Racer X

I’m not too picky. Negra Modelo. Asahi. Tsing Tao. Stella Artois. Heineken. Magic Hat. Shocktop. Any of those might do.

If it was something better than Bud, it might get me interested . . . . . . .

One of the guys at work came in with a Hello Kitty band aid.

Very nice looking underside. Will you be undercoating it?

Thanks for the perspective and encouraging comments. Mrs. Racer and I were long haulers this past 4 or 5 days. We took the oldest grandson's car to him in Fort Bragg, NC. Left Arlington, WA around 11 am last Friday. Arrived at Fayetteville at around 5 pm local time. 3,000 miles. 45 hours and change. Flew home yesterday. Bombardier something, about a third less wide as a city bus, 6 rows of first class, one by one, then two by two, no legroom. And no headroom. Made my knees hurt. But all seats were leather. Nice. From Fayetteville to Dallas/Fort Worth. A burger and a beer at Dallas, then a Boeng 737-8 to SeaTac. Fairly new, low hours. Wider than the Bombardier, but 2x2 first class and 3x3 coach. Still cramped, and made my knees hurt. And leather seats there too. Both flights they gave everyone a bottle of water, a moist towlette (70% alcohol!), pretzels for some, a double [str]cookie[/str] biscuit. Both flights were very smooth, nearly turbulence free. Saw a what I think was Talladega. Pretty cool. I took this picture in turn 4 at 155. Jeffery Earnhardt was driving, a late model Camaro pace car. [url=https://flic.kr/p/iTcxJU][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/3825/11737459356_e2c83a28cc_o.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/iTcxJU]Talladega Banking At 155mph[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/racers_albums/]Racer[/url], on Flickr All in all it was a nice trip, driving nearly straight through (we both crapped out around midnight Saturday and slept a couple hours in an Illinois rest area. I got to take my babe to all the cool places I found to eat when I drove trucks, and grabbed a nice shower at the Oak Grove 70 Petro in Missouri, (Mrs. Racer was impressed) and saw America, in just under two days by car, and 5 or 6 hours by air. Mostly chilling today, then back to The Big Shed tomorrow.

Thanks, I do that, if I can. I've had cocortosteroid shots in my feet. Heels, between the toes, in the toe joints. He sicks a long needle in from the inside about 5mm up from the fat pad, all the way in, until it is almost sticking out the other side, squirts a bit in, backs up a bit, changes angle slightly then shoves it in a bit, squirts some in, then repeats until he is out. For rhe toes it all goes in from the top, the joints, and in between. The first time the podiatrist said, "This is gonna smart a bit." I was looking away. At first. Kinda hard to not look when you have to focus on keeping your leg and foot very still. Every time after that I told him not to bother apologizing or pretending that it wasn't painful. When you look up painful in the dictionary there is a picture of him with his stainless steel and pyrex reusable syringe with a 4" needle. I really dislike getting injected. I have however, donated over 3 gallons of blood at my local blood bank. I always looked away, usually reading a magazine. The orange or apple juice and a cookie made it all better. Plus you kinda get a buzz when you're a pint low.

I still haven't been notified if I can have one yet, and when I checked a few weeks ago the online checker said I wasn't eligible yet. So here is where I am. Or where I am not, I dunno . . . . . . I have never gotten flu shots. I never get the flu. I dislike needles, always have, and probably always will. In spite of my feelings about needles, after having my hip replaced I had to give myself Lovenox, to prevent blood clots during the healing of the prosthesis. Six weeks, once each day. The needle was the same size as those used by diabetics, and I had to do it myself. Yuk. Mrs. Racer is older than me, and she got the two step shot, Moderna I think but I could be wrong. After both shots, she was ill for a day or two. She said it wasn't like any other bug that she's had. Her two sisters, and her brother, have all had the two step shots, and they all reported malaise, nausea, fatigue, overall achy feeling. A couple guys at work said they got the shots, because they had multigenerational households. Neither reported anything more than soreness at the injection site. So there's the needle thing. Strike one. And then there is the "I never get the flu" thing. (not sure if this is a valid excuse) Strike two. Then there's 4 out of 6 people I know who had the shot and experienced negative symptoms post injection. Strike three. Then we have these things with Johnson & Johnson and Astra Zenica. Strike four. So I'm not sure . . . . . . . . . . ask me again later on, eh?

