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Yeah, thats the link!
Thanks guys.
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If you thought you needed to replace the MC, then most certainly you still do. Probably had a bit of rust or debris in the MC that, for the moment, is no longer causing problems. Not everyone will agree with me, but I would replace the MC and flush all the brake fluid as a preventative measure.
If you have a "dead cylinder" that fixed itself, then that might be the source of your overheating problems. Many people have claimed that improper timing can affect engine temps. Ignition gremlins, or maybe there is enough slop in your engine that cam timing is somehow being affected (which in turn affects the distributor timing)?
And I would think (don't know) that having the clutch in place would affect how much slop you see in your crank.
Sounds like the continuing joy of an old car to me.
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That is an absolutely beautiful car. I asked my wife but unfortunately she said no. hard to believe it can be tagged with no speedo.
Just a suggestion. You may want to repost this thread with a more descriptive subject line to draw more attention to what you are offering. I don't think this is drawing the attention it deserves.
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There is an absolutely classic write up about early Z car aerodynamics that has been posted here several times. Unfortunately I can't find a link on my work machine. But it would be worth your time to do a search to find it.
The article started at the front end of the Z and worked it's way back to the tail. Among it's more lucid conclusions were that 1) it is not just the air going under the car that is a problem, it is also all the air going through the huge radiator hole that causes front end lift. And 2) the smooth, uninteruppted shape of the back hatch works too much like a wing and causes rear end lift at speed.
So the answer to your wing vs. front end spoiler questions are yes and yes. The Z can greatly benefit from both.
For front air dams, do a search. Quite a number of good options. Probably the best is the plastic lawn edging that people use to get the front dam right down on the deck. If it scapes in a hard turn or on a speed bump, then you are out 10 bucks.
In the rear, my choice is the BRE type rear spoiler. Fits the era and lines of a Z classically. I guess you could use a wing. I don't know which would be better from a performance point of view. But, IMO, wings look out of place on a classic Z car. Too much of a Honda wannabe look about them. But that is just personal preference. Go with whatever works best.
BTW, the aerodynamics article I mentioned suggested contouring the body at the top of the hatch to break up the air flow before it slides down the back end of the car. Don't know if I have ever seen anyone do it that way.
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I have a 9/16 wrench nic-named 'Ol burny' and its got a big black chunk burned out of it from something similar. I was tightening the main power lead on a starter, and touched the FRAME of the car. Yah, the other end was attached to the battry. Doh! Wow.. ouch.. and a lot of sparks! hee hee...
We all do stupid things evry once in a while..That is why you always disconnect the ground wire first (and reattach it last).
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I have a 9/16 wrench nic-named 'Ol burny' and its got a big black chunk burned out of it from something similar. I was tightening the main power lead on a starter, and touched the FRAME of the car. Yah, the other end was attached to the battry. Doh! Wow.. ouch.. and a lot of sparks! hee hee... We all do stupid things evry once in a while..
That is why you always disconnect the ground wire first (and reattach it last).
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Someone stole my wife's ebay account and sold an RX8 for $24K. Would you buy a used car from Poohmom? We contacted ebay and they contacted the buyers and cancelled the sale.
Are stolen ebay accounts common?
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Holy Batmobile, Robin! That thing looks totally riced out.
Wonder if it has any neon?
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Check this out, I got my 71 240z for free with 52 thousand origonal miles, actually, I fixed a toilet for an old lady and she handed me the keys to something and told me to go outside and look, needless to say I SH&% my pants, the car was flat out like new condition no rust at all, I bought 2 SBC 350's both have around 275 to 325 HP, one had been built up more than the other, I got them both for $625.00 total, bought the book Jags that run on the datsun v8 conversion, as we are all aware of) 8) , next I had the brackets made by my father in law who owns a metal shop in californai ( millinos of dollars of equipment), had him make the brackets, bought some extra stuff like a holley high volume fuel pump, I already had a 280zx non turbo with the R200 Diff, picked that up for 100 dollars running but in real rusty condition, all in all I have only spent around a thousand dollars and my conversion will be fully completed next week, next is the paint job and I am doing that myself sence I run a pro auto body shop, 200 dollars in paint and I will own a 10,000.00 dollar 240Z V8 that will stomp a mud hole in an 04 mustang cobra SVT, 12 hundred dollars is all you should have to spend if you can be lucky and find the right deals, you can pick up ANY good running 270 HP SBC 350 for about 200 to 500 dollars in the paper, and with a few real simple MODs you can get it to 300 HP and have one of the fastest street cars on the road, I am going to use the TH350, I got one raced out from a good friend on trade for a Guitar, I really lucked out on getting my 240Z V8 I hope you have good luck aswell, your buddy Josh Anderson
Yeah, baby!
