Victor Laury

What happemed kid? Did you see me drive down Colorado Blvd and think "I gotta get one of those!". Start at Recycler.com check it every week on thursday. keep me in the loop and I'll go with you to check the prospects out. There's usally 4 or 5 for sale right in our hood. When I was shopping, I went to look at 3 just along Glenoaks Blvd. Your in luck cause Glendale/Pasadena/Eagle Rock seems to be a hotbed of Z's for sale. Lets see if we can get you into a reasonable starter car. Hope you've got good job prospects, cause you just picked a fairly expensive hobby!

I'm sure Steve Irwin must be an embarrassment to most Australians, But it gets worse. If you come to the West Coast of our wacky states, you'll be subjected to the terrible commercials of the theme restaurant, "Outback Steak House". A parody of dusty, thick accented, backward people, touting their "Bloomin Onions". It's the Crocodile Dundee syndrome taken to an even further extreme. I'm sure you'd declare war. I know I would.

Rick, I live about 3 miles away from the parade route ..... Never go. #1 We're talking about a HUGE crowd. People vie for seats by camping out a day before hand. #2 It's better viewing on the telly. face it, the best seat IS your favorite easy chair near the fridge and your own private privy.

Check your float levels. remove the front bowl cover and turn it upside down. Measure the distance from the cover to the top of the float. Then duplicate that measurment on the rear cover and adjust the rear to match the front. >Thanks Bro', LA huh? I'm down in the OC, do you come down for the West Coast Nationals? I love taking over the City of Orange one day a year and Hell yes I'll be in Long Beach of the National Convention!!!

Hey, I speed, I admit it. I drive a sports car and like to feel I drive as fast as the traffic allows. So, I'm on the freeway, cruising at 80, when a SUV passes me at 100! Now, I understand that at 80 mph, my sports car is going to need skillful handling if an incident occurs in front of me. Of course, I sure the SUV driver has no chance at all in avoiding or recovering. That's what gets to me, mindless speeding. Or those young kids attempting to go way too fast, showing off for eachother, in traffic that's way too dense for such horseplay. It's like they have no concept of the physics involved. Mass in motion. Or are they like Bugs bunny, when he breaks the laws of gravity, "That's ok, because I never studied law".

Jeez! Yall been buisy today! I came back from a day in the field to see a three page thread!

Carl, You cannot possbly be knocking the beautifull cars of my past! my 1968 Sport Fury III was awesome! then after the transmission fell out ..... I bought a 1968 2 door polara. This was possibly the best car for stoner kid in the mid to late 70's. Oh my god, it was a guilded magic sled. I get a kick when I see the "Grumpy Old Men" films, as my old Polara is one of the stars! Just picture, 1975, Miami Fla. you pull up to a BIG white dodge and through the smoke fogged windows, you see the overweight, long-haired, funky sunglassed, leather-string-vest wearin, Led Zepp blairing, hemp smoke stinkkin, Victor-kid. And I wondered back-then why i always got pulled over for car searches! My, If I could I'd give myself a Retro-Smack-on-the-Head for being such a dumb kid.[ Ok, off topic, I know, but I can't afford the fancy sports car that started this thread.

1. the screw that's on the balance tube (I pretty sure this is the fast idle screw) Right. It's really there only to help set the throttle-on balance by raising the rpm's 2. One screw on the center linkage just to the right of the front carb (attaches to the dashpot) Mine is missing, so is the dashpot. This is to adjust the dashpot idle speed. I think you should do your intial balance adjustments with this loose as well. 3. One screw on the center linkage just to the left of the rear carb. Yes! this one ties the two carbs together. Loosen complely for idle balance and speed adjustments and adjust for throttle-on balance adjustments.

The center screw on the "dogbone" center linkage, is the throttle-on balance adjustment. Go back a step Loosen the center linkage screw completely, which will separate the carbs at idle and rebalance at idle. then, raise the rpm to abou 1800 or so using the screw on the balance tube. then balance the carbs again using the center screw on the center linkage. If you had tried to idle balance the carbs without loosening the center linkage screw, you'll get a false balance that goes to heck with the throttle on.

