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From the 1971 November issue of Road & Track.

Here is HLS30-00029 and a past owner is on our site. He will certainly enjoy your find! @JLPurcell

Most Portlanders are amazed that it showed up here first. The remainder are adding this to their list of conspiracy theories.

You will be hearing more about the next phase of the 00029's life in the near future. Below is the new power plant, it is exciting! l 123_1 (6).mp4

I just checked the 83 manual and the torque numbers are the same. 181-239 ft-lb That said... I bet @Dave WM uses the old style nut. I think he hates change even more than I do.

I disagree, he’s just stating that an L25 is most likely a bored over L24 (assuming it’s not a typo) in the same sense that L29, L31, etc is simply a modified L28.

Jim Campbell. Hmmm, sounds familiar. I have to look I may have a photo of his car or was it a sponsorship I recall on a car.

I thought these guys were a southern band because they sang about New Orleans. Turns out they're from Canadia. The lead guitar guy is excellent.

I was the third owner, looking at this ad. I thought I purchased it from the first owner, but I purchased it our to New Mexico from Jim Campbell in the mid-70's from an ad in Auto Week. He had raced it and it had been in the run offs it was painted in the BRE Livery when I purchased it (the only picture of it in this livery is below). Les still has the car and is managing the upgrades. I will be picking it up in March if all goes as planned. As I the car is getting another start on life as a race car and there will be more information on this in the near future. PROJECT 29

The first dog of my adult life (35 years old!) I named Jelly. All the older people in my life used to sing "jam up and jelly tight" when I said her name. had no idea what they were referring to until this morning at work listening to the oldies station we have on at the restaurant PA system. Ran back to the office to see the title and who sang it. It's called bubble gum music apparently???????

This listing was posted here a while back. It must not have sold. From the ad copy: Spare Parts: (Not Currently Installed on Vehicle) 1975 L25 Modified engine (complete long block with triple Weber setup and electronic ignition) Never heard of an L25. Also from the ad: Vehicle was repainted at least once (scuff-n-shoot). Why would anyone put a cheap Spray King paint job on such a rare and valuable car? It does nothing but ruin the value of it.

L25? Why would that be worth 55K🥱

Thanks. I created a signature block. For other members, you have to turn on the switch in settings to see other members' signature blocks too.

I was at A&M from 1985-1998, and it was at least 2-3 years years before I left. Could have been mid-90's. Funny how dates blur more than 20 years later.... When the Harvard server was going to shut down, Carl let me know. I worked with Ag Extension at TAMU, and went to a gent in the IT section named Paul and asked him if there was any way to help. He was kind of a delightful maverick (big guy about 6'4" and 260 pounds) and said, "well, Extension is here to inform and educate people, and this listserv does that, so I'll find a way to host it." I know he took it under his wing and basically managed it himself. Unfortunately he passed away a few years after I left A&M in 1998. On behalf of Zcar.com, I find a pretty good group of people there. I admit that I get tired of people asking a question that ahs been asked 100 times when they haven't bothered to do a search, so there may be a mea culpa due there. I am also fond of referring people with basic questions to Nicolub.com for service manuals. I really appreciate having all those service manuals there. My1983 280ZX service manual was three-hole punched and put in a binder years ago.

Seems like he posted on zcar.com a lot too back when I first got back into Zs. Him and some guy from Chattanooga I think were disenchanted with helping people. They were just stroking their egos.

Polite would be a welcome change! I quit going there years ago because of the vitriol

Considering how much you have to compress the rings to get them into the bore, I would guess* that compressing them .010 more wouldn't even be noticeable. How much would the expansion force change with an additional .010 compression? I mean... five thousandths more compression per side really isn't much at all. Makes me wonder... Do the ring manufacturers have different fixtures for each ring size, or are they just grinding off more of the tips for the oversized rings? Maybe at the extremes there are different castings, but each raw casting can be machined into a couple different size categories or something? That's a common manufacturing technique. Bottom line... In a pinch, I'd be willing to try the same thing you're doing. *Strictly a guess since I've never done it

HybridZ is very different now, polite even. Once TonyD stopped posting things changed quickly.

Straight vinegar . The pump helped by keeping things stirred .

That's crazy. Is there a fence to be whitewashed? Or is it today's guy? Denver, CO. Somebody needs to go look. Maybe it's still there. (I actually missed the date in gundee's post. Where is that thing?).

I actually wasn’t planning on it I went out and bought a tap and die set and was thinking to tap 1/4 and get a brass elbow at the homedepot or something..

Sounds like you are going the plug route. I know I have the water tube around the head, and might very well have the elbow too. If you decide to go back to that set up.

I think the move to Texas A&M was in the late 1990s? I joined up in the early 1990s when John DeArmond was hosting it on his dixie.com domain, IIRC.

(sigh) I long for winters of my youth, when snow on the ground and natural ice rinks were the norm. All I get in January 2021 is relentless overcast and brown grass.

The Bumperettes (vertical "boots") were stock on the '73. The bars on the top of the rear bumper were an option, not stock.

Something seems off center, looks like uneven wear. If you measure the thickness of the bearing pad it should match the thickness of the other forks. Is the fork tight on the shaft? I looked around for pictures and found an interesting transmission parts site. Might be handy. https://www.transmissionpartsdistributors.com/fs5w71-fs5w71a-fs5w71c-fs5w71e-fs5w71g-fs5w71h/

The over riders were an option for sure. The bumperettes may have been an option, I'm not certain. I can say that they were available in '70 given that my 08/70 in my garage has them.

I thought Classic Z's was about feather beds? Why am I here?

You care more about the circumference than the diameter. The difference in circumference between the 83mm and the 83.25mm ring is 0.785mm. If your current gap is .53 mm with the standard ring, then an 83.25mm ring would result in a .25 mm overlap. You would have to remove that overlap and then enough more to end up with the desired gap. That said, I have no idea if using the oversized rings would actually work or not. I'm just here for the math.

I entered my old land line number from years back and the addresses of several of the various places I've lived and worked at, before I even got the number, came up, and a bunch of my relatives and some strangers as associated with my name. It was weird but kind of useful. I saved the data because I'd forgotten the addresses. And that's just the publicly available stuff. I bet if one of the intelligence agencies wanted to they could have all of your old numbers and acquaintances and tell you about stuff you did that you don't even remember.

Finally received my digital to analogue tachometer converter. The Haltech sends a digital signal that needs to be converted into the old school coil signal for the tach to work properly. Pretty simple solution using one of these converters made by Gene. He’s on eBay and sells cool little gadgets like this for a reasonable price. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/142171581596