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Just mounted after market pedals and a new tail light Chrome rings.

Nicholas, Glad to help and it was really nice meeting you. It was such a nice driving day that I took the long way home. It won't be too much longer before my Z is packed away for the winter. So the details on testing your ECU was that both transistors looked OK with just a meter test, but because of the somewhat unusual internal construction of the output transistors, testing them with just a meter might not tell the whole story. And that's what I think is happening with yours. Not that you should ever need to know or care, but the ECU output transistors employ an internal construction known as "Darlington", which means there are actually TWO transistors packaged together. And because of this construction, you can't always get a good handle on what's going on inside with that simple test. Here is where I think your transistor failed, and this failure mode can't easily be detected with just a meter: As for the replacement ECU, I'm sure glad I challenged you on that core charge from MSA... Bad that the price was higher than you expected, but good that you learned that before it was too late! Once you have another ECU, buy one (two would be even better) of those NTE247 transistors and I'll be happy to install them for you and make sure all six outputs are working. In the meantime... Get welding on that metal work!!

Thanks to the generosity of CO, we got the Z running on all six cylinders today. Swapping in his loaner ECU seemed to have solved the issue. As a secondary perk, I got to see his 280 and it's a beaut!!

We have a copyright release from Nissan headquarters to provide these documents for the classic z. From what I understand we are the only club or business that has an official release to do this for the benefit of the club and sustainability of this classic car. Sent from my iPhone using Classic Zcar Club mobile

Just uploaded for those who might be interested. Mike

Took the Kenmeri to a local car show this morning and I won the 1st Place in the 70's Cars category. Nice to have a cool car around.

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