New Kid In Town

[desertmonkey]

Minutes ago made the connection so Hi everyone. I have a 74 260Z 2+2 Garage Queen which is yearning for the road. A year ago we did a junk

yard rescue of this car and what a learning experience. The interior has

been replaced with quality house carpet and the seats remounted with

thick rubber bushings. The head was inspected and machined and the

carbs were claned and adjusted. We installed a new updated exhaust

and cleaned and repainted the engine. After setting cam and crank in

position and aligning all the marks she will not start. Since the ON part

of my ignition switch was not functioning I replaced it. Now I have the

turn signals, electronic module and fuel pump operating. She started up

but at 1400 rpm so when I turned the idle down to 1000 she died unless

you keep pumping the pedal. I plan to static time her but the way she

lines up #1 on the cap is at left of lower center adjacent to vac adv.

screw. Should it be at left center of cap between advance and clip? I

must be close to having her right. I have a shop manual on CD but I do not see specific tune up illistrations. I want to drive this car so bad and since I am on vacation this week I have the time.

[Gary in NJ]

Welcome. Good job saving the 260 from the scrapper. Photos man, we love photos.

[5thhorsemann]

Did you get rid of the flat top carbs? It sounds exactly like what my 73 was doing before I went to the round top set up and ditched the FT's and smog gear, and oh yea, pictures man, we love pictures.

[desertmonkey]

Yep we have round top Hitachi's but thinking about Weber's. Just got back from the garage and I set all my timing marks and checked piston position. I also pulled out the

front stabilizer assembly and oil pump. I will reinsert the pump and dizzy so that #1 on

the cap is at 9 o clock with rotor towards the front. That should do it for preliminary

settings to have a steady idle. The reason she was in repose at the heap was because

a loud noise in the valve train. Two lash pads were laying inside out of position and one

valve stem was spitting out a valve lock. I replaced the head with a freshly machined

E88 and timing chain assembly. I made certain that the indexing of the camshaft was

correct and alignment of the chains shiny links were correct. After all this #1 was lined

up at the first nipple at the bottom of the cap but she would not maintain an idle speed

so now I am back to square one. We also installed a Crane Fireball ignition and rewired

the harness. I will ge some pics as soon as we get her running so we can include videos.

For good measure I replaced the interior carpet with area rugs cut to fit from Home Depot

and remounted the console to overlap. The seats were remounted using rubber bushings

from end links and perferated particle board was cut t fit the entire rear and overlayed

with carpet. All dash gauges are stock and a vacuum gauge was mounted into the shell

for the clock. So if we are lucky than she will get headers to go onto the custom exhaust

and ready to paint.

[Arne]

Not to be snarfy desertmonkey, but your posts would be much easier to read if you'd break it up into short paragraphs. Typically, that helps getting more useful replies.

[desertmonkey]

Thanks I shall keep that in mind.............soon I shall reinstall the oil pump and drive to get the distributor rotor lined up with #1 on the cap. I hope it works and we get to do

a spin up the street tonight. If we get that far I will do a compression test and tune up.

[260 z]

Good to see another 260z back on the street. I went to the z show this weekend in Houston and there were 240, 280, 300, 350, 370, but no 260z. My early 260 is in the paint shop after being parked for 26 years, I hope to show it at next years show.

WELCOME

[JLPurcell]

Welcome to the site, you will find a wealth of collective "Z" knowledge as well as a host of kindred spirts. jlp

[desertmonkey]

Thank you.............tonight was a lesson in futility. It takes gas and spark to make power and when I have spark I lack fuel or when I lack spark I have fuel. Now the starter does not engage until you turn the key several times. KISS may apply but patience is fading. As simple as this 260 2+2 may seem I keep encountering the same issues. I will sleep on it.