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Seems like he posted on zcar.com a lot too back when I first got back into Zs. Him and some guy from Chattanooga I think were disenchanted with helping people. They were just stroking their egos.

I'll add my best bag for the buck was an aluminum flywheel. It is a Tifton or Tilton or something close but at 10lbs that little motor tachs out fast through the first 3 gears. Never tried 4th and 5th. You can have the OE flywheel lightened at a machine shop, if I recall right somewhere between 15 and 20 lbs?

I would add "SE Texas" to the thread's title, if you still can. I think they have an EDIT time out? Good luck, sounds fun.

Whoa! I messed up. It is a stage 3 on MSA's page. Sorry about that. Welcome to the party. MSA uses Schneider's cam kits and they're stage I is closer to the grind you are talking about. https://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/CTGY/classic12e03 here's Schneider's page and it looks like their grind #270-80F http://schneidercams.com/dastsunL6_NA.aspx I have one on a shelf in my spare bedroom. I thought I wanted to go faster but after a rebuild and the stock E88 head's performance I am happy just driving it as is. Too many police around here and I have the only bright orange 240Z in the county so they already know me and where I live. Every time I get gas somebody asked to look at it and a lot of times it's the police who are interested in talking. The premature wear you've heard of happens on they're new cam billets from all I read before ordering mine. You have to send in a original Japanese core with "E30" stamped on there. Like this... If you do buy that cam make sure it has this stamp, in my opinion, or I wouldn't trust it. On a break from work so I can't say much more but glad you found this forum and all the help you can stand from these guys.

They're all in your basement Wild Bill.

My '72 had them. Bumperettes, the vertical "boots". You may be thinking of the over riders. The bars on top of the bumpers? That may be a '73 thing?

Me too! All my responses were search the the archives. They'd type more crap scolding me than a simple answer to my question. That's what brought me to classiczcars.com and I've been wrapped in with kindness ever since. Why waste time typing hateful responses to search myself instead of simply saying the firing order, 153624?

I do the whole thing at the same time. Most others do too. Here's some threads that are informative. https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-americamovil-us-revc&source=android-home&source=hp&ei=3rkAYPaDCsHH_Qarh4qgCg&q=removing+transmission+and+motor+together+classiczcars.com+&oq=removing+transmission+and+motor+together+classiczcars.com+&gs_lcp=ChFtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1ocBADMgUIIRCgATIFCCEQqwI6AggpOgQIKRAKOgUIKRCxAzoOCCkQsQMQgwEQxwEQowI6CwgpELEDEMkDEJMCOgYIKRAWEB46BQgpEMkDOgUIKRCgAToICCkQsQMQgwE6AggAOgsIABCxAxDHARCjAjoICC4QsQMQgwE6CAgAEMcBEKMCOgIILjoFCAAQyQM6BQgAEJIDOggIABCxAxCDAToFCAAQsQM6BQguELEDOggIABCxAxDJAzoECAAQAzoJCAAQyQMQFhAeOgYIABAWEB46BwgAEMkDEA06BAgAEA06CAgAEAgQDRAeOggIIRAWEB0QHjoHCCEQChCgAVDzFFjQ4wFgofEBaABwAHgBgAGSAogBziiSAQYzLjMzLjGYAQCgAQGwAQ8&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp

This is what I call "ungifted gab", aka horse crap.

https://www.wbrc.com/story/24464868/anniston-goal-post-neon-sign-to-be-restored-displayed-at-another-restaurant/

We got that neon goal post and it is now at Betty's! You are my friend now, like family. It's nice to have that connection. Cliff

The guy I work for here in Gadsden is from Anniston. His family has had bbq restaurants since the 60s. The Goal Post was the first now they have Betty's BBQ. I work at Pruetts BBQ. Not familiar with the pizza shop you're speaking of because I always eat for free at Betty's. I'm 40 minutes north, up hwy 431. What's the name of the pie slingers place?

Okay, you got me now. If Anniston is considered huge you are isolated.

If it says anything over .43 get new rings I'm not thinking you should bore the cylinders, just get new rings. Maybe I'm not understanding but that's not unusual so I apologize if I'm simplifying too much. You think you live in the middle of nowhere! I have one machine shop and one machinist. His brother does exhaust work. Anyhow, don't do like I did and over think yourself to pieces. These are simple compared to most motors and you have a lot of guys just waiting to help here. It's cold out and we are sick of the news on television. PLEASE give me something Z related to talk about!

3.4855. That's a darn good recollection.

http://www.kangamotorsports.com/blog/setting-ring-gaps Piston and piston ring manufacturers provide specification for their ring gaps dependent on the performance application. These are normally specified as a gap times by the cylinder bore diameter. For our high performance street applications these were our values: Top Ring = Bore x 0.0045 = 3.4855 x 0.0045 = 0.0157 inches Second Ring = Bore x 0.0050 = 3.4855 x 0.0050 = 0.0174 inches Oil Ring > 0.015 inches Given that we can only measure to 0.001 inches with our feeler gauges we rounded up or down the values to: Top Ring = 0.016 inches Second Ring = 0.017 inches* Oil Ring > 0.015 inches

Edit: That looks damn good! That front one has a nipple on the backside for distributor vacuum advance. Is it open? Here's what I used to begin a basic tune. Thank you! @240260280

I used cast iron rings with a quick/rough hone on my 2.8 block. My machinist and the internet instructed me to do down hill lower gear foot off the pedal. It sucks the rings to the cylinder walls for faster seating of the rings. The other is up and down rpms for short amounts of time, nothing steady too long. That car runs great and had solid numbers on all 6 when I did a compression check years ago. 165 I think? On my 2.4 I used chrome faced moly rings with a specific hone for those rings. 83mm rings are hard to find without spending big bucks so I got Hastings from my machinist. I've never checked the compression on that motor but it runs so good I don't want to. I would stop by and talk to a machinist, they don't like talking on the phone, it's a waste of time for them. Machine work on these L motors is very basic, not too expensive. You need to find an older shop. They quit making these in 1984 but an older guy will say he's worked on thousands and would have to remember what to do. My best advice, if you haven't already got it, would be buy this book and read it 3 or 4 times. I was able to to rebuild mine without knowing anything about car motors. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931128030/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i3

He needs a mask, no matter Covid. Looking at that schnoz makes me want to puke.

My '73 pistons aren't valve notched like your's. Maybe a European, N. America thing? I would highly recommend new nuts for the TC rods. They're one use locking and I can tell you from experience and many other's experiences I've read, reuse of the old ones and they'll eventually come off. Small price for 2 new pinch nuts and peace of mind. Looks good. 👍

Playing with Les Paul! That's almost as cool as playing with Freddy Fender!

This guy is amazing but really weird looking. Me thinks he has a problem with stage fright maybe? Great guitarist though. A KFC chicken bucket on his head. That is too funny. @kats

Or visions of her leading her blind boyfriends around?

Seems like there is an aftermarket source but I filed mine to a half circle and they fit. No problems after 5 years. Here's the thread that has info.