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Leon, It just so happens that I have two pump springs and two carbs worth of O5 tubes. Maybe you could send me one set of yours? 8O Lotus guy, Senna did pretty well today (last night) in India though...

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Thanks Stanley... But mine's not stock. It is using an RX7 pump that worked fine before I undid a hack and put in a MSA bladed fuse box...

Ok, that's frustrating. I ran a 12 gauge wire from the fuel pump to the + side of the coil with a 20amp fuse just before the coil. Nada... Ground is local to the pump.

Spitz, You may be in luck anyway. You are in the Bay Area so you can just contact Keith directly and go to his house. It isn't that far and he can show you how to clock them correctly and directly observe your result...

True dat! You gotta be approved before you post. Contact Keith directly using the email I gave you in the PM.

Perfect Matt! Thanks!

Thanks Leon. I will probably be using a trigger wheel from a link I found on Rebello' site. Unless Mark wants to make his own. I actually have a question about the stock tach with EDIS. Does it work?

So I let Keith know that we had three volunteers and this was his response: Three fools, scratch that, volunteers is fine. My son strongly urged me to make sure the bubble pumping effect works for other carburetors before releasing my e-tube paper so I need the data. -Keith Franck You will find that Keith has a very healthy sense of humor! Contact him as soon as you can. Identify that you are a Z car Mikuni guy and that Rob and Leon told you to contact him. He will send you what you need to install and tell you what to do. You can ask questions directly on Side_draft Central or here. Leon for sure, and I have a pretty good working understanding of these things. Good luck! Hope these things work as well for you as they work on the Webers! By the way, I know Steve in Houston has an A:F ratio set up. If Steve in Indiana doesn't, I will show you some pictures of my set up here. It isn't that expensive. Prices for Innovate set-ups keep dropping. As you can see, I welded the bung to the inboard side of the header. I ran the wiring across the top of the firewall on the engine side and entered the cockpit through the passenger side. The rest, you can see. I wanted to be able to hide it so everything looks original.

You're in Steve... That makes three. We've got Bill (Silverstreak) Steve (Madkaw) Steve (Steve91tt). I will send you a PM Steve in Houston. I already sent one to the Madkaw! Silverstreak is local to Keith and loaned him one of his Mikunis to make this possible. If you haven't already, join Sidedraft Central on Yahoo Groups. Keith tends to communicate with a mix of public group discussion and personal emails. It would be great if you guys were to publically discuss what results you get here too.... Except Silverstreak, he doesn't post anything anywhere. 8)

Thx...

So far so good. But I will let him know...

Pm sent!

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I currently have an electric fan on my L24 '73 with an aluminum crossflow radiator. I have a new 280Z fan and fan clutch that I bought for my 280Z but never used. Will it bolt up?

You know, we can't have it both ways. We can't be telling people with an indignant undertone to 'do a search' and then complain that they are replying to 7 year old threads. If you think about it, digging this up is valid since when the thread was started, using a Turbo AFM on a NA car was problematic at best. Now, with some of the programmable fuel injection available, it might be one of the hot tickets... Just sayin'...

Clarification: Keith cannot make hypojets for Mikunis and I cannot edit the title of the thread. So, we both have our limitations. 8)

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I recall reading an article about a pre-production Z sitting next to a building in Japan rusting away... There is an interesting story about a pre-production Porsche 914 that I know to be true because I know at least two of the principals involved. One did jail time over it. The car, Number 4 as it was designated by the Porsche factory somehow made it across the ocean and onto some property in the Mojave Desert. My friend was contacted by some people because he owned one of the biggest car forums on the web with over 10000 members and hundreds of members online all the time. He was asked if he was 'interested' and they could 'get it for him.' He said yes, and the car was delivered to him. Now, this car was not only pre-production it was an anomaly also in that Porsche crushes their prototypes. It had a number of hand-tooled features and it was rusted pretty badly. No one seems to know how it got out of Germany or across the ocean. My friend made no secret of having the car. He figured Porsche didn't care by that time. He wrote an article about it that was published in Excellence Magazine. That is when the plot thickens as they say... Unbeknownst to my friend, a guy had seen the article in Excellence and approached the police in San Bernardino County, CA claiming to own the car and having a DMV issued lost title replacement. His story was that he bought it at a storage facility auction when someone had quit paying on their garage. My friend also had a DMV issued lost title replacement (Don't get me started on how amazed I am at the shear number of idiots gathered in one place called the California DMV). So, the police had a stand-off. Both had title to the car. The police pondered for a moment and decided that the storage garage guy had prior title, and it still isn't illegal to be an idiot so DMV was faultless. So they started trying to recover the car. For some reason, here is where my friend seems to have lost his judgement. The police started looking for him to get the car. They went to his wife and left a card, they were going through a divorce so it is unclear if he got the message that they were looking for him. They went to his work, the trolled his website. With some detective work they determined he was living with a girlfriend and they arrested him at 3am and transported him to San Bernardino County. He spent about a week in jail while the website raised money for his bail. Ultimately, he was sentenced to time served and probation. The guy who bought the car from the storage facility has neither the time or the talent to restore the car so he has partnered with Automobile Atlanta and I am not sure what their plans are. I suspect, they will just display it in their humidity and temperature controlled showroom. (George Hussey the owner has some very tasty and valuable cars in that showroom). It came out later that the guy who approached my friend in the first place apparently went to the property in the Mojave Desert and pulled the car sideways out from where it was stored between two other cars. He then loaded it on a flatbed and towed it to my friend. Not sure how much money changed hands but my friend got royally screwed... Moral of the story: It isn't worth it...

You heard it, Keith Franck is ready to fabricate some Emulsion tubes for Mikuni carbs after getting a Mikuni to model from our friend Silverstreak. He has Silverstreak testing one set for sure but if you have A:F meter installed fess up and you could be part of this test. Here's a clue! These work amazingly on Webers! "Ready to fab some tubes but I've got one more hurdle to clear. The leadscrew on my lathe won't turn metric threads so I'll have to try using a M11x1 die for the male thread. I'm hoping to do it in a single pass without tearing up the brass threads. This is where it could go all wrong.:-( I'll need some volunteers to test these tubes. Preferably someone that has an AFM with logging capability." -Keith Franck

I wrote a how-to on this in the '90's on my now defunct website PlanetZ. You can use the turbo AFM on your NA car by removing the cover of both and swapping in your circuit board from your NA AFM. Without headers, cam, and a way to get more fuel to the engine you will have a tip-in stumble. Keep in mind though, I didn't have Megasquirt to work with in the '90's... You should be able to tune it now...

Oh Ya! That IS Mr. K's autograph on my glove box door...

Very satisfying when a project turns out this well and is completed. Just finished 'dressing' the passenger door.

It's all about individual expression Kacrow76... If that's what your son wants, that's what he should do. A friend and I are working on a sub-box that fits in the spare tire well... Fiberglass with a wood top. We will be making more than one if he's interested... It isn't that I am a concours weenie. I like the car to look substantially stock but have some really cool undertone. I think what Pete did with that speaker pod is great!

Oh I still go... I love to chat it up with the gang and see the cars. Heck, I live in Reno. Hot August Nights is NOT to be missed. Single marque events are better and I do enter the Porsche Club events. In fact, I have never failed to take home something from those. In fact, once I beat a gal who cried and said she put 14 hours into cleaning her car and I won because I had raced my car that year. Well, first of all, why enter Competition and Special Interest if you haven't competed? But, I handed her the trophy and told her 'you take this, it obviously means more to you than me.'