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Okay, I will go next, in no particular order: 55 Chevy BelAire - defined an entire generation of cars in the US Mini Cooper - So many advances and ground breaking design cues VW beetle - the peoples car, brought transportation to many Jeep - brought mass production exploration of the countries back roads to the people Porsche 356 speedster - the birth of a legend. I know I did not put the Z cars on there, but if I was thinking back on the top 5 biggest impact cars from the 30's to now. It is not a tough list. I could just as easily pick 5 more that were ground breaking. I will let the judges decide the merits of my pics.

yup, got it at Advanced auto parts. Its just look like a hose with a domed closed end on it. I will try to see if I kept the package. If not, It would be my pleasure to shoot a close up pic of it for you sir.

I was thinking the same thing... how about some ground rules. Must be a mass production car of at least 500 units produced Left a great impact on the automotive market be it either in the US or worldwide or both Lets start it at some reasonable date as well. I mean you go back too far, you would have to include the first car with a clutch, the first car with a steering wheel, the first car with 4 wheels, etc. Lets start the clock at 1930 if that is okay with everybody. Cars were pretty well normalized at that point, with what most people know as standard fare. It is also far enough back to capture great evolutions any more suggestions? Perhaps everybody should nominate 5 cars, and the top choices makes the list. Then we can put that list in order.

UPDATE: work is on hold for a few days. Still working on the dining room and office paint jobs, but managed to squeeze some Z time in. I found out I have had non functioning choke cables. I can barely get them to move. Not sure how they worked in my older setup. So I will need to get those off and try to lubricate them. Second, upon trying to start the car (which did roar to life rather quickly, but briefly) I noticed my fuel lines from the bowl to the car were SPEWING fuel on the ground. It was not from the where the jet nozzle is on the body, as that completely dry. Upon closer inspection, when I moved the fuel hose, fuel shot out of a small slit. I will contact ZT today and see if I can get some replacements. He mentioned in his video that at times those get damaged during shipping. It is easy to see why. As for how I fixed my coolant. I wanted to reuse the stock fitting that bolted to the side of the block. So I found a heater core cap that was made to block off coolant. It was remarkable easy and I was able to keep the stock routing of my heater hose. On the plus side, and another advantage to the 'while I am here' syndrome. I was able to finally add my heater grommet to the firewall, as well as my new choke cable grommet. Lets here it for unplanned and extra work. So, cliff notes version.... I got my carbs hooked up and all lines hooked up and got to hear some fire for a brief second before I saw some fuel leaking. New fuel lines and new choke cables (or repairing my old ones) and I will be back on the road.

UPDATE: Not much to report, wife has had me painting the dining room and den this weekend. I did manage to get the radiator empty and got my coolant hoses removed from the spark plug side of the engine. I need to come up with a way to reroute the coolant hose straight to the heater core, versus around the engine to the intake. I need to connect two lines with different diameters. Should not be too hard. In the mean time, I spent some time polishing my valve cover and refinishing my fuel line so it does not look so 'dirty' next to my purdy carbs. Engine is coming together nicely for now, just slowly.

I think mine may have to be called.. "WHAT NOW" AS that seems to be how I always address her.

DRAT, UAW got to him.

This is awesome! I have a ton of odds and ins. I will make a list tonight

Not loving the monster truck wheels. But that Z will be nice once the engine is done and the interior is tidy. But I will say this, I sure could use a nice set of floormats.

Wait, if your renting out you kid, while your in texas, I may have an antenna wire I need run! hahaa

I cannot get over his scheming look... like how can I get dad to buy me this radio controlled Z car.

install the heat sheild near last. I am not to that point yet, but it would just get in the way. Besides, its held on by very easy to reach bolts at the base of the carbs. I torqued all the header bolts that were independent of the intake before I put the intake on. Makes for less contorting my body later.

Thought I would get my son to show mommy what he wanted for Christmas. I mean what 20 month old would not want some original loop 240Z floormats...right!!!

We will find out Arne. I have always thought my advance mechanism may be a bit dirty. I will tear it down and clean it after I get the new one in. Should be plug and play for the most part. This will complete my tune up so to speak. After I get the carbs in and balanced, will swap out distributors. I only wanted to change one thing at a time. Carbs alone are a big change, and I expect great things from the Ztherapy units.

