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Look pretty good to me..... If you didn't get it, you might want to try the 13103 kit to smooth the wheels before you use the polishing kit, lot less "elbow grease" required if it works as well as it should. Is it worth another 40 bucks not to have to do all that sanding?

Probably.....:disappoin By checking it this way, you'll know how to best save time. If it checks out better with the oil in the cylinders, you'll know you have a lot of wear in the bottom end (rings and/or cylinder walls) and the best thing to do is pull the entire engine and rebuild it. Probably be best to just go ahead and rebuild the engine from the bottom up, or replace it with a reman engine if you can find one for a reasonable price. If it tests out nearly the same, you know the majority of the problem is above the block, so you'd only have to pull the head, and only need to rebuild the head by checking it for straightness, doing a valve job, replacing the valve seats and then putting it back together along with a good top end gasket kit.

Isn't buying a convertible one of the signs of a "mid-life" crisis????:devious: Maybe that's why I've been wanting one for the last couple years too.....:stupid: :disappoin

Nah, 3/8 air wrench...... :devious:

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If your valves aren't adjusted right, they either won't seat properly or open far enough to allow the proper amount of air into the combustion chamber, depending on whether they are too tight or too loose. Next thing you should do is put a spoonfull of oil in the 2 cylinders that were low, and re-test them. If they show higher compression than before, the rings or cylinder walls are the cause as the oil will work to seal the rings to the cylinder walls. If they still show a low compression like before, then you know the problem is either the headgasket, or in the head itself such as the valve seats or valves. Of course, it could end up it is a combination of worn rings and headgasket/valves, but until you check it, you won't know what to be looking for when you remove the head. How much you have to do will be a result of what you find when you do this test, you may only have to rebuild the head and/or replace the headgasket.

Those Eibach progressives are a PITA aren't they?? I ended up using 6 large 3 inch hose clamps on mine to compress them enough to mount them. FWIW, if you had unhooked the brake line(yeah, I know, gotta bleed them again) and unbolted the half shaft from the hub, you could have unbolted the top of the strut and swung it down and layed it on the floor and used your compressors on the old springs. Reminds me of the time a buddy of mine and I were putting lowering springs on my old Monte Carlo SS, way back when I didn't have nearly enough tools to work with. Took us 2 hours to do one front spring, and only took 30 minutes on the second one... talk about stiff springs....:cross-eye

Actually, the repair panel is becoming available, Banzai Motorworks has them and more and more of the parts suppliers are picking them up as well. Bout time eh? http://www.zzxdatsun.com/ Click on Catalog, then Bits and Pieces and it's half way down the page for 110 bucks.

The gasket should be simple to make out of some rubber gasket material from the parts store. The bushings will be a little tougher though...maybe cut a couple old sway bar end link bushings to the right thickness and diameter? Or, if you can find it in the hardware store, just cut them out of a piece of thick rubber.... I wouldn't worry about it being perfect as it's not going to be seen to easily. It's either that or find a decent set off a parts car somewhere.

Look here for the Import show at Carlisle...it's on the NJ Z Club's site. But then, this thread was started asking about any Z clubs in Jersey wasn't it?? http://www.njzclub.com/event_calendar.html

Mine has always been a 2 mile stretch of asphalt named Summit Point Raceway...:devious:

Hmm, poking around Bob Lentz's GT-2 car huh Bob? I was doing the same thing at Summit when they were pulling the tranny....wanted to get my hands on it, but they kept slapping my wrists....:devious: That's one car I have to keep my distance from, too much temptation....

I believe the smallest wheel you can use with the MM rear discs are 15 inch. You could e-mail MM and ask them, I'm sure they could tell you what was ordered by the previous owner if you still have the name of the person you bought the car from. http://www.modern-motorsports.com/catalog/contact_us.php?PHPSESSID=9bf582c226aa4e44fec4e4d3b8948fc2

12mm x 1.25 conical seat lug nuts should be as close as your nearest Krage/PepBoys/ Napa store. Most stores will have them in packs of 4 on the shelf. I get mine at the local Advance Auto store with no trouble.

Strange the dealer couldn't help... I'd try Chloe at MidwestZ first, then someone like Malvern Racing, or perhaps even Nissan Competition.

OK, so did one of you guys here get it for 660 bucks?:cross-eye

Here's something you won't see too often for those extra points.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2466269849&category=33576

Aluminum slot in good shape for 100 bucks? Darn right that's a good deal. Even without tires they'd be worth that. The only slots that wouldn't be worth that would be chromed steel ones IMO.

Yeah, I remember seeing pics of a few in magazines that the owners polished the bodies on, which had a lot of swirl marks in them.:sick: Unfortunately, stainless is a lot tougher to polish than aluminum. I remember one that the owner had painted it in a nice Ferrari red. I like it a lot better painted... There's one here in the neighborhood, or at least he still had it a few years ago. I looked at it close up not long after he bought it and the body had taken on a really dull "patina". I remember thinking when I was looking it over, that those doors could cause a skull fracture on a tall person if they had one too many at the local "watering hole" and got in a hurry trying to get in it. If I remember right, the guy traded his almost new Porsche 928 for the Delorean.....Many years later I had a bit of a run-in with him at his father's truck dealership, and realized why he had done something like that...:stupid: :stupid: :stupid: he's one of "those", if it weren't for "daddy", he probably be managing at McDonalds........ :devious:

I was just curious.... out of all the pics in the Gallery we have of ZG's, ZL, 432's and Fairlady's, we don't seem to have many detailed pics of the interiors of cars with A/C. This one looks to have a unit that is bolted to the bottom of the dash under the glove box, with two controls on it near the console and two (?) vents across the face. I was thinking about the possiblities of this one having the 5 speed and 3:90 diff as well....hopefully it still has the original trans and diff in it. Makes me wish I had just one more bay in the garage to store it..:disappoin

Why not just go with a smaller pulley on the alternator to speed it up, I'd imagine there would be plenty of pulley options for a GM alternator.

It's funny how the DMC-12 and the new "stuff" from Cadillac all have the same chiseled, squared off corners..... hmmm??? As far as power goes, 130hp in a car that weighs 2712lbs isn't what I'd call a good power to weight ratio, after all, the 280's weighed almost the same with 40hp more, and everyone wants more in a 280 because they feel so much slower than the 240's. http://www.delorean-owners.org/legend/index.html The worst thing about the car is the stainless body, it's just plain dull, made especially worse if the owners didn't clean it properly. If it were in an accident, the body panels can and do crack and split. In fact, they used 2 or 3 different hoods when they were making them because the hoods kept cracking because the stainless doesn't lend itself to tooling like carbon steel does. Trying to repair those body panels would be a body shops worst nightmare....

If they see Guus' car, they'll want to do a story on it as well.... at least maybe this time they'd get the story right eh?

Don't remember there being a major defect in the car, other than the fact it was not well received in the showrooms because of the price, and the stainless steel body. That plus the fact it was powered by an anemic 2.8 V-6..... hardly what you would call a powerful sports car.....plus it was a bit ugly to boot.:devious: