oki_all_day

Thanks for the link, I'll be doing more research, I swear it is like you can never know enough on these cars. Zeroyon is another automotive forum, mostly with people who have lived or currently live on Okinawa, Japan.

Thanks, I appreciate the pics, told me exactly what I needed to know.

Hi, new here, some guys on Zeroyon sent me over. I have had this mess of a 280Z parked for over half a year now (hard to believe it's been that long). It's got something leaking, not sure if heater core or valve but the poor thing had been pissing coolant in the interior for a long time before I got it. The car doesn't run due to electrical that I'm working on sorting out. It was an A/C car if that makes a difference. I plan on deleting that since it's not working and I don't want or need it. I've read on various forums about heater core bypass and see people saying to just loop the system and people saying to plug it and that looping causes overheating, then people say they been looping the system since 19XX and they race their cars and blah blah blah and they never overheat. Most discussions were done over a decade ago and they don't have pictures that are still up. I'd like to bypass the heater core because nobody makes them for the 78 anymore and refurbished ones sell for close to 400 dollars, nobody makes the valve either and that sells for around 200 refurbished. Too much for me to pay for something I don't need. The car was overheating a little bit when it used to run but last time I checked it had rust chunks floating in the radiator so I'm pretty sure its due time for an upgrade anyways. The heater did save me from goin' over in stop and go on the interstate but that was when I first got this POS with all its problems. It never gets too cold here so I won't need the heater unless I'm overheating (which probably won't happen once I get a not rusted radiator). Should I loop these two? Or should I plug it, and if so, what should I be plugging it, and if so what gets plugged? Is it something here that gets plugged? I'm thuroughly confused on the plugging part. Also, side note while I'm in here anyways, can anyone tell me what this connector is for? I don't have anything on the harness to plug into it, is it a block heater? EDIT: In the future I'll try to get those pics rotated correctly.