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Hate to badmouth a member, but that third video is one of my nightmares: young kids, fast cars and a video camera. A recipe for disaster IMO. Definitely ended up that way but at least no one looked seriously hurt.
Not getting judgemental. In my day it was pickup trucks, firearms and Jack Daniels.
And yes, that second one of the guys plowing the south 40 was sad.
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Yes, hard to imagine a government bureaucracy giving up any part of their empire. But if you read that article they talk about how the continuing high levels of smog are being used to try and force California into essentially centralized smog testing. In other words another DMV like enterprise that runs all of the smog testing station. It goes on to say how ineffective and expensive this type of testing is. If the remote sensing could actually work to nab the gross polluters, it might avoid further inconveniencing the remaining 80% of the drivers who only produce 10% of the smog.
So what would your rather have. Remote sensing that most likely won’t trigger on a well kept FI vehicle, or a state run testing agency staffed by equal opportunity hires? The privately owned stations may not be staffed by a bunch of Einsteins, but at least with some level of free market influence they might be open decent hours or at convenient locations.
But the way things usually work California will probably end up with remote sensing and state run testing. Still, I think people should put a little more effort into understanding the issue before they start machine gunning out letters. Another thing to consider is that infrared sensors can be easily fooled. The article talks about a few of them.
Thread seems rather political, does it not?
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IMO, alum ds is for bling. In this application, the thing ends up like 2 feet long, so the weight savings is minimal. I would also make sure your local ds shop can work with aluminum before you decide.
Ron Tyler was convinced that the less rotating mass of an aluminum driveshaft was one of the keys to avoiding driveline vibrations. He said the shortness of the shaft combined with the relatively higher rotations speeds (due to the generally lower rear end ratios) made an aluminum shaft that much more important in a Z.
Just another man's opinion I guess.
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If you read this article
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-249.html
it makes me think we should ENCOURAGE remote sensing. From what they say, 50% of the auto emissions come from just 10% of the cars on the road. The article maintains that if remote sensing could just tag the gross polluters, that the ineffective bianual inspections could be eliminated.
Says the test are pretty coarse. Jon's comment about FI guys not having to worry would seem to apply.
Also the test itself looks rather delicate. Something as simple as coasting past the sensor will prevent an accurate reading.
And I think a 12 guage would be MUCH more effective than a water balloon.
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Sounds like Mat is going to give you the correct information for your state, but I can tell you in CA you would fail the visual test because the carbs do not have a California Air Resource Board (CARB) certification. Doesn't matter what the tail pipe says, if it wasn't CARB approved then it won't pass. Also without the smog pump, snorkle and evap can if you had it you will fail.
And crawford is right. Tune the engine for best performance and you will get the best smog results. Trying to lean out the engine will cause the NO emissions to fail. It tried that the first time I took the stock SU equiped car in for a test and failed. Setting the carb to run right made it pass. A new smog pump also works wonders for lowering the levels of everything.
The dyno test is a good bit more challanging than the old idle sniff test. But with these old cars the emissions levels are actually quite high, so if you can get by the visual and your car is in reasonable shape with a near stock cam, then you might do alright.
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Says "over 60k in restoration". I don't see how that is possible given the list of work they have done.
They list a woman's name as the person to contact. Maybe this is a divorce situation. My guess is the ex convinced her the $60 thousand missing from their checking account went into the car and not some 19 year old stripper. Even got her to take the car in the settlement instead of the house.
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Why is it moderators banned political dicussions, yet they are the ones who always start the political threads?
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Jack the back end of the car up, place a pan of water under the rear wheels, spin the wheels by hand and slowly lower the car until the tires hit the water. An out of round tire or wheel will not skim the surface of the water evenly.
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JTR makes the tried and true set back plates out of aluminum
https://shell7.tdl.com/~jags/Pages/Parts_DAT200.html
Not 1/4 steel and I have never heard of anyone saying the JTR pieces failed.
Hard to believe your web based cad parts will be any cheaper or quicker than ordering the JTR pieces.
And the salvage yards near me sells scrap for 25 cents a pound.
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...But she called my bluff. At the courthouse she wouldn't even let me stop in at the bathroom to go pee.
That one's a keeper. Gotta love a woman who knows what she wants and understands men. Doesn't sound like one that will give up easy when you hit the inevitable rough spots.
Be good to her and congratulations.
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Or just cut up some angle iron off an old bedframe.
Mild steel is all that is needed.
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Pogue is said to have driven a car for 200 miles on one gallon of gasoline!
