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Here’s a great write from my buddy in the UK who recently did this job - it would be very beneficial for you to read it .... https://zclub.net/community/index.php?threads/valve-stem-oil-seal-replacement-without-the-faf.28265/

There should be another bolt on the distributor that faces downward. It will add a little more adjustment range. It's possible the distributor quill is not exactly in the right place. Or the plugs wires aren't in the normal locations

@siteunseen thank you for the help! I have some good news for today So I decided to just swap the AFM as a future investment for the car. It had been tampered with previously before I got the car, so I had no idea where the OEM specs were for the cog. Picked it up from zcarsource about 20 minutes from my house. Slapped it in and WHAM nothin, though it may have ran just a tad better. I also bench tested it, and the specs were a little closer to the online manual's. @siteunseen You were right though, the 150ohm didn't matter. I pinched the return line briefly and it started leaks all over the fuel rail showering a highly pressured mist, so that with the pressure test confirmed the fuel pressure is solid. Also good to note I have a new pressure regulator. I hadn't timed the car since the first start, and after fixing all the vacuum leaks it had me wondering. So while the car was running I moved the distributor and wellah! Idled much better (was still popping out the intake) and I could actually free rev it. It seemed like it wanted more, so i pulled the bolt out and twisted it past the little mount it had. Here, it ran even better, although when the car is warm it still stumbles at idle. However, it now free revs as I imagine the car should, and sounds healthier. So, what could this mean? Should I do some tests on the dizzy like if the vacuum advance works and such. Educate me, cause I am an idiot. So far my best theory is that somehow I messed up the mechanical timing and the ignition timing is compensating. Now that fuel and vacuum and the EFI system is set, its a matter of timing this puppy. When running the timing light I could see that it was off of the pulley indicator and was reading somewhere in the negatives. Here is a photo of what the dizzy is set to temporarily. We are close to settling this engines demons once and for all.

**** the energy sector. I work in Comms and the prices of transmission equipment and the prices of services decreases every year (except at the edge where the price of data and phones and internet connections always goes up) MBA's and greed are ****ing the world.

My first and last electric contraption, I hope.

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Remember, when you check the timing with a light, to get a accurate reading, you need to disable the distributors vacuum advance. Unplug its vacuum line and cap it so you don't have a leak.

No worries, you are still a huge help. I am just a college kid with a dream and set of tools so🙃. I am pretty much wondering why I need to push the distributor past the stock adjustment plate to get it to run right. I know the timing is off, but I don't know why it is off so much. Even at that point it still stumbles a little bit, the engine is just 1000% happier running like that then it was before at 10deg btdc like the sticker on the hood recommended.

I believe an article was posted up a while back about thus car. It's on Copart now with a 13,800 BiN price if anyone is interested https://www.copart.com/lot/42979401/clean-title-1978-datsun-280z-or-portland-north

Oooo, that definitely belongs in the" Z's Only a Mother Could Love" thread.

If you want tremendous, the west coast states are generally the highest region, In LA gas is over $5 a gallon. Taxes are a big part - at least .50 in CA per gallon. PA has the highest gas tax, near .80 cents / gallon. (sorry Capt O) Gas where I am is $2.69 today

Yes it is, you will find the rubber gasket will be stuck to the glass like it was glued, it wasn't, just time and heat has made it that way. You will need a putty knife to break the seal.

Price of milk and bread are consumed as much with stable prices... energy is a bid ****ing joke. Small group ****ing everyone... we need a revolt.

Thanks for the pump-up, DZCG....all good points! Just wish there was a "Local Mikuni Guru" who I could consult face-to-face who can point me in the right direction and feed me with knowledge of all the tricks. I will call Dave when I gather up enough good questions to ask.

In the 80's we had a prime minister that came with the solution.. for a time there would be extra taxes on fuel.. they called it: "het kwartje van kok" translated the quarter (guilder we had at that time what was 25 cents (about 10-12 dollarcents?) from kok (yes that was his name.. Kok.) and it never was deleted that quarter.. What i also found very nasty was that there was 25 cents of taxes and then taxes VAT over that! It made it extra extra expensive.. No later government has deleted that quarter of KOK at any time.. still paying that.. But hey.. i'm happy i don;t have an airplane.. they fill up and have to pay 6000 euro at least for a tank stop.. (Seen on "the steelbuddies" going to the big apple from germany. (in german and engish partly.)

Beer. Is there anything it can’t do?

You might be onto something about the summer blend. I’ll give it the old sniff test to make sure…. I’m sure you can find some stuff out there, worlds a big place. I started taking walks after work, 10 hours on a computer is too much. @Tweeds https://www.darkreading.com/operations/colonial-pipeline-cyberattack-what-security-pros-need-to-know/d/d-id/1340970 US infrastructure needs security hardening. But then again people are always doing dumb $^!# like sticking random USBs into their computer that they found at the work parking lot.

Like Site, I'm still a Ramen guy. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster says that eating Ramen and dried pastas allows the struggling college student to afford more beer. And since beer is the drink of Pirates (the chosen people), it suggests that the FSM is trying to turn college students back into Pirates. You all been wondering what I'm the Captain of (besides the obvious)? I like beer and I've been known to say "Aaaaargh!" And "Mate... Fetch my brown pants!"

Exhaust isn’t loud enough . You are running the original pump?

It's over $3.00 for regular here in Phoenix and our pipeline from California isn't busted... About $3.50 for premium. Before Biden it was near $2.00 for regular.

I wasn't a ramen guy - I ate hot dogs for lunch at least 3x a week through college.

Did? Still do. Although only half the seasoning packet at my age. Z parts are expensive!

Costco has the Quickjack 5000 on sale again. https://www.costco.com/quickjack-5%2c000-lb-capacity-portable-car-lift.product.100460313.html

I know. Didn't see a need to make things more complex. The point was that F54 block 280ZX pistons should be used as the search criteria, among the usual parts store sites.

Saw this car before. The car may have a low number, numbers matching, blue upholstery, blah, blah, blah . . . . but it will take as much, or more to restore it, and that, combined with the seller's high asking price, and a person would only want to buy it if they want to have way more into i that it will be worth.

Holy crap.....the rear quarter panel looks great.....worth $1,000.00.

Wall art my butt!! If the quarter is good, its a donor!!

Can confirm from Duisburg - Germany. One Gallon of 'Super 95 (95 RON) today costs 6.77$ Don't ask for the premium juice. Edit: Of course those are our normal prices without any crisis 😂