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Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 27 2011, 10:03 AM
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Posted by: scotty b Dec 27 2011, 10:05 AM
Nice 
Those wheels look really good on it too 
Posted by: tdgray Dec 27 2011, 10:06 AM
That's a beauty Rob :sweet:
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 27 2011, 10:13 AM
Thanks! Mark is a Weber synching wizard and I just rebuilt the triple Webers... I am having him synch the carbs and get it all tuned at sea level, then I will haul it over the hill and change the jetting for 4500' above sea level...
Posted by: jsconst Dec 27 2011, 10:14 AM
I saw your cars yesterday Rob. Drove my 74 to Marks yesterday for him to look it over and some fine tuning. I love your Z, very nice car, makes me wish I would have kept my 72.
They're in good hands though, Mark does great work!
Jeff
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 27 2011, 10:16 AM
LOL!! The Cap'n will love this! After I rebuilt the carbs and reinstalled everything, I spent weeks trying to get the darn thing to run. I thought I screwed the pooch rebuilding the carbs but how? You just take them apart and clean them and put them back together. So I take it to Mark.
Pertronix unit burned out 
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 27 2011, 10:17 AM
I saw your cars yesterday Rob. Drove my 74 to Marks yesterday for him to look it over and some fine tuning. I love you're Z, very nice car, makes me wish I would have kept my 72.
They're in good hands though, Mark does great work!
Jeff
Oh cool Jeff! You have a running 914! Should have gone to lunch at the Fremont in my 914!
Posted by: OmaPossu Dec 27 2011, 10:20 AM
Beautiful! In my shopping list too. Do you have original wheels?
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 27 2011, 10:25 AM
Beautiful! In my shopping list too. Do you have original wheels?
Being of the same era, Z's were treated kind of like 914's at the dealership. Although the factory never had an original alloy wheel for the Z until the 280Z (IIRC), the dealership would pull off the original wheels and put an aftermarket alloy on to pump up their profit margin. Mine came with a slotted dished wheel. I do still have them, but finding good 14" tires for them is difficult and given my propensity for track days, autocrossing and generally exploring limits, I can't compromise with tires.
Posted by: zymurgist Dec 27 2011, 02:04 PM
Japanese Babydoll!
Posted by: wingnut86 Dec 27 2011, 03:11 PM
I'm jealous, my wife made me sell my last Z, a black 77', when we first moved overseas (prior to cell phones).
Hmmm, I don't miss that damn aluminum head issue though 
Posted by: rick 918-S Dec 27 2011, 04:41 PM
I have my eye on a low mileage original Z stashed on a garage about a mile from my house. Just waiting to pounce... 
Posted by: RobW Dec 27 2011, 05:37 PM
It looks close to the car Madonna sprawled herself over.... figures.
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 27 2011, 06:15 PM
I'm jealous, my wife made me sell my last Z, a black 77', when we first moved overseas (prior to cell phones).
Hmmm, I don't miss that damn aluminum head issue though
It's absolutely not a problem as long as you don't ever overheat Wing...
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 28 2011, 10:51 AM
It looks close to the car Madonna sprawled herself over.... figures.
I never saw that picture Rob. See if you can find it! I did a search and it seems that you are talking about the Borderline video. When I search I can't find it. Warner Bros. has had the video pulled everywhere it pops up. From the chatter on Classic Z site, she sprawls across a white 280ZX and in the last part spray paints on it?
Posted by: sean_v8_914 Dec 28 2011, 12:21 PM
lovely fair lady
Posted by: porbmw Dec 28 2011, 12:28 PM
lovely fair lady
Nice!
And nice just to see these still surviving...
Do they come with jackstands?
Posted by: BajaXJ92 Dec 28 2011, 12:29 PM
Will a 350 fit in there? 
Nice car! 
Posted by: HarveyH Dec 28 2011, 12:39 PM
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away; back when the 240Z first came out, I knew a guy who had to have one in Silver. For those of you who are too young to remember, it was 'The' hot car, and they were being brought in very slowly; waiting lists and all that. It took him about 6 months to finally get one in Silver (he refused a number of other colors to wait for one). He had it for an hour and a half and rolled it......
