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I have read through the forums regarding and just would like somebody with a little more expertise to give me there approval. I have a my 2.4L at the shop and they are tellin me my head is warped 12 thousands. They want to either shave this or cook it and reverse the bend. I am considering just shaving and buy some 15 thousands shims for the cam from thezstore.com and calling it a day. Any other concerns i should have or should i go with the oven and reverse bend method. I appreciate any advice. Thanks Frankie
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Hi, my name is neil, i just bought a 1971 240, and im in the process of doing a tune up, when i got it earlier today, it wouldnt stay alive, it would half idle with the gas pressed down a fair way, but after a spark plug change, it will have some semblance of idling, but it does not want to rev, but if you work the throttle a bit, once it gets past about 1500 it will rev fine, is this just a carb problem, what can i do to fix it? Also, back to my original quesiton, what Type of oil, filter, and how many quarts also also, can anyone fill me in on how to change the oil in the SU carbs, sorry for any stupid questions, im pretty new to these cars thanks -Neil
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Well Spent last night getting the crossmember out. One of the bolts was nearly frozen, I swore I was going to shear it but I got it out OK. Tomorrow I will borrow a 17mm wrench from work to get the mount off. The rubber had separated on the bottom. THe strap on top of the diff looks OK, but is there something I can spray on it to preserve/protect the rubber while I'm at it? These are NLA, can I possibly use like a leather belt up there??? I also have a new throttle boot and see that the accelerator side has threads for the ball to come off; Does the ball just pop off of the stud?? Just pull it off?? Dont want to break anything... Hopefully this fixes my clunk, if not I'…
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I just bought a 78 280z that I have been having troubles with. Periodically while I am driving it it doesn't run while I am giving it gas. Idles fine, but as soon as I put it under load it dies. Release the gas and it runs fine again. Just recently I went through the factory service manual and started checking all the sensors. I cleaned off a bunch of grounds, unplugged and plugged in the control box, and fixed what I thought was a bad ground on the air regulator. Now it runs REALLY rich. White smoke out the exhaust and smell of gas. But I don't think I did anything. I'm really confused.
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I'm not sure if the rubber that I received from Black Dragon is correct for my 1972 240Z. At present I don't have the correct glass in my rear hatch, what I have is a piece of fitted plexiglass with a regtanular rubber seal. (I have a used glass to install on hand). The rubber seal that I received has two 90 degree corners. If laid on the floor it looks like the letter D. Does this sound like the correct seal to you guys that have replaced your rear hatch glass seals or should it be formed in a regtanular form with four 90 degree corners? Thanks in advance.
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Hi, im not sure if this is the right forum, im new here, and im going to take a look at a nice 1970 240z on monday. Ive never owned one of these cars nor taken much time to research them, as it was a spur of the moment decision to look at it, but i need your help, i want to know what i should be looking for once im there, what kind of tell tale signs and notorious things about the car that only you guys would know about before purchasing this car. Any help from you would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
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I just pick up a early white 74 260z. The owner had sold the motor with transmission, and everything else is still attach. The other day I just pick up an full swap from n/a 75 280z that came with engine harness, computer, amf, intake plus intake box. I know that almost everything from the 75 will bolt into my 260, but not unsure if the 75 harness will bolt into the 260 since it's a carburetor setup. I was talking to my friend the other day and he told me that I will need to wire the ignition wires from the 75 harness into my 260 ignition, then will need to wire up the fuel pump, then I should be able to start the car. I have search and seen many for the l28et swap, and n…
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I had my hood off a couple months for repairs and forgot how the tention rods go on the hinges. Can anyone give a good explanation or show some pictures. Id really appreciate it!
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Well here is the only rust on my car i knew it was there when i bought it. I dont think this is a major issue as it has not gotten to to the frame yet. I know there could be more lurking but from what i see its not to bad. i cleaned some undercoating off and slopped some por15 on it for now to attempt to slow it down till i get to it in a few weeks. Someone put a patch on the inside already just riveted crappy work. But i am hoping it not the death of the car. I am good at welding not so good at fabbing. My thought where to template the area and have it made.
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So, after addressing my charging issue, I'm moving on to my fuel pressure. I'm running a Walbro 255 inline pump that's on a Megasquirt relay with about 10ft of wire in between. Should be a pretty simple system. With 12.5V across the battery at idle (14.1 @ 2000RPM), I'm getting 11V at the pump. So I wired in a hotwire from the positive battery terminal straight to the pump and got around 12.1V at idle, which is obviously better, but really weird considering I've got a direct connection from the battery to the accessory, so it should be the battery potential (12.5V). So I decided to take grounding out of the equation by wiring another wire from the negative on the batter…
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I know this is not the place but i just snapped the two bolts holding the neck onto the housing for the t-stat. If anyone has the whole unit please email me directly or pm i nee done asap. Damn track day this weekend.
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restoring a 72 240z would like to add electric fuel pump. would like some input.
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