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I found on my car, vin is about 14,000 early car, the car had a hazard switch with the short harness. The longer harness one I had messed everything up. I don't believe they are interchangeable

The battery tray looks pretty good if you ignore the 5# mouse nest underneath it 😀

The large white with red made me think it was a primary relay...

Thanks Ernest, I have the large laminated wiring diagram. Makes tracing much easier

I'll check the old switch but I don't think it closed in a short enough distance either

Is that the accessory relay?

So I need a little help. I still don't have turn signals even with a new electronic flasher. I have tried a three wire with a ground and a two wire. I will save that for Cody at the moment. The other problem for the day is reverse lights. The switch I have has the leads torn off. So I ordered a new one for a 280zx transmission from a Z vendor I bought a number of things from and like doing business with. The new switch does not trigger fast enough. That is to say the plunger has to travel too far to make the circuit. It appears the plunger is brass so that seems to rule out adding metal to it with the welder. Is there another way to source a better switch? One that needs less travel or one with the plunger a little longer... The switch needs to trigger before the length is below 0.73". The new one needs to travel about 0.125" more to trigger

You can look for 1156 & 1157 bulbs on Amazon in all different colors. One bulb is a single filament one bulb is a dual filament

What model and year?

Probably true. The barn find is in a dry state but that seems like a lot of money for a project car... Yes, based on the BaT price it might be in the ballpark

There's overspray on the data plate! Lots of other issues with the car. The market is pretty weak right now. It's not going to bring 15k much less 50k!

Yes, Ive seen the Element ads at Hagerty. I think that could be a good option

I like to use a wooden shim. Find one that is the right thickness and mark it with a sharpy. Works really well...

Pictures would be good. You can probably get a view from inside the open door, towards the front. If they bolt from the outside in, the fenders will need to come off unless you don't value your paint...

Namerow got me searching... You can buy trammel point on Amazon pretty cheap. Add a 1x2 thats long enough and you should be good to go... https://www.amazon.com/s?k=trammel+points&crid=K19KM88E6XBD&sprefix=tammel+heads%2Caps%2C343&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ranker_1_13 My frame man uses them alot to make sure the car is square and even. You set it for one side or one diagonal and the mirror side should be identical

Do they not bolt from the inside out?

Very cool! Looks like the new shop is a nice upgrade. Looks like you might have more acreage too...

I think Yarb's thought might be it needs surfacing.. There are some chatter marks and possibly some blue hot spots too. Yarb, be me to it by seconds...

Did they really "powder coat" them? I would think paint would have been more accurate?

Most of my kids are gearheads. I need to build a couple more Z's to reduce the fighting when I'm gone...;)

He was very tired today and none of them like pictures. ;)

We talked Cody into working on his car today instead of Lily. So we went over to the other garage and put as much together as we could. Pinned the parking brake cable back from the exhaust replaced the clutch master line and the clutch master The we hung all the exhaust, made up fuel lines to the carbs, primed the fuel pump, Rigged up an ignition system and some temporary power. I need to get the engine bay harness sorted but I can't get it done yet. We got fuel to the carbs but have no spark. Coil ohm's out good. We replaced the matchbox on the dizzy but still have no spark, so I ordered another cheap one off Ebay. It will be here later this week...

We checked the timing. It was about 14 with 32 or so all in Here are my mechanics Morgan is home from school for a few weekends and her boyfriend Mark was here too. They're all good with tools and willing to help

Cody has been back from Fla for about a week. He finally got a break. We had a short family vacation and then spent all weekend working on cars! He spent 3-4 hours tracing the turn signal circuit. In the end we switched back to the original hazard switch and that made everything light up the way it should. The flasher was bad but I have a new electronic one to use. We also made short jumper harnesses to go between the US harness and the JDM tail lights. The green and yellow will come from the brake switch at the pedal and then it should all work appropriately. We also got the car fired up yesterday. I bought a cheap L6 electronic dizzy off ebay. I swapped it in for the old match box dizzy and it fired right up. I guess the matchbox went bad the last time I tried to fire it up because it sort of bumped over for a sec and then no spark. We'll see how long this dizzy lasts Ordered a reverse switch for the transmission and that may be sorted. Need to sort power for the blower fan and some odds and ends electrical and it will be close to ready to test

Those seals actually have a lip around the edge that sheet rubber won't duplicate