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I really don't feel the front speaker pod on the driver's side blocks the dead pedal at all. However, I wear size 10.5 shoes which are not extremely large and my normal driving position is with my left knee bent and foot resting on the carpet and not on the dead pedal. The rear speaker pod has to be moved forward to lift the deck board. I do have it fixed to the board itself with two 3" screws (one screw on each side towards the top edge) that go through the pod itself and into a couple of the metal tabs that normally hold the stock plastic piece that covers the rear lights and that you need to remove to install the MSA speaker enclosure. Pretty easy to fix and remove. Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk

It doesn't have to be an improvement. It just has to work. I know of at least 3 Z cars in my area that are having problems because the amplifier failed. Since the original is NLA, if I can get this to work, people will have functional wipers. I have looked at other intermittent relays, but this will probably be the best way to work with existing wiring.

Build a waterless bidet? "ASSY WIPER"

It certainly doesn't feel like 15 years!!!

I just found the receipts. I bought the receiver and speakers in April 2008 and I bought the amps and crossover used from a friend, so they are likely five or more years older than that. Seems like yesterday. 🙂

It's been so long since I installed my system, I had forgotten what I used. I still have all the boxes, so I just went and looked. I have an Alpine receiver, two Alpine amps, a Sony crossover and a pair of Boston 4" speakers. Obviously, I planned to install more speakers. 🙂 It's nothing super fancy, but with additional front and rear speakers, it might sound okay for an old car.

My point was the flat tops will raise the compression and might make it impossible to pass Smog. I don't think Nissan would have added dish pistons to lower the compression for emissions if they could have run flat tops

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Yes, the plan is to make a harness go to between the factory harness and the amplifier.

Actually, since it's open, some Scotchbrite, gasoline, and a rag will let you take the critical measurements. I thought you were just going to break it down in a garage and run a ball hone through it. Why pay to get it hot-tanked if it's not what you want? You'll be removing that protective film of oil and grime for when you put it in the back yard for storage.

There is more to this than just compression. Bore, stroke, cylinder head prep, camshaft lobe profile . . . . You can't go wrong by sticking with the same setup the engine had to begin with. You're in California. There are a couple of knowledgeable and competent engine machine shops that are experienced with Datsun engines there. Rebello is the first that comes to mind. Also, the guys at Z Car Garage should be able to point you in the right direction.

Well your first issue in my mind is you need to stick with stock efi. That rules out most mods. You can probably tinker with the setup but the problem comes in when you cant tune the system for a deviation. Also you would be searching for dished not domed pistons. To really determine the bore condition you would need a way to measure bore ID. 3 places down the bore. Side to side and front to back. If there's no lip at the top of the bore you might could just hone if your measurements are good. But you might hone and then have to bore and re-hone. It sounds like these shops are approaching this from past experience and the highest percentage of success. As for the crank, if it mic's out, is round and looks good, a light polish would be better than grinding. It's easier (maybe lazy) of the shop to bore and grind. The upside for them is they know for certain the crank is true and round. They also know the bores are all true, cylindrical, straight, consistent and without taper. All good things. It also takes some time to do all the checking versus just chucking it uo and punching it out. These old Nissan blocks were made out of really good metal and these shops may not have a lot of experience with how well they hold up

So first I'd like to say how excited I am to have @grannyknot working on the car! I first joined this forum in 2020, and saw that he was one of the few local Ontario members, and one who had done some really cool projects. I hoped we'd be able to meet up at some point. This is even better! The "short" history of this car, as known by me, is that I bought it in 1994, from the late Ken Stahl, of Ken's Mostly British/The Z Doctor, who had purchased it in Georgia and trailered it to Ontario. I don't know anything about its history prior to that, though I'd like to. I'd had 1973, and 1972 240Zs back in the mid-80's and a 280ZX after that. I guess this one was an early mid-life crisis car. I drove it for about five years, winter(!) and summer while commuting 70km to my office in downtown Toronto. My lack of time and maintenance over those years resulted in the car becoming unreliable, and it was starting to rust, so I parked it in my garage for 20 years! During that time, I somehow managed not to think about it at all, until someone told me about the green Z that sold for $300k on BAT. Not that I'll ever sell the car, but it made me go and poke at it, which rekindled my old obsession. I'm no mechanic, but I was able to kick off the slow process of reviving it starting in 2020. I posted a couple of times about what I was doing in this forum: and The time I had available to work on the car evaporated last year when we decided to sell the house in the country (on 2.5 acres with a three car garage) that we'd lived in for more than 25 years. I've just moved to a condo we're renting for a year in Collingwood, Ontario. I finally had to admit to myself that I wouldn't be able to continue to work on the car in the condo's underground garage. As mentioned above, I was pretty excited when I messaged grannyknot on this forum and he said he was looking for a new project. Let the fun begin!

Nice to have you back again! Looking forward to your always-insightful assessments and always-creative solutions.

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Hey CO.. why the at mike? (just curious..) Hi guys.. it's been a few month's and the only thing i did is buy a (expensive?) rattlecan of special etsprimer at the painter.. Still need to clean up the engineroom and repaint and put that nice engine back in there.. (but i feel to sick and i'm looking forward to it like a horse likes to play chess.. hahaha I like to completely change sayings into something really weird.. did i do well? 🙂 ) (Can you imagine the horse.. looking to make a move with those hooves?? hahaha!) some pics of the old engine and that same engine after a clean up and all new seals.. sorry for this blurry one.. Now the better pic's.. (I thought i had already put up these pics..) one last one i found some time ago of other times.. this pic (paperrrr!!! ) was made in 1992 when i had my first 280zx t-bar.. in a silver-blue color.. At that time i was one of the volunteer electricians/sound/light engineers at a folklore 10 day festival in our village! We had some time before the festival opened and a nice car to see the area. At that time there was a group of dancers from Ukraine and this english teacher came with them! She was at that time a english teacher at the university of Kiev! (Picture shot with a Canon AE1, still in my possession!) beautiful isn't it... those horses in the meadow? kidding..