Zedyone_kenobi

I could seriously look at your car all day! Just lovely!

7 more days I am going to be worthless this week at work

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdamico/8003468680/in/set-72157605246065883/?likes_hd=1 Not sure I ever posted a video of her running yet... so here goes... sorry for the TERRIBLE film quality and 'acting'

I have to agree with this. Car covers are only good for storage for short periods. You cannot put a car cover over a dusty car or it will be scratched. You can really only use them after they have been washed and are perfectly clean. Putting a car cover over a dirty car means now the car cover will have dirt inside it and it must be washed. I have a car cover and only use it when I know I will not be driving the car for a short while. But I have to clean the car first before I let it touch the cover.

Just a note no fuel pressure, I have found the holy grail of fuel pumps for high volume good preset pressure and dead quiet. THe RX7 pump was great, but I was only getting 2 psi out of it at anytime. I was having issues in 3rd and 4th gear as my air fuel ratios were raising under sustained load. Not sure if it was the pump or not, but I upgraded to this little jewel. It is a Mallory 4070LP electric fuel pump. It is preset to put out between 3 and 4 psi without the need for regulation. I fired mine up and sure enough, I could not even barely hear it. I leaned over to the engine and it was dead on 3 psi. This pump has a bypass screen that allows you to up the pressure further if you need to. But I think I will be just dandy at 3 psia. It was the last thing I wanted to do before my rally. I am bringing the RX7 pump as a back up. I think I am currently running 130 mains in my L28. I still need to do some data logging. Or get a reliable copilot to pay attention while I drive. The roads around here are not conducive to high rpm 3rd and 4th gear runs.

Would it be possible for our cars to look any more alike. I think your car looks spectacular.....stunning even! Love the rims.

I think this thread is so full of great advice not even sure who I should thank first. But the joy of going to car shows for me is getting to talk to others 'who have not seen one of these things in forever' And the fact that I was almost losing my voice at the end of the day talking to people and thanking them for their complements was just the best way to spend a sunny Saturday Afternoon. The most memorable part about the whole Car Show for me? When a 16 year old kid came up to me and started a conversation with me..."hey, do you know where Datsun started? It started when the Son of Mr. Nissan wanted to start a car company so he could build the Z, and his dad made Datsun for him..." I looked at him and smiled and this was my reply, "It is great you are so into automotive history, keep it up!!! But I maaaaaaay have heard a slightly different version of that story.."LOL

molto bello Just enjoying all this Weber talk. I am going to replace my RX7 fuel pump with a new mr Gasket pump. I am still seeking to run about 3.5 psi. Did Keith Frank mention what fuel pressure you guys should be running.. it would be interesting to know what he thinks.

You guys are absolutely right. I was having the best day talking Z cars for hours and I should focus on that next time. Gosh I hate trailer queen VW bugs. It could have been worse. There was such a nice little guy who painstakingly restored his grandmas late 70's Ford Granada four door fown to the chassis Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder

I entered my Z in another big local car show with 300+ cars. And like most TEXAS car shows, it had over 40 categories with which to enter However, for imports you have to settle one of two categories. Old import or New import. Then they are 38+ categories for AMerican cars. Every possible combination of American car has its own class. 1967-1968 Custom Camaro non race car. 1967-1968 camaro original restomod. ETC it goes on and on. I do not know how these judges quantify the ratings. I have finished 2nd in old import 3 times. I have lost all three times to a 60's VW beetle that has been built from the ground up as a show car. Now I knew once I arrived I was going to lose to this VW. It had perfect paint, perfect seats, you get the picture. However, the amount of traffic between my Z and the VW was 50:1 in my favor. Yes this sounds like sour grapes, and honestly it is. I am whining a bit here!!! Getting beat by a car that the vast majority of people never stopped to look at is heart wrenching... Now having said that... let me vent a bit. I have a buddy that has completely rebuilt his 1986 944 turbo. I mean completely, every part straight from Germany. Has 40k original miles and you could eat off the undercarriage. He was in NEW import of course. As that was the only class available for him. Last year he lost to 2011 M6 with dealer plates. Today he came in second to a brand new FRS. How is it that a car that is 26 years old that has been painstakingly restored to near perfection gets beat by a new car that just pulled up and popped the hood? It would mean that all they look for is cleanliness, and NOTHING else. Hardly fair. The level of work to prepare that 944 was exponentially greater than just buying an new car and running a duster over it. THe solution is to have more classes so that a 26 year old car does not have to compete against a brand new car that is completely stock with 35 miles on it. Besides 'quit whining' Any advice?

