Hi everyone, I went to check out the car today and decided to pick it up. This is going to be a project car for me and my friend. It's a 74 260Z 2+2 (white in color) The engine was rebuilt about 4,500 miles ago and has dome top SU carbs and a RX-8 electic fuel pump. We towed her back to my friends house and started to prep the engine for start up. It hasn't been started for about a year and a half.
Here are some pictures:
I have a few questions about hoses and connections.
Can someone tell me if this needs to go anywhere?
Also is this hanging thing supposed to go anywhere?
The piece that I'm holding used to go inbetween the left vacuum hose and where it connects to the manifold and the T was blocked off so I just took it out. Is this ok, or is that supposed to go somewhere? Also the vacuum hose on the right doesn't connect anywhere, is that ok or should it go somewhere?(let me know if you have no idea which ones I'm talking about and I will repost the picture with circles around them.)
We got the engine to start up and idle. The idle is still pretty rough...The problem we have now is when we slowly get on the throttle the engine starts to stall, if we quickly kick and hold the throttle a decent amount then it will rev up but the rear carb will pop and spit out white smoke. This is my first time working with carbs so bear with me please...I found articles about how to tune the SU carbs so I will be reading them and learning how to tune it and give it a try tomorrow. I will also be posting better pics of the car tomorrow.