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It’s perfect! I can’t tell where he blended it. He spent hours mixing paint to match. I’m blown away. Helps that he buffed original paint out.

My 73 original paint Z had a stripe (body molding) on both sides. I just don’t like it ……breaks up the lines. Even though the car is all original paint, I said “What the heck…..lose it!” My painter is the best, so I gave it to Chuck to work his magic. Whatcha think? He buffed out the roof, tailgate and other original paint and the match was perfect. I love silver Z’s. IMG_7055.mov

Dave stopped by this morning and we got the windshield in, I spent the rest of the day getting the dash in and connecting all the wires, with any luck I might get to trying to start the engine tomorrow😁

I have one on a 73 240z engine, I tried to get it off the motor yesterday. It was moving a little but did not come off. I will try some more today as I am off work early and the power is off to boot. It is not raining so a good time to work on it some more.

My '77 has those door guards and dealer chrome mud flaps. Hate them! Looks like a clown car at the Christmas parade.

Most folks just leave the valve cover gasket dry without any type sealant for the off and on you'll be pulling it, until you get it right then just once a year or so to check valve lash. I run those cover bolts down with an electric drill set to the lowest possible strength setting, that's always tight enough for mine. No leaks. Have you read about using ant-seize thread lube on everthing? It helps.

very clean, love how compact the setup is.

Hey - the two lower siding runs I'm going to replace, and cut out the sill plate as needed, then I'm going to pour a concrete foot(ing?) and put a new sill on top. Outside, I'm going to keep the gravel level below the sill so rain etc can't creep up/in to the siding Got some primer on the upper sheathing and top shelf, I spent the day in the city at the Whitney Museum with fellow Art educators, so that was all the time I had to spend on the garage.

Well, the new tank is ordered. I have no idea how long S30 world will take to get it here, but they say they have a warehouse in the US, so maybe not too long. I'm hoping that based on how smooth and stable the fuel pressure was (for the 20 minutes I ran the car for) with the feed/return line coming out of my red gas can as opposed to the gas tank itself, that I may have found the culprit. Of course I'm still looking at other issues, too, since I doubt this was a cure all, but the engine did sound like the closest to a normal happy engine I've heard since I bought it (though like I mentioned, it did stumble and recover after I revved it once.) Feedback on next steps in the meantme? While waiting on the tank and fresh engine harness I plan on : - Cleaning contacts - Replacing vacuum hose - Adjusting valve lash (It was listed in the FSM as something to check/verify during the troubleshooting process.) - re sealing valve cover

There is a "can" or cylinder inside the tank, which has the fuel pickup point inside. That's where the crud would be. There is a screen or "sock" at the end of the tube to block particles from passing in to the pump. If your tank has been sealed in the past it might be that some of the sealant has come free. A borescope might tell you something. You can find quite a few pictures around the internet of the inside of the tank but for some reason people rarely take a picture inside the can where the end of the tube is. It's strange. https://atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/fuel/gastank/index.htm

Well, a major update I suppose you could say. I drained enough gas out of the main tank to fill up my two gallon, placed both feed and return lines inside the two gallon can, and started it up. By my watch, the car ran for twenty minutes and sounded significantly better, with fuel pressure being about 34 PSI the whole time. It did abruptly die once at the end of the twenty minute mark with absolutley no warning, just completely died. Though it did restart right away with no issues and continued to run fine. Idle was at 1,500~ RPM, and I adjusted it down to about 1,000 via the set screw. I only attempted to rev it once due to how late it is, it seemed to rev mostly okay but stumbled as the RPM's dropped to around idle speed, though it did settle back into its idle shortly after. I did notice after I crossed over the twenty minute mark and restarted it after it had abruptly died, the fuel pressure did drop down to about 32~. If I unplugged the vacuum line on the FPR, it would get to near 40 PSi. It wasn't 100% by any means, but it sounded like it was actually running rather than missing and stumbling while trying to run. So, I'm assuming the elephant in the room must be the gas tank?

I'm still in the garage, so I'll try that right now, gonna drain some gas back into the two gallon can.

As I suggested, place both supply and return lines in your 2 gallon tank. You won’t run out of gas until the engine has burned the 2 gallons.

Wow!