This is not the same as getting 200 mpg. For all anyone knows he had one run with his engine off going down hill drafting a truck.
Back in the late 70's I met a guy in a truck stop in the middle of Texas who had just such a carb in the back of his camper. Said he was on the run from the "oil companies" who didn't want him to market his device or it would bankrupt them. Offered to make me a full partner for $200. Unfortunately this was back in the days before ATM machines and I was out of cash. Damn the luck! Guess the oil companies must have caught up with him because I have never seen this miracle carb in the back of a JC Whitney catalog.
Fuel atomization is such a small part of the problem. The key to the "device" is believing fuel is more completely burned by his "vaporization" scheme, something that is easily disproved all by itself. The bigger key to extreme fuel efficiency is understanding things such as Carnot cycles and the third law of thermodynamics.
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1182 Pounds' date='[/b'] approximately 14 feet
HOLY CRAP!
That has to be a typo. 1182 kilograms is more probable. Even that seems on the low side for a fiberglass shell grafted onto an otherwise stock 1977 280Z.
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Man. Beautiful car. I have heard people talk about the Rover aluminum V8, but think that is the first one I have seen. Wonder what would be involved with transplanting it to the US?
Plus looking at all the mods that thing has the complete HybridZ wish list. I was wondering how he got 255x17 rubber on there until I saw the pictures. That thing must have some stiff springs to keep the tires out of the fenders.
Will be really interesting to see if he gets $12.5K US for that.
Beautiful.
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Just reread my post and it came off reading rude. Didn't mean that.
I don't think that will work in a car. I have seen home made devices like that in an airplane. But in the plane they could just hold a steady turn with a 45° bank and know they were pulling 2G's (in pilot speak 1G is level flight). But a car will not hold a constant acceleration in a straight line long enough for that string to quit swinging. You will never get an accurate reading.
If your car is OBDII then get some type of data logger that records the speedometer readings. Most of those devices have some type of software which will convert that to acceleration and plot it.
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Maybe you should post your cam specs. Might help guys give you better advice about how well that engine will run down around 1200 RPM. Also fuel injection or carb?
3500 RPM cruising sounds miserable to me. Can't imagine your engine will have less torque at say 2200 RPM than my 4 cylinder pick up. That what my totally stock truck turns at 70 mph.
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225/50-15s on a 15 x 8" rim:
Probably the perfect combination for a 240Z.
4" backspace on an 8" rim = 0 offset??
Cool. Got a set of those in the garage.
That car is obviously lowered. I must have 4 inches of open fenderwell above each tire with my near stock ride height.
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Yeah. Give that a try and let us know how it works out. First time you shift that thing will be swinging like a ouija board.
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Looks like that would cure the oil pan hanging under the cross member problem.
Wish they would give one price for a complete kit.
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"Sporting a chubby". Who the hell uses dumbass phrases like that?
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Besides. It is Puta. Not Puto.
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If you are not replacing the booster, then a 79 ZX MC is about as close to a bolt on upgrade as you can get. I bolted one up to my 1970 240 with zero problems. If you can turn a wrench, then adjusting the length of the push rod to get the brake pedal height you want is absolutely trivial. It is only in replacing the booster that you will exceed my experience level, but even that doesn't sound too horible.
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Chevy used OBDII hardware on the 94 and 95 LT1's. That is the beauty of those years. You have all the advantages of OBDII (like reprogramming them via software) without being governed by the OBDII smog laws.
Give Tim240 a heads up on this one. He had a 94/95 LT1 that he reprogrammed. I would think an OBDII code reader should work.
BTW, sounds like your engine is running bad because it is trying to go into the closed loop mode but is getting a bad input from some sensor. When it throws the check engine light on, it must be giving up on the bad sensor and is running in the open loop mode using canned fuel settings. You really need to get the error code reader working.
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Man, I am with you. I can remember as a teenager back in the 70's looking for a car and seeing all these adds for hemi cuda's and chargers and thinking "who the hell wants one of those nose heavy POS's"? Apparantly not many people did, because they didn't make many of them. That is why they are worth so much now. They are rare.
But car prices at the high end acutions are more speculators looking to make a dollar than pure car buffs. Back in the 80's it was anything with a Ferrari logo sold for upwards of million bucks. But that market came back down to earth. The economy has had a pretty good run last 10 years or so, so now aging baby boomers have the excess money. My guess is the prices may continue to skyrocket, but will probably correct sometime in the not too distant future.
But what do I know? I passed on that 69 hemi charger I saw in the paper 30 years ago.