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your not going to leave the poor bastard alone are you old Henry? I mean Rick HAHA

Well If your 280Z is stock with Fuel Injection which I bet it is Correct? I guess I'd start with the easy stuff first. The Fuel Injected Z's are very touchy when it comes to vacuum leaks. The smallest Vac. leak will cause an issue like yours so check to make sure that the oil cap has a good tight seal, The rubber Boots from the air box to AFM & AFM to throttle body have no cracks ect. Then check the plugs and wires if you haven't done so already. Check to make sure they are all gaped properly which should be about .045 max on a stock system. Check there condition- Are they wet with gas? Are they black? For the wires, you can test them with an Ohmmeter if you have one. Also check the condition of the distributor cap & Rotor head and another important thing is to make sure that the cap and rotor are of the same brand. mixing two different brands can cause incorrect air gap. Also inspect all electrical connections. Make sure they are all clean and tight. Hopefully this will help you out. If the simple stuff all checks out, then I guess I'd start performing tests at the ECU harness with a multimeter to get to the bottom of the problem. Don't give up Good luck

"you will get got!" ??????????? :stupid: Dude your killing yourself

oh yeah, this ones hilarious too

Nothing beats this though

HAHAHA Rick A.K.A. Old Henry

See the Minnesota Plate The number I don't care to advertise MAN I can hardly wait for the nice weather so I can get her back out

Rick you crazy old aussie

"Okay Minnesota (no offense Jared)" Sorry I don't understand what your saying? That IS my Z and YES I live in MN. Whats the problem?

I agree with the above on Panasports being top of the line. Thats why I went with them Plus they look so awesome on a first generation Z Car and they don't take away that Classic Z appearance like some do. Panasports are very strong high quality rims but are very lightweight and they are Japaneese like our Z's Here is mine -

Well I'm not "Z fever" But click here http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/member.php?u=5195

Hello Jason, It sure sounds like a bad Thermotime switch to me. It's located at the T stat housing. to give you a quick explaination- What happens is when the coolant temp. is below a certain degrees, The Thermotime Switch then completes a ground for the Cold Start Valve. The Cold Start Valve is only suppose to operate during starting and when the coolant temp. is below the specified degree. Then when the engine coolant reaches ABOVE the specified temp shown in the FSM, the ground is suppose to break which cuts off the Cold Start Valve. What is going on with your Z is the Thermotime Switch is not functioning correctly and is providing a ground to the Cold Start Valve even when the engine coolant temperature is warm and the Cold Start Valve is injecting the extra fuel when not needed which is flooding it. Then once you get that extra fuel burned off by racing the engine for 30 seconds it's fine again. More than likely thats the cause of your problem.

I'll be damned :eek: I just e-mailed Tire Rack which is where mine came from and asked them for the hell of it and your right. Not available for the 240Z's :disappoin They do have the KONI Special available for the 240Z's though which are red in color and is also an excellent choice. They are adjustable as well but with these you don't have the luxury of making the adjustments with the turn of a knob. The adjutments can only be made when they are out of the car. Those are still an excellent alternative though since the KONI Sport kit isn't available. You can still adjust them to your liking. You just have to do it before you install them.

Last time I checked they were. Who told you they were no longer available?

I've got all KONI adjustables on my beautiful Z and I am one very satisfied customer When I'm around town and want a little more softer ride, I pull the little white KONI knob out of my glove box and crank them down 3 clicks to "Soft" and before I hit the freeway or twisty county roads, I crank them all back up to "Firm" Usually the second click works great. The third is meant for Hard core Auto Xing

Pennyman, hope all goes well at the next shop With your friends welding skills, you shouldn't have any issues fabricating hangers ;-) I look forward to seeing pictures once you get your exhaust system complete. "I'm anal about my cars also!!" We all are man We wouldn't love our cars if we weren't I don't have to worry about watching someone as I do all my own work ;-) As for tires- Do like I do and what I told the poor guy with the 240Z to do next time. Put the Z on jack stands in YOUR garage, remove the wheels yourself, load them up in your daily driver and take them to the tire shop and drop them off since they have the expensive equipment to properly mount them and balance them and dispose your old tires. Then when they get done working on the tires only, pick them up and bring them back and install them on your Z

DAMN, so sorry to hear about your terrible experience with the exhaust. Just goes to show that you cannot trust ANYONE to touch a Classic Z. True that some places are exceptions for example a place that specializes in hot rods like mentioned earlier. At the Z Site I used to go to before here, there was a guy I talked to that had a early 240Z in awesome shape. He went to have new tires put on and the dumbsh!ts didn't position the hoist in the correct spots and put a large, ugly dent in his passenger floor pan :hurt: So as irritating as it is, remember that things could be worse I'm sure you and your friend will get it back into shape.

