Quinn'Z

sounds like a lot of fun, great looking car btw!

congrats bro, very nice find. I've had good luck with Blackdragon.com for parts, most shipping is free even to me in Hawaii. you're gonna love filling up and every time you stop, people love the way these look, even mine which looks awful! you bought a car with a soul, good job!

Beautiful Z.

thank you for the help!

i assumed it was stock, it doesnt look clean enough to be a regrind or very new but i did sit for some time. i cant seem to get her to run good for more than a few days at a time. i set the points, clean the plugs, adjust the carbs, several times now and it slowlly goes back to running poorly by the end of a week. plugs are not fouling but they still look a bit rich. i do spend half the day at sea level and half at 3000 feet. im tuned at 3000 ft cause thats my house. assuming im running rich while on the coast.

just curious about what im working with. the engine work was pre-me, wondering if its necessary for premium fuel, the previous owners mechanic said it was a big cam, and while it sounds mean with the header and big exhaust but i dont feel it. also, ive noticed a bunch of you using 20w50 oil, is there a reason why so heavy a weight? im in hawaii so i dont have to worry about starting under 60 degress:) but i dont want to ruin my engine with overly thick oil.

found a super clean spark plug, replaced bad wires, again found super clean plug. checked spark...good. took off v cover...bad. spring looks fine, valve dosnt appear to be stuck open. never seen this before. explains why i couldnt get my rear carb to tune and why z car didnt like to climb hills...at all. rocker doesnt seem to be badly marred, adjusted all my valves which seemed to be to tight, even cold.

ok, thanks guys. ill try them tomorrow, and look for a good used one. i found a distributor cap and wires finally but im pretty sure i have the last. ive gotten a few parts delivered from black dragon, free shipping so far on suspension stuff. its just there are no extra parts cars here and really no parts on island so my frustratoin level is kinda high, im used to mainland, and im used to having the parts local, new and used. there are only 5 here that i know of, total, and nobody wants to part with "parts". pretty sure i need the whole harness, while everything works now in the back (except fuel gauge) i keep blowing brake light fuses when wired into combo switch, which is new. this car is mostly new parts, fuel tank and harness is all i can see that could continue to give me headaches, knock on wood, everything else is new. that and calipers. and weather stripping. and...

so, i had the z up for sale, mostly cause i cant even find a dist cap on the islands, but then, i started driving this white refridgerato on wheel commomly known as a villager and i decided it was time to appreciate my z again. so, my wiring is jacked! splices everywhere, nothing works, fuses blow, hazard switch broke into 7 million peices, head lights keep finding new reasons to dim. i need a new harness...i guess. all the links i found are not supported anymore. please forgive me if i dont navigate forums well, im used to having a more local support group. thanks for any help. i promise i wont sell her!

mine came on by itself last week, i was so shocked and happy but as i went to turn it off (shutting the door didn't help) my finger went straight through the plastic and the bulb and everything fell on to my shoulder. i just lightly pushed on it, pieces!

im not going near that for a while, nice job though, looks like you just bought it.

i did, as if anyone really cares, a lot. timing was at 40degrees, adjusted my SUs after dismantling them to find the valves stuck (one open one closed), plugs, adjusted my points which were closed ( not sure how it was running at all, alternator swap to 79 280zx finally complete, fixed left head light now just as brightly dim as the drivers side, my passenger side door now closes AND locks, fixed leak at thermostat to head installed new thermostat where there was none and ran new heater hose (or should i say around the back of the motor hose and slimed one tire in hopes that ill only have to fill three tires every few days instead of four. tomorrow ill do less i think and may have to go beach so i stop dreaming about all the things i have left to do to this datsun. thanks for your support...

so, the MotoManmike saved me from aternator peril, on the 79 280zx alternator the L and the S terminals are swapped thus producing no alt output/atlernator death or a battery drain of arround 9 volts in my particular case. thanks so much so checking on that diagram and helping me out bro. i was swconds away from zapping another alternator and spending another month scratching my head and feeling like a rAtard.

thanks mike, where did you post the special help quinn post?

Carquest alternator, no out put.

I hope. Maybe they'll use the same components from our z's and there will be parts and wiring harnesses and windshield wipers and... I'm awake now. Wasn't there's place in Cali a few years bank that was restoring s30's and seeking them for like 30k$? Winner if they have any parts left over. Whoa, dreaming again.

Anything available for a s30 stock L series, basically need an entires wiring harness. Somebody has chopped mine to pieces.

I would totally be in in this if it worked on my 73.

"related were all getting hot as was the charge back"A" whore and red wire." You may have guessed, whore= white. Imma mess. Freud made my phone.

I'm seriously about to burn down my Datsun. But first i'm going to take me Carquest alt to Napa to check and my Napa battery to Carquest and it either one if them are bad I'll burn them down instead. first off, no worries guys, if I were you id think I was a dumbAss too. How hard can 4 wires be? The first week was Napa's faulty alternator. Now I am just stumped. I've basically straight wired everything from scratch and my voltmeter barely moves off 12.5ish. Its an analog meter. The two yellow wires and all related were all getting hot as was the charge back"A" whore and red wire. With a new switch source to L ,and a straight to pos S, factory (checked) ground at E, and factory red/white at A with continuous 12 volts, I was getting 12 volts at the battery post and this never changed but I was getting 15-16 volts when I rev the engine at the R/W wire under the passenger dash, which also was very hot, and next too a all white wire that was also very hot of the same gauge. So. Now I have run a wire from the A terminal straight to the battery positive post and run a straight ground from E to the inner fender and i'm only getting 12.5 at idle and maybe 12.8 revving up at the battery or the alt A post. No wires get hot now but nothing is happening. So. I'm all for you guys coming the island with a book, a diagram, or a miracle, or better yet some gasoline to help me burn it down. I still have to drive into town to use the internet. A tire gas gone flat. I'm leaking coolant from my thermostat to housing gasket. My gauges don't work, just Speedo and ammeter. I'm going to go drink until I can forget what I've done so I can start over again Tuesday. Sorry for the book post.

Ok, I started over. I bought a Reman alt, internally regulated, I ran a hot key on only wire to the S terminal, with a Diode (stripe on the alt side). The two yellow wires are jumped to the white wire at the old regulator plug and has power all of the time. The ground wire that went to the regulator is grounded to the fire wall. When started the ammeter moves to positive charge but as you rev up a Lil bit it pegs and the yellow wire gets smoking hot. Turning the car off again, when I unplug the yellow wire jumper I hear a relay under the passenger side dash click and my battery drain goes away. I don't know where to go from here.

My ammeter was puttering with the Napa 17 volt alt. Now nothing. I believe I used the thread you suggested,#3, I was getting change voltage on Napa alt, again, over charging at 17 volts. Fml. Batt dying on phone. I be been trying to read all the schematics on my phone searching and searching. Thanks for your patience. I'll try and be more specific in my next post. Thanks again

No Autozone for 3000 miles.

Thank you so much. Gonna go and try it out. Getting internet Friday so my responses shouldn't be so spread out. Just started my new job too and life us a little tough, can't tell you how much I appreciate your help.