Chino 240Z

Here's another picture maybe with a better view. Easy to make and easy to care for. As for Popcorn she left to check her own fuel bowl, always wanting something! :lick:

Okay here's the ugly part. It's just on old overflow container cramed into the corner with all the lines going to it and one coming from it to evacuate the fumes. I prefer the cool looking K&N filter vent idea, but on all my other cars they get messy and oily. This has been there for several years and has a few tablespoons of oil residue in the botton, I never empty it and is under the fender out of site, so its working good. As for the my dog Popcorn, she is always under my feet! Probably knows just about as much as I do about my cars. Good Luck, Craig

No don't plug it. Your car won't run with it plugged. It is a air vent and gas overflow port for the fuel bowls. Plugging it will not let the fuel exit the bottom of the bowl and thru the fuel line into the nozzle on the bottom of your carb. I run mine to a common oil / gas fumes vent- plastic- canister, then a vaccum line breaths it back into the cross pipe of my intake manifold. I do this because my Z only sees a race track and their requirements are they don't want open oil or gas breathers / filters since they can cause oil drips onto the track. Stock air boxes would have a port to plug a vent hose upto to take the gas fumes to dispose of them into the carbs. Your filter is custom so this is why you have no nipple for a hose.

Thanks Mike, ZTherapy doesn't sell any air tubes. Steve @ ZT gets his from TWM. I found them about 5 frog skins cheaper at MSA. MSA is less than 1 hour from me, so UPS ground is next day. Just putting those air horns on the original stock SUs made a big difference too! TWM has good tech. info on the site. Yea Victor, while everyone heads up to the Mts. to snow ski, I hit San Clemente, Salt Creek, San Onofre, or Old Mans to surf. Or Glamis to the sand dunes. The smog has really improved over the years. I love N. Calif., Virginia, Colorado, parts of New Mexico, but I'll be a wussy and stay in S. Calif. where everything is less than 1hr. 45 min. / beaches 45 min. / L.A. 45 min. / Baldy, Big Bear Ski 20 min. / California Speedway 2 hrs. / Willowsprings Int. Raceway 35 min. / Disneyland, Knotts What else could ya want? he he he 2ManyZs, are there ID marks on your camber plates? Ground Control sorta rings a bell, but once someone makes something good copies are the next thing to hit the market, ya know.

Ya know Victor I can't remember the mfg. of these cam plates? I got them from a guy in a Z shop in San Fransisco, I gotta dig around for the paper work. But they seem to have alot of adjustment in them, and they are now set with a little neg. camber, but I should probably have em checked again soon. Anyhow, Chino is still here. Just not many corn fields or dairies-cows around anymore. All industrial, cement, homes, and shopping centers. The past 5 years things have changed alot! The prison is still there and the land below that area is still not developed much yet. I live off from Pipeline and Chino Ave. area by Don Lugo High School, if ya know the area? There is the 71 Expressway that starts from the 57 fwy / 210 and flys thru the Chino / Chino Hills area and connects to the 91 fwy. This really helps traffic out in the area and makes things easy to get to around here. Chino is a good City. I'm grew up in Upland & Ontario and now in Chino to stay. Another pic with the filters put on and buttoned up for now. . .

One of my second rules is: I always give a couple hard tugs back and forth on the car before I lower & remove the floor jack, just in case? ya never know! Sounds like you got my kinda of luck, I just screw up things inside the house so in the garage I'm more careful because me wife would kill me if I messed up my (I mean, her) car. :stupid: (me) (her)

Not sure if your last adjustments were still running rich? Might or might not help? But while tuning my new ZT carbs last night I was running to wet and I had to drop the fuel level in the bowl alittle more than what was called out .55 or 9/16, probably another 1/8" on the front and about another 1/16" on the back to get the fuel level down to where I could play with the mixture nut. I think I was in those fuel bowls 8 to 10 times till I found a level I could live with. I had the .101 nozzles installed with SM needles and I am running alittle more fuel pressure than normal so that could be some of the reason why I am too rich. Any how I was amazed at the sesitivity the fuel level was before I could fine tune it with the mixture nuts. I was getting nowhere until I tried alittle different from the exact specs or normal setup. You may need to think this too? Oh BTW, did you use new gaskets both sides of the insulator if you removed your carbs? I didn't at first cause they looked perfect but still had a vacc. leak only at high rpms. Installed new gaskets like I was suppose to and that problem went away. A problem may be a couple of little misses or problems combined together and might look like only one problem? Does that make sense? oh well, keep digging. I still am not conviced my carbs a putting out their full potential but I know for sure they are on their way after last nights joy ride around the block, got the adreniline flowing! and the shakes once back in the garage before the police showed up. he he he Craig

Here's one more pic.

