Bambikiller240

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Royce: OK, here's the inventory that I have. 2 - E-88 Intakes with Water to Carbs. 1 - E46 Intake without Water to Carbs. My mistake :stupid: Carl

Hi Royce: I'm 99% sure that what I have on the car is an E46 and I'm 100% sure that it has carb water provision. Though I have defeated that provision with some hidden plugs in the water hoses. I don't have the car with me, so I'll check to confirm the casting number on my way home. PS I KNOW that you have torn apart far more Z's than I have.

Hi Royce: My 1972 240Z (mfg 11/71) came from Nissan with an E46 intake which does have provision to route pre-heat water through the carbs. I've never seen an E88 Intake or an E33 ,though I remember a balance tube assembly having a "something"33 casting number mounted on an N36 Intake.

E88 would be the casting number on a cylinder head. The casting numbers on the 240/260Z intakes are either E46 or N36 (one or the other)

greyghost: I want your Mullholland Springs! I'll send you a PM in a while. I'm at work right now.

Bryan delivers on his promise! Nice Legs!!!!!!!

Steve's 2460 lbs = 1115.5 kg 240Z-freak's 2150 lbs = 975.24 kg 260DET's 1270 kg = 2810.86 lb conversion calculator here

Later Z's (I do not know when the change occured) had the Thermo Housing with three bolts needed to hold the cover to the housing. Sounds like they gave you a gasket for a 240 and your L28 was out of a car that had the other (3 bolt) Thermo housing. I've had the same situation with the Thermostat looking OK and operating OK in a pot of water, but it had obviously not worked earlier when installed in the engine, Never did figure out why, but now days I routinely change the Thermostat at the first sign of any unusual heating or lack of heating of the engine. I try to have a couple of new ones, and gaskets in my parts stores.

The story was emailed to me by a friend. Just had to share it though. I let my Hustler subscription lapse about 15 years ago. The reason that my gallery only has girls pictures is that I don't have a digital camera so I have had to depend on pictures sent to me by friends for images to post. Can't bear to post pics of someone else's car, but with girls it's different for me!

Yeah, Rick, I've been checking out the Aussie slang webpage a bit. I used my two favorites in the recent post, though I haven't read the entire dictionary yet. I have noticed that there are actually quite a few phrases that are used in the USA as well as in AU, but the really "colorful" phrases are specific to OZ. Guess I'm going to have to try to spread the word on this side of the pond. Some of them are too good to not share.

I was happy. My girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. My parents helped us in every way, my friends encouraged me, and my girlfriend. She was a dream! There was only one thing bothering me, very much indeed, and that one thing was her younger sister. My prospective sister-in-law was twenty years of age, wore tight mini skirts and low-cut blouses. She would regularly bend down when quite near me and I got many a pleasant view of her underwear. It had to be deliberate. She never did it when she was near anyone else. One day little sister called and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations. She was alone when I arrived. She whispered to me that she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn't overcome and didn't really want to overcome. She told me that she wanted to make love to me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister. I was in total shock and couldn't say a word. She said, "I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want to go ahead with it just come up and get me." I was stunned. I was frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs. When she reached the top she pulled down her panties and tossed them down to me. I stood there for a moment, then turned and went straight to the front door. I opened the door and stepped out of the house. I walked straight towards my car. My future father-in-law was standing outside. With tears in his eyes he hugged me and said, "We are so happy that you have passed our little test. We couldn't ask for a better man for our daughter.......Welcome to the family." The moral of this story: always keep your condoms in your car.

Hi again Alan: When you say "black tar-board" are you meaning the thin material that is actually stuck to the metal floorpans? I'll explain why I ask. Now we're getting to something that I have been wondering about since Kats posted the pictures of his "jute" pads. On my US Spec 240Z which I bought in un-molested condition from the original owner and equiped with carpet; there is the black "tar-board" stuck to the metal floor, then there are TWO pads, and then carpet. The lower layer of "pad" is dark and sticky as some have described, and then the upper pad is light or tan colored and not sticky. This upper pad installed in my car looks like the item called "jute" by kats and shown in his pictures. The Transmission tunnel of my car only has the "tar-board" (significantly thicker than the tar-board on the floorpans), and the dark, sticky pad and then the diamond vinyl adhered directly to it, not the three layers shown in the illustration (unless the "Mat" is the vinyl). I'm wondering if the US Spec HLS models had different (or additional) padding to what was supplied on models for other markets? I hope that you don't mind Alan, but I've attached a modified version of the illustration that you posted with the corrections to the captions included in the image. If you don't like what I've done, I can delete it or modify it to suit you

A Long time ago I had a 73Z with Flat-top carbs, but the air cleaner can was NOT the kind you describe with the added lower area, etc. It looked Like the ones we both have though perhaps the dimensions were different, but at one time (way back then) I got a filter from a local parts house that was too thick to fit in the can. I don't remember how the situation was resolved, but I must have gotten the right filter somewhere, as I would never run a street car without a filter of some kind.

