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The July Sacramento Z Car Reunion! Saturday July 23rd, 9am to Noonish! Same location as usual! Family Donuts and Deli, 9045 Fair Oaks, Blvd. Fair Oaks Blvd. @ San Juan Avenue. Shine 'em up! Drive 'em down! Let's see them Z cars go!!!

Sorry to hear I missed you Arne. You live in a beautiful part of the country without a doubt! I love-love-love that go-kart track over in White just out of Medford. I flat tore that track up Friday...

One more...

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I spent the weekend in Medford Oregon at a Porsche event I go to pretty much every year. All my Porsche friends were excited to tell me that there were two hot Datsun/Nissan cars in the parking lot. One, a '73 240Z belonging to a family with the last name 'Peachy' and the other a 350Z belonging to the same family. My friend Mark and I decided to head over to the car show they were there to attend and we took a couple pics and bought a couple t-shirts... Enjoy!

Someday, this will be a vintage car... I liked the throwback paint scheme so I thought I would include it here...

Carl will find this one interesting...

More Devendorf Electromotive...

Late reminder! The June Sacramento Z Car Reunion is Saturday Morning! Be there and see the gang!

Neat poster...

Devendorf...

Pretty much every ITS racer in the country will thank you for this... They have to remain stock. I want to. Mine are fine for now though...

Nuff said...

Without an answer to that question, the easiest way to handle this is to pretend they're not. Separate that is. Bleed the right rear first then the left rear, then the right front, and last the left front. You want to move from farthest away from the master cylinder to closest. Have whoever you have inside the car give that pedal a good stomp. You are trying to dislodge air bubbles and they like to hide in the most secure places where they're hard to move. As for your pull to the left. That is kind of unusual. Because of road crown, cars *can* pull to the right and have perfectly serviced brakes. When you replaced your pads originally, was there unusual wear? Like for instance, one side have pads that looked nearly new while the other had a completely worn out pad? If your caliper pistons aren't moving freely, you may need your calipers rebuilt.

Coop, More than likely I am going to see you and your car in operation. I now work in Reno though I don't live there yet. Got my first paycheck from them today. I am running both a mechanical and electric. This is what Gary Cook, Bill Madamba, Steve Mill and one or two others local to me are doing. I will check the pressure though... This is mostly a street car.

Coop, I will be using both. The PO removed the Mechanical and installed just a tiny little pusher pump in the rear. Most of my local track junkie friends use both the mechanical and an electric pump to prime. Webers live on only 2.5 - 3.0psi of pressure so the mechanical or a good electric pump would be ok...

Bandit's hurtful gestures aside, I did get some work done today. Almost ready to reinstall the intake and exhaust. Newly rebuilt Webers, a mechanical fuel pump to help out that tiny e-pump the previous owner was using, rerouted fuel lines to semi stock locations. As soon as I get the rear up in the air, I will install the rear shoes and some other stuff I have been holding off on...

Yes dear...

Eric feels that brakes are best kept matched. This retains the balance the factory engineers intended. The fronts are now on the car loaded with Porterfield R4S pads. R4S shoes are also available for our cars and Eric sent them to me as well... He is a Porterfield dealer by the way. Tomorrow I am busy putting the engine and transmission back into my 911 but Friday I expect I can get the drums turned and shoes arced and installed. I will be talking to someone I know who does a good deal of retro-manufacturing about making Z car drums by the way... I know the ITS and other Vintage guys need them and those of us who don't want to modify will want them as well.

If you were thinking of sitting this one out because you are avoiding Bill (SilverStreak) I have good news for you! He is once again obeying his wife and will not be at the June Sacramento Z Car Reunion... When you think about it, no one wanted him around anyway right? Anyone want to buy a set of SU's all set up and ready to go? Cheap. I have nothing in them...

I alerted Mike this morning. Hopefully he can move it to the technical article section.

Come on up and get carbed and caffiened... The June Sacramento Z Car Reunion is ON!!!

I fondled them a bit ago... They're every bit as beautiful as in Eric's pictures. Rebuild of the Webers is complete. I just need to regroup and go back out and get the car up on jackstands...

I will talk to Eric about redoing it as an article if there isn't a process to just make this thread the article. He is usually pretty busy during the week though...