Zedyone_kenobi

Okay, upon review, I really like the UPTOWN PARK area recommended by wbsupernatural. I like this for several reasons: 1) It is located centrally and is not to far for those of us to the north, south and west. 2) It is right off the 610, which is easy to find and get in and out 3) Coffee and Cars is held there the first Saturday of every month, so it is a known car friendly place with food and drink near by. Our meet can coincide with Coffee and Cars or it can be another day. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1151+Uptown+Park+Houston,+TX+77056&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=1151+Uptown+Park+Blvd,+Houston,+TX+77056&gl=us&ei=z1VDS72sIoemnQf5l9DyCA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA I hope this link works. We just need to agree on a time to meet.

Okay, its the end of holidays, and I think its time we all planned for a casual meet and greet. I am going to try to settle on a place in the next couple of days that is car friendly, good food at a reasonable price, where we can sit and talk and blab on and on about our Z obsession. Again, if you have an idea, keep them coming. Some good ones have already been listed.

Just to update guys, I looked under my dash at the DEF cable attach point. I think I found the culprit. When I reran my new choke cables, I got them in right in the way of the retract for the DEF cable. When I pulled back I must have dislodged something in the instrument panel. The cable slides smoothly and the door opens very easily. So I think the center console coming out will show me that I have a broken or dislodged cable. Great detective work. Thanks for the pics and the help folks. It staggering what you can learn here!

Will do, thanks ! This is going to be back breaking project me thinks.

Those pics are Great, I downloaded the 72 FSM but do not have the chassis supplemental you mentioned. Looks like the AIR and DEF are on the left (drivers side), and the TEMP is on the right (pass side) close to the TEMP VALVE where the heater line comes in from the engine. Seems the AIR cable is on the top in that second picture, and the DEF cable is on the bottom. Both look like I should be able to get to them. I think the DEF cable is the one I need to focus on. Those are a great help and that blow up of the ducting is INCREDIBLY helpful. EDIT, just upon closer inspection, it would appear that the AIR lever in the dash actuates two different cables. One selects Heat or Vent locations for the central flapper, the other selects fresh or recirc air. Did I get this right. I am trying to make sense of the drawings. I am thinking the VENT selection gives you outside air, and the off selection gives you recirc.

It actually does. I think you may be right. My dash venting has not been messed with since the car was new, so I think what you said must be true...I will start to investigate when I get my new parts in.

sounds like my cars brother separated at birth! They were made pretty close to one another

Thats the thing.. I cannot move my slider to ROOM on the Def. The slider moves smooth like butter and binds on one end. So the cable is no longer functional, it is stuck on DEF and cannot go to ROOM. So in order to get heat though the vents, I need to have all the sliders to the right, just like the FSM says. Which means my suspect broken cable on the DEF is the answer to my problem

After finishing up my carb work I took her out for a drive and low and behold my next project surfaced. My car has previously been spot on with heater controls and A/C function. But now, I seem to have this strange problem on my 71 240Z with dealer installed AC (AC is irrelevant I think, but just to be sure I included it) AIR Off--------Vent--------Heat ------------------------ TEMP Off---------------------Heat ------------------------ DEF Def---------------------Room As denoted by the location of the smilies, in this config, with the car fully warmed up, I get very warm air blowing through the defrost vents near the windshield. All is well. However, when I slide the smiley over to VENT as so: AIR Off--------Vent--------Heat ------------ TEMP Off---------------------Heat ------------------------ DEF Def---------------------Room I get very cool air through the dash vents. You will note the DEF location is unchanged as I think sometime between now and last year, my DEF cable when south, so I have to assume since the defroster works like gangbusters that its stuck in the Def mode. To see if the temp cable was working, I put it in this config: AIR Off--------Vent--------Heat ------------------------ TEMP Off---------------------Heat DEF Def---------------------Room And the air coming out of the defroster gradually cooled down, which I think is normal. My question is why cant I get heat out of the vents? I ordered a new set of cables and a new TEMP valve from MSA already so I have everything I need, although I am sure I will not need all of it. I am anxious for any answers. ZED

I plan on just finishing up the small niggles that remain. I will install my replacement power antenna, refurb my rear brakes and just do general maintenance. I plan to do far more driving this year than in 2009. Lots of long term projects kept me off the road last year. I want to get in at least 3-4 autocrosses and see how bad the miatas beat me in ES.

Welcome to another fellow texan transplant. Where is Coppell texas. I guess I could google it, but I am feeling really lazy.

keep the faith buddy and take notes on everything. Welcome to the club! You will find many hurdles in your future, but take it slow and think twice fix once. Kudos to the killer screen name by the way