Daniel: Just checked my air filter element and it is 2 3/8" thick also. I know that there are two air filters for 240Z's, Motorsport Auto's catalog shows one for 70-72 and another for 73-74 (obviously 74 would be a 260) MSA's P/N 18-9010 is for 70-72 $12.92 .................18-9011 is for 73-74 $12.95 Maybe it is the later air filter that is narrower? Frankly I've become confused since mine is different size than yours, though from the picture, your air cleaner can looks just like mine. Maybe the best bet is to contact MSA or another place that would stock both filters and ask them to measure, then order the appropriate one. Now, ZTherapy was selling an adapter to use the later style aircleaner with round top (early carbs). Is it possible that your car came with boat anchors and was converted to Round Tops? Is there an adapter plate of any kind mounted on the Round Top Su's between them and the air cleaner can? Just throwing out questions.

Bryan: Just thought I'd bump the thread onto the Home page so you won't have any trouble finding where to post that picture! Carl

Bonzer there mate! Thanks for the endorsement, Rick. I've met Kelly (and her father) a year or so ago. Nice people, but I too am closer to her fathers age than her age. I'm not sure she could keep up with me. Perhaps she would be put off by my Awning over the toy shop, or would feel that she's gotten the Rough end of the pineapple with me?

I have had bad luck with the brands sold in local parts stores like GMB, etc. My opinion (others may disagree) is that Nissan OEM u-joints, or Spicer Heavy Duty ones are the only way to go if you want them to last a long time. I also reccomend taking the driveshaft to a machine shop for installation (after you remove driveshaft from the car) unless you are very experienced with removal and installation of j-joints, and have a press. It will cost more than doing it yourself, but will be done quicker and correctly. just my $.02

It could be a Clutch Release bearing too, but you'll never know until it starts to "scream" constantly. U-Joints are far more likely IMHO to be the cause. When they start to fail there is very little to no play, however that changes dramatically in a short period of time. The noise will occur more frequently and loudly, soon vibration will become apparent, followed quickly by total destruction. The only "help" I can give you is the warnings and advice I've already posted. Good Luck.

Yes, up until the point in late 72 when they switched to the flat-top carbs. I'm going out to work on my car, I'll measure the actual thickness of my air filter and post it later this afternoon or evening,

How do you mean that the U-joints "look good"? Did you check for any slop in the movement of them, or roughness in the motion? The only way I know to really check them out for damage that would cause slight noise (as opposed to the major noise that would be accomanied by vibration) is to pull the driveshaft and rotate and wiggle the u-joints in all directions while looking for slop AND feeling for roughness within the yokes. I do not know if the U-joints in your car are causing the noise problem (only a thorough inspection can tell), but I'll warn you that you do not want the U-joint to completely fail and come apart while driving the car. Such a failure will beat the hell out of the transmission tunnel of your car (and may ruin brake and fuel lines that run through the tunnel) and most likely will ruin the driveshaft as well.

Yes, as they get broken apart by shifting action over the years, the pieces fall into the transmission and either get ground up or fall to the bottom of the case. When I have drained transmissions (hot) I have seen small chunks of bushing in the drain pan.

I don't know when the went to the one with the "flap" either. To my knowlwedge there are 3 types of air cleaner assemblies for 240Z's Earliest is the one you have Mark, then the one shown by 240ZMan which both used the thinner filter element, then the one for the Flat-Top Boat Anchor carbs which used a thicker filter.

Hi Alan: Thanks for posting the scan, but I am wondering about the descriptions as they relate to the Numbered pieces. Something seems a bit off. #9 is listed as "tunnel insulator", but the item shown as #9 doen't go on the tunnel, it is a piece for the rear area behind the seats. Items labeled as #4,5,6 seem to be "tunnel pieces", yet the description indicates tunnel pieces as being #3,6,9 . There are other pieces that appear to be mis-labeled. Is it just me not understanding or is there something fishy?

The Air filter element for later 240Z's is indeed thicker than for the earlier (pre FLAT TOP Carb'ed) 240Z's. It SOUNDS like the sellers are giving you the wrong filter. I'll have to measure how thick my filter is for Bambikiller (mifg'd 11/71) I haven't had a problem getting the right filter, though I bought a K&N lifetime filter a couple of years ago and haven't bought anything since then. BTW your air cleaner can does look like the one of the early styles.