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Hey man. Can I put the carb back on? I left it off and the spacer if you need any sort of measurement. Let us know how the phenolic spacers are coming. Cliff

Another thing to consider is the oil delivery to the cam lobes. My 9-'76 has an oiler cam, one with holes in the cam lobes the oil comes out of. It has an N47 cylinder head. If you have a '75 or '76 with the N42 head it'll have a oil spray bar like the 240 cam would need.

I know when I bought my aftermarket cam they specifically asked whether it was carbed of EFI. Said the "lobe separation was different between the two. This is the one I bought for carburetors. http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/10-2003 “The lobe separation angle is the angle in camshaft degrees between the maximum lift points, or centerlines, of the intake and exhaust lobes,” says Eric Bolander of Erson Cams. “It affects the amount of valve overlap; that is the brief period of time when both the intake and exhaust valves are open.”Dec 29, 2015

Another thing people often forget about is the age/maintenance ratio. These are old mostly plastic and fragile cars everywhere but the body which is rust prone. They require constant attention, like a pet in my opinion. Do you like working on cars or drivng? That FSR I think from Scion is a nice arse car and nothing but driving. These Zs are easy to work on but you have to work on them. That turns to the fun part, for me at least. I have a garage and like working on mine as much as I do driving it but I enjoy beer more than any car.

Go to zhome.com and look for "common problems/rust areas". A lot of good info on that page. My 280 was all smogged up and ran like crap. Luckily nobody cares in Alabama and I deleted all that stuff when I rebuilt the motor. Wherever you live I'd check to make sure the cut off date for emissions is past whatever year you're looking at. Good luck in your search, they're out there!

Thank you! Let us know how easy it is, that's all I've read. Really simple plug and play type.

Did you get it from him direct? I'd read he was only taking MSA orders. Thanks for any heads up. Cliff

This is a highly recommended headlight upgrade for the 240. I'm not much of a night driver so I can't say how much brighter but everything I've read has been positive, much brighter. This rewires the headlights to pull straight off the battery. Handmade by a forum member. http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/12-4651

That is a sharp car! Looks very original too, you'll have some fun with that.

Isn't this the car you got back after a divorce? Those look like "love licks" with an ax to me. I had a friend that had a beautiful Corvette when he moved into a hotel for a week. When he got settled in a new place and came back for the 'Vette it looked like Swiss Cheese. She destroyed that poor car.

I'd tighten the belt first, then put a voltmeter on the battery leads. Should put out 13.5 volts or better while idling. Congratulations on your purchase. let's see some pictures.

I learned the hard way that shiny or darker link moves around each revolution of the motor. It'll line up every so often on it's own when it hits top dead center. I built both my motors and set them to #3. All the old mechanics and things I read said it would give them more low end "grunt" off the line. With all the Cops around I don't need top end. Here's what you need to line up.

This helped me more than any other tool while I replaced my valve and hoses under there. Can't imagine pulling the whole thing out. Quarter inch socket and driver with a 1/4" socket with screwdriver bits.

I may could get the thread measurements for you and any other measurements. I thought you might be making PSA against 240s, .

Why?

Take some pictures for us, you may have found a way to make it easier. This was the easiest way for me to set the floats on my 240.

Before my potentiometer tweak my '77 would stall and then pick up up until 2,000 - 2,500 RPM. It would spit and sputter even worse when I forced fuel on it.

Zed do you have an N47 intake or a N42? My N47 was a crossover model. It has the EGR tunnels but know allen head plugs plus the EGR mount itself is not opened up. Weird but it's pretty much an N42.

Good ventilation and use some long wires, ho's pipe or an extinguisher. Easy to see them spray or not.

If I remeber right it was a close call on my part to get them cleaned, new o-rings (big and small) replaced versus the price for new ones. I'm sure i spent a lot of time getting the lowest price, coupon codes and all of that mess but i did get them cheap. Anyway here's the thread if you want to read it. Cliff

That's a direct violation of OSHA's required safety meetings.

This would be perfect for some young little hippie chick soaked in Patchouli.

Pretty rough looking neighborhood right there. Working on it there could be dangerous, overspray.