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Here's a pretty good writeup. The most important part is the picture I think. There's almost too many words. Sometimes, if your distributor has been rebuilt you'll have blue wires instead of red and green. But they'll be red and green back inside the distributor where they spllced them in. Make sure that the mounting plate is well-grounded. That's where all of the current from the coil passes through. The C, B, W, and G that he shows will be molded in to the GM HEI module. The red and green wires from the distributor trigger the module through the G and W connection, and the B and C connections control the coil. There will be wires from the coil's negative terminal back in to the harness, those trigger the tach and the ECU. Just leave those as they are. http://www.sonic.net/~kyle/ztech.html

I thought that he said he got a magnet. Maybe he got the last one or they've stopped business due to the virus. https://www.amayama.com/en/part/nissan/22158s6700 A 280Z distributor will work just as well as your 280ZX distributor. The main difference is that the 280Z unit has an external ignition module. Might be easier to find a 280Z unit. @borini63 used to have spare parts.

Did you see this? You never said.

Pretty sure that the numbers are in one of jmortensen's threads. He had the shortened axles made. You could search his name or send him a message.

Maybe he just added to someone else's thread. Here's what I found searching jmortensen and laser.

I think that this guy found a source. Very surprised when he did. You'll have to read through it to find the post I think it's later in the thread. Start at the end and work backward if you're in a hurry. https://www.classiczcars.com/forums/topic/63629-hitachi-280zx-distributors/

Just make sure the centerlines of each are parallel. That's the key. Jmortensen has written up a description of how to do it, using a laser and some gadgetry.

Nice looking car. 1975 only has two fusible links, plus the one in the power line to the EFI system. So your car is normal. Do you know if the alternator is working? You didn't mention the ammeter or voltage measurements. Just that you replaced the battery because it died. The way that it started, drove, then died and won't restart could be the ignition module or the ECU, among other things. Do you have a meter? You really need one to make any progress on the EFI system, or just for working on a car, in general. See if you have power to the coil, power on each side of the fusible link, etc. You can waste a lot of time and money replacing parts, when a few measurements will usually identify a problem. Electrical parts that can crap out after 40+ years, if original - ECU Ignition module Pickup coil in distributor Fusible links Fuel pump EFI/fuel pump relay Several sites out there have service manuals that you can download for free. I'd get one.

I've noticed that 5 and 6 are richer and 1 is leaner on the two factory stock L28"s I've run. Be careful with trimming your injector, the richness might only be at idle. 6 is known for being the detonation cylinder, from what I've read. Might go lean at higher air flows. You need 6 O2 sensors to really see what's happening.

Looks like they're using the old style, cantilevered front diff mount, using the four small bolt holes from the original strap. Puts a levered load on those bolts. Not sure what's going on with their other parts. Kind of hard to see in the car. They need a professional photographer.

280ZXT would be the 3x2 bolt pattern. Not the 4 hole. Chequered Flag Racing used to sell them, but he needed a certain number of orders to start a batch. Who knows he might have some left. He sells the whole flange that fits to the axle. Maybe mtnickel could make a 3x2 pattern also. Not too difficult, in principle, but would take some time. The 3x2 axles are hard to find so the market is tiny. @mtnickel If you have a 240Z there's a way to adapt a 280ZXT (or 2+2) flange to a 240Z wheel axle, so that you can use the 3x2 pattern axles. But, those flanges are hard to find now also. Overall, the 930 CV axle conversions is the simplest way to get CV's. http://www.chequeredflagracing.net/Datsun.html https://zcardepot.com/products/billet-aluminum-cv-axle-adaptor-930-240z-260z-280z https://whiteheadperformance.com/performance-parts/datsun-240z-260z-280z-parts/cv-conversion-stub-axles-companion-flanges/

You got back in to check the clutch, had a concerned look on your face for a while, then got out without saying "hooray, it works". If a person only watched the video they wouldn't know if it actually worked. When is the driving video?

I like the undraping of the fender from the engine vibration. You left the audience hanging at the end though....

Who is selling this kit? They should know about the axle problem. Could be the axles, could be the adapters, could be both together. Save someone else future problems and tell where you got it. jmortensen has done a ton of work on the axle length problem, along with other people. You could search his name and the topic. You'd probably have to take yours apart to see what's possible, which might make it impossible to return them. Seems like the "plunge joint" side would have some room for shortening and cutting a new notch, since it's just mm's. Found some videos just for fun. There's explosions and stuff. Remember, smoking kills. Good luck.

