Captain Obvious

And actually, I've been confused since the start. You started this thread with the title "Butthurt Emissions delete...." and I'm not sure what you mean. Are you butthurt by your emissions? Are your emissions butthurt by you? Are you trying to delete your emissions BECAUSE they are butthurt? Sorry, but I'm completely lost.

Agreed. I can pretty much guarantee that site wasn't trying to demoralize anybody. Not that kind of guy. Here's my take on what site said: "I don't understand your point with the above. If you want to delete your EGR, then go ahead. It's not that difficult. Heck... With enough reading, even I was able to figure out how to do it. And you, being an engineer, are probably much more capable than I am." That's my read.

Haha!!

So if you're spending that much time on the parts of the car you CAN'T see (once it's put back together), I can just imagine how the parts you CAN see are going to turn out!

Nope. That's all I got. Close, but no cigar. I do, however, have a couple of pics that are simply loaded with GRAND MASTERS. Here's a couple of my favorites:

I'm-a-lookin... I'm-a-lookin. So far, I got close, but no cigar: I haven't gotten to Memphis yet...

I'm wearing my Back Forty shirt right now. I think of you every time I see it.

I don't know how many badges there are available... All I know is that we're all chasing Cliff! So he's got eleven and you've only got ten. The one that he has that you don't is "Well Followed". You need to have 10 people following you to get that badge and you've only got nine. So you need to lobby JUST ONE MORE PERSON to follow you and you'll have as many badges as Cliff. I'm two badges behind, and the one I'm chasing now is "Dedicated" (which you and Cliff both already have). It requires you to log in for seven days straight. With my hit-and-miss on-line presence, I've apparently never achieved that. I'm trying now though, starting yesterday. Haha!! Of course, if @Mike catches wind of any of this gaming of the system, it's all over. LOL. There are threads on the interwebs about this new badge system and turning it into a video game. It's designed to encourage participation and site traffic. Most people seem to like it.

Actually I'm just here to pad my stats so I get another badge.

Of course you can! You're Grand Master Patcon!

Hahaha!!!

Well played!! To paraphrase Count DeMonet, "Your Majesty, this is a very serious problem. The peasants feel you have no regard for them."

Haha!! How quick some people are to forget where they came from!

LOL!!! I'm honored to be a 1%er. I'll never forget the little people. Jingle. Jingle.

Actually (in the real world) what probably limits the ability to accelerate your Z is the ability to get that power to the road. Nice equations. I'm hot.

i'd have to hear it in person to decide if it's valve noise or just normal injector noise. In any event, the car looks great. I'm so happy you're getting some time behind the wheel!

Haha! I totally get it! Wasn't sure which side of that fence you would fall on, but thought I would mention I had it.

Yeah, that block vent tube is not stock. Was that fitting screwed into the block when you got it, or did you put that in?

Beautiful. I've got (what I was told was) an NOS original four speed shift knob. Would sure look great in that car.

Site and Ferg, The valve timing position hole on the upper cam gear has no effect on chain tightness. It's a "relative rotation" change only, not a "distance between two gears" change. In other words, moving which cam timing hole you're using will not change the chain tightener position at all. If your cam tightener is sticking out too far, moving to a different timing hole won't do anything at all to change that.

Well I'm not ready to come to any conclusions yet, but I did take another look at the documentation, and I really can't find any reference to that kind of temperature switch for 78. And for the years that DO have a device like that, it's used to change the ignition timing from "advanced" (when the engine is cold) to "retarded" (once the engine warms up). However, you have a single pickup distributor, which does not support switching ignition timing based on temperatures. I don't know why that temperature switch is there, and what it could do for you, even if it were connected. 76 uses a device like that, and the connection from the harness out to the switch is a red wire, but swapping a 76 harness into a 78 would be a big job and have a whole bunch of pitfall issues. What do you know about the history of the car?

As far as I can tell, the 78 did not use a temperature switch like that. According to the documentation, the 76 was the last year for such a device. I wonder if you PO swapped parts around. Maybe a replacement motor? Maybe a replacement thermostat housing? Can you pop the distributor cap off and take a pic of the guts inside the distributor?

Wow, thats a LOT of beer! I know who I'm gonna call when I'm in the area! And I wouldn't be surprised if the Heineken you have there is better than the Heineken you export.

Oh, and@SteveJ Might I humbly suggest: Step 0 - Disconnect the battery

The original system is considered a closed system. By "closed" they mean that there are no running conditions under which the crankcase vapors are released out into the atmosphere. PCV theory says that pressure escaping out of the valve cover nipple would only occur under high blow-by conditions. And in a healthy engine, that would only occur at high throttle high load conditions. If that's the case, your carbs are sucking a lot of air and anything that gets pushed out into the air cleaner box turns around and gets sucked into the carbs and is burned in the engine. PCV theory also says that under low blow-by conditions the crankcase vapors are pulled into the intake manifold through the PCV valve. The vapors never escape out into the atmosphere, and hence is a "closed system". If you're running one of those little air filtery thingies on your valve cover nipple, then its not a closed system anymore. If you're running catch cans with little filters on them, it's not a closed system anymore.