love-my-V8-280Z

I had a shaft made with nothing but messurements. Total cost was $250. Made at a local truck repair shop.

Get a hold of a wiring diagram of your car, you will find that all the wires from every part of the car connect together in several plugs behind the glove box. You find the wire you need on the diagram, follow the diagram until you find out what plug it goes to. Than find the plug and you can run a new wire from their. I have a diagram for a 78 280z if you would like a copy.

Anybody know a real good how to paint a car web site?

Thanks for completing the posting. Maybe opti’s are blamed a lot but it seems that if you have any amount of miles on one you are better off replacing it as it will probably be a pita sooner than later. Your problem has taught me a lot…

These were shared with me, I hope they can help you too.

Your paint does look good. What is a siller coat? Also any advise on the epoxy primer? Where does it fit? And I did read how urethane primer did not absorb water, should I take a lot of the primer off?

This I can promise... You will in 10 years regret that you did not do everything you could to keep your car. You will fall back in love with another hoping to bring back those great years you had with your car. Once gone its gone forever. Its not the money its the sweat and pride that you can't get back.

I have a 280Z and wired the fuel pump to run when ever the key was on. It drove me nuts! Also I worried that it would never shut off in an accident. It only cost a few bucks to buy a oil pressure switch. I but a tee next to the oil pressure gauge sending unit and wired my fuel pump relay to the oil pressure switch, the pump will not come on until the motor has turned over a few times raising the oil pressure. Best part is that I do not hear the fuel pump ever, the motor is running almost as fast as the pump comes on.. If you would like a copy of my wiring diagram which I made showing the fuel pump and my tarus fan just ask, and make sure you can handle a 1.5 meg file in your email...

Yes, I just installed my window into the rubber and installed the crome molding last weekend. Now just need to get it back into the car. You should have no problems getting these parts

Looks like you know what you are doing.. Your door and fender lines look good!

I removed all the old paint than fine sanded the car, than I applied a high build surface primer straight to the bare metal.. I have been working on my car for several years and it has been sitting with most of the body work done. I'm getting ready to finish up and paint it. Well now it seems I have learned that I should have used a expoxy primer than a surface primer. I would think I asked this question a long time ago but do not remember, Will my final paint job be ok?

Piston, With out reading all the last postings, I don't think you are going to get someone just telling you to plug wire “a” into spot” b”. You need to know the details of each wire. I have lots of data that might help, start with the helms manual on your car, it will show you every pin on the PCM and what the wire does. You need a relay when you want to run a something that takes a lot of current. Like your headlights or fuel pump. The PCM is a switch and it cant take much current so you have it close a small current relay that will than close and allow a lot of current to flow to the head lights or fuel pump etc... Do you know how to read a wiring diagram? I took a 280Z diagram and have change it to match my 280Z with a 95 LT1.. It would help you a lot.. Also Its not a couple hour job for a beginner to figure all this out.. I have many, many hours getting it right and doing a lot of tweaking to suit my fussiness.

Bart, Hope you let us know what you find..

Piston, If you interested I have several photos that may help. I installed the PCM under my dash. Once you have the correct information its easy..

Again Grumpy you have proven to be the Master of useful data!

Just have to tell you that I love those pipes!!

You don't have to place your PCM under the hood. I placed mine under the dash, Fit real well..

Regarding the Alternator. Their are two ways to hook it up. I became confussed and wrecked mine. One) of the contacts on the alternator MUST have the resistance of a small light or it will wreck it. Two) there is a contact that all you need to do is hook 12 volts to it when the key is on and your all set. Don't get them backward! When I write contact I mean hook to one of the hole's in the plug..

Bart, When I installed my opti I did not line up the cam pin correctly. It would not start and once in a while back fire. Is there a way you can make sure the correct cyclinder is getting spark when it should? also I had a problem with old gas.. It just would not start. If you have spark and fuel it should at least try to run. If you get any back firing I would think you were out of time.

Bart, Let me know if you figure out the pcm. Did you look to see if you can change these AC parameters in the tunercat program? You might be able to have them set so low that the PCM always thinks they are at the correct level.

I don't see why it would not work. As long as you can adjust the shaft at the peddle... Also not a lot of work if you find that you can't get the adjustment needed to remove the master and rework it.