I saw a post recently, can't remember where, where the guy cut a new groove in the axle for the retaining clip, then cut the end off of the axle to shorten it. It was a simple solution to a common problem. You should post a picture of your axles and tell where you got them. If you can't flip the cages then they're not Nissan so nobody really knows what you're working with. The "too long aftermarket CV axle" has been described before.

How about converting to the 280ZX design? Same concept except the loads are reversed. Nissan moved the rod to the front of the arm. You'd have to build some structure up front to attach to.

I wouldn't consider five "rife". I do like to see an uncommon word used though. Thank you. If ohmster just put the factory dropdowns back in and connected them to the subframe, the usage of the mustache bar pins would be a strengthening move, not a replacement of the factory setup. Then put a bushing on the back diff mount to isolate it from the suspension sub-frame, creating the typical rubber mounted diff situation. Just bench-thinking...

He'll probably show up again. Here's links to his other stuff. p.s. but he hasn't "visited" since July 31 2019.

Probably doing some CAD work...

I'm not an expert in chassis design or even an engineer. So I try to keep things simple. My first thought would be "what do the parts have to do in their original design?" and what will they be doing in the new application? So those two "big" studs hanging down, in their original purpose, only have to stop an 80 lb chunk of metal from moving sideways or fore and aft due to inertia, and also direct loads up in to the frame rail, or resist a tensile load downward, from the torque moment of driving the axles. And they have the front mount to help the fore and aft loads. In the new application they have to resist the weight of the whole back half of the car during cornering. It's much more mass putting a higher side load on the studs. Consider the length of the studs and you can imagine a pretty high leverage on the stud ends as they bend. Then imagine fatiguing over time and it's easy to imagine cracking at the frame rail. And, since it's rubber mounted at the studs the front solid mount will do all of the work until flexing causes the rubber at the studs to compress. More fatiguing at the front end. The studs just just weren't designed for the new loads, no matter how big they are. One view. Fun to think about. Curious, how do you know the factory drop-downs were flexing? In the factory configuration everything is floating in rubber anyway. If I was Apex I'd have some sort of blog where people could point these things out. Then they could explain their thinking, for reassurance. They could even join the forum and respond to this thread.

In the end there are usually two basic considerations - what RPM would you like to see on the highway, and how quickly would you like to accelerate. The first is 5th and the second is 1st. The transmission and diff ratios are shown in the various service manuals and can be found on the forum. Around 12 is the typical 1st gear overall ratio. 4th is always 1:1, and 5th varies depending on the transmission. 280Z's - 3.321 x 3.54 = 11.76 ZX's - 3.062 x 3.9 = 11.94 Get the KA's first gear ratio to start. You'll have a lot of torque in a light car so you might not really need a super low first gear.

You're overlooking the main point of the conversation. No evidence of the parts actually in a car. You can always find something to be indignant about on the old internet. If you want to really help Apex out tell them to put some pictures of the parts installed in a car on their web page, or Facebook, or wherever. Even better, parts installed and in use. That would actually be useful to them. Parsing my post to protect their reputation from the 6 people that might actually see it doesn't help much.

It was an example, not a comparison. The difference is subtle, but real.

I couldn't find anything with a quick look but I seem to remember that they have a larger diameter axle. One last look found this, below, showing a larger pinion shaft also. The whole "Super" thing causes a lot of confusion. I bought a Ford pickup so have seen a lot of it on the truck forums. https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/threads/the-super-8-8.8880/

Tell them that you'll buy one after you see pictures of the product actually installed in a car. That's reasonable and sensible. There was a guy on the forum a few years ago that was welding up some very nice looking intake manifolds. But he didn't have any data showing how they worked on an engine. He took many orders, collected lots of money for a Group Buy, took forever to get the first few out, they didn't fit, and he ripped off many of the people who never got a manifold. He lived the good life in the meantime, getting married and probably using all of his ill-gotten money for his wedding. Some people mean well but just can't get it done. Some people are just trying to make some money over the internet. Scammers. Search for "Senza Pari" on the site and around the internet. https://forums.hybridz.org/search/?q=Senza Pari