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When I had my 1st problems with a Z back in the late eighties everybody told me I needed the "280 Lady". This guy had a huge junkyard he started when he came back from some war, Vietnam or Korea I'm not sure but his daughter grew up around cars and used the Zs he bought like go-karts. She's forgotten more than I'll ever learn I'm sure. Her Dad passed away and now she drives a 350Z, no heat soak issues with that. Now her and her siblings are selling off everything for scrap and trying to sale the land for a county landfill, it's about 75 acres of oil and anti-freeze soaked ground. What Zs are left have been robbed of good parts already and nothing older than 280s with N47 heads. And there's an Alabama girl on hybridz with a V8 swapped car she drag races.

I went through pretty much the same with a 240 I bought a month or so ago. I replaced the distributor and coil with the newer ZX's electronic ignition. It let it go past the 2500 rpm stall, under a load, it would rev up fine sitting in the garage. If you want to rule out fuel starvation, secure a gas jug in front of the radiator. Drill 2 holes in the top and run your fuel lines into the jug, supply and return. I put a shop towel around them then taped it up real good and went for a drive. Still wouldn't go past 2500 on the road. get one of these too, https://www.google.com/search?q=clear+glass+fuel+filter&rlz=1C1BOFA_enUS494US494&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=kgOgU5fDGIqeqAaskoGABg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=620 I put one before the fuel pump and it would cloud up like a glass of tea but the bigger plastic filter caught the crap 1st. Now I'm in the middle of cleaning the tank and replacing fuel lines. Look at these photos, http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/funnybone/52471-developing-story.html

Show us how to get a stuck drum off, I've beat the fins off my left rear without any luck. I'm hoping that if I wear down the shoes it'll come off.

So you're saying the wider spray out of the FJ707Ts is good? I hope so! That's what I bought because of price only, no research.

Question for you guys. Hopefully the baffle in the tank is only welded on the very bottom section? It steps down a couple of times before the actual lowest section so fuel can get around the sides, I'm hoping! Thanks, Cliff

I've got a step by step of my on that works pretty good, about four 5 gal. buckets and write down my next steps on a pad so as not to panick. And the 240 tanks are a hole lot easier (smaller) to slosh around. $30 for the Red-Kote liner, $20 for the muratic acid and acetone, gallon of each.

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Farmers will spend more to get out of paying than what the actual claim is, they're terrible.

Too late but it's easy to DIY. http://www.kamikazeracing.org/dl/ZTech/Rebuild_240Z_combo_switch.pdf That's for a 240 but it's was pretty much the same when I did my '77.

Learned something new for today already! Haven't been awake 15 minutes. Never new about the Cheetah.

...like many beloved racers my luck has hit the wall. Fuel gauge wasn't working on this car I bought a few weeks ago so I pulled the sending unit. "Here's your sign" moment, Followed by these findings, Lemons to lemonade I shaved off 3/4s lb., Oh well, I bought it for me to have something to do. It has scored an A+ with this.

I tried taking mine off and it leaves red and green wires exposed as well as the bracket and two threaded holes, not to happy with it like that and I may take the ZX dizzy out to put in my other 240. It does way better than the points type they have, not so much on the 280. If it's not raining this Saturday I'll go to the JY and get you one. I need to find a injector fan switch for Andrew aka Zcurves too. I'm wearing long pants and shirt soaked in Deet. I'll send you a PM for your address if I'm holding one. That 3rd wire is probably for the temp sender on the earlier ones.

Kind of brings truth to the old saying about the police radios, "you can't outrun a Motorola".

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Maybe if you plug the BCDD back up it'll keep your RPMs steady when coasting. If I remember right, on mine, the bottom nut turns out counter clockwise for more RPMs. Take it out 1/2 turn at a time and test drive it. If it's worse then I'm backwards, go clockwise. Good luck.

Your intake may have been so clogged up it wasn't sucking in any air, vacuum leak style. Mine was and for what short time I drove around with that big old hole it didn't run too well. It had a bad exhaust leak back there too that disguised the rotten intake to my unknowing ears and eyes.

My intake manifold was exactly like yours, EGR tube had burnt at the connection and rotted out the bottom side of the tunnel. I tried to get it welded up but my welder friend said it wouldn't work, too much rot I guess. I found a non-EGR manifold for $50, it was stamped N47 but was some kind of hermaphrodite of an N42. It has the castings of a N47 but no openings from the EGR channel to the intake runners or those big arse allen plugs. I know time isn't on your side but finding a N42 intake would be your best bet, you're going to have to delete that stuff anyhow, thanks to Mr Sawzall for me too, I love those things. 1st pic is the rotten one, stinks too 2nd is the in between N42 & N47 3rd is flowing the mouth out 4th is the difference between the head size and the intake, opened them up too Nissan had a recall for that tube fitting that comes loose too, I guess our POs didn't get that notice or didn't think it was important.

The borrowed wheels will stay on so they're not really borrowed just repurposed. Didn't run, now runs great, didn't shine either.

Oh no, please say you didn't do all that work without getting a $150 clutch kit.

I think it's called a dash pot, the round thing with the whitish plastic that serves as a shock absorber for your throttle linkage. They're adjustable, https://www.google.com/search?q=280z+dashpot&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=kzKXU6GRIubLsATjt4HIAw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1280&bih=620&dpr=1.25

When I put a ZX distributor in my '77 it did away with that junction with the snap down top, so no a newer ZX won't have it. I have access to a few 280s at a junkyard but I'd rather go to the dentists as a junkyard in the summertime but I've had some good Z luck lately and don't want to mess that up, so maybe I'll give you mine and replace it with one from the JY when I go back. I'll let you know in the morning. It's the same as Blue's in your second picture.

You're talking about the red and green wire connector, right? I'd loosen the 2 screws enough to slide a black zip-tie under it until you can find one at a junkyard.

That gauge at Lowes is one Fastwoman found a while back for another fellow having the same problem. I didn't know they had that one, the one I found was for an air compressor, so when I was at my Lowes I saw it in the pool supply section. It has a 1/4" nipple that will thread right down into your existing 5/16" fuel line, tighten the clamp, they call it "dead headed" when it stops the circulation of fuel. Remove the coil wire then turn it over a few times and the gauge should hold the reading for a good while if everything's OK.

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Or you could put a gauge on the hose going into the bottom of the fuel filter, straight from the pump. My Bosch hits 50 psi and doesn't fade when I put a gauge on the fuel supply hose straight from the pump, before the fuel filter. Shop Aqua EZ Pressure Gauge at Lowes.com