I used a set of full radius air-horns and a pair of K&N filters. I still need to dial them in and sync. them better with each other. One thing I was amazed about with this change, was the tone of the carbs as they take a deep breath with the mash of the peddle. The exhaust tone probably drop down about 2 octaves too. I thought there was another problem when I first fired it up! Guess now it's flowing better than ever. Time to clean up and this week-end we'll sneak her out onto the road. :pirate:

I think my back is broken from leaning over this thing all day long. Just finshed installing a pair of modified Z-Therapy SUs tonight. I also cut a larger heat shield from some stainless and installed it to help keep the heat off the carbs from the headers.

A while ago I made a purchase and was hoping to get a give away item with the purchase but missed the final date of the promotion. When I got my parts I was bummed. Later they emailed me a note letting me know that it was past the final date, too late, but they would be happy to still honor their promotion, so what size of Shirt did I want? the next day I was sportin their colors! I would say they are okay by me and took time to make me happy too. Sorry about your mis-shippment, maybe the shipping guy had an extra beer at lunch and messed up the address. I know how important it is getting parts ontime! I count the minutes when UPS or Fed-X drives by!:paranoid:

Hi Carl, This weekend I just got done taking off the rubber 5/16" fuel lines to the SUs that came with the car and changed it to 5/16" braided stainless lines. It fit just fine. Now with the air vent fittings on top of the SUs, they're a little bigger. With the extra 5/16" stainless line I had left over I did these vent lines in stainless too, but it was a tighter fit...but did em too. later.

Funny thing, yesterday I got a sport compact catalog from Summit Racing and that book was in there for $15.95 so now it's a little cheaper!

That's too bad, hope his hand heals fast. 2 Things I always say when moving heavy things... "If it decides to go? No heros!

At least you didn't pay extra for it! I found the previous owners traffic tickets in the tool compartment, and looks like the officer inspected the car for everything, and wrote him for just about everthing, non street legal that is.:nervous:

Hmmmm interesting. Where's the Beef? :lick:

Very Clean! Hey is that a polished valve cover or chromed? Getting ready to do one and I think chromed is gona be the way to go, not much to keep it looking nice.

Ya know, if you want a little more of a hot-rod needle for some more performance and you don't have to worry about smog. . . then talk to Steve at Z Therapy. Tell him your set up and he might have a suggestion to step it up a little. I know they are available. The set of SU carbs that are in UPS to me now have enlarged nozzles and needles to match among a few other mods. Otherwise just order some replacement needles, so you know they are true. J.M. 2 cents. good luck

You can turn your wheel Right or Left so you can get your arm up into the fender-well better to fight the screws, but it is easier to remove the wheel and have more room. Rust penitrating spray, WD-40 will help but there are better oils. I spray to screws several times while I am getting ready and doing other things. Letting the rust penitrating oils set a little so it can do its job so yours will be easier. I find that a pair of med. size Vise-Grip pliers will grab the best to loosen the screw. Yea, you may bust a few of them but once you have the assembly out you can remove the broken piece. Get some new screws and the anti-sieze grease makes it nice the next time you have to get in there. Anyways what a pain, but we all deal with it one way or another. Good Luck

Hey Jason, J.F.Y.I., I was thumbing thru the MSA mini parts catalog and noticed on the inside cover there are books listed there. One of the books was "Sport Compact Nitrous Injection" $19.95, it may have good insite for the Z since a Z parts house in selling this nitrous book? Oh well, just passing it on to ya, later. Craig

Nitrous Works, Edelbrock, TNT, and a few others offer wet systems, Fuel/NOS, with 50,75,100+ shot kits and nozzles that seem safer. There are other things to help too, like low fuel pressure cutoff switches, detination sensors, exhaust temp. sensors, timing retard switches, progressive switches. . . Get your self some NOS Do & Don't books, call some NOS shops then filter out all the BS and probably get a proven system that has been used by others,and not design one on your own. Your ride looks like you have some nice power under the hood now. Are you wanting to go pick on some V8s or planning to rebuild soon? Lots of people learn how much squeeze their motor can take then they rebuild it again with some nitrous happy parts inside that can survive. Good luck, I too enjoy the thought of my other car, a Formula Firebird, having that little more RWHP!

If you go getting product ideas together again? I would be interested in a 1/2 dozen "Classic Zcar Club" patches to put on some racing suits and jackets. Also a couple decals for the sides of the racecar! Wanted one of those mugs for our mug collection too. Thanks Craig & Cindy

Well PFFFFIT, that's just great! :mad: