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PM sent...another question, I have white faces now, but they are old and falling apart. What are you guys printing them out on? I bought mine already assembled. Thanks all!

Do you have all the white faced guages or just the speedo? I need the three for the middle guages.

This wasn't what I would consider regular breaking, this was about as hard as I have slowed from 50ish to stopped and I couldn't roll off the brakes in time to tap the gas. I have a question about the float level adjustment, this will change your fuel setting across the board so I'm assuming you tune to compensate? I may try the last, though I don't know about putting foren objects in my carb. I can see the purpose of what he is doing, and it may keep fuel out of the forward bowl under hard breaking. Like I said before, I think mine might have more to do with the low vacuum in my engine, then working the brakes hard steeling more air, stalling the engine. I might just bump my idle up a tiny bit and try it again. I might have some vacuum line in my drawer, if so I will try it out on the way to work today and let you know what happens.

Yes, it actually stalled today at the stop light at the end of the freeway off ramp. It's a pretty long off ramp and has a couple nice turns on it, so I sped up and then had to lock it down pretty good when the light turned red. It stumbled a little then actually stalled (first time that's happened). It started up again without much trouble and I attributed it to the bigger cam and low idle. It has tried to stall a few times around town, also when stopping, but a little blurp seems to clear it out. Let me know if you find something, for me its a little annoying (I don't race, so not that big a deal) for you it may be a little more important.

Off road kit did the trick- can cut through corners now till' the back end breaks loose. Thanks for all the help...now if I could just figure out how those weird needles work!

Wow Tony...I'll make sure I don't ever owe you anything!

I can only hope to be that cool when I get older!

How about we all reply to this scammer with cars for sale and overload there server? I'm not a computer guy, so do the techies out there think this would work?

I still have a Nintendo I play pretty often, and still do the blow in the game thing which my kids (11 and 4) now do as well. I have no idea why this works, but it dose and I have no idea who told me to do it in the first place. I also remember putting rubbing alchahol on a Q-tip and cleaning the really bad ones.

Thanks guys, I just got off the phone with my Dad and he was telling me about the off-road kits they make for these carbs and how they fix the rich/lean condition so I'm gonna try to find a set here today or tomorrow. I think my floats are ok, but I will check them again while I'm in the carb. Again, thanks for the info and I will post my findings.

Hey all, I have a 280Z with an L28 running an Arizona Z intake and Carter 600 CFM carb and have noticed a weird problem that I am attributing to my carb but am unsure how to fix. When taking a semi-sharp corner under throttle (never tired it more then just part throttle) my car will sputter, then when back straight, clear up and pull just fine. By semi-sharp I mean just a normal 90 deg. left or right at an intersection. The faster I am moving, the worse it is, so I am just coasting it around a corner then getting back into the throttle when out. I have a narrow band O2 I am using for basic tuning and it goes full lean when I have the problem. I have spent allot of time tunning my carb, and have it pretty dialed under all other conditions, the only other time I'm lean is on the highway at normal highway speeds with the throttle just cracked, and even then its not off scale lean like it is around corners. My Dad had a Carter on his truck and said that his would sputter when the nose of his truck was at a pretty good angle when off roading, so I'm thinking because my carb is mounted sideways, it's the same problem only opposite. I am running a Carter 5 psi electronic fuel pump (non-adjustable), so I wonder if a little more pressure to the carb would stop it...This is my first carbureted car, so the little things like this still stump me. Any ideas would be appreciated. I think I gave all pertinent info, but if you need more, let me know. Thanks Oh, and yes I did strip it down and clean it out, replaced the needles and seats, try it richer and leaner, checked float level, blew out the air tubes, car runs great other then around corners.

You should have told him you had a cargo plane and could drop it off at his house for a small advanced shipping fee.

We had a scam like this at work a couple years ago. It was from Thailand, the guy saying he wanted our company to ship him a bunch of aircraft avionics parts. Everyone but the guy who WAS in charge of the parts department and our GM knew it was a scam, but they where offering us big money to be a middle man for them. So the jacka** in the parts department gets all excited and thinks about how he's gonna cash in and make the company big bucks, send off almost a million bucks worth of parts...then what do you know, the credit card won't clear. So where out the cash, the parts, they let the parts moron go and the GM gets to explain to the partners how he just lost a million in parts. I wouldn't sell ANYTHING to ANYONE who won't show up in person. Don't even try to take the money ether, lots of times the credit cards are linked to credit cards (say X10) with the last one defaulting. I believe in most cases you are responsible for the fee's somehow. CASH is KING!

The burger was at a restaurant in Mildenhall (it was a couple years ago, can't remember the name of the place) and it's not that it was wrong, nothing to send back, just not what you would get in the states. I took the bacon off, and it was good. I had a great time overall and the beer is second only to what I get up here in Bend, Or. I may be a bit bias though. Overall, I would love to go back, just a little expensive when Uncle Sam's not picking up the bill.

A little off topic, but dose any one else think that its weird that in America Camel cigs are Turkish blend, but if you go to Turkey they are American blend? Something I have pondered for years

I'm not saying all the food is bad, just when us Americans order a bacon cheese burger we are not expecting what the Brits consider a bacon cheese burger. The bacon is...lets say a little less done then I grew up with. Other then that, I had a great time in the UK, the Brits where even nice to us military folks.

I went to Mildenhall AFB a couple years back twice for a week at a time. I went to a few churches, it's pretty cool being inside a building that was there before the US was founded. We went to London as well and did the Tower/tower bridge/ect. but it was raining the whole time (go figure) so we cut it short. The worst part was ordering a bacon cheese burger at one of the local pubs...not at ALL what I wanted!

"If all else fails...floor it" My Dad

Is there any way to replace the "I agree" statement with this? I think it would cut down on the admin work load a bit. Maybe just send it to people who can't figure the rules out.

My point was that it should be out there on the track, I just don't feel bad for a person that ownes a car like that when they put it into the wall. They know what they have and they put it out there, so no biggie when it wrecks (as long as you can walk away).

Ah man, no problem. I'm sure there's body parts for those all over the place! Its hard for me to feel sorry for someone who races a car worth that much.

Kinda reminds me of the bells the Harly Davidson guys hang from there bikes. I think in that case they are to keep the pothole gremlins away. The thing with them is that they have to be a gift, you can't buy them for yourself.

I started wrenching on Mercedes with my Dad in his shop when I was 13, now I'm almost 30 and an aircraft mechanic. One thing I have learned as a "middle of the road" guy is shut up and listen. There are still allot of the older guys like my Dad out there and there experience is invaluable. When he starts to talk cars, I respect what he has to say and shut up. What's the old saying, knowledge speaks, wisdom listens?

LOL, thanks...I guess after 10 years of marriage, two daughters and owning a Z for 13 years I've picked up a thing or two.

Hold on to the 200.00, wait a couple weeks and something will break. Let your car tell you what to replace, because whatever you decide on will most likely be the wrong part. Remember, cars are like women...no mater what you do, its the wrong thing.