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but it is a pretty cadmium NOS part, I must leave it. As you know a car is faster the more cad plated hardware it has. CAd plating is like putting a Type R sticker on your HOnda... Leon, GREAT find. I have no idea why I did not look at Piercemanifolds myself. I love their stuff. Oh I got my lever arms from the UK Aston Martin shop. I will snap some pics of it tonight. They are pretty cool.

Leon, I just used the ones from MSA...listed here below.. Motorsport! K&N Tall Air Cleaner, Weber DCOE/Mikuni PHH, 40-48 - The Z Store! Nissan-Datsun 240Z-260Z-280Z-280ZX-300ZX(Z31/Z32)-350Z-370Z Parts I thought about getting some ITG's, but I had some of those go south on me before. The foam turned to mush.

My advice is to call around. I had ZERO luck with my Type A four speed, but shops seemed more ready to work on the B types of trannies. I wish you luck, but I would look up Awesome Z, as he is one of the foremost experts in Z's in Houston, he may know of somebody or maybe he can do it himself. They are very reputable in the Z community in Houston.

I would be scared to DEATH to do what you are attempting. What steps are you taking to ensure the car does not... how can I say this... break in half. I would not trust mself to weld that thing up. You sir are a daring steely eyed missle man.

For reference, my car runs 205/55/15 on the panasports. I run 195/60/15 on my LeMans VTO's. Both fit without any issues on stock bodywork with tokiko springs on board.

Well I broke down and ordered one of those NOS rear license plate light assemblies. I am VERY pleased with the quality. It is an OEM part, and looks spectacular. So nice to hvae OME wiring, connections, and fit and finish. If you need this part or yours is looking kind of ratty like mine was, this is a great buy. As you can see, mine was um... worn.

Well here is my baby with the new K&N filter set up. Really fills up the engine bay. I have no doubt they will work better than my velocity stack filters, But they are a bit tight around the coil and the master cylinder. Took digging deep into my specialty tools to get a screwdriver that short! sorry for the crappy cell phone pic. My DSLR batter was kaput.

I have never seen that air dam before. Does it bolt onto the stock lower valance panels, or does it replace the stocklower valance panels. On first glance it looks like you have plenty of room up there.

I mean the fact that a 240 and 280Z are in the same show and can be mentioned in the same breath as a Healy, a Jag, and a Ferrari is pure win!

I am just here to say how pretty that old celica/supra is.

Oh man Mike it would be great to see ya man. Your car is just to beautiful for words...It would be awesome if you could take a trophy home with you buddy! I have a kitchen pass for that event I am pretty sure. So I am penciling it with a bold marker. Can't wait to see ya man.

Well car show season is in full swing all over the country and Texas is no exception. I am planning on attending this show at Ellingonton Field. Hope more Z's can make it.

UPDATE: My parts shipped from the UK today. 132 dollars worth of linkage is coming and sadly I am perfectly happy with how my throttle feels right now. But I will post pictures of the solution the Aston Martin guys came up with. They are shipping me three carbs worth of levers, springs, brackets, etc. Pics to come.

My gosh that is some of the funniest stuff I have seen in a long time. I forgot how much the 300ZX had in the way of digitalization.. HAHA

The tips on an ANSA are packed with material for marginal sound supression. Do you just want the look of an ANSA? If so I can measure mine and post back here.

Not sure what to think about that....

hummmmm. I had not considered those kinds of filters. I run those sweet but marginally functional velocity stack filters... I may have to invest in a set of those as long as I can use my velocity stacks.

Thanks for trying this and taking one for the team Blue... I wish you luck in recovering from this

Okay we run air filters, and fuel filters all day long. WE clean them and we obsess over them. But the part that I baffles me is why do we kill ourselves when the front of the Weber has a 12mm hole in it that lets air in for the idle circuit to work. THat is unfiltered air. WE do not even try to filter that air. When I recently removed my webers and cleaned them there was DIRT in the very bottom of the bowls. DIRT. I removed it and all is well, but why do we never make an effort to filter the air coming in that huge gaping hole.

My advice to you is run a fuel return line to your tank. THat way you can circulate the fuel with your electric fuel pump. You could even run a cool can like some drag racers do to keep the fuel temps cool during those autox days.

Place holder post for pics later tonight.

Leon V to anwer your question. I have 4 arms on my actuation rod. 3 longer arms for the carb acuation rods 1 short arm that is ONLY used to hook up a universal return spring (this is the short arm that WAS used for the throttle Cable Connection, but NO LONGER) This spring is barely loaded when throttle plates closed, It only needs enough force to keep a slight bit of tension on the ball and socket rods to keep them from impeding the strong internal weber springs. Now I have the longer arms, one for each carb hooked up (using the middle hole for the ball and socket attachment) I use the middle carb long arm to attach the throttle cable to. I attach it to the outermost hole in the acuation arm giving me the most mechanical advantage I can get I am using the strongest internal return spring Blue mentioned I marked with one continuous line with a fine point sharpie the joint between the actuation arm and the actuation rod on the 2nd carb so that if I get any slippage I will know it. This is working marvelously right now. I think it would be wise to acquire another long acuation arm and attach the throttle cable AND universal return spring to it in place of the short actuation arm. I have the UK parts coming. I will have keep them and try them if this setup gives me any problems at all. If not then I have a great spare set, and I am sure I can always sell it.

Brock Racing Enterprises sells complete sticker kits, but not stencils. I think most of those paited stripes are just eye balled and painted on. They are all tribute stripes, so interpretation is allowed.

VICTORY After driving around with the car last night, the gas pedal has never felt as good as it does now. LIght, snappy, instant. Idle returns to 950 rpm every single time. Life is good. Those internal springs and longer actuation arm for the throttle cable did the trick. I will post a picture of my setup as soon as I can.