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The 240Z's all came with wiring for an electric pump in the wiring harness. The wires at the tank should be just hanging out of the same bundle as the fuel tank level sending unit. There's a plug up either under the console as shown in the picture in this thread I've linked or in a wire bundle wrapped in a naugahyde boot just in front of the console in the passenger foot well. My conversion to an electric fuel pump starts at post 52 in the linked thread. The plug should be wrapped in blue tape. A wire bridge on that plug will power the circuit for the fuel pump when the ignition is in the Run/Start positions. You should use something like an inertia switch in that jumper loop to cut power to the circuit in the event of a crash.

I'll bet one of your kids could show you how. 😁

Classic old style Blues

I would do the headlight relays even if you go LED headlights. I used these LED headlamps and if you don't do the relays you'll have to use the anti-flicker module which is a pain to get them in the bucket with the headlamp. My first post in this thread shows the stock wiring and how it's changed with the headlight relays. The relays make it so the ground and power leads flow the electrons in the proper direction for the LED bulbs.

How about this ebay site... 240z 5 speed knob | eBay

And how about this one.. Here in Utah the prominant religion discourages any "Fun activities" on Sunday so I'm expecting the little goblins to show up tonight.

The intro to this always reminded me of Halloween..

Wow, that's the smallest start I've seen for a build! And it appears to be rust free! 🤣

Accidental double post

Dumb thing to try if you think it might be a bad starter... Pull the starter and start the car on compression. Take it for a short spin and see if the noise is still present.

Don't know which wheel cylinders you have? If you have the early wheel cylinders ($290.00) you can replace them with the later model ($50.00) with a little rebending of the hard line on the back plate. Early / Late Wheel Cylinders? - Wheels & Brakes - The Classic Zcar Club (classiczcars.com) Motorsport! Drums & Wheel Cylinders - The Z Store, Nissan-Datsun 240Z-260Z-280Z-280ZX-300ZX(Z31/Z32)-350Z-370Z Parts

Even though the early cars had the spring and adjustable rod on the clutch slave it may not be the case here. With @texasz saying he has a five speed this probably is a tranny swap and doesn't have the tab on the bell housing for the spring to attach to. My question is what slave is currently on the clutch?

Is one of these kits what you're looking for? Motorsport! Head/Manifold Hardware Kits - The Z Store, Nissan-Datsun 240Z-260Z-280Z-280ZX-300ZX(Z31/Z32)-350Z-370Z Parts

A lot of -1 gen Supra's, 1 240Z, man Mustangs are popular and too bad about the dumb guy that crashed his Mercedes, the guy in the Z3 was lucky. Nice to see a few low riders and of course I'd notice the 5 window GMC pickup!

Here's a pretty good blow by blow of going to an internally regulated alternator if the zstore adapter is still not in stock. 240z alternator upgrade (instructions w/ pictures) - Electrical - The Classic Zcar Club (classiczcars.com)

Big congrats on the move! Now about retirement... Been there since 2009 and still love it. Still have a boss, but she treats me pretty good most of the time.

I would have thought from your experience that you would never drive your car without the battery being secured! 😁

I thought beer was a whole food! Water, grains, corn sugar, hops & a little yeast to convert the sugar.

I'm confused about your LH and RH designation. The non-vented seat with the larger gap is RH as we look at them in the picture. I will say that my own experience after recovering my seats that the gap is bigger than it was with the original seat covers. On the green car with tan the gap looks to be original to me since it is much smaller than the gap in my seats.

My series 1 original seats had the vents and so did my 73. I did replace with seats from a 77 and leather from Interior Innovations and am quite pleased with the result. Here's the thread I did on this back in 2018; Leather Seats - Interior - The Classic Zcar Club (classiczcars.com)

Both my 73 240 and 71 240 have been back and forth across the divide from SLC, Utah to Denver, Colorado without ever touching the tune and they run just fine. The most fun is taking a SLC car down to California and it runs like what feels like a scalded dog! Fumes are minimal.

The big questions on these Z's... Can you fit your luggage and 2 sets of golf clubs and a passenger in either the Z3 or Z4? 😁 No problem in my 240Z. I personally think the Z3 is better looking that the Z4.

Here's the stock wiring diagram, the zx wiring diagram and the Pertronix diagram (thanks @Carl Beck). I think those that have gone the 123 route are quite happy once they got it working. www.zhome.com/ZCMnL/tech/ZXPertronix.htm

With the ballast resistor missing have you verified that the distributor has maybe been swapped to a ZX electronic distributor with either the E12-80 matchbox or the E12-92 matchbox on the distributor? Yes, the E12-92 works just fine. If you only use the same connections as on the E12-80 and don't power the other connections the E12-92 will work exactly the same as the E12-80.

One note of caution. Back in the day when I re-did my chrome I had a damaged rear left corner. When I got the new piece I found that I had to re-chrome all the bumper pieces so it would match. Have you laid the over riders by the bumpers to see if there's much difference in the color, reflectance, or something else.