Got it. I figured thats what they meant was by simply bottoming out the nut on the ball stud to check how hard it turns but I Just wanted to confirm that. Thanks again fellow Z nuts

I'm trying to refresh my memory on a couple things as it's been so darn long Only thing I'm stuck on is Ball Stud Turning Torque. In the FSM it says to check Ball Stud turning torque with nut in place. Turning torque: New Parts (65-109 in-lb Used parts (More than 43 in-lb This is all it says about turning torque in the FSM that I can find? Can anyone shed some more lite on this for me? Thanks in advance

Well I didn't have to kick the guys a$$. Even though I wanted too :devious: What happened to me was right after this christmas. I keep my Z in a nice dry storage garage when I'm not using it this time of year for obvious reasons. I'm in MN. anyways I went down to check up on it because I was missing it terribly. (Winter is too damn long ) so I stopped by and had my door up and I was in there puttering around and this guy rolls up by my garage in this piece of sh!t Hundai accent and just stares in my garage. He then backs up, gets out and starts talking to me "WOW that sure is an awesome ride you have there, mind if I take a look?" Thinking he may be just a nice person I said sure. He started asking all this B.S. like "How fast have you gotten it up too? How many miles do you have? How does it run? Are there any knocks in the motor? ect. Right away I thought this guy is strange. It's one thing to show interest in someones car and compliment it but I don't ask stupid a$$ questions like "does the motor haveany knocks" "How fast have you gotten it up to" Then here is the other joke- I ask him "Do you have classic car?" and then he goes on to tell me "Yeah, I have 3 60's Mustangs 1 being a parts car, then I have a 69 Hemi Charger in Arizona that I just bought but haven't picked up yet. HAHA and he's driving this Pile of crap. This guys stories were so far out in left field it was funny. So then he get back in his car, leaves and as he leaves I look out my garage and see him parked at the end of my row where my garage is and when he saw me poke my head out the garage, he takes off. I knew right away this guy was up to NO good. So I wait for him to leave and then I left. Later that night I thought i'm going back to double check on things which was about 2 hrs. later and guess who was back? I'm really getting concearned now. I then left again and came back again for the third time and he was there again just sitting in his car not doing a damn thing. So then I got on my cell phone and called up the owner of the facility and told everything that was going on. He called me back and said "Yeah, this does sound awefully weird. I'll go down there and ask him what the hell he is doing. He claims that his mother has a garage there and the reason he is sitting there is because he ran out of gas Which is B.S. because I saw Exhaust coming out of his tail pipe Anyway the owner called the cops and apparently they took care of him from what I was told and I haven't seen him since. I got my Z in my garage a certain way so there is NO way in hell anyone could get it out. I'd go into detail how but it would just make this post even longer I guess the moral of the story is DON'T TRUST ANYONE and always be on guard when you own a Classic car like our Z's.

Spieg16, the key for my Z looks just like yours in your picture except mine still has all the black on them and I still have both sets On mine, the one key operates everything.

nightowlZ, are you refering to the strip on the interior door panel? That IS factory. His ignition key however isn't the original though. Looks like a copy.

At first I thought "Do I even want to open this thread" Thinking it was going to be some immature nasty joke People can be such disrespectful Pigs The scary thing is maybe he wasnt drunk or on drugs. Maybe who ever did it was dropped on there head when they were little? Don't worry as he probably sh!t out whatever brains he had left. I had my daily driver which is also a really nice car get bumped where I work and he cracked the chrome impact strip that goes around the bumper and scratched/scuffed the paint something terrible. To make it worse, this happened AFTER I just got done having that rear bumper repainted due to a couple small faded spots I wanted fixed. MAN was I furious. I had to go down and have it all redone again at my expense as this was a "hit and run" situation. Talk about being pissed :mad: and people where I work wonder why they never get to see my Classic Z. Gee I wonder why :stupid: Just be glad it was something that could be cleaned off and no damage occured to your Z. I know it still pisses ya off though.

Looks very nice Goes perfect with your brown interior. Excellent choice.

I agree DatsunZGuy. I love it when I see other people on the road when I'm out in my Z (the yung crowd especially) looking at me out there car windows with there tongues hanging out and they shout out there window at me "What kind of car is that?" LOL