Found this discussion because I'm having the problems Jimzee78280 had in post #12... especially "Crank, crank, crank. Getting really good spark, but no fuel is getting into cylinders."
Just bought a 280Z that wasn't running... it has a Mallory Unilite distributor the previous owner installed... he said he had it running... 2 years ago, and lost time to tinker with the car so he sold it.
Called MSD (owns Mallory now) and the technician was surprised to hear the Unilite is on an EFI car. He said it needs a tachometer adapter so the ECU knows when to trigger fuel injection. Also, searched "280Z Mallory Unilite" and the first hit is http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/12-4042 where it says "Mallory Unilite distributors will not work with the stock Nissan fuel injection system ECU."
Those two things confirm my suspicion that the EFI/ECU is fine (passed all tests in the EFI Bible), but the ECU doesn't know when to fire the injectors...
So, do I:
1) Find a way to make the Unilite work? How?
2) Buy a stock distributor at AutoZone... but I wonder what else he's altered/removed from the car that may not allow the stock one to work.
Sorry for the revival, but my resto is about 2 years behind yours 😛 Could you mix BC coilovers with camber plates that bolt to the top of the shock tower? Like these from T3? T3 240z-260z-and-280z-cut-and-bolt-camber-plates Saw a lot of Zs at the Atlanta ZCON using BC coilovers but it will annoy me to have the camber adjustments BELOW the shock tower, and thus virtually inaccessible. I do NOT want to drop the perch to adjust camber... let alone the initial setup.