Harvey
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 28 2011, 12:40 PM
Will a 350 fit in there?
Nice car!
Yes, often mated to a 700R4 transmission. Ultimate sleeper if done right! Homey don't play that way. Not that I would kick it out of my driveway for leaking oil but I like to work around the original platform. I have begun collecting parts to do a 2.8 turbo with MegaSquirt.
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 28 2011, 12:41 PM
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away; back when the 240Z first came out, I knew a guy who had to have one in Silver. For those of you who are too young to remember, it was 'The' hot car, and they were being brought in very slowly; waiting lists and all that. It took him about 6 months to finally get one in Silver (he refused a number of other colors to wait for one). He had it for an hour and a half and rolled it......
Harvey
I take it you knew this guy very personally Harvey???
Posted by: wingnut86 Dec 28 2011, 01:01 PM
I fell in love with the black Z and traded a 69' GTO straight across for it
I actually wanted an early VW Schriroco on the same lot in Robbins, GA - but some other dude got there 1st. The Z was 2nd place winner.
And yes, it would do 140mph easily on I-75 and 80 on the backroads of Middle Georgia Damn heads just wouldn't cool fast enough in 35mph/high rev/S-curves. Bad design 
I won't share what the cash trade ended up being for the GTO, but I watched one sell at auction recently for $47k - and my goat was a damn site prettier and 40+ more horsepower with a dry sump...
Posted by: J P Stein Dec 28 2011, 02:22 PM
A buddy has a Z car. He runs it in FP N/A with around 300HP from a 2.8L. It's a good AX motor....torquey. He got away from the sport but is now getting back into it. A few years ago he was the terror of the local SCCA AXs.
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Posted by: bulitt Dec 28 2011, 08:03 PM
Hot cars!
Posted by: SirAndy Dec 28 2011, 08:51 PM
A buddy has a Z car. He runs it in FP N/A with around 300HP from a 2.8L. It's a good AX motor....torquey. He got away from the sport but is now getting back into it. A few years ago he was the terror of the local SCCA AXs.
I got beaten by one of those at a Norcal AX. By less than 1/2 a second, but still.
Posted by: 914.SBC Dec 28 2011, 09:01 PM
That might be my next project. I had a 260z right after high school. A 350 works great in those little things and no cooling prolems to worry about.
Posted by: ConeDodger Dec 28 2011, 09:02 PM
A buddy has a Z car. He runs it in FP N/A with around 300HP from a 2.8L. It's a good AX motor....torquey. He got away from the sport but is now getting back into it. A few years ago he was the terror of the local SCCA AXs.
I got beaten by one of those at a Norcal AX. By less than 1/2 a second, but still.
Andy,
Was it Jim Newport in a black and gold Z? If so, he has a Rebello 3.1 Stroker motor. Oh, and he is a hell of a driver too!
Posted by: racerbvd Dec 28 2011, 09:08 PM
I have a set of OEM hubcaps off a 78 
Posted by: KaptKaos Dec 28 2011, 09:15 PM
FML!!
Very nice Rob.
Posted by: J P Stein Dec 28 2011, 09:56 PM
A buddy has a Z car. He runs it in FP N/A with around 300HP from a 2.8L. It's a good AX motor....torquey. He got away from the sport but is now getting back into it. A few years ago he was the terror of the local SCCA AXs.
I got beaten by one of those at a Norcal AX. By less than 1/2 a second, but still.
This guy waxed me for 3-4 years. I never did beat him but Brit got him several times
....then John went on a hiatus.....lost his job. He has a family & some medical problems.....that will bring "things" to a halt but has now recovered from both.
Posted by: HarveyH Dec 29 2011, 07:19 AM
A friend of a friend that I had I met several times. Could be a tall tale, you never really know.
Haven't seen either of them in 35 years or so....Harvey
Posted by: SirAndy Dec 29 2011, 12:53 PM
Andy,
Was it Jim Newport in a black and gold Z? If so, he has a Rebello