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I have worked with my hands for decades and I find this to be true also. Did you have the exterior window sweep off? The frame on the bottom of the glass was the problem as I recall. You sort of have to man handle it to get it into the door.

Who's into ceramics?

The glass can be installed with the frame in place, but it can be challenging. As I recall you tip the front down into the door first at an angle then rotate the back down into the door

Very good work with the stud welder! I didn't mention, the stud welder can also be used to shrink if you leave the stud out, then cool with water. Make sure the inside isn't warped inward. I will have to look tomorrow. There may be a pad that is supposed to take up the space

If you change the color,nobody but you and those you tell will ever know. Paint it what you like. Also the hand throttle was probably not original to the car...

It looks like an RB engine.Don't know which one. Lots of good pictures in here http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/145044-two-rb30s-price-reduced.html

Are you sure it's an L head? Doesn't really look like it.

Thanks

I expect that's a challenge to cut a block end to end like that

Looks great!

Roughly what does this cost?

Gotta love PO's (previous owners)...

Yes, basically. It is possible it is a timing issue I probably need to check the vacuum advance and the centrifugal weights too. I don't know how we would watch timing in real time since it is such a sporadic issue

Thanks Jim! That is an excellent idea. I will look around, I should have more than one... If not I will let you know

Right now were running the stock 510 carb which I believe is a 2 barrel vacuum secondary carb with an accelerator pump So one throttle plate and pumping the gas adds fuel... It also has a glass sided float bowl so you can instantly see if the carb has fuel

I checked all the fuses and they all have power on both sides. Wiring diagram looks like power goes to the hazard switch first? So I guess I should start there, correct?

I considered the matchbox being the issue a awhile back, but one of the days it acted up the low was like 7d F. I can't imagine the box running hot then. was leaning towards a blockage in the carb float bowl or an ignition issue, but I have had a hard time coming up with test to isolate the problem. So we think we might come up with some more info. We the car acts up (which) seems very random it will loose power and he will try to feather the pedal to keep it running. It usually stalls. Then he restarts it. So the last couple of times it has done it. When it stalls I told him to just cut it off then restart it. Yesterday when he thought it was acting up he pulled over cut it off and restarted it immediately. Issue was gone... So that makes me suspect maybe a bad ignition switch or possibly a bad connection causing the loss of voltage at the coil or the matchbox. Thoughts? Ideas on a test to validate this?

True...

If you got a back fire out the intake manifold, you need to check your ignition timing. It probably needs to be advanced some

There was a time when unions did some great things for the American worker, but some unions failed to realize that the well wasn't infinitely deep. If you take too much, you hurt the business and the members... I know all about the construction issue. Spent all day planing lumber and making some timber frames. I'll be 50 next year...need to work my way out of the field and into the office. We'll see if that plays out.

I don't know about Alabama manufacturers but here at the BMW plant they pay pretty well. I know a number of people that work there with high school educations or GEDs that make 40 -50k a year assembling cars. The engineers make alot more than that. The benefits are pretty good too. Not only that but they bring in lots of high paying support industry to supply just in time parts.These companies tend to look for states with good available employees that can do the jobs with low unionization pressure...

My wife is excellent! When I built my shop, she told me it wasn't big enough, but I couldn't make it bigger because of the property set back lines. She also keeps her eyes open for Z cars. Many times I have to talk myself out of buying cars she has found, even when she says to buy it...

Nice car. I think for what you have that's a good price...

The guys who use to paint for me used Bulldog on air dams. As far as painting, rattle can paint really isn't very durable and will come off with some solvents. Some paint shops can mix up colors in catalyzed spray cans. The best thing is to really just get it painted or paint it yourself. You can probably get someone like Maaco to paint it for you cheap if it's off the car. Your could bulldog it first, so then they could do a final once over sand, degrease and spray.

What Steve said!!!! ^^^^ Check your voltage with a meter at the headlight plugs. If you get them 12v's they will be much brighter. Corrosion at the connections is the enemy.