26th, the thing you described is NASCAR, which I loath. Spec racing is what we all need to get away from. Multiple manufacturers with different chassis different engines, all striving to out do each, all built within the same set of rules. I have nothing directly against the delta wing, but if it wants to run with the other cars in the series, then it needs to comply with the rules laid out for all the other cars running. To race out side of the rules does not really prove anything. IF the delta wing wants a spec series, then they should have one. But the main purpose of racing is to drive innovation and improve the product. Spec racing to me is the antithesis of racing. Porsche improves the 911 every year and puts each model through hell in race after race. They learn and they improve. I respect them greatly for that. Subaru improved the Impreza WRX STI every year it was in rally and what they learned made it to the street cars (to an extent). I am a huge subaru fan. Thinking out side of the box is great. But only if it leads to real innovation. Thinking outside of the box just to be different for the sake of being different is not really productive.

towing her. I am bringing a bunch of spares with me, including an entire set of VTO rims and new tires. No way I do not finish this rally!!!! This is what I am bringing Timing light my entire assortment of Weber Jets and tools My valve lash adjustment go/no go feeler gauges An extra distributor, and an extra pertronix for that distributor. 2 sets of spark plugs An extra belt An extra radiator hose Octane booster in case I cannot get 93 octane gas complete set of metric wrenches and standard wrenches needed for my AN fittings complete set of screwdrivers complete set of sockets wire ties duct tape extra wire slave cylinder DOT4 brake fluid 4 VTO LeMans wheels/tires all my personal clothing and supplies video camera, DSLR and go pro Lap top phone charger and computer charger extra fuel pump and the list goes on and on. So yeah, I am bringing the truck for one last run. THen I will sell the truck and get back into a fun car, but that is a thread for elsewhere.

How about these blasts from the not to distant past.. This is one of my favorites.. an original 1974 Datsun car brochure. Has a nice two page spread of the 74 260Z It is amazing what my previous owner kept, but looking through the history of a car is just so much fun. Also the level of support for the cars that Datsun provided was amazing. I mean full on race parts from the dealer. The closest thing I can compare it to is Ford Racing parts department. Just amazing.

it is a 4 wheeled car, but with the front two tires so close together, it has more drawbacks of a trike then advantages of a 4 wheel car. I am sure they did their homework, but this thing is just to darned fragile and slightly unstable. Incidental contact should not send you flying. It was not like he was T-boned. That kind of rubbing happens every week in the continental tire challenge. At least everybody is okay. Maybe they learned something from all of that.

That was simply epic. I sense many a go pro was used in the making of that video...

tomohawk, with the mallory, the number 6 plug wire is about 2 inches further away from where it should be. So all the Taylor premade stuff will not fit any more. The OEM NGK are plently long and do fit quite well, but I wanted non resistor type wires for the uber low resistance. It probably does not make bit of difference performance wise on my mild 2.8. But I figure you can never have too healthy an ignition system.

Thanks for injecting some logic into my completely illogical rant blue Ninja, I did not like the color if I recall. It is a bit, no not a bit, it is extremely ridiculous. But all this took place over 3 years so it the spark plug wire fiasco was not nearly as crazy as it sounds... It was fun writing it up as such though

Meh, I know what I want... If that makes me crazy so be it. But, If performance is most important then you will want the THUNDERVOLT wires...they are very nice.. I will shoot you a PM.

