Anyone Z help in Idaho Falls Idaho?

[zKars]

I have a buddy Canadian stuck on his way to JCCS in LA with a dead 75 280. Is there anyone able to provide local support?

Call or txt Ken one 306 three four one 42 33 if you can help him out. He's a long way from home with electrical problems and he may need some Z specific help. Appreciate anything you do for him.

Thanks!

[Mikes Z car]

I am over 6 hours away however is there any information on the specifics of the problem? Anything unusual seen before it quit working?

[SteveJ]

Try to get some details and post them here.

[zKars]

It was an electrical short somewhere. Car quit dead in a heart beat. Fusible links blew, and the starter circuit is weak. He has hard wired the coil and he's on the way again. He's traveling via Vegas, I15 all the way. Last i heard he was going alright. I'll let everyone know if I hear more about his location. Thanks.

[kensval]

Hey... I did make it to JCCS, and almost all the way home! Blew a heater hose 150 km from Saskatoon, flat decked it home because it got pretty hot and CAA paid for the tow anyway. Took the valve cover off and found a wiped cam lobe. Gonna send the head to Whitehead Performance in Ontario unless anyone has a western Canadian alternative they really recommend. And I still have that wiring problem, but all winter to find and fix it. Basically there was no power to the coil and the ignition fusible link (0.3mm sqd) kept burning as I tried to crank. Replaced the starter cables, had the starter tested, replaced the battery, cleaned the hell out of every connection I could get to. Finally got it starting better, but had to use a separate power feed from my fog lights to power the coil (through the ballast resistor, from which I disconnected everything else).

Anyhow, sorry I couldn't chime in from the road, but thanks to Jim for doing it for me!

Will be going again by spring with the spare engine. Planning on going back to JCCS, and I highly recommend it to anyone that loves old Japanese cars of any stripe. Great show and great show organizers.

Ken