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Sick!

I don't have any up close pictures, but I've had them for about 2 years and they are holding up great, made of plastic but pretty high quality.

I'll be keeping tabs on this thread since I am in the same boat. Should have heeded the warning in the JTR book.

Wrapping up the last few things of the swap. bought a B&M z-gate, some black dress up parts(not much a chrome fan), & driveshaft should be finished and installed on Monday. can't wait to get her back on the road again.

that is a sick ride! That pic of Leno was that over on mulholland drive/hwy? I know he cruises through there quite a bit.

SBC 350/th400 Will soon be joining the running V8 Z club, got a medium list of items to get before first startup though. Used the JTR mount kit, was a bit of a pain to get mounted -- HEI Distributor was too big, trans dipstick in the way had to to get rid of it and beat the earth, wind & fire out of the left side of the the tunnel.

Very Beautiful Z there!

I use straight 30W oil out here in California. Good from 30F - 90F...

Sweet! Ran comp again while warm and #1 went up to 205 but the rest were the same. Definitely good news....I'll have to get to the stems sometime this week.

Just ran a compression test, slightly warm engine(cooled off for about an hour and a half). Results: Cyl #1 = 190 Cyl #2 = 200 Cyl #3 = 200 Cyl #4 = 200 Cyl #5 = 200 Cyl #6 = 205 These seem pretty normal? I've read that a newly rebuilt motor should get around 170 but I'm well above that which comes as a shock as I have beat the dogsh*t out of this motor for some time. I'm going to run another test soon as the car gets up to operating temps and record.

Mostly white, and depending on how I adjust the carbs I get a little black puffs mixed in, coolant? EDIT: just took it for a 15 mile drive and it's definitely blueish, gonna run a compression test before I bother with the seals.

hah, When the speed bug bites and my pockets are a little fatter....RB25DET.

Ok so I finished up swapping to the SU carburetors and got them somewhat dailed in. The problem is gone now; it pulls hard all the way through the power-band without a single hiccup and idles smoother than ever. Only other thing I did was replace the spark plugs which I found out the old ones were gapped way out @ .054, so upon installing the new ones I gapped them @ .044 & reset timing @ 10*. So it was either the plugs or something in the tons of EFI crap I pulled off. My only problem now is that it smokes like crazy, at little at idle and lots @ light/hard acceleration. I'm hoping it isn't my rings, and it's just the valve seals coming back to bite me in the ass for not changing them during the head swap.