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Your cam is "bigger" than Jeff G 78's cam. The odds are against you. Jeff G knows his engines. Here's your cam specs. Racing Cam Stage III Intake 36-74 Exhaust 74-36 Valve Lift 0.490 Valve Lash Cold 0.010/.012 Advertised Duration 290 0.050 Duration 242 Here's Jeff G 78"s post. "I tried it - twice. The first time was circa 1997 with a L28 at 9.83:1 CR and a street cam. The engine was fresh and the car ran like crap. It had low power, wouldn't idle and was simply a disaster. Since the engine was new and the EFI a bit untested, I removed the cam and related components and returned the engine to a stock cam. It ran great and I was able to enjoy the car. The performance cam sat on a shelf for a decade or so. My Z was running great and was well-sorted, so I figured that I would try again. I installed the same cam and related parts back into the engine and got the same result. I tried to tune it, but it didn't make enough vacuum to keep the L-Jet happy. I once again pulled the cam springs and rockers and went back to stock. I then installed that cam into my SU carbed L28 racecar and it runs like a dream. It was everything I had hoped for in my street car. Both engines are very similar other than the fuel systems. You can try it, but many have the same results as me. L-Jet simply doesn't like low vacuum. For reference, my cam is a Web Racing Grind 91 with .450 lift and 260 duration"

You're avoiding the question - what will anyone do if it is found that the virus came from a China lab and is man-made? Describe an action that would be taken. Anything, keep it simple. One simple thing that will change if the virus came from a lab in Wuhan. No need for a video or three, just your words. Forward thinking, not backward. Something constructive, that might make things better.

The fuel pressure behavior is normal. 40 is higher than spec., which is 36.3. The mixture would be rich which might cause some problems. But the vacuum leak should have helped that. Why is "blipping the throttle" important? It looks like everything is working right. Here's the thread about big cams and EFI -

Here's another perspective, a scenario. China confesses that they were developing a virus, for potential use as a military weapon, it got loose and caused the pandemic. What changes in anyone's response? Nothing. China is huge and controls world manufacturing. What is anyone going to do?

If you have email notification then you saw what I deleted. China does not matter. Where the virus came from does not matter. If you had read the article I posted, or even jsut the excerpt, you'd see that it's a distraction. It's a bright shiny object, a red laser spot to a cat, it doesn't matter.

Is that from 2001 Space Odyssey? Just saw that the other night. Weird coincidence.

Seeking the sources for the stories about the source. Occam's Razor. Reduce to the essence. Then ask "why would this be true?". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/five-eyes-network-contradicts-theory-covid-19-leaked-from-lab Australia’s Daily Telegraph – a Sydney tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch – has been focusing on the Wuhan lab for several days, culminating in a weekend report which cited a 15-page dossier compiled, it said, by “concerned Western governments” amid an investigation by British and other members of the Five Eyes intelligence agencies. Intelligence sources in Australia were quick to say they believed it was based on open source, public domain material. One told the Guardian they believed the information that appeared in the News Corp title was most likely to have originally come from the US: “My instinct is that it was a tool for building a counter-narrative and applying pressure to China. So it’s the intent behind it that’s most important. So possibly open source leads with a classification slapped on it.”

Never mind. We all have our obsessions. That's the point of the forum...

Can't really tell which line's you're talking about and if they are connected correctly. But the distributor's vacuum advance canister runs off of PORTED vacuum. In other words, it only gets vacuum when the throttle blade is off of idle. At idle it closes so that there is no vacuum, so no vacuum advance. The Nissan EFI system is known for "hating" big cams. There have been some comments about in just the last few days. If I find the thread I'll link it. The ECU and AFM are designed to run well with a certain set of engine parameters. Big cam isn't one of them.

I'm sure that the rubber in the factory bushings deflects enough to allow metal to metal contact. I found an image and pasted it as illustration. The only thing holding that little gap open is the modulus of the rubber. And that's not much. The PU bushings probably started as good "upgrades" for certain bushings, making things stiffer and less compliant. But many of the other applications just really aren't better than the factory bushings. Put an eyeball on that factory bushing with the thin rubber between two steel sleeves and compare it mentally to the replacement PU piece. I left my rear rubber in place, even though I had the PU as part of a kit. Just couldn't see a benefit.

The 280Z oil pan will fit fine in your 240Z. The 280ZX pan is different but it also will fit in a 240Z or 280Z. I think that fit problems happen if you try to put a 240Z/280Z pan in a 280ZX. Your biggest problem with an L28 in your 240Z might be the exhaust manifold. Not sure but think that the 240Z collector is a bit small and restrictive. Maybe not. Anyway, it should be a piece of cake.

The IHME has revised its analysis. Double the projected deaths. 134,475 by August 4. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates "What do all of these death model updates mean? Overall, these modeling improvements have resulted in considerably higher projections of cumulative COVID-19 deaths through August, primarily due to longer peaks and slower declines for locations that have passed their peaks. The magnitude of these effects vary by location, and uncertainty intervals still overlap considerably for many places. The mean cumulative projections shown in our online visualization tool and available for download are generally higher for currently included locations.

Here's a left of center view. Not as left as some, but probably not center https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/dont-judge-swedens-light-touch-on-covid-19-yet-says-minister

I don't think that this can be determined yet. Herd immunity is at about 80% apparently. Unless they've done enough testing to draw that inference they're not "done" with it. Unless you man almost all of the old people are dead. I don't want to get in to politics, but maybe you're not aware that the National Review is a super conservative magazine. You could probably call it "ultra" conservative. I used to read it about ten years ago when the spectrum from left to right was much narrower. Anyway, my point about that magazine is that they would be the views of the hard right. Everything's rosy, we need to start making money again. Inherently biased toward the "let them die" view. People are responsible for their own destiny, you're all on your own, get your own PPE, I've got mine. Ten years ago they seemed more rational. https://www.nationalreview.com/

Remove the breaker plate and look at the weights and springs. Sounds like the springs are gone or broken. Found a good video. You don't want to lock yours but he shows how to take one apart. 4 and 6 minutes show the critical parts.

Could be. Is the condenser there with a wire attached? If so, it's not that. My 1976 BCDD wire was black, I think. You might check the 1978 wiring diagram. The forum has some really nice color versions. https://www.classiczcars.com/files/category/1-wiring-diagrams/

At first glance I thought that was a smoky burnout picture. I knew somebody that put a 390 in one of those. Didn't last long.

I just noticed that your article was from the National Review. It fits. This quote is a good one. Not sure why they didn't use Hiroshima or Nagasaki for comparison. It could be worse! Be thankful. course, Sweden paid a price during the pandemic. But whatever price the Swedes paid for their COVID-19 policy, they will tell you it was worth it. And it is easy to figure out that price. They never cratered their economy or blocked nonemergency surgeries. They had more deaths than their Nordic neighbors, but nothing even close to the 650 deaths per million the U.S. suffered during the 1968 Hong Kong flu, a pandemic that was handled with few social-isolation controls and no lockdowns.

What's really interesting about Sweden's comments is that they are taking the "we're not the worst" approach. Italy and Spain, and the UK and France set the bar so low that everyone else can say "it could be worse". It's what the WH is doing now. The fact that old people and minorities are affected the most makes it easier for us younger and genetically favored people to see the "positive" side of things. More for us! We should set up an internment camp in the desert for the old people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senicide https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/racial-ethnic-minorities.html?mod=article_inline

Here's a way to avoid the state lockdowns. International waters. Take a cruise. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/04/carnival-cruise-line-coronavirus-resume-operations

We need some kind of moniker for the "let the old people die" crowd. This is death panel stuff. Combine it with the broken food chain and we're in Soylent Green territory.

Won't hurt it. It's just not a perfectly designed part. It's elastic plastic, not metal. It's probably going to get worn out and squished away over time anyway. I don't even know why they designed them that way, the factory bushings don't have rubber in that gap. If it were mine, I'd probably cut all of that flange away and fill the space with washers so it wouldn't be sloppy. The factory bushing uses the strength of the rubber to keep the part centered. By the way, you probably want to smooth those hammer marks down since that is a loaded surface at times. Those two surfaces slide on each other. Most of these PU bushings are not "engineered" for the application. They are just filling the space left over when the factory bushing is removed. Sorry, that's probably a big buzzkill but I think that it's true.

Sounds like the wire to the condenser/capacitor on the fender well. It would be hot when the key is on. See if the condenser is still in place, it's right across from the coil on the fenderwell.

There is good stuff in the Service Manual. You should download it and look through the Tune Up chapter and the Engine Electrical chapter. Timing is set using a timing light. It's different from setting the gap of the points. It is normal for the rotor shaft to turn a few degrees. That is the mechanical advance mechanism working as it should.

You might be able to hone out the bushing sleeves. I've used Scothbrite on the end of a suitably sized rod to hone things out. Cut s trip of Scothbrite, stick it over the end of the hole then jam it in with a rod on the end of a drill motor. Some WD-40 and a few million revolutions and the hole will get bigger. Surprising that the sleeve is too small. That's a bad product, since you have a new pin. Should be a perfect fit. Inside the casting, around the lock pin hole, there can be deformation. But I think you said that you already cleaned that up. The spindle pin should slide easily all the way through the casting hole.