?

Let's see, redline is 7,000 with the yellow zone starting at 6,500 RPM. Keep revving it to 8,000 RPM like you describe and your problem will eventually be solved when you have to replace the engine after it blows up! Oh, when that happens, you might want to select a different engine builder than whoever built this one. There is NO REASON for revving it like you describe, unless you have a death wish for the engine.

The front end look great! It could easily be changed by the new owner. I suspect if he couldn't figure that out he probably would not be interested in buying a really nice z car.

I got the SU Carburetors back from the doctor. When they were done in 8/2000, with updated throttle shaft bearings at that time, there were 2 holes inscribed "inject grease". I believe the grease I injected caused the seal to leak. With the idle screws turned all the way out, I couldn't get it to idle below 1000 rpms, and I couldn't balance them. Ztherapy got rid of those older style bearings, re-machined the bodies, and plugged the old grease holes. I actually have to turn down the idle screws now to keep it running, unlike before.

time flies guys. My new alternator comes in Monday. I will try just adding the regulator cap to see if that fixes things before I swap out the alternator. I have high hopes

So @Mike , I tried to delete the old obsolete incorrect previous version of the wiring diagram (version 6.0 on page five of this thread), and the edit privileges will not allow me to do so. I'm assuming there is a time limit on how far back in time one can go to edit something? And that post on Feb 11 has exceeded that time limit? Can we change that? Or at least, can YOU delete it if you won't allow me to do so?