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I was in the Navy stationed out of San Diego. We use to go up on deck as we sailed into SD from the open ocean. When we were still far enough out that we could still see the curvature of the earth, but long before we could see land, the first thing we would see of SD was this huge brown log floating over the horizon. The damn thing was even tapered on both ends.
I was stationed in SD for 3 months before I realized it bordered mountains. Got up one morning after the rain and couldn't believe what I was seeing. By mid afternoon I couldn't see them anymore.
So now I move to Maryland. Turns out the county I am in has some of the worst air quality in the nation. All of the power plants in the Ohio and the Pennsylvania flush down the Chesapeake bay and land on my house.
BTW, Tim240z. Didn't you remove your EGR?
But I think that picture is so bad because of the wildfires.
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sounds like the guy is fishing. Price seems awfully high. Make absolutely certain you see it in person. One man's idea of "minor rust" depends heavily on whether he is buying or selling.
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Got the 2004 JD Power new car reliability numbers off MSNBC this morning.
Looks like all the domestic critics will need to rethink their arguments. Especially considering how Nissan did.
Luxury models were the most reliable new cars, according to a survey that measured the number of problems per 100 cars reported in the first 90 days of ownership. Data are for the 2004 model year.
Brand and Problems per 100 vehicles
Lexus 87
Cadillac 93
Jaguar 98
Honda 99
Buick 100
Mercury 100
Hyundai 102
Infiniti 104
Toyota 104
Mercedes-Benz 106
Audi 109
BMW 109
Oldsmobile 110
Volvo 113
Acura 117
Chevrolet 119
INDUSTRY AVERAGE 119
Chrysler 120
Dodge 121
Lincoln 121
Pontiac 122
Subaru 123
GMC 127
Ford 130
Mitsubishi 130
Saab 133
Jeep 136
MINI 142
Land Rover 148
Saturn 149
Suzuki 149
Kia 153
Nissan 154
Mazda 157
Scion 158
Porsche 159
Volkswagen 164
HUMMER 173
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I did a search on Yahoo using the words donkey' date=' door and switch. I figured that I would be able find something out there. Sure enough here is a link to the very same problem. Only difference is that the door with the donkey is opened in this one as opposed to the empty door. Here is the link for all you nay sayers.
http://www.metamath.com/webstat/b2.rules/dealdiag.html
I suppose though that someone will reply and say once again that its a fifty fifty chance!
[/quote']Whew. Now there is one web search combination of words that I would be scared to death to try. Get any other interesting hits?
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So a non LSD 240 can consistently spin both wheels in a burnout box?
The word "consistently" is the issue. I would have to say a big "NO" to that' date=' but it can be done. Only a true LSD or locker will always due it!![/quote']
I can.
Ahh. A man of few words!
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You guys are mixing apples and oranges. What does fixing rust have to do with a V8 conversion? That is something you want to do anyway, new engine or not. I know the torque of a V8 adds more stress making a solid body more important, but he guy was only asking for 250 ponies.
The big thing that kills people cost wise is the "while I'm at it" syndrome. Bigger brakes, racing suspension, fuel injection, show car paint. All nice stuff but all unrelated to a V8 conversion. Some people already have all that on their in line Z's. Hell, some guys buy a house with a bigger garage to work on their cars. Does that mean you need to throw in the price of the house as part of the conversion?
If you do like JTR said and get a mid 80's Camaro, V8 Caprice or Roadmaster and just swap the engine and stock tranny, then $1500, while probably not very common, is not that unbelievable. Maybe $2000 accounting for inflation since the JTR book was first written.
But, like the guys are saying, costs have a way of creeping up if you don't establish a plan and stick to it.
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Man! Hats off to those cops! Beautiful job! And they didn't Rodney King his dumb a!
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Bitchin! Looks awesome man. I've been thinking about picking one of those up in the near future' date=' probably a 91/30 with the stoooooopid long barrel (It's like 35" ) Now the only problem is finding a place in California where you can shoot it
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One word, Mohave.
Go out past Palmdale and find an empty stretch of desert. Some of the best shooting I have done was in the California desert.
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My brother's house was in an episode of COPS.....
