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Trying to clean the rocker vinyl pieces up. I may have to vinyl black them to make them look right I haven't seen these available any where new ?

So I worked on the radiator support some this week My grill brackets were either bent or broken off. So I took some off a parts car a while back. Marked around them with tape because the spot welds are in different places between the parts and the weld through primer would erase the pencil layout. Then I seam sealed around them. Taped the car up and sprayed it black. Then I primed and blacked my air dam support and welded it on today

If you use some starting fluid will it fire over? If it won't then it's spark or compression

So there was a thread about vent lines in the not too distant past. The OP had found braided vent lines somewhere (VW site maybe?) spec'd out the lengths etc. I have tried to find it. Anyone remember that thread? On another note is the search feature on the forum working? I always get zero results...

I had that one time a long time ago... Valve lash was too tight.

A small thing. I wouldn't call that a sway bar. I would call that a strut tower brace. Sway bars are normally connected to the wheel swing arms

I think you're right. That looks like the real deal. Very unusual

Thanks for that. I read all 7 pages last night. Lot's of good info

Do you ever post up a thread or how to on how you did this?

I'm not sure I have the time to devote to that.

@cgsheen1 I think you covered a lot of what I had worked through in my own mind. I like EFI! Get in it and it starts and idles no matter the weather. Great fuel delivery control; coil on plug; all of that. I figure a stroker motor will cost $5-6k without head work. Add $2500 for port and polish. Long term I would want ITB's. $4k for the ITB's. $2-3k for a stand alone ECU. It starts to get expensive... All in $14-20k... It might make 300Hp, it might make 225Hp. Lots of variables unless I have Dave or Eiji build it. Which adds even more costs I have 2 complete with harness L28ET's in my shop. I sort of have an EFI fuel tank, once I get all of the dents out. Would probably go stand alone ECU at some point, unless I can't sort the factory EFI and get it to run properly. I would think for now I would run stock internals and not get too crazy with the boost. If I need to upgrade the internals, I could build the other block and just swap them out. All in, this route seems like it would be significantly cheaper than the stroker...? Now, don't get me wrong, I love the look of ITB's and I have obviously collected stroker parts for a reason. But I don't have limitless resources, either time or money. So the turbo seemed to make the most sense in my mind. The reason the question comes up now for me was timing. If I were going to take a stab at the stroker, I might build the engine before Tampa Zcon and drop it in. If I go turbo, then I would get the car running on another engine with some carbs and do the turbo motor after Tampa. I don't think there is time for me to swap to EFI and sort it before Tampa. It just adds too much work to an already crowded schedule

Nice cars but they're proud of their parts! Even doing the work myself they were more expensive than I could justify

$85k reserve not met

Too funny! Because you're here! 😉

I believe Steve is correct. You are correct you could get the car started using Steve's method but the steering would still be locked unless you deal with the anti theft screws

I've heard they have therapy for this sort of thing, but so far I have resisted. 😉 I thought I would wait for some more replies before I started chiming in...

Cody is trying to talk me into building a motor for "Lily". I have an engine in another Z that might be good. We will pull that drive train and see if that motor will run. That might end up as plan B. I have two different 280zx turbo motors in my shop and I also have a V07 crank laying around. I had thought I would buy a stroker kit from Rebello minus the crank and build up a 3.0L motor with some Z therapy carbs for now, but I could go with one of the turbo motors. Please chime in with your thoughts. Pros & Cons Thanks, C

Those are some stout prices!!

I believe that applies to the very early cars. I would think carpet would have become standard by late 1970...

Yes, my car was made 11/70

No, sorry, I don't @nix240z Steve, post #5

I just contacted him the other day. He should still be an available source

So making patterns for tar mat today The Wurth material has a backer on it like this The top side looks like this I think you peel this face when you're done?? @Zup Do you remember how many boxes it took to do a car? I have one box and that seems like it might be just enough to do the tunnel. Also any recommendations on how you handled marking and cutting from multiple 8"x20" pieces? C

I agree with Steve but for $25-30 you can buy a complete fuel pressure kit on Amazon. Tee included...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fuel+pressuretest+tee&t=fpas&iax=shopping&ia=shopping