beandip

nuff said Gary

She is looking good! The tires and wheels really set it off. Have you tried to install the round tops ? Did you get my e-mail about the instructions for the color tune ? I am leaving for the coast tomarrow and staying at Ft Stevens , will be back on Monday . e-mail me tonight if you want and I' ll get it . I ' ll check my mail in the morning. ZZZZZEEEEya the old guy.

I found mine at the sSchaub store on Walker and I think it's 174th. Contact escanlon he found some and also found a source that has a Z that goes on the end and they look cool . remember mine has the spinner on them .

Give Les Schwab a try . I found mine there .

I was just kidding about the trains . I do realise how important the job is and how hazardest it can be at times. I have been to a few of the "mistakes", I was 22 yrs. a Fireman in Los Angeles. And as for a bush woman no I cant say that I have ever heard of them. We have Big foot here in Oregon forests 7' tall and covered with hair and smells like a pig. Could be a bush woman I guess . ZZZZEEya

Z point , How do you drive a train when you cannot steer it. Another thing if a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him , is he still wrong? Thanks for the heads up.

also thanks for the quick reply . All the best to you and yours

Headers and a 2 1/2 " exhoust will help but you will loose some low end power , now as was stated before me you added a cam and ignition you would gain more with a triple set up but mostly the triples come in at top end. There is a guy in Seattle that runs in the 12sec. bracket at the drags and is running SUs . So Dont underestamate these fine carbs, they must be round tops though . You dident mention what you are running , a L 28 or L24 that is a 280 or a 240 , or for that matter a 260. Is it a duce of a 2+2 ? my 2 cents. the best of luck and congrats on the car .

It seams that the L 20 is a late model engine that uses the Y 70 head and is a high reving engine but of 2000 ccs, this info so far came from a member in Austraila

My friend just bought a 360 with a L 28 built and it has a set of triples. Where is a source of information on these carbs ? there dosent seem to be a great deal of knowledge here of these on this site. Would like information on jetting and tuneing and the like. If you can help that would be great and in my asking for information if We come across rebuild kits I will pass on the info to you. Thanks

does any one have knowledge of these two items . A member just bought a 240 with this combination and it is a strong runner . So far no one knows any thing of the head at all and that the L 20 might have come from a Fairlady . Vary uncommon here in Portland !!!! No it is not a 4 banger. if any one knows anything of either the head or block please post , thanks beandip

Is there any way to research the background of an engine using the ser. number ?? trying to see what the origional car it was used in its a L-20 block.

Agan welcome , and congrats. on the Z-car . You can find used good round tops at the bone yards at least we can here in Oregon. I have a friend that is parting out a '71 , and the last time I talked to him he still had the carbs . The car they came from he bought for the diff and trans. and drove it home and it was running fine. Most likely all you will need to do is mount them and adjust . Give me an e-mail and I will get the two of you togither .

What ever floats your boat. I prefer to drive my Z , I dont mind working on it at all , but driving it is much more fun for me. Besides the performance is so much better and the smoothnes of the overall driveability , for me is better after I pulled the duel point dist. . But that is my prefrence, all the best to you .

When you do the hook up and connect the wireing if when hooked up the tach wont work you just reverse the wires and volia. there is a web site called zcar.com if you go there and select the early dates of 70-83 you will come up with a page like the forum here, in the upper border there is a search section key on that and then type in johnH240 and fine the posting on ignition up date . If you dont have any luck email me and I will help you ,but john has posted a step by step , also yoou can e-mail him , he really knows his stuff . He knows me as luggnut73

no that isn't true . I have been using the stock tach now for over a year , it just depends on how you hook it up.

If you do go that way and get one , would you please let me know how it works for you ?? I have seriously been thinking about installing a Jacobs only I need to many other things first like a paint job. It comes down to $ and where to put it first. You should first get the '79zx dist. because you are going to need a better dist than the old one with points. I forget what year z you are driving , but if you are running points the coil is only supplied with 8volts to keep from frying the points. When you install a electronic ign, you supply the coil with 12v and remove the ballest resister. I picked my complete ignition coil dist . with cap and rotor and almost new 8mm spark plug wires. $75.00 at the All Z boneyard here in Portland. You need the part that the dist. bolts on to that fits to the engine because the old one wont work also get the bracket that holds the coil because the new zx coil is larger . You will be able to use your stock tach with the '79 set up. Be sure that the dist. has a little black box on the side and it is marked 12 80 . If it is from a later engine and it is marked 12 94 it will not work rite and will retard the spark at upper rpms. There is a lot of help available on the net for this mod . Jacobs advises that you increase the spark plug gap to about 60k or there abouts at least they did for my v-8 .The Jacobs is a real flame thrower ! All the best to you. P.S. I just looked your chev. would also benefit from one also.

I installed one on my ford truck and it improved the mileage ,performance and overall smoothness . I have been contimplating one for the Z but it works so well with the zx that I cant see how it could improve , however I know it would. the Jacobs even burns so clean that it is reported that you can go 20% longer on oil changes. I still change at 3k however. these things are not cheep but are a vary quality product. I pulled the booklet on mine and here is the web site. jacobselectronics.com shoot them a e-mail also here is there phone # and I recommend you give them a call , they can supply alot of information. 1800-627-8800 Let me know what you decide and the best of luck to you . What I bought for my v-8 was a OMNI MAGNUM TEAM EZ cost $399.00

O , sort of like plexiglass , thanks mate

what the heck is perspex

I do not have personal experience with the strength of the differential but from what I have read on various websights it seems bullet proof. I think that you should access hybredz.com they are dealing with such conversions all the time

I used it to repair a prop on a inboard ski boat that had hit a rock and bent the prop and tore a quater sized piece off. I hammered the prop stright and used JB weld and filed it down to match the rest of the metal. We skied behind the thing for 5 days and saved my friend's vacation.

I am running the complete '79zx ignition and it is flawless so far. it's been on the car for about a year and is the best mod I have done . the SUs were changes before I bought it.

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I have never used it in that aplacation however I once used it on a prop on an Inboard boat that hit a rock and knocked out a chunk of the prop about the size of a quarter. We strighteded the blade and repaired the missing area with J B weld and dressed it off with a file when it was set and used the boat for water skiing for the rest of the camping trip. And it held just fine , It's strong stuff , be sure to clean off the areas where it is to bond vary well. If it dosn't work satisfactory remove it. Nothing to loose.