Ordered my new wire holder today, and since its just plain silly to just order something for $1.53, I had to add a new european curved dizzy. I am hoping my current pertronix will bolt into the new dizzy. Yes, I am weak, and like new shiny OEM parts. But HEY, its Christmas soon, Merry Christmas to ME!!!

You know for whatever reason, I was looking at the cooling part of the catalog since that is where its attached to the engine. Sometimes, I really have to think I am starting the road to senility early.

Quick note. It seems I made a bit of a mistake when putting my thermostat back on. The spark plug wire holder that bolts to the rear most bolt on the thermostat cover is made of plastic, and when I put it back on, I sort of snapped the plastic in half. Does anybody know who may have an extra?

I bought several plugs yesterday. I know one fit very nicely, threaded in with no issues at all. I will see which one it was. I think it may have been NPT. As far as the carbs go. They were installed by Ztherapy on the manifold when it arrived. I just bolted it up. I may have to remove the carbs to get a good torque on the nuts. I think a 12mm crows foot would help dramatically as well.

They do put in different needles that run more rich. I am not sure that it is part of the basic Ztherapy SS treatment, but I requested them. I get the impression that the performance in the SU's is mostly due to the correct needle selection and the weight of the oil in the piston. You can control how fast it rises and how much fuel comes out. Until you reach the max CFM the SU's can flow with the pistons fully up, I think you can tune to just about any reasonable performance level.

Thats the plan...just need to find the cleanest way to do that. Latest issue is the upper and lower radiator hoses. My factory radiator was upgraded from a two core to a three core. While this is great and all, the outlet and inlet to the radiator seems to be larger than the stock 240Z radiator. I ordered an upper and lower radiator hose from Black DRagon and the part that attaches to the engine is perfect, but the part that had to go onto the radiator was a ultra tight fit. I think its far too tight. I need to find a larger diameter tube hose, with the same bend. The search is on!

UPDATE: All parts are on the car. I did not get around to finally torquing the bolts. There is no way I will be able to get a torque wrench on the bolts below the intake, so I will have to use the force. This is shaping up well. I still have some cleaning to do on the block and run new fuel lines. Still have not figured out how I want to rerun the coolant lines. MOre on that after Turkey day I guess.

the studs make it much easier, The lower spacers and nuts are pain, but very doable.

Okay, today was a great day. I got the header back on as well as the new carbs. They look very purrrrdy. refinished my thermostat housing and cover and got those in. Found some spiffy cad covered grade 8 bolts to install there. On note of warning. Put the washer and nut loosely on the lower studs for the intake first. Trying to fish those lower nuts on with the header and intake on was a bit of a pain. Apparently I have bear claw hands, and they would not reach very easily. But after many trys and finally MacGeyvering with a wrench and some tape, I got them on. Tomorrow I have to torque all the bolts and then I can start installing my new fuel lines and reroute my coolant lines to take into consideration the lack of intake water passages. MOre to come.

I recently did this on my 71 dealer installed pulley. I removed the old bearing via hammer and socket. I bought the Gates pulley that NAPA sells and when I tried to tap out the bearingI sort of ruined it. DOH! But while it was out, I measured the outer race and it was 1.674" exaclty on the old bearing I beat out and the new gates bearing I ruined. I went down to the parts store and picked up a new SS bearing and I am back in business. I will have to go to a machine shop to get it pressed in as I am without a vice for the time being.

YOu guys are making me VERY happy! I am about to start bolting parts back up. I am holding off for two reasons. I am thinking that I may want to get some parts cad plated. I have a small pile of connectors and bolts and nuts. I cleaned them up with a wire wheel and Dremel, and they look clean and new, but would look better with a shiny CAD plate. I also nearly finished up my air cleaner resto yesterday. I have a few runs I need to work out with some 2000 grit and polish off. I think I am going to clear coat the thing when I am done to protect the new stickers I got for her. All I am waiting on now is gaskets for my Thermostat housing and I am off to the races! Should be fun. I think I will go ahead and flush the rad while I am here and replace all the hoses. I have to plug up the intake water path anyway.