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Well like I said, I don't like the enumeration approach. It is confusing. But I thought the idea of separating the 3 doors into two groups explained it about as well as I know how. Definitely better than the explanation I got when I first heard about this years ago.
For what it is worth, I asked this question of a PhD friend of mine, and he practically called me a moron for saying it wasn’t 50-50. After I worked on him and he thought about it awhile he agreed it is 2/3 –1/3. He was still pissed that I annoyed him with it in the first place.
This is all fun and games, but try doing something like this for real. I always try to get as many coworkers as possible to agree with me. That way if I am wrong I at least have allies.
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Without seeming overly preachy, old cars require work. No way around that. And any car that you could get licensed will cost way more than $500. And of course, there is what you want and what you can afford.
The best of both worlds is to have a daily driver and something else to play with. I bought a Toyota Tacoma 6 years ago, and with exception of all the accidents I have done nothing but routine maintenace to it. Smog has never been an issue. Most new cars are that way now. You can get the base models pretty cheap. It is only when you start adding a bunch of stuff that the price spirals.
But I hear you. Can't afford a new car and an old one at the same time. My advice is to not try and experiment too much with your daily driver, and the only way to get a really cheap car is to get one that not many people want. Start adding restrictions like reasonably fast, good handling, nice looking and the price goes up. But if you hunt the obituaries and buy a used Crown Vic off some old guy's widow, then you can get reliable transportation very cheaply.
May not be what you want to hear, but reality often isn't.
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I would say save every bolt, nut and fastener you can remove. But after reading some of John Coffey's postings about reusing fasteners I would feel overly cheap.
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Now start with three doors. Put one door in one group and two doors in the other group. The "group" with 1 door has only a 1 in 3 chance of winning. The group with two doors has a 2 in 3 chance of winning.
This is where your argument goes awry. They only show you the empty door if you DO NOT CHOOSE IT in the first round. If you do choose it' date=' you're out and have no further chance of participation. [/b']
Your not reading the problem statement. If you are trying to say they don't always show you what is behind one of the doors, then you are asking a different question. If you add the restriction that they will only show you an empty door if you pick the right door to begin with, then the best you should never switch and your odds are back to 1 out of 3. But if you start with the idea that they always show you what is behind one of the doors, then the answer is without question to switch choices.
This is why I disliked statistics and enumeration. Sometimes the difficulty is in approaching the problem from the right direction. And when you get done, you are always left wondering if you did it right.
But like I said, this problem is a bit of a classic in graduate level engineering courses. I heard the answer years ago, but to be honest I didn't really understand it until I started playing with it on this thread. In fact, I wrote a computer simulation to do a series of random draws (called a Monte Carlo simulation) to try and verify the answer. (I know, get a life) It was only through working out the code logic that it became obvious to me there are only two possible outcomes.
BTW, never heard your short skirt analogy in any of my random processes courses.
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Gotta love the internet.
At one point the bid was 10 million, so I think somehow they have been throwing out the odd ball bids.
My wife and her on line Mom's groups have all been following the sale. He was on the Today show the other morning. He has even set up his own web site. I have had 3 different people forward me the link.
So yeah, the hit counter might very well be real.
I can remember when they were worried about getting women on the net because it was a male dominated place. That was before stay at home mom's found out about it.
Gotta love the net.
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Look at it this way. If I showed you two doors, told you there was a gift behind one door and nothing behind the other, then told you which door had nothing behind it, what do you think your odds of picking the right door are?
With only one choice left you will pick the door with the prize every time.
Now start with three doors. Put one door in one group and two doors in the other group. The "group" with 1 door has only a 1 in 3 chance of winning. The group with two doors has a 2 in 3 chance of winning.
But picking the group with two doors won't do you any good if you have to randomly pick one of those two doors. But if you pick the group with two doors, then have someone throw out the bad door, the odds of getting the prize are the odds of the prize being in the second group. 2 out of 3.
Think of the initial pick as elimnating one of the doors with a 1 in 3 chance of throwing out the good one.
The whole trick is that the person throwing out the bad door is not doing so randomly. They are picking based upon your initial pick and their perfect knowledge of the remaining two doors.
We all do stupid things evry once in a while..
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) Now the only problem is finding a place in California where you can shoot it 
So...... What do you guys think?
in Gen I & II Chevy V8 Tech Board
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Grumpy always advised to pull a spark plug, put a cylinder at BDC, fill it with Marvel Mystery oil, then turn the crank then measure how much fluid comes out. I have never done it myself but seems like it should work.