Like this: Mose Allison The Who As always, I like them both.

All the hot bands of my youth were doing covers of other musician's songs.

Shouldn't they also have cables going to the chokes? (oh, and nice throttle linkage)

For my 72 240 street car, and the 71 240 race car: If a cold start, I set the choke, crank the key. If it doesn't fire right up I press the pedal down a bit, but not wide open. A cold start needs a rich mixture, so wide open leans it out. For a warm start I just crank it up. For the 75 280, and the 79 280ZX, I cranked, cold or hot, without touching anything but the key. They always fired right up. (Both cars have been parked out back for about 20 years, so who knows what they would do today. )

Looks like the guy built it himself. And he is pretty brave (or lazy) swinging the engine over the side without removing the hood. Preppie, or geezer.

Why do people pump the accelerator before cranking the engine on a Z? There are no accelerator pumps in the carbs, so it does nothing.

I agree with the other guys, new clutch disc and cover, throw out bearing and pilot shaft bushing, resurface the flywheel. Also, the machine shop that balances the rotating assembly should also include the flywheel and clutch cover, and the vibration damper/crank pulley when balancing everything, and mark the flywheel/clutch cover and crank hub so it can all be reassembled in the orientation it was in when balanced.

To me it will always be master and slave. But for the overly sensitive types, perhaps primary and secondary, or actuator and actuatee, or . . . . . . . . . . . nah, screw it. The thing that forces the fluid is the master, the thing that responds to the fluid pressure the slave.

Somewhere in southeast Idaho tonight, headed for Fort Bragg. Mrs. Racer and I are taking the oldest grandsons car to him. Driving straight through. A little Johnny Winter for the night time drive.

Very cool Jim, such an awesome opportunity. You, and your car a celebrity among us now.

Sharp looking ride. Those wheels always look good on an early Z.

Have you?

I just put a 40" TV in my shop. Still trying to get the HDMI over Ethernet thing to work right, but when I do I'll be able to catch the racing on the weekends, and get work done.

The correct reply is, "As long as it takes, dear. By the way, it keeps me out of the bars, eh?"

I just went back and had another look at your wiring. If you wanted, you could get the connector body and terminals that mate with the terminals that are on your 280, and swap them out for the ones on the JDM lights. No pigtail, so more simple, fewer parts and connections to terminate.

Sure. Wire harnesses have plastic fittings at the ends to connect them to gauges, ignition switches, lights, etc. There are lots of different shapes and configurations on a given car. Of course when a new model year is released, sometimes the shape, size and configuration changes. So when changing the lights out in your car, you can hack up the harness, use some crimp type butt splices, and wrap it all up with electrical tape. Or, you can buy the mating connectors and wire ends for each of the year of each side, buy some appropriate wire and the proper crimping tool (you'll need a crimper that does a "W" crimp, SnapOn and MAC both sell very good quality crimpers, online, well worth the money), and make up a harness that adapts the plug on your car's harness to the connectors for the lights. Like these: There are many different types, do some digging and get some of what you need. They are available from a place (sorry, I can't remember, but someone here will chime in) that sells reproductions for all kinds of classic cars. It is really easy. Get a wiring diagram for each car, find the wire in the car's harness for one light function, say, tail lights, identify what position in the connector body correlates to it, terminate the wire with the proper terminal, and slip it into the connector body (it should snap into place, and if you mess up and stick it in the wrong spot, there are tools available for reaching inside the connector and releasing the tang on the terminal). Do the same thing for that function on the tail lights. Repeat with each function until you have all the functions covered and you have run out of wires to match up. It's easy. Honest. Oh, and you'll be able to convince your wife to allow you to spend money on tools. Every man needs tools. Don't have a wife to ask if you can buy tools? You're doing better than me then.

Work by a talented machinist who can also weld well.

Hi Scott, welcome to the clubhouse, and the Datsun world. If you have checked the manifold with a straight edge and it is out of spec, find a competent machinist who can true it up for you.