Zedyone_kenobi

could be the single greatest and most useful thread in all of Z car-dome

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

may I enquire as to where you got that beautiful shiney new starter from?

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.

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?

welcome to the forums zero! Good luck and post up some pictures of your baby.

which subaru?

FIAMM's are super nice. I found the supertones for much less, no doubt the FIAMMS are a super quality unit.

Can you describe your bleeding procedure to us all. I am not trying to be insulting, but perhaps there is a procedural goof up.

Leon, can you post pics of your setup To me a crank trigger would be the bees knees

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am willing to bet it is a rear brake adjustment out of whack. When replacing rear wheel cylinders, it is easy to not adjust them properly and all the stroke in the brake pedal is used to move those rear wheel cylinders closer to the shoe. Jack up the rear of the vehicle. Take off the rear wheels Put the car in neutral rotate your brake drum until the rear wheel cylinder adjustment cog is in view. Adjust it until the brakes Just barely rub the drum Repeat on the other side.

You know all I did was hook up the wires from the existing horns to these and run a ground from the horns to the chassis. Works beautifully

I feel ill reading that part Phil

Well the beauty of the Mallory is you can recurve it at home with a simple recurve kit. It is infinitely variable. That is if you can keep it working. MSD needs to step up and make a better system. Or we can all just step up our game and go to a crank trigger and call it a day.

Update. In 12 minutes I had the new ignition module installed. It was kind of Mallory to put that piece of crap on top where it can be easily serviced. Well the car fired right up immediately and settled to a smooth idle like nothing ever happened. I also installed the Mallory protection box inline with it, and started the car again just to be sure. Yup still works. NO warnings on if the ignition module protector box needs protecting yet! Cone dodger, the new Cayman is positively georgous. It truely looks like nothing else (except the Boxster of course). The back end treatment really made the car absolutely perfect. It looks and reminds me of the Porsches of old. I will make a prediction here. I think Porsche is going to move the 911 up to a GT type of car soon, and the Cayman will be its new hot shoe.

Okay, my Mallory ignition module came in as did my Mallory ignition module protector box that Mike W talked about above. So kind of them to sell a part to protect their other crappy part. I will get them on today. I am taking off half a day to get the Z running and then I am going to an unveiling at the local Porsche of Houston of the new redesigned Cayman ! Hoping for a test drive.