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I used some pliable rubber kit that's also used when you put glass into the rubber seals and into your window. There a 2 types used (when installing windows), one does get hard and the other stays pliable, this last type you can use between the cars metall opening and the rubber! 🙂

Yup.. can't make a pic upload either overhere..

I replace them with a single wire just to pull the new cable back in later.. easy! (good tip?) 😉

Reminds me of the time that a german firm installed my front fireblade tire in the wrong direction! (Yeah.. he said.. happens once in a 100 times..) The Honda fireblade drives like #^$% when the tire direction is wrong on the rim! I didn't know it made that kind of difference! Something like that is the case with your engine.. we are people we make mistakes.. (although i didn't make any mistake this last year!... why? i didn't do anything! 😒 )

As i'm "in the process" of installing the engine back in my 280zx (now for 2 years or so.. i'm to ill to do something..) I have done a little investigation if my still very good working injection system would come to it's end.. I've seen some pricing and i was looking at around 3-3,500 euro/pounds/dollar? i think? But they are just a phonecall or mail away.. Send them a short list of what you got and what you want and they make you an offer i guess. (But i would get me some carbs if money is the problem, nice sound and no computers needed!) (Also as my engine has low miles i don't need new injectors.. don't know if those 3500€ was with or without..)

Don't forget to look at the inside of the outer beams (between the wheels..) that should be the place to lift your car.. not the inner beams! (use a endoscope, sometimes the lower part of the inner plate in the beam is completely gone, and it makes the changing a wheel with a normal jack a desaster.) Take a look in the servicemanuals.. It's gonna be a nice car!!

Those HJG46W carbs are great! I drive a 240z for 23 years and never really had to tinker with them, after a good tuning in, these carbs are without problems.

I also would have liked to hear the sound in the enginecompartment..... So far it's far from the right sound.

WOW.. what a noise that thing makes, what was the rpm in the video? 2000, last seconds going to 3000 rpm? Does not sound very nice! Sounds more like you had a box of cutlery on top of a very shaky engine! sigh 🙊

Yes they can be a pain in the ****. I think, when my 280zx injection starts to fail, ever.. i go to 2 simple carbs or Jenvey injection.. i think theire site is on www.jenvey.co.uk or jenvey.com? It's not cheap i think but you will get out of the troubles! I don't know how much experience you have with carbs but they are fairly easy to put on the L28, and we can always help you if you don't understand the service manual. get the 240z manual and take a look at those carbs, they work also on your L28.. AND no computing stuff!! A BIG plus!! AND... if you do it yourself, you later on understand the technology and can fix all the problems that may occur! Also be proud to have done it yourself.. I was affraid to fail at making my own steeringwheel.. well now look at the little pic on the left of this reply.. (Working since 2007!)

Willkommen! / Welcome! Always nice to see someone from germany on this site. I'm Dutch but live just 2 miles from the border, near Kreis Kleve! (Close to the highway A77) Oh mann.. You just waked a sleeping dog.. I know there is talked a lot about this subject.. I didn't read it all as i'm not THAT interested i guess.. Someone is going to give me the link to the thread i'm sure haha.. Graf goertz was the designer of the beautiful, and i mean BEAUTIFUL BMW507... And i was able long ago to get me one for 60000 guilders about 55000 Deutch Mark, or 22-24000 US Dollar? about? Wow.. i didn't have that kind of money then but i should have bought it anyway hahaha.. About the designer from the 240z.. I guess i'm gonna make some mad people here.. again i didn't read it all.. but i think the designer that recently died isn't THE designer of the 240z (Not him alone!) as there was a TEAM of designers and.. just my view: they just took a peek at some "other" designs (As the Japanese do and did!) and came with a beautiful car the 240Z! (I'm not saying it was some papers of Herr Goertz! but it might be..) I can't wait to read the reactions! Mart(in)

Interesting, Pure coincidence or it has to do with a bad ground? I can't - of the top of my head- say what this could be.. what has the ign.circuit in common with the fuelmeter? ..... ground? As your meter stays on 2/3 full, there is obviously something wrong in the metercables, take a good look at the schematics..

