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Hello hybridz, To start off, I own a four speed 1977 280z and I have the manuals off Xenons30. I bought the car just before I turned 16 two years ago. In the two years I have done a head swap, clutch change, and quite a few other mods in attempt to make the car fun and daily-able. I have finally been able to start driving the car to school this month. For the first few days, I was driving it with open headers because I upgraded to the MSA 6-1 headers, and since I finally got the exhaust made up I thought I should take my girl out for lunch one day at school as we are seniors. We left the lot along with most of the other seniors, and of course, I decided to show what the Z could do. It was a long road, an S bend then a half mile straight with no intersections. I floored it up to around 80, let he revs fall while in gear so you can hear the compression through the exhaust, then pushed the clutch in to start slowing down. Then I realized the engine had died, I quickly started it back up before my girl noticed anything was wrong. It ran like CRAP for the last quarter mile or so. It sounded like it was missing on a few cylinders. Stopped at the red light at the end of the street and of course the car dies. It took about five tries for it to start again. I immediately pulled into a gas station as I thought maybe it was a fuel issue. After putting a few gallons in it, it wouldn't start again. I checked spark and it had great spark. Fresh battery as well. It had to be a fuel problem then. I pushed the Z into a parking space and called a friend to come pick us up. After school, I hurried back to the gas station of course. To my surprise, it started right up. I turned it off to go in the store and thank the manager for watching over my car. Come back out, and it won't start again. I unplugged the cold start injector, tried to start it a few times and then it started... -I was thinking maybe my tank, lines, and filter are clogged? -Also, when I was trying to figure out why it wouldn't start, I took out my plug for the EGR on the intake, and it smelled like gas, but it almost looked like oil... -I am very familiar with the car inside and out, but I have always had one question... When the car is in gear rolling at "high" speeds, does the compression of each cylinder still pull up the flap in the AFM and spray fuel? I will upload pics of my EGR block off, and of the car in general Thanks to any comments or suggestions! I have been reading builds on Z's for a while and they are all pretty damn sick!
