1976 280Z Restoration Project

[wheee!]

Can you not get 12A in the states?

[dutchzcarguy]

Hello Mark, I follow your build a little... and think it's going to be a very nice car!

only the door carts... You should have put some foam inbetween?  That would look much better if i dare say...   Just a few mm thick is sufficient.

 

[wheee!]

Hello Mark, I follow your build a little... and think it's going to be a very nice car!
only the door carts... You should have put some foam inbetween?  That would look much better if i dare say...   Just a few mm thick is sufficient.
 

What you’re looking at is three or four layers of foam on that panel. The roll of it is on the tool box to the right... about 4mm’s total on each door panel!

[dutchzcarguy]

34 minutes ago, wheee! said:

three or four layers of foam on that panel.

Obviously the wrong foam? why is it so wobly? 1 sheet of 3mm thick shout work out better, now the added ones don't make it flatter..

[wheee!]

The spray glue curled it a bit but it flattened out as it dried. The panels look flat now. Getting the thicker single layer foam was almost impossible locally and I didn’t want to wait a month for it to be shipped online. Upholstery shops in the next city wanted $100 a roll for foam.... nope.

[Pilgrim]

On 7/8/2020 at 8:22 PM, wheee! said:

Can you not get 12A in the states?

Many people don't know that you can, but it's not easy to find it. In fact, there are a small number of installers who are licensed to use R12 and if you find one, you can get the system recharged.  It costs at least twice as much as using R134.  I found such an installer locally last year and paid $200 for the fill.  It was well worth it to avoid changing components in the AC system, although I would do that if needed.

Edited July 18, 2020 by Pilgrim

[Muzez]

On 6/30/2020 at 8:15 PM, wheee! said:

Cars on the ground. Fuel is in, ready to load the first run file and start the engine on Saturday! Hopefully no fireworks.

Been lurking on this thread to the point where I feel emotionally invested haha. Please post videos! So excited. No fireworks. 

[wheee!]

Been lurking on this thread to the point where I feel emotionally invested haha. Please post videos! So excited. No fireworks. 

No fireworks and no firing...

Having technical issues with the voltage settings in the CAS from OneSix. Tim (the inventor) has been super helpful but the low crank speeds and the super low voltage output of the Toyota inductors requires pre setting the voltages in Haltech very accurately. Cranking provides about 150-200 rpm and my hand drill can only go down to about 220 rpm with no real control.
I need to hook up a small electric motor with a variable speed control to set The voltages correctly at low rpm so that the trigger signal fires the COPs at low speed cranking. 220 rpm throws sparks like crazy.... not much below that.
Nothing is ever simple....

[zKars]

And the lord said “let there be a HALL EFFECT” and man thence invented the Hall Effect sensor and there was peace, happiness and simple little velocity independent, constant voltage square waves across all the lands.... I saw it and it was good. 

My apologies to the original author.....

[siteunseen]

10 minutes ago, zKars said:

My apologies to the original author.....

Edwin Hall 1879!

I HAD to google that.

[Captain Obvious]

Ummmmm... Site, I'm thinking that's not the author he was talking about.   

[Captain Obvious]

11 hours ago, wheee! said:

I need to hook up a small electric motor with a variable speed control

I trash picked a treadmill a while ago and stripped out the motor and DC controller*.  I've repurposed that thing for so many different test applications that I've forgotten half of them.

Here it is recently spinning up a Z distributor so I can poke around inside the stock ignition module:

 

* Best time around here to find such a thing is in the spring. 1) People are doing "spring cleaning", and 2) The luster of the new year's resolutions have worn off.