UPDATE: I cannot express how wonderful my new carbs work. I received the carb with the bent float bowl outlet back yesterday in wonderful shape. I was able to bolt it back together and get it tuned in less than 45 minutes. It was that easy. I find the fuel mixture to be about spot on at 2.5 turns out. What can I say about how these things run. My idle is rock solid at 750 rpm, and will actually idle down to 500 rpm quite easily. The throttle response and smoothness of the throttle is amazing. I had the sticky 240Z throttle that so many of us have with my old carbs, that is gone with my ZT carbs. Its such a joy to be able to glide away from lights as if it were a fuel injected car. Performance. In a word, awesome. My stumble I use to have at around 5500 rpm was not my timing or my dizzy. It was in fact my old carbs. I was able to rev to 6700 in second with absolutely NO issues at all. Smooth as melted butter in a quart of Amsoil in a rolls royce driven by angels. Starting is so much easier with a functional choke cable and the way the car performs very well. No matter what your SU issues are, ZT is your solution. They have been a joy to do business with, and words like integrity and service which are so missed these days seem to be a hallmark of Bruce and Steve. I always thought my Z was tuned pretty well, now it is as close to a new car feeling as it has ever been. I am stoked! Here is my baby finally back after enjoying some spirited driving today... BEFORE: AFTER: I still need to get a hose from my valve cover to the air cleaner housing and run a vent tube from the front carb float bowl to the air cleaner housing. Summary. Installed polished manifold and ZT SU's Refurbed my old air cleaner Installed flamethrower pertronix coil Installed new thermostat Refurbed fuel line Refurbed Thermostat Housing Refurbed heat shield New braided OEM braided line from balance tube to crankcase

Very nice documentary. I will be following this closely. I plan on refreshing all of this stuff when I finish my carbs and after I drive her for a while.

FANTASTIC response guys! Okay, update: wbsupernatural: Heights Area Frank in the Woodlands: um.. Woodlands Area Zedyone_kenobi: Very close to Kemah WingZr0: undetermined srbigbutt: Spring Jack T: Tomball Area Zcurves: Spring Mlaw7: Memorial old hemi: 249 and Louetta This is awesome! Can you guys PM your phone numbers? I will put call list together and send it back out with names, phone numbers, location, etc. Looking forward to meeting ALL of you! I would love to show off my new Carbs!

Just a note, can everybody put where in Houston? I know Frank is in the Woodlands.. So lets see wbsupernatural: Heights Area Frank in the Woodlands: um.. Woodlands Area Zedyone_kenobi: Very close to Kemah WingZr0: undetermined srbigbutt: Undetermined Jack T: Tomball Area I am trying to get a place that is easy to find and not 70 miles for people to drive. One Idea I had was to meet on the first sunday of the month at Gulf Greyhound Park. Now this idea has pros and cons. Pros, huge parking lot to sit and talk, autocross will be going on that we can either participate in or just watch and heckle Cons, VERY far for frank and others, not really fair to ask them to drive that far, we would have to eat before or after we meet, as its just a big parking lot, but there is food around it. I think something close to the freeway may be better, any suggestions. I know some of you are part of the Houston Z club, and they are a great organization, but this is something FAR more casual. I just want to meet you guys! Talk compare war stories, and share knowledge. I do not want officers, dues, I do not want to ask for volunteers, or help. I just want to get to know guys around me with similar interests. If you guys can think of someplace to meet, I think we should try after the holidays. I know one more guy who can come who has a 260Z, Kirk I am talking to you!!

IF you do not give me a call I will be hurt buddy. What brings you down? work, time for a change, you just like hurricanes?

Great!! when the holidays settle down, we should meet up for lunch on a weekend sometime.

Saw this thread was resurrected. I wanted to let others know that he did my dads Tundra and it was spectacular. I have never had any regrets on the quality of the job he did. I think the car had years of grime taken off and still looks and feels smooth. As for him answering questions, I would go to his website and ask him, he does not frequent our boards often.

While I am waiting for my new choke cable to show up, and my rear carb to come back from ZT, I decided to take a shot at fixing my old choke cable. Holding the wire with vice grips set on gorilla tight, I tried to move the cable. No dice. I am going to try to spray some liquid wrench in there to wiggle things out. ON a happy note, I swapped out my old coil with a shiny new chrome Pertronix flamethrower!

I have been reading these boards for a while now, and noticed several of our members are located in or near Houston Texas. I would like us to get together or at least get a call list so we can ask questions, lend a hand, etc. Can we get a shout out of local classic Z guys.

I am actually toying with some some very minor vinyl on my daily driver mazdaspeed3. Glossy black roof, and red mirrors. I will let you know how it turns out. Also, I as luck would have it, a car vinyl wrap company opened up 4 minutes from my house! good times!

UPDATE: I know I have more updates than bad microsoft software, but in case people are interested. I contacted Steve at ZT and he was more than happy to take care of my problem. I will be sending the carb back to him to have him install a new bowl and then it will make its way back. Merry Christmas to ZT and great customer service.

Not yet, I did not want to bug him during the weekend. I will call later today. He was a pleasure to talk to with the fuel lines.

UPDATE: Ztherapy was amazingly fast in getting my new fuel lines back to me. Great service. IF you recall, I had a leak on the bottom of the fuel bowls on both carbs. Or so I thought. I installed the first line no problem and sure enough the line was slit letting fuel just pour out. When I went to install the second line, I noticed the fuel nipple coming out of the bottom of the bowl was bent 30 degrees to one side. The fuel line was fine, but the boss was cracked right where the brass nipple goes into the bowl. I have NO idea what I am going to do now. This was obviously handled VERY poorly by the shipping company. Looks like it may have been dropped directly on that nipple. I imagine that these are pressed in. I am thinking I may have to pull the carb off and send it back to ZT. Bad setback.