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Oh man, those looks wonderful. I KNEW I should have offered to buy those! Stunning buddy

They say that patience is a virtue. They say that all good things come to those who wait. They say that Patience is the companion of wisdom. What I want to know is who the hell are these people who say all these things. Certainly they were not people waiting a small exhaust part to come back from being ceramic coating so they could start their new L28! When John Quincy Adams wrote: Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish, he was not at the cusp of starting a brand new engine and hearing it roar its firsts breaths of power. I am convinced I will learn a life lesson waiting for parts, but certainly all the wisdom fades with anxiousness. In the mean time, I think will pull off the red valve cover and try to duplicate this top finish Eiji did on his car. My plan is to use a rigid sanding block and slowly remove the red paint until I get all of it gone, and then go to a finer and finer grit until it is shiny.

Wow! Intake heating tube and all!!!! You are the man Guy!

That was awesome~ Great pics, my favorite has to be the green 911 and that stunning Daytona

To answers own question yes you can use the older type crossmember on a type B tranny

I should probably mention, my car is NOT fuel injected. I use an O2 sensor to tune my carbs the 20th century way. I have no reason to think the one I have was bad, but it is sooty, and I wanted to ensure it was ready for some heavy tuning with a new engine with triple Webers

I am putting in a new engine and before I reinstall my O2 sensor I would like to clean all the carbon deposits off it. Is there a safe way to do this without damaging the element?

Are your AFR while driving or idling? If driving, is it possible that the fuel needle is not rising fast enough? A piston stuck to low in the jet would allow too much fuel to be added to the car at a given vacuum signal. IF this is happening at idle, then I am not sure how you could run rich with the adjustment jets all the way up. Unless the hole in the jet is not round anymore, allowing more fuel. This is really weird. Be careful, SU problems can turn into LOOOOONG threads. EDIT: just saw you checked the jet holes.

I just received my order from summit racing, minus the black Taylor spark plug wires, which were unfortunately back ordered :disappoin But I managed to get these tasty tidbits which I admit are a bit superfluous, but I love them. Makes doing valve adjustments so easy. I can actually gap the plugs properly now. I was going to install the plugs and wires, but realized I some how lost my feeler gauges. I mean really, who loses feeler gauges? I also need to decide how I am going to fabricate my new return spring. I use to hook it up to the spark plug holder on the valve cover, but that always seemed like an off nominal setup. I think I am going to drill and tap a new hole in the fuel rail, and use that. We will see how that works. Pics to follow.

I feel I need to make a correction... I got looking at Eiji's Datsun Spirit website and eventually found this video of his car running, and then went to this website that had a more in depth review of the L28, that cast the venerable old engine in a new light for me. This is from Australian Z Car website: http://www.viczcar.com/member-rides/eiji-hosomis-datsun-240z

yeah, I am beaming with pride! I emailed Eiji and told him he can use what ever pictures off my flikr account he would like for his webpage. I really enjoyed the read on his webpage about the L28, and the history behind its modification and the long history it has in Japan for tuning. Great education.

I think Travelnman asked the single more important question here. How are you going to use the car? That is the key. Also, there is another option not listed..in terms of expense... they go: SU's refurbed SU's bored and modified for more flow Triple Webers/Mikunis If you do not want to go with the 1600 dollar triple setup, you can spend more than the 680 dollar SU setup and get a modified SU from Ztherapy that can flow a HECK of a lot more than standard SU's. Give that a thought.

I certainly hope so. He made the buying experience amazing. And I about dying waiting on my exhaust to come back from Jet Hot. It is all that is left holding me up from hearing that beast roar.

Just want to say hello to another gulf coast texan.

This is a great looking website, It is so great to see everything we talked about now in front of the world to see. All the options and possibilities that he offers to his customers in engine building is great.

Are you ever going to try a Unilite? That wan you can totally customize your ignition advance

Guy, that is beautiful! I cannot wait to see a video of it firing up! Bravo!

I am just chiming in to wish Grant the best of luck in his quitting smoking! Hang in there, you can do this! Think of the money you will save!!!

Thanks very much for all the kind words, I will keep the photos coming, and I will make a video of the whole start up when I finally get the exhaust hooked up and the fuel system hooked up. But I am thinking it will take at least a week for all that.

May I be the first to chime in and say DAYAM your paint is shiny!

Today some serious progress got made. I was able to get the manifold and intake installed and torqued up in what seemed like a instant in time. I recall the first time I ever removed my intake and it was nothing short of arm wrenching. Not sure, but if I had to guess, experience and technique must account for more than people give it credit for. I torqued every nut to 10 ft.lbs or as close as I could get with my deflection style torque wrench. I also got my water neck installed and new thermostat. I went with a 180 deg thermostat. I previously ran a 160, but I think i should be fine. If nothing else, I will get to see who much delta there is in my temp ducer. After I got that done, I hated to go inside as garage time is hard to come by at times. So I kept pressing, and got the carb springs and lock nuts on. But they are not tightened. I still need to get the heat shield on. But first wanted to put some insulation on it. I have meant to do that since I received the heat shield. More on that later. Here is how the beast looked when she was in the process of the installation And here is how she looks now: As you can see the parts to install bench is getting very barren. What a joyful sight. The absence of things to do. As for the heat shield, I found this adhesive reflective tape in the hot rod section of my local parts store. I decided to coat the bottom of the heat shield with it. Tomorrow, I want to try to get the carbs torqued and the fuel system hooked up. But I am surprising my wife tomorrow by taking her to the Houston Symphony so I may just put that off until Sunday. Have to keep the ones you love happy, or else one day she may realize that she can do MUCH better than me!

Texas is blessed with a very reasonable cost of living. I am 20 miles south of houston. I despise the thought of living like a rat in a congested city. Give me the suburbs were I get more for my money, and living within my means still allows me fun projects and the occasional vacation without going into debt.

I think many of these Z were wrecked and were never mentioned to the new owners. I found out the same thing, but I do not think the wreck was that severe, as I have no misalignment issues that I can tell, but you did the right thing and properly fixed the whole car. Good man!

Are those 205/50's Car looks just amazing. Your giving me more fuel to finish my build right now!

That is interesting. I will have to look into a set of those if for no other reason than to see that type of ball joint Tonight after the family goes to sleep, I think I may try to get the header and intake manifold on. I first thought I would wait until I got the collector flange back form JET HOT, but now that I think about it, I can always take the rear exhaust off the hangers and have it modified to fit. I would really not want to modify or bend the header trying to force a fit, so I will get that in place and fit perfectly first, and then make the rest of the system conform to it. Well that is the plan anyway. OH horns are staying in the way they are. I will rock the red unless it looks too much like a reject from Hot Import Nights when I get the grill and hood on. FYI, I have also removed the front bumper vertical uprights near the lights. I wanted to see what a bare straight bar on my car looks like. I am not sure just yet if I will leave them on or off. I will have to make that decision prior to finally installing the bumper, because you cannot remove them once the bumper is on the car. At least I have not found a way. Anyway, that is something I have been up to while waiting, but tonight I plan to make some SERIOUS headway into getting that header and intake on. Pics to follow.