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Get rid of the points distributor, ZX E12-80 electronic ignition was good for me. Choke lever holder mounted to the tunnel instead of the console makes a much firmer movement of the the choke. Clean and seal the fuel tank, replace all the hoses too.

HaHa! That's out on my kitchen's balcony/deck. I live upstairs and bought the nicest and biggest leather couch I could afford. Didn't measure beforehand though and had no way of getting it upstairs so I built a small deck and put a door where a window was. Me and some guys from work lifted it up from a truck onto the deck then brought it in the kitchen, over the bar top into the living room. Lots of work but I have a nice couch and a 12'x8' deck. Here's my dumba$$ building skills. Had to cut the scaffold jack to get it out. EDIT: I sat my new couch downstairs with two Zs for a month while I built the deck. Had some friends over to watch a ballgame in my garage. They got a kick out of my SNAFU but who's laughing now?

I keep everything! It just needs to be cleaned usually. Need more storage space though, it's getting hard to find stuff. Maybe more brain storage would be better?

Are you sure it's not PPG? Pittsburgh Paint & Glass? They're a great company.

Which balance tube are you using? I want to simplify mine, like yours. What are those 2 nipples behind the front carb for? Vacuum advance and what else??? EDIT: Okay, I see now on ztherapy.com, it's the Euro tube. I think I figured out those nipples, I'm guessing they are '70 carbs. 2nd EDIT: They're on the intake, not the carb. I woke up too early. I have the E88 intakes, they're not on them. Yours, maybe E34?

HaHa! I'm interested in your new coil set up, so if it works out good you'll be pestered to death by me.

240s are different. Sending unit is right above half tank weld, facing the front of the car on the passengers side. It's a bee itch compared to the 280s drop in unit.

I'd like to hear the story on that one.

This works good too.

If it's haze you could make it better by polishing. There's a youtube video that I liked and will do sometime soon. My red 240 has some kind of laminate separation that looks like a Greatful Dead T-shirt.

Blue and his pictures strike again! I've done tons of stuff after looking at his pics. LaBatts!

I'm starting to like work, it gives me a good excuse to ...?

On this chart, go ahead and put mine at the bottom. I'm hoping for turtle vs hare finish. Slow but steady, my life. "Ahh ruppee duppee do"

Neat read on that Pace Car. Thanks!

But he'll get you a deal on a hotel room. :: :: :: ::

Get the Wick Humble "How to Restore" and Tom Monroe's "How to Rebuild". Use this forum. Everything else is wasted money.

There's two not far from me, Hokes Bluff Auto Parts. They're online with the salvage parts lookup program. http://www.car-part.com/ '83 and an '84. $100 and $125. Call them and see if you're interested, I'll go and take pictures then get it and mail it to you. Maybe we'll get both for a deal? I'm sure they've been sitting for years, money talks out there.

I'm jealous. My machine work is taking too long. He's been in business a long time and I'm new, so I wait, patiently.

Congratulations on your purchase. Can't go wrong with orange.

Okay, the turbo dished pistons have the "5" stamped in them. P79s have a couple of different numbers on them. I've read that was a way of internal balancing for the ZXs, pistons close to each other in weight are stamped the same. I don't know that to be a fact though. Those dots on your main caps aren't on any of mine. Could that be a way of numbering them from a mechanic?

Hello and pictures please, love to see other's Zs.

I'm happy with some touch-up paint I bought from Jeff's Paint at amazon.com. Small amount for scratches blended in very good after I had the original paint wheeled out to a new shine. I called him though, he sent me #918. His listings didn't show '72 240Z.

Upgrade to the ZX E12-80 electronic distributor, I bought mine for a '79 ZX from amazon.com for $100, made a difference to me. The light relays are on my list too. Choke lever bracket from Art Singer on e-bay, he's on this forum too, was a nice improvement for mine. Euro bumpers from futofab.com are really nice looking, no bumperettes and shiny for less than rechroming the OEs. I bought new tail lights from them also, really made the car look good. That's a little over a $1,000 of your budget.

My dumba** tried lifting mine up with a piece of wire through the fill hole, DO NOT be as stupid as me, I thought I was gonna have to drop the tank to get it back out. I had just finished with everything and sealed the nail head connections with liquid electrical tape that I didn't want to redo. The wire got stuck where the rubber meets the tank, still can't figure that out but it did.

Maybe I'll add on to my garage instead of selling one of the 240s. The prices have gone crazy in the last couple of years and I know where some more are down here. 401K, nah. 240Z4Ks.