I wanted to talk about spark plug wires for a while. I had a set of Taylor wires on my car forever. They worked fine, but since then I have been through the gambit of wires and long story short, I have 5 sets I need to be rid of. How does one come across 5 sets of spark plug wires...humm... How do I tell this story without sounding like a tool. Well guess I just better come out with it. My car started with blue taylor spiro pro wires. They worked great on the OEM dizzy. BUT I did not like the blue. So fast forward later I bought a set of OEM replacements thinking they would be black like in so many pictures I had seen. Well the NGK's wires that came in were not black, they were a nice blue. This is not what I wanted. But they were nice looking. I measured the resistance through each of the wires. Blue Taylor Spiro Pro cylinder #6 = 890 ohms NGK OEM wires #6 = 6800 ohms Well needless to say I wanted to run the Blue Taylor Plugs. However, I wanted RED wires at the time. So I ordered a set of RED Taylor Spiro Pro wires and ran those for a while. Red Taylor Spiro Pro cylinder #6 = 810 ohms I then later decided I really wanted to get the black wires I had originally wanted in the first place, so I splurged and got the THUNDERBOLT 8.2mm wires. I put these on and immediately did not like them. At this point I considered checking into an 12 step program, I put the red Taylor wires back on. But for reference I checked the resistance on the THUNDERBOLTS to see if the extra cost is worth it. Black Taylor Thunderbolt 8.2 mm cylinder #6 wire = 119 ohms (this is crazy good!!) So I was running the Red Wires, and these worked great up until I got my new L28 built and installed my Mallory Distributor. Well with the oil pump shaft clocked at 11:35 at TDC like it is suppose to be I dropped in the dizzy. It does not exactly point to number 1 like an OEM distributor does. Mallory is aware of this and they said that is just the way it is designed. Since I am not going to drop the oil pump and turn the shaft, I figured I would deal with it. I am pointing to number one position on the Mallory cap here...notice it is off by about two places to far clockwise. When attaching the Red Taylor Spiro Pro wires, the number 6 cylinder would not fit properly in the OEM valve cover wire mounts and is stretched TIGHT over the valve cover. Not what you really want. So I compared lengths and it seemed like number 5 was longer in the Taylor kits and I figured another set of Taylor Spiro Pro red wires would give me another number 5 wire that I could use for my number 6 cylinder. So I ordered ANOTHER red set of Taylor Spiro Pro and long story short (no pun intended) the number 5 in this kit was not long enough!!! :stupid: Great quality control Taylor now things were getting serious. I had about had it. So I quickly threw open my laptop and quickly ordered one of those custom sets of spark plug wires that you cut and terminate yourself! THIS would solve my problem...But here is the lesson in this story. Never Order angry or in a hurry. In my haste, I did not notice I ordered RESISTOR style wires. This was a Taylor Spiro Pro Resistor style wire. Taylor Spiro Pro Resistor Style Wire Universal kit #6 cylinder = 7700 ohms (this is particularly interesting as the OEM NGK's were BETTER) So what is a guy to do who wants RED, high quality, low resistance, wires that fit in the OEM locations? Simple he orders ANOTHER set of wires! LOLLOL This time I went with the MSD Super wires that are customizable to whatever length you want. They are rated at 50ohms/ft, and most importantly, (I cannot stress this enough) they are red. So long story short, sometimes quality wires are not as good as OEM, and other times, they are in fact worth every single penny. So, anybody want to buy some barely out of the box spark plug wires.... Top is the RED Taylor Spiro Pro Second from tip is the THUNDERBOLT wires Third from the top are the blue Taylor Spiro Pro wires On the bottom are the custom Resistor style custom Taylor Spiro Pro wires I am currently running the OEM wires on the Z (as seen in the top pic) until my new ultra low resistance wires come in Yes I am crazy...No I am not proud of it. :paranoid:

It would seem the deltawing has some serious issues with even the slightest incidental contact. That could be a problem in a race. Yes that was the Porsches fault, clearly. But that should not cause a car to go Topsy Turvy like that. The shape of the car is not really an asset in this case. time will tell... but things like this are not good for publicity.

I actually did that rare earth magnet trick on my car. The problem is the covers are not perfectly shaped to the scoops. The are close, and I can get two magnets to attach to the scoop with no issues, but getting the third one is a bit difficult without it pulling off. I am using one magnet about 9mm in diameter on each tab that was epoxied together. I had issues with the epoxy holding. You really need to scuff up the surfaces. I have never driven with the covers as I am not totally sold on the ability of the magnets to hold on to them. I may try again, as I will be trailering my car to a rally soon and I want to protect my headlights.

I got a set of those as well. They were way too lean at steady cruise

25 days and counting Tasks left are to assemble spares parts list, travel tools needed. Perform one last valve lash check and carb sync. Reservations are confirmed and the clock is ticking

Thanks Leon~!

Very interesting thread for sure! I am very tempted to try the hypojets, but the cost is so scary. Seems Keith still uses the weber idle jet for the most part. I have had great luck with the 55F9 idle jet. But my mileage is not stellar. But here is the kicker. I pulled my plugs after a long drive on the free way and I am running a beautiful shade of light brown. I mean spot on perfect. It would seem his fancy etube is something to strongly consider. Just the price of entry is daunting especially since I probably have 300 dollars in jets as is.