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humm.. I guess its jus cuzz my car is loud and when i drive it up to 3k normally it jus seems like im reving high. Guess i'm more used to driveing quite little four bangers. Thanks guys. I needa get sum electric fans, any recomendations?

ok, i jus filled up today, put in about 12 gallons, according to my guage, it is almost full. which means i have somewhere around a 13-14 gallon tank, which according to 2ManyZs is incorrect and that i have a 16.3 gallon tank, i dunnoe, n e way. i will keep track or my miles per fillup and report bak.

Ok. I'm talkin about normal driving. When you talk about shifting within 3000-5000, are you guys talking about driving it hard or normal driving? when i drive my car hard, i dont shift untill at least 4000rpms or above. when i drive normally. speed limit, normal stop and go, I USED TO shift at about jus under 2000 becuzz i thought it saved more gas that way, and at about a loittle over 2000rpms for hills. but what im getting from you guys is that it is not good on the engine. So now when i drive NORMALY, i shift at about a little over 2000 to 2500rpms. it seems to be driving fine. So im jus wondering now if you guys are talking about PUSHING IT or jus NORMAL DRIVING?

I was normally shifting at about 2000rpms. is that bad? But when i go up hill i shift maybe around 3000 or so. Now im sifting at about 2200-2500 rpms. Ed, when you say at least 5000 Your not talkin about normal driving are you?. Guys. when im talkin no low end power. im not talkin about pushin the car. im talin about normal driving. I have no problems when driving the car hard expept when i shift fast and pop the clutch, it seems to get a lilttle jerky and doesnt quite accelerate for a few seconds.

does anyone know how big the gas tank is? It seems to me as if it is about somwhere around 15 gallons. not sure. but my gas mialage seems pretty bad rite now. i tinks i pumped about 9.5 gallons in when i still had about an 8th of a tank left. i got about 7/8th of the tanks filled. but im now below a half a tank and have only driven about 60 miles. i guess you can say its somewhere around 10miles per gallon. thats not very good. well. next i fill up on a full tank. i'll make sure i reset the trip meter. And i'll let you guys know.

when i say no power i mean its like, even if i floor it, it doesnt pic up any more speed untill it gets to a certain point. I've drivin 4 cylenders(manual) b4 and have never experienced any thing like the way my car perfporms. Or maybe im jus used to drive automatics. I dunnoe guys, even when im goin in 2nd or 3rd gear at about 1800 rpms or so, my rpms would drop even if i floor the pedal ( that is goin up hill). I dunno guys, U tell me. My mpg doesnt seem all that great. i think its under 15 mpg. Not quite sure. Again, i have a 78' fuel injected 280z. no carbs. Well, ima try to replace all my vacume hoses and egr unit soon and then i'll see wat happens. thanks guys for helping me.

i have a stock 78 280z fuel injected.

my car is set at about 800 rpms but most of the time, it usually idels higher than that, sometimes its over 1000rpms, the highest I've seen it idel at is about 1300rpms. its very unpredictable. My car is fuel injected. Its not exactly a power surge and its somewhat predictable. Thanks for helping me out Mudge! Well, Im gonna do a major tune up soon so i'll see what happens after that.

:disappoin Then is there anythin i can do to correct this? I've only had the car about 2 months. So im not sure about any kind of maintanace.

Hi Mudge, I dont know all that much about working on cars, im only 17. Anyway, i was wondering if you can tell me how i would go about checking my timing? thanks!

when i got the car , the low beams were already out, so im not sure. I have alrealy checked the fuses, but maybe i'll check them again, WEll, THANKS!

me again, I was wondering how many miles per gallon on a 78 280z(stock) should i expect, I'm not quite sure about how mpg i am getting but it seems as if im gettin very little mpg? any one know? If there anything i can do to improve my fuel economy? Thanks again!

Hi guys!, Well, I'm new to z cars and i was wondering how do u remove the head lights, i have an 78 280 and the low beams are out. i tried to remove them but i dont now how to. I dont want to damage anything. Thanks!

:disappoin I have a stock 78 280. when i drive the car, it feels arse if i dont have much low end power. It seems like the powerband doesnt really kik in until about above 1500rpms, and its even worst when tryin to pull up hill. if im in any other gear besides 1st, i have to be at least at 2000rpms or higher (depending on the steepness of the hill) to get up with out my rpms droping. Is this normal? Is there anything i can do to fix it? Thanks guys!

Well, Thanks a lot guys. Lookin' at the picture again. i kinda think ur rite Alfadog. they do look a lil big for the car. I'll look around till i find some better ones. Thanks for the link 26ounce!

Hey u guys, check out these mirrors! i was wondering where i can get these and how are they mounted? Check out the picture attched!

Hey guys! I have a 78 280z and i dunt really like how the bumpers look. I was wondern" if it was posible to put 240 bumpers or maybe the early 260 bumper on my 280? Thanks!

i was wondern' if the 240 bumpers would fit onto my 78 280? if not is there anything i can do to make it fit? or would early 260 bumpers fit?