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This may not be helpful in this case. But one thing some people know and many do not is that on a L6 motor if you clamp the timing light to the #6 wire and read your pulley, it will be the same as having it clamped to #1. If it were not then something is wrong with your distributor. Its just a double check.

Thanks zKars for your origional photo. Sorry I could not remember where I copied that from. Your photo really helped alot to solve my shifter issue.

I have a 1978 5 speed. The shifter I pulled from a 5 speed 280Z at the pick and pull looks like the 3rd from the right. Shifts perfect. No grinding needed. Others caused 5th gear issues.

Do any of the suppliers have the snaps installed on the two front carpets pieces that anyone knows of? I just want the 5 piece kit not the 13 piece.

For sure. A NLA factory part like that is worth it. If I did not already have one of those, I would have been interested as well.

May Issue.

May 2017 is the last issue. Was a very good magazine I thought.

I sure would go for those Eibachs if I was confident my 240 would sit like your 280. The issue seems to be on the 240Z. Even though Eibach discontinued these and then started making again for MSA exclusively, I am sure they must be made the same as before. I see the MSA Eibachs are black. Weren't their springs red? Or is that just on the Eibach coil over springs are red. I really wasn't prepared to go coilovers yet.

That is also the top price I was thinking. It just really needs to have engine bay painted blue and the motor detailed while out. The block and oil pan look very unsightly to me. That will be fun to drive and turn a lot of heads.

You would learn a lot about these cars but there will be no money to be made flipping this one. Both shocks shown are gone. Fluid has leaked out. That means the brake hoses are rotten as well. Then go to rear and repeat. Then paint and detail your work. Then fix engine issues. We have not even seen the engine compartment. Or the interior for that matter. Maybe a good car to fix and keep. But to flip? Run away and run fast. IMO.

Agreed. I also run my return line for street driving. Seems like a good idea to me. I do not have an AF Ratio meter for mixture readings. Currently running 57.5 Pilot, 135 Main and 170 Air. 34mm Chokes. Runs real good and no hesitation at all.

I am not planning to use any oil on these. They look to filter very well. I put very few miles on each year as I can only drive it in the Summer here. Mostly just driven on weekends. Just plan to wash them when dirty. On some other cars I notice some run no filters and many run just the screens over each air horn. I talk to them and they have no concerns at all. Maybe they have a lot of money.

Received my Mikuni RamAir filters from the UK. With my old filters, I could not run the air horns with them.

Looks like the grinding worked. Very good. When I had the same issue I found a 280Z with a 5 speed at the bone yard that still had the shifter in it. That worked perfect like yours is now but with no grinding, The correct 5 speed shifter looks like the straight shifter you showed from the pivot point down. But it needs to have the bends in it like the 240Z and 280Z 4 speed shifters. I never tried that straight shifter in mine but I am sure it would hit the transmission tunnel and prevent 3rd and 5th gear to engage. From what I have read the 79 is the exact same 5 speed as the 77 & 78 5 speed. Just uses a straight shifter instead for a ZX. Hope I did not confuse anyone further.

This stripe kit is what was left over from another project. I wanted to see how they looked on mine. I plan to remove these and get longer ones that go further down to the side body line. I plan to use the approximately same color. Although I might have someone photoshop some different colors.

Add another no. Konigs painted graphite - Yes. Panasport on silver Z - Boring. IMHO.

So you had a rear seal in hand and he replaced it? Also if you are getting water in the tank then I would stop buying gas at that station. I have no clue to why changing the transmission gear oil has any negative effects. ??

Left the duct tape at home? No problem.

That 3rd gear upshift grind must be more common than I thought. My 72 4 speed did the same thing at about 60K mile mark. Never did try a different fluid. I installed a 78 5 speed instead. On that I am using Redline MT90 trans oil. Been working very good.

Jai, be sure to budget in a transmission gear oil change too. Who knows when or if it was ever changed.

If I were close by I would take those off your hands. Just do not like the flat black look. But, I would immediately paint them to match the rear finisher panel and clear coat. And never look back.

Good. Because what is stamped on a wheel means nothing. To know for sure, measure the wheel according to the wheel gods.

You have it correct on those. The tight wound coil spring goes on the rear. Also the wire gauge is larger on the rears than the front springs.

My Graphite Konigs were 0 offset. I was sure those would be the same. Check this out showing offsets explained.

That is really a clean looking top end. Looks like the oil changes were very regular. The internals must be in excellent condition as well.