Electrical
Anything about the electrical system on a Zcar.
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How much would it cost to get a new fuse box upgrade put in
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Evening everyone How is the weekend going so far? I have made a little progress on my 1975 280Z /Ferrari 250 GTO kit like I drove her around the yard at work and she is absolutely nuts.If you read my post the other night about Started first time in fifteen years, you will know how stoked I am. So now I would like to do some proper wiring. I have downloaded the wireing Diagram for my year of manufacture I have downloaded the Atlantic Z Alternater upgrade and printed it. Today I purchased an Internally Regulated alternater and I was trying to make a little progress, but all I could get was frustrated. The colours in my wiring harness don't seem to match their close …
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Ok, so, I have the electrical pleague. Headlights, side corner lights, brake lights, and my wipers do not work. I am mostly worried about my headlights, and I have rechecked and doubled checked everything. Basically, is my steering wheel control unit dead? When I turn the lights on, all I get are my front blinker lights, and my tail lights. For the headlights, I have tried new bulbs, messing with wiring, double checking wireing to see if there are no cuts, ect. ect. I got the wireharness thing off blackdragon, and for at least the 240z, do not buy it unless you want to do a lot of wire cutting and fitting. Is there any place to buy a completely new wireharness …
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Ok so, to make sure that I have got this all straight, what do I do with wires when upgrading to a ZX dizzy with the E12-80 module on my 240z? I have a print out that is telling me to Ignition Box pin "B" to Postitive (+) Ignition Box pin "C" to Negative (-) Then remove and connect the B/W and G/W wires from the ballast resistor. Is this the right stuff? Any more or any less to do? Over at the Z garage it doesnt even say anything about messing with the ballast resistor so I am not all sure what and what not to do.
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i just replaced the flowmeter and battery after doing that the injectors would start clicking when the switch was in ON.before the car was turning on but would shut down fast, someone told me that it might be the flowmeter so i changed it.i recently came back from vacation and the first day back was the day i changed them. this wasn't happening before,also i heard it raind a lot and i think my xr7000 might of got wet. has anyone had this problem or have an idea what could it be.also the distributor gives spark while the switch is in ON.
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Is it possible to have a second battery on the car and be able to charge it with the same alternator? I'm interested in using the second battery to run aftermarket accessories like a DVD player, Flat screen TV, surround sound and amplifiers. I'd like to not have the car running while these accessories are running and I don't want to use the car battery to prevent having a drained battery. Just two batteries, one for the car and one for the accessories, charged with one alternator.
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I posted this elsewhere on here, but I figured it belonged in electrical... Ok, so my boyfriend acquired a retired gt-2 class 1977 280z racecar. We are trying to get it ready to drive on the street for the spring and that means sorting through all of the work the previous owners had done. It looks like the car was thrown together for racing in a weekend. We have figured out much of the car and what needs to be in there for the street and what we can take out. If anyone wants to know more about the car let me know...its loud as heck and in decent condition. The problem we are having is with the lights. We put in headlights just to see if we are getting power and to see if…
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I thought that it would fire, but no go. So I need to check with you guys to make sure that everything is correct. The wires to the old to the points dizzy I disconnect from the coil. All three wires (black, red, purple). Then the new Electric dizzy I put B to + and C to - on the coil. Then, when I dropped the new dizzy in, I had the #1 cylinder up top and lined up to the front of the engine thingy where the crank is I believe it is. Then, on the dizzy, I had the circular hole pointing towards cylinder #1 fireing order. The T was pointing towards the front of the vehicle but would not fit as I thought that the T was the marker, so then I turned it a 180 degress to …
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The distributor ('77 280z) has no spark to some of the plugs. If only 3 wires are used, there is a spark; if 6 wires are used, there is no spark to any of them. If one wire goes to ground, it fires. The pick-up coil seems to be working. I've changed the coil and balast resistor, and changed the module and the distributor; no luck - still cannot get all 6 wires to fire, but when 3 wires fire, it's weak. I've changed the (regular) coil, distributor cap, rotor and pick-up coil. Also, I've added another ground wire to the block from the battery. This all does not make sense and I'm at a loss to know why or what needs attention next. It was running good one day, then the ne…
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I just brought home a 79 280zx today, nothing seems to be working in the inside electrics. I did notice the headlights work, blinkers and taillights though. Not working: Power windows Power mirrors Volt meter analog clock **(Which probably doesn't work anyways, ** Fuel gauge reads right at half, even though I emptied the tank, then refilled. Tach seems work, unsure if correct reading though Speedo jumps around like crazy when driving. Dome light not working. I check ALL fuses and replace any that looked suspect, but still nothing. Any ideas of breakers, etc that I might check next? :knockedou It drove great getting to the house, just a lil stuffy with 15yrs o…
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I am beat up trying to get a decent working clock. I have bought a couple, one "working" and one not working. The "working" one didnt and I have tried in vane to get them to tick. I looked at buying a rebuilt one from zclocks.com or MSA but they are expensive and in corresponding with someone, told they are accurate to a degree, maybe losing a couple minutes a week. I am now looking at doing a battery operated upgrade using a small movement. I have read a couple posts from awhile back on it and after searching, it makes sense. A quartz movement, battery operated is good within a minute per year for most I have seen. I tried a couple and either the shaft length is not lo…
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Ok, so I have done some searching, but need a little help. On the Eletric Distributor that I picked up from a 1980zx, there are some wires that I have no clue what to do with. Is there some kind of manual that someone has made so that I know where to hook these wires? Also, I just found out that I need a base bracket, but I am not sure if I have one or not, so where could I find something like this that I can get ASAP. Also, does anyone know of a Z shop in Santa Cruz area, as I have some eletrical issues that I need fixed and I am not one with electrical stuff. Guage lights are extremely dim, head lights are out, wipers don't work, brake lights don't work and the interi…
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