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I used them for some rocker arms a couple years back, they did a great job. I will be using them for a regrind and another set of arms here in the near future.

(Crys a little) Those are some of the best examples of what a Z can be.

Hey Kiwi, I would love to move down there, but I don't think my Wife would wait for me to come back.

The problem with the W is affordability, I'm just a lowly aircraft mechanic and a 1500.00 maintenance bill would kill me. And I already have one hole in my head (Datsun) do you really think I need another? It's also nice to make the 400 mile trek down to Grandmas without worrying the car won't make it. The though of being broke down on the side of the road with the family gives me the willies!

Thats funny...I guess when you live in a place where most people carry you forget about crime.

I think it may be good for someone in my category, kinda just a little under middle age with wife and kids. I can't DD the Z due to my life (running kids around, and the car seat just won't fit right in the Z). I like to have a four door family car that will still be exciting to drive on longer trips. I have had multiple bad experiences with Ford though, and they have a long way to go to get me back.

I hope your going to a party, you know at some point you'r to old to go door to door. I'm afraid with all the red necks around where I live if you where to show up at there front door, you might get a gun bigger then yours pulled on you!

Getting the Pulsar seats in, I think it will work out pretty well. I started my own thread and hope to have some pics up tommarow. Another option!

I have been in the process of installing a set of 1987 Pulsar seats in my 77 280Z for a couple days now, and the install is going pretty well. The Pulsar seat base is a little longer and wider then the stock rails, and the seats have a bump out on the bottom which interferes with the stock slider assembly. Not a big deal though, I have finished a custom seat box for the passenger side (which was pretty straight forward, and now on to the more complicated drivers side. I can't use the same design on the drivers side due to the bump out on the tranny tunnel, so back to the shop to fab some more adapters! Is it wrong that fabrication is so much fun? Something about cutting and welding steel that gets the blood pumping! I will post pics of the brackets and seats installed and if anyone is interested I can give out the measurements. I searched for someone else who has installed these in there car about a month ago, with no luck...so maybe that means I'm the first? Well, if nothing else, this is another option over stock!

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Wiring stereo using BP connectors (These are for houses, they have no place in vibration environments). Wiring splices by twisting wire together and taping. If you look hard enough in the stock wiring looms you will find wires twisted around wires and black taped together. The STOCK power wire off the back of the alternator was like this! Gotta love the old imports!

Wow, I wonder if the guy in the picture knows that.

I am the second owner of my 77Z, and the PO was an electrical engineer at TRW in California. He did quite a bit of "re-wiring" that after 13 years I have finally almost removed all of. He gave me the FSM when I bought the car, and going through the wiring diagrams he has all kinds of notes and extra circuits drawn in that I am just now understanding. I also think he used it as a weekend track car and actually had a few upgrades done to the suspension. He had a spare "race" engine he wanted to sell me for an extra 500.00. I don't remember much about the engine, other then I kick myself pretty regular for not picking it up. One of just a few "if I could do it over" moments. The only thing left the same now is the Einki rims and a plaque he made on the center console above the shifter with is initials on it. I think it's kind of the cars history, so I left it there.

Wow, that's pretty bad. Is that guy actually a midget or is it just an optical illusion?

I had something like that happen to me a few years back. I ordered a poly busing kit through Nopi for my 77 Z. I placed the order on line and waited about a month...no parts. They are up in Atlanta and I was in South Ga. so no reason for it to take longer then a week. I called them up and they said there was a problem with the shipment, but they would get it out right away. So I wait another two weeks...with no parts. I call a second time and they tell me that that part has been discontinued. I said "uh..ok, so where you just planing on keeping the payment and not ever sending me a part?' The guy on the phone was a complete ass, trying to make it my fault for not getting my part out. Anyway, got a refund and won't deal with them again.

I had the same exact problem with my Z after the engine rebuild...which is a GREAT time to not be sure of your oil pressure. I took off the valve cover and pulled the spark plugs and spun it through with a remote trigger and checked to make sure I was getting oil at the cam. I replaced the oil pressure sender with new (crappy gold, I didn't know better...thanks BRAAP) and now all systems normal. I think I read a post on here from BRAAP when I was searching for this problem initially and he said to paraphrase a bit...the gauge is for reference only, if you want true oil pressure install an in line gauge and if there is truly no oil pressure, you will know in a hurry! Remember, your cam rides on oil, if there's none there, I don't think it will spin so well.

Maybe he's talking about the A/C compressor? It's the only thing I can think of that's belt driven and has a plug. There is no way for a plug to be on a mechanical fan. And 280Zforme, for what you would spend on a new fan clutch you could probably upgrade to an electric fan set up. I would check it out

Maby it's for the pulse generator or warp drive.

If you have a relay hooked to your mechanical fan...you have problems

Last winter I drove over the pass in the GA and got stuck behind a cinder truck. I was following about 150 yards behind it when it decided to open up. I actually had cinder rock stuck in my hood, hard to stop on that stuff when its skating on the road.

Haha... I'm sure I could take off, and I understand the dynamics behind flight controls, I may even be able to use the radios and program the GPS with the instructions. But I'm pretty sure the landing would be a little bumpy... I'm just a lowly A&P, no pilots licence.

I was kinda hoping it would be a late winter. My family is heading down to Nor.Cal. for Thanksgiving and I wanted to take the Grand Am, it gets almost twice the gas mileage of the truck, but I'm not going through the mountains in the snow in it. It SUCKS in the snow, my wife folded the right front under on a curb last year. I told her she drives the truck all winter this year. Not that it won't happen to me, but then I'll be pissed at myself instead of her.

Aren't most fans thermostatically controlled (i.e. no computer)? Could be a bad thermostat sending faulty info to the fan. Which fan are you using? If it's the Taurus (sp?) fan, I'm sure you can find the wiring and relay info on here. I use a simple Valley thermostatically controlled single speed unit which works great in my application and after six years, no problems.

It's pretty obvious the fan clutch is bad...duh! My buddy is a VW guy and allot of them us MS and the stock dizzy as a plug

I woke up this morning to almost a white out her in Central Oregon. Got about 4 inches of SNOW on the ground. I was planing on driving the Z to work today, I just got the heater working and the CD player in this weekend. Guess it's time to start getting my stuff together for my winter paint project.