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Today I insured my '72 with Classic Collectors insurance by Infinity for $129 a year. $500 deductible on comprehensive, collision and uninsured motorist with a stated value of $20,000. 6,000 miles per year total, I MAY put 2 to 3,000 on it in one year. Very pleased with this. My agent didn't offer Hagerty's but I don't see how there could be much difference. Tomorrow I'm going to add my '77 and hopefully get a multiple car discount. With the vintage tags at $10 each for life and this incredibly low rate I can't imagine selling either one now. 280 for the highway, 240 for around town.

Hi ZedHead, I made a tech article in the download section with the latest version.

Maybe the gas pedal got stuck

New wires!

Thank you! Good news for us that like to do our own work on a budget. Way to go @Blue

Today found another use for this stuff. I'm putting the bumpers back on after some "improvements" (rubbers, more on that later), and as usual when doing this, I'm concerned about the corners scratching the paint on the fenders as the bumper is placed onto the mounts. I would typically wrap the bumper ends in towels or something or tape sheets to the car. Not today. I just cut a couple of 18 x 24 in pieces of this stuff, (reused the stuff I used on the fender yesterday) stuck it to the car on both sides, and slammed on dah bumper. Then peeled those pieces off and put them on the back to do that one. Check out those rubber strips. They are not stock or repro's. They are however, cheap, lovely and easy to get and apply. Meat for another thread.

Ok, here is the proof of usefulless. I think I like this stuff. It's tough, has a fairly high friction on the face so tools don't slide off, and it stays in place of course with the great adhesive, but will never have a problem coming off. It seals the surface underneath from all contaminants too. All the sheets, blankets, yogurt mats, etc, that fall off, are never in the right place and that grind muck into the finish are toast around here except for utility use. Now I can leave tools on the fender and cowl like old times instead of the spank tool tray. Well no, I'll keep that, but this reduce the trips to the touch up booth..... I also have to test its resilience to long distance welding and grinding sparks too... Probably burns like gas soaked rags. Have to check that as well...

My brakes are really weak and I know my booster has a vacuum leak so I need to address that. Do the proportion valves in the engine bay and near the fuel tank ever fail and do they need rebuilding?

A quick update and status report. The HEI module is still working fine, although it has not been driven over the winter months. I put the battery back in and started it last weekend with not problems. In my last post I showed a plated mounted on the resistor. That was done as a temporary measure until I ordered a new 6 volt coil. The coil I was using in the testing required 12volts. The system is now fitted with a Pertronix Flame Thrower II HEI Module D2000 in the TIU and a Flame Thrower 45000 volt 0.6 ohm coil P/N: 45011. I made a simple instruction document for anyone interested in doing this swap. Chas Instruction - Fitting a 4-pin HEI module to 280Z 1977.pdf