ROFL ZRush is "into red" Gee I never would have guessedLOL

Plese Note! This is not my car! It's just an ad I found. If it was mine, it would not be for sale the car is 95% restored, all the interior is done ( brand new), Has new paint job ,Brand new bumper bars ,New wheels and tyres ,Back half roll cage ,Stainless steel extractors, Twin exhaust ,Has an l28 bored out to a 3tlre, ,Triple miksui 50ml carbies ( same as webbers) ,And has one almighty rocket ship of motor, Improved suspension ,Sports steering wheel, Electric windows This car screams to 7 grand in every gear. There is no rust in the car at all The 5% that needs doing at a later stage is re chroming of the rear taillights. Which are not rusty just 30 years old and the fuel cap key holder. As I told you I am asking $22,000us firm This is a gtR spec car and would suit any collector and this car would have to be Pumping out 300 + hp, this car sounds unbelievable Web link: http://melbccr.com/rwdturbo/Images/ndsoc/concourse2003/imagepages/image113.html Contact: ron libbis Phone: 03 98418499 E-Mail: ronlibbisREMOVETHIS@tpg.com.au Location: melbourne australia Date posted: Fri Dec 12 18:46:20 2003

That looks sweeeeeet!

There are quite a few blue ones in our gallery, most are on 260Z's That sky-blue IS a Nissan color for air cleaners on all cars except sports cars. My 320 pickup - sky blue 210, 310, 410, 411 RL411 (SSS), 510 Bluebirds - Sky blue Roadsters all - Chinese Lantern Red But the Z's are orange (ecept the blue ones) I'm willing to bet cash dineros that the JDM, base model Z's with the single Hitachi downdraft carbs had sky blue as well. Ifr anyone is interested, that Sky-blue is dead on the same as early Pontiac blue engine color, availible at most Auto Parts stores.

My 72 HAD this feature untill the 5 speed upgrade. I would have kept it IF the 5 speed had a fitting for the "In Gear" switch like the 4 speed had. I must admit, I wore my belts habitually when the buzzer worked and Less often now that the system is disabled. :stupid: I can't remeber where the buzzer was located, But it also operated a light on the console fusebox cover, next to the "Choke On" lamp. But it operated exactly like Jeff descibes, It buzzed only while the transmission was in gear and the drivers seat belt unlatched.

Frank, I ran my headlight power though an auxillary harness controled by 2 Bosch/Hella 30 amp relays. Used nice, fat 10 gauge wire to run power, from the starter + post, with fusibles links, through the relays and to the lights. I'm making up these harnesses and will have the first batch ready to offer in the next three months.

I will install my restored dash. It's spent enough time on my couch.

My remote stater button doesn't have the battery clamp wires separated enough to hook to the starter and the battery post. And I like it that way as stays less tangled. I connect to the spade and the big positive post on the solinoid. Remote Starter = Number 1, best tool ever for valve adjustments!

The one I have downstairs does not have those dents. The support for the rack is an even, smooth arc. This was off my now dearly departed 71? 72? HLS30 48255

Got to agree with Carl on this one... Given the US imposed emmission control goals at the time and the state of the art in IC emission control, can anyone remember of any auto manufacturer that did not harm performance attempting to achive them? Think of all the SUCKY (technical term) cars of the 70's. even the venerable Chevy SB was a lame horse intill the early 80's where the technology BEGAN to catch up.

Whoa, I guess I needed one and never knew it!

It has been speculated, on this forum that the "Tuna cans" or "Flattops" or Hitachi's or whatever pet name you may choose, can perform as good as the "round tops" IF you can(?) tune them perfectly. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I'm not looking to trade my 72 3 screws for a set of the tuna cans. We do have a recognized authority who concur with the "Boat Anchors" label. See ZTherapy.com Their definition is "Evil square mouthed carbs"

Sounds like your settled that you have a FS5C71B from a "pre T-5" turbo ZX. If you'd like to be sure of which gear set you have, I have a test for you to perform. If your tranny is out of the car, you can determine the overdrive ratio and ID the gear set with that ratio. 1st you need a guide Marc Sayer's tech tip on trannies is the first one I found today, there is others online as well. Now remmeber overdrive means the output shaft moves a greater distance than the input shaft. When I did this test, I marked both input and output shafts straight up. I turned my output shaft one complete rotation. My input shaft rotated .773 of one rotatation (as a clock, the big hand a touch after 9 o'clock). As you can see on Marc's chart, this indicates I bought a 1980 ZX transmission, and now I know all my ratios. 1977~79Z&XZ = .864 = almost 11:00 oclock 1980XZ = .773 = a little after 9:00 oclock 81~83ZX = .745 = a little after 8:00 oclock

It's going to need it to haul all that power windows, locks, seats, mirror, autosuck, sunroof hardware around!