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Can you describe your bleeding procedure to us all. I am not trying to be insulting, but perhaps there is a procedural goof up.

Leon, can you post pics of your setup To me a crank trigger would be the bees knees

Wow, that 6AL-2 box has me slathering... I assume that it can work with the robust OEM dizzy as well? This is getting VERY interesting.. What does it use as a trigger? Do you set it up at 0° at idle, or max advance at idle and let it pull timing where needed? Either way cool.

yup, you certainly could, factory bent to your S30. I have not tried the, but I am seriously thinking about redoing my entire front brake line system. Mine work fine but are very ugly. You can also get them in Stainless steel vs regular factory OEM stuff. Like I mentioned, I have not tried the, but they get rave reviews from the domestic car restoration shops. They may be able to be a one stop shop for new brake lines from the S30. I find that people who specialize in one thing, like brake lines or tube bending tend to do it better than myself with a hand held tubing bender and lots of swearing, cussing and throwing things.

205/60/15's rubbed with my panasports on Tokiko HPS springs and struts on stock body work. If you have a front valance that is not OEM, you may be okay. But with the OEM body work on that tokiko combo, the widest I can run is 205/55/15 THe diameter gets too big on my car to run a 60 much less a 65 series tire.

I was helping a friend with his 73 spitfire this weekend and we started talking brake lines and how to save his, then I got to thinking about a company I saw on TV... Classic Tube, Preformed Tubing they manufacture S30 brake lines, fuel lines, hard lines from caliper to strut mount, etc. They got great reviews from the domestic guys. If anybody is desperate, it maybe worth a try.

I am willing to bet it is a rear brake adjustment out of whack. When replacing rear wheel cylinders, it is easy to not adjust them properly and all the stroke in the brake pedal is used to move those rear wheel cylinders closer to the shoe. Jack up the rear of the vehicle. Take off the rear wheels Put the car in neutral rotate your brake drum until the rear wheel cylinder adjustment cog is in view. Adjust it until the brakes Just barely rub the drum Repeat on the other side.

You know all I did was hook up the wires from the existing horns to these and run a ground from the horns to the chassis. Works beautifully

I feel ill reading that part Phil

Well the beauty of the Mallory is you can recurve it at home with a simple recurve kit. It is infinitely variable. That is if you can keep it working. MSD needs to step up and make a better system. Or we can all just step up our game and go to a crank trigger and call it a day.

Update. In 12 minutes I had the new ignition module installed. It was kind of Mallory to put that piece of crap on top where it can be easily serviced. Well the car fired right up immediately and settled to a smooth idle like nothing ever happened. I also installed the Mallory protection box inline with it, and started the car again just to be sure. Yup still works. NO warnings on if the ignition module protector box needs protecting yet! Cone dodger, the new Cayman is positively georgous. It truely looks like nothing else (except the Boxster of course). The back end treatment really made the car absolutely perfect. It looks and reminds me of the Porsches of old. I will make a prediction here. I think Porsche is going to move the 911 up to a GT type of car soon, and the Cayman will be its new hot shoe.

Okay, my Mallory ignition module came in as did my Mallory ignition module protector box that Mike W talked about above. So kind of them to sell a part to protect their other crappy part. I will get them on today. I am taking off half a day to get the Z running and then I am going to an unveiling at the local Porsche of Houston of the new redesigned Cayman ! Hoping for a test drive.

I would like to pose another law. When parents of children get together, given enough time, the conversation will always degrade to gross poop stories.

I say keep them both, I run panasports or VTO LeMans depending on my mood.

I tend to think that these values are tending a bit lower than actual sales.... But still not that far off. It all comes down to how you rate your car. I think in reality many of us think we have #2 cars when we really have #3 cars.

your taste in racing livery's is just about as good as it gets. I would have also accepted any Martini Rossi red/white/blue themes

I liked the flexibility the mallory gave me for my timing advance Diszead. I even went through the trouble to get an OEM one recurved prior to my Datsun Spirit Build. It never failed me. My OEM one, never failed me. I have not been let down by my OEM stuff. But I have always been in search of the ability to do further tuning to suit my engines needs. I am a believer in stock parts. But I like the flexibility of aftermarket stuff.

Okay, quick update I checked the battery, it had 12.6 volts while the car was totally off. With the ignition on, the fuel pump running I get 11.66 volts to the + side of the coil and the negative side of the coil. My coil is still 1.5 Ohms across. I hooked up the timing light to number one and cranked it with ZERO blinks. I ran the check out for the Mallory called out in some instructions for trouble shooting Mallory Ignition Coils.. here 1. Remove Cap & Rotor 2. Turn Ignition Key ON 3. Is there Battery Voltage (+/- 14v) on the POSITIVE side of the coil? YES = GOOD! 4. Is there Battery Voltage (+/- 14v) on the NEGATIVE side of the coil? YES = GOOD! NO or Much Less Than Positive Side of Coil = BAD! 5. Voltage Drop Test - Voltmeter still on Negative side of coil. Voltage Drops BELOW 2.0v when the optic is blocked= GOOD! NO Drop = BAD! 6. Voltage RECOVERS to BATTERY VOLTAGE after unblocking the optic? YES = GOOD NO = BAD I failed number 5. When blocking my optic, nothing changed at all. So poof there went the Ignition module. Now the question is why

Copy that fastwoman. I my trouble shooting plan will use extensive use of the voltmeter.

Well I am going to run set of diagnostics on the module today. It is fairly straight forward. I have two other OEM dizzies with a pertronix in them that work fine. But I am almost positive it is the module... I will let you guys know when I start the diagnostics. I plan to hook up a timing light and turn the car over just to see if I get a spark through. Then I will do a voltage trace to see what is getting what voltage. After that if all is normal, I will the ignition module test. One thing I encountered is that there are two ignition modules that say they are direct drop in replacements for my 45 series mechancial advance Mallory. One is 90 bucks one is 45 bucks. They both say they are for replacement of your burnt out factory It is very strange.. One is model 905 one is model 6100M I may need to call Mallory for this.

I was going to visit a friend on a mid 60's degree blue afternoon. And car was running great. At the light where the car had been running perfectly, it just turned off. I mean just stopped cold. Would not crank to save my life. I pushed her off, and noticed I still had 3 psi of fuel pressure and the car cranked well. Oil pressure and temp were spot on. So this leave ONE thing. Electrical. I am betting my bottom dollar the ignition module in my Mallory just up and died for some unforseen and unpredictable reason. That is my first guess and where I will start the investigation. However if you guys can come up with anything else, ANYTHING, let me know. 45 minutes later my baby was home off the flatbed. How humiliating. THe tow truck guy was extremely compassionate about the car and did not harm it thankfully, so kudos to him.

just epic!!! Thanks!

That would be very much apprecaited. By the way spits, I cannot help but be envious at your garage there! Loving that BRZ I bet.

Your just saying that to turn us away so you can buy one! VERY CLEVER, I am watching you ! HAHAHAHA

More importantly, I want to know what TIRES both cars had. The 370z appeared to have some VERY aggressive track rubber, where as the 240Z appeard to have summer street radials. I did not even catch the brand. Tires are everything.