Everything posted by Zedyone_kenobi
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My Old School Early 70's Magnesium Minilites (not wannabe's)!
14x7.5 What a crazy size!!!! That is awesome
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Looking for my first Zcar
I want to disagree with Wade kindly. I love carbs and SU's or webers are easy as pie to live with if they are in good shape. I would not be scared of any carbureted car. Now fuel injection...that is some voodoo man!!!!
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Small town(TX) 260z :)
So you just casually installed a flywheel? along with changing you oil Hahaha. There is a cam on the actuator arm of your Holley. The accelerator pump arm that rests on your accelerator pump rides on this cam. When you give it gas, the cam lobe rotates and presses this arm down, which in turn raises its other end to push the diapham attached to your front fuel bowl. This change of volume pushes fuel through your discharge nozzles located on top of your carb and sprays fuel into the venturies. If that arm is not adjusted right, you are creating a lean spot when the accelerator is pushed. with the car off you can check for clearance. That arm should just barely touch the acclerator pump cam. IF the holey is worn out, you may have a bad pump spring or diaphram.
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Nice planter. I'm sure it will buff out.
That is so hard for me see. I have to save it. Does anybody have a platium card and the number to pelican parts
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
OH man, GTV's are one of the VERY few cars I would sell the Datsun for....I love them.
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
That does look like fun man! Get one before they become polluted with Chrysler engineering.
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SU Reassembly Step-by-Step [Part 1 Tear Down /Torn n Tattered /Worse for Wear n Tear]
could be the single greatest and most useful thread in all of Z car-dome
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
That 73 Z makes me sneeze just looking at it. My search for the boattail spider continues... I will call that guy and get pics.
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
I did, He is awesome! But this car is destined to be driven by my wife and I for the time being, then I will give it to my oldest son for a high school car (if he wants it) and when he goes to college, it will get passed to my youngest son. They are 4.5 years apart. It is a perfectly conceived plan!!! Except the part where I have time to work on the Alfa.
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
Hey at least it is a 12V system! I think suffering through a italian car is mandatory for a self proclaimed car enthusiast. I sincerely thank you for your offer, and I may very well end up asking (read as begging) for help one day.
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
I am looking to buy the best Duetto/spidier I can. Yes the boat tail is a definite requirement. The reason I started to look up cars like the white one is my budget is around 20k. That gets you to near the top of a #2 condition car. As these cars are nearing 50 years old, they are going to be projects as we know no matter how good they look in pictures. Unless you buy a #1 pebble beach car there will be gaskets to fix, rubber to replace, carbs to tune, bushings to renew, wiring to clean off, etc. The list of projects goes on. I had pretty good success with my spend more up front approach to my Datsun, and I still replaced the engine, tranny, bushings, hoses, seals, mounts, fuel lines, fuel tank, well you guys know. So I thought I would throw more money at the problem with a car that will no doubt not be as robust as a Datsun. I do believe that these cars like british cars are not nearly as bad as they are made out to be, when they are in a good state of repair. So I want to by one that,like my datsun requires next to ZERO body work. Thus the 20k price. I will spend the next 5 years getting the car how I want it. So in my mind any Duetto outside of a perfect #1 condition, is going to be a project.
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
That white car is OUT, I mean out That guy is looking for 40k for that car. Hagerty and hemmings show the current value for a concurs restoration is 32. I think everybody in NY state is crazy.
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
I am currently working on getting pricing and info on this... It is new york state. But that would be a great long drive back. The prices are all over the place. I have seen great ones from 18-25k. NO telling where this guy will come in at.
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Engine Porn
may I enquire as to where you got that beautiful shiney new starter from?
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
Thanks very much guys. This is all so fun. It reminds me of back when I had no idea about what an SU carb was and how it worked. Had no idea about slow Datsun wipers, etc. It is another whole car with another whole set of issues/strengths/weaknesses. In short I have the chance to get an italian dance partner to go with my Geisha girlfriend.
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Need advice: Adding to the garage... Duetto anyone
I am looking into buying the wife a project car that she can drive around. She desperately wants an E-type, but 100k is not in the budget. But a 1967 Alfa Duetto is more than possible. have any of you guys ever dabbled in these cars? I am looking to buy one in very good shape. I plan to fully execute the buy the best one I can possibly afford mantra. But does anybody here have experience with these cars?
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New guy out in the boonies!
welcome to the forums zero! Good luck and post up some pictures of your baby.
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Personalized plates
which subaru?
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Going to install Hella Supertones, Need to find OEM relay
FIAMM's are super nice. I found the supertones for much less, no doubt the FIAMMS are a super quality unit.
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I am at my wit's end with these brakes!
Can you describe your bleeding procedure to us all. I am not trying to be insulting, but perhaps there is a procedural goof up.
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First time ever, My car just died
Leon, can you post pics of your setup To me a crank trigger would be the bees knees
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First time ever, My car just died
Wow, that 6AL-2 box has me slathering... I assume that it can work with the robust OEM dizzy as well? This is getting VERY interesting.. What does it use as a trigger? Do you set it up at 0° at idle, or max advance at idle and let it pull timing where needed? Either way cool.
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public service anouncement: new brake lines for S30
yup, you certainly could, factory bent to your S30. I have not tried the, but I am seriously thinking about redoing my entire front brake line system. Mine work fine but are very ugly. You can also get them in Stainless steel vs regular factory OEM stuff. Like I mentioned, I have not tried the, but they get rave reviews from the domestic car restoration shops. They may be able to be a one stop shop for new brake lines from the S30. I find that people who specialize in one thing, like brake lines or tube bending tend to do it better than myself with a hand held tubing bender and lots of swearing, cussing and throwing things.
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suspension and tire size question
205/60/15's rubbed with my panasports on Tokiko HPS springs and struts on stock body work. If you have a front valance that is not OEM, you may be okay. But with the OEM body work on that tokiko combo, the widest I can run is 205/55/15 THe diameter gets too big on my car to run a 60 much less a 65 series tire.
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public service anouncement: new brake lines for S30
I was helping a friend with his 73 spitfire this weekend and we started talking brake lines and how to save his, then I got to thinking about a company I saw on TV... Classic Tube, Preformed Tubing they manufacture S30 brake lines, fuel lines, hard lines from caliper to strut mount, etc. They got great reviews from the domestic guys. If anybody is desperate, it maybe worth a try.