THEN.. i would (maybe after some driving to see if the rings settle?) ... take the engine completely apart but at his workshop! Then you can say: i took it apart for you for free .. now you can fix this engine.. I would definetely ask him over to see how bad it is! If he has a firm he does not want you to make negative /bad advertising. Didn't read it all but if i hear what you did with them you have a good set of carbs. They are not the problem i think.

Another tip would be, take a wheel off and look if the bushing of the lugnut fits perfectly the holes in the rim. I have seen lugnuts with a to small diameter and it gives a lot of (balancing) problems.

I've seen them for 1500 euro/dollars.. never under 1000.. but hey, as we overhere tend to say: het is wat de gek ervoor geeft. Roughly translated: it's worth what a madman gives for it! 😉 More important is the quality of the part and are there bearings available for it. Is it machined to specific measurements. Sometimes they are on ebay.. maybe there you can find what it's worth..

Yes, that's possible but i think that's then a later remanufactured/ altered p90a head that was altered because the hydrolic lifters are long time NLA? Or do you have orig.paperwork (seen) from p90a heads with non hydrolic lifters?

I have had a 280zx non turbo and it was originally coming from germany and had a P90 head in it.. don't tell me that in the usa there are only turbo p90 heads? btw it was not a p90a as those have the hydrolic lifters.

Hahaha 🤣 I sometimes also have to do that as my 240z is at his last feet before a complete restoration. (But not 1100tpm, more 900-1000, and my idleling is at the factory 650 not 800! It even works at 500 tpm it does not stall.. but for the oilpressure i don't let it go under 600.

Nope.. but i ask myself why are your halfshafts noisy.. i never heard of that.. unless they have a lot of play? Isn't there a simple solution, just replace some "bearings" in the linkage? i wouldn't go for a cable.. it will not last as long as a linkage.. that says something about the quality.. Just check the linkage overall "bearings" and some lube should make it a lot better.

Thanks CO! I bet then that the hydrolic oil in my car lift is also NON-detergent oil! In 1995 when i bought my lift, it worked a year or 2 and then i restored it by putting in a brand new pump and new oil and seals.. I know the oil is the right stuff as the firm that delivered me the new pump also delivered the oil. As you like stories! I phoned that firm when i needed the new pump.. the old one was 10 years old and used a lot.. When i asked the guy on the phone and he repeated the number of the pump someone on the background sayd: YES! we do have a pump like that! It's been laying around here for Ages!! Then as he was also hanging around in theire warehouse looking for the pump to be sure, he came back on the phone and told me, YES we have a pump for you! I told him: Yes.. and it's laying around there for AGES! Hahaha, he laughed, did you hear that!! YES i did and i'm in need of a discount haha.. i believe it was about 75dollars that pump.. (150 guilders then) It's still working till this day! (It's a spanish brand 3 or 3,5 ton lift. ISTOBAL )

I wonder what happens when you use ordinary engine 10w40 or so in a compressor? I have my compressor since 1992 or so and only once changed the oil and about 10 x let a bit of water out the tank. It's a cheaply 2 HP less than 10 gallon tank .. and the first thing i do when the day comes that there is no air.. is... buy meself a new one! 😉 So i'm not gonna change the oil but what happens if you would use 10w40? (engine oil)

Btw.. i wouldn't reuse the headliner.. it's very old.. too old. There is a lot of cheap pvc for sale that looks exactly the same and can be glued much easyer than the old (gone) hard pvc.

For vinyl i used a spayable glue. Over here we have Bison spray glue.. you just spray it on and wait (half an hour?) to let it get very sticky and it works very well. And it does not fail after years... One can is more than enough to do a roof and even about enough to do a whole car. where do you need 2 gallons for??? (it says so in your link)

Ah.. Now i know why i didn't get it.. i restored a few years ago some 280zx horns and they don't have the paper in between the 2 sides. They came out perfect, just had to retune them, i think most need a retune. (easy with the little screw)

There is a difference in steel diameter between USA and euro springs i believe.. when my car was 45 years old (about) .. i had to change the rear springs as they were very soft.. 50 kg (120Lbs) of sand in the car was enough to drag the exhaust over the ground! I installed some euro's springs i had and now it's much better. (100 kg? no problem!)