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How's your engine build? I remember reading about the very meticulous guy's comments and wondered if he finished it up for you. I think he buillt aerial motors? Can't wait to see the finished car. I've been keeping up.

Oh yeah Racer X, down here in the Deep South these redneck hunters put rubber bands on the boys balls cutting off the blood flow. Balls fall off so they won't get injured chasing racoons or deer or whatever. Don't want to scratch their nuts on a briar but put rubber bands on them for a month. Even worse they "cull" the females to save money on dog food. Use your imagination on my "cull" remark. It ain't good.

Good info, thanks for sharing but WHY do they do it? It's like that redneck flat tire joke, "guy pulls up and sees a lady standing by her flat tire and says you gotta flat tire? No, I let the air out." My dog has no balls and now a tatoo to prove he has no balls.

Since they did that he's been the sweetest dog ever. When he dies, and I'm already prepared for it this time, I'll get another boy and do the same exact thing. His "lipstick" pokes out every know and then but not aggressive at all. He's the best!

I don't know but that makes more sense although they did offer me some prosthetic balls for Buddy. He also got a small tatoo as a marker that he'd been neutured, Smoothe as a horses nose down there and they gave him the green mark. WTF?

Spraying soap thingy. You are way above me. I can only read English, you can do Dutch and English. Party on! Oh yeah, spaying is what we do to female animals to keep them from getting pregnant. It's way better than males, we cut their testicles off. My boy dog doesn't have anything to lick and when I was a kid we were so poor if I didn't have testicles I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

Man that's great! Congratulations, you deserve it. You have a great hobby that'll last a long time. I have an E31 that's needs to look like your Maxima heads. Maybe one day? Cliff

I've read train service is in high demand again with all the "new" shipping that has gone to s h i t. Everything old is new once again proven. Hang in there Steve.

In my neck of the woods throwout and release means the same thing. And the special washing machine is called a chemical vat at our machine shops. But your's could have been some kind of ultrasonic thing like for transmission parts? How you like me now? Party on Wayne!

I've used Valvoline max life 10w30 for 5 plus years and the cam lobes look nice and shiny. Oil never gets really dark like Castrol 20/50 I ran in my '89 BMW 325is. Good pressure on the gauge too but I use turbo oil pumps.

No clear vin# I could find and a black engine bay? Hemmings maybe stretching the true price on this one. Whups! I made a mistake I think? I can see green but not normal for that low mile car. Sorry...

I've learned, have them tested before you leave. They're about half junk for sure but eventually you'll get a good one.

I can't rember the total weight of the rod and piston assembled but I used the ones that had the same stamped numbers on the cups and rod caps. I chose to grind off a gram or two off the outer longer length of the rods to get them equal. I had the the flywheel resurfaced and balanced by the machinest but bolted up the the clutch kit straight out of the box. It gets close to 7,000rpm and is smooth, no vibration at all. Make sure and have your throwout bearing pressed on from your machinest. I used the old one to drive a new one on my first time and it whines in neutral unengaged. Works great but is annoying to me. Heres something I found on a 2.4 build, good read.

Brake cleaner? That's pretty strong stuff. I like the "low and slow" approach like barbecue.

Like your garage. Tire storage is great! It's cold out so maybe you can spend some time in there? Everybody loves a "rebuild" thread.

I used this on my last SU rebuild and they look great. It's a polishing wad, whatever that means, wipe it on then buff it off.

Here's my biggest time saver for my '77. He's done it all already. Click on "electrical" and also "efi and fuel". Good stuff to read through and even better camera work. Thanks @240260280 https://www.atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/

Yes, the black plastic box on the side of the afm and the other smaller on. The TPS. I would also cover the distributor somehow.

I looked at my '77 and it looks like they hold a heat sheild or maybe an exhaust bracket?

If they're on the side I'd guess they hold the antenna bracket. Hard to tell from your picture. Maybe post one a little farther out?

Old thread that talks about the Arizona pan below. Your's looks like a knock-off of the Kameari pan to me. You might search that?

I raise the front up as high as I can before I start. Ramps are the easiest but sometimes jack stands. I'm a bad leaner when fooling with the SUs. It took me a year or so to figure this out but Imma kinda slow.

Yeah those magnetic fastner holder things were a big help. I got those at Harbor Freight for a couple of bucks each.

I bought some paint dropcloths, runners is what they call the size I bought. When I'm leaning on those tin can fenders I put the hardest carboard in between the dropcloths, sandwich style. I want nice fender protectors but that was cheap for me at the moment. Now I don't need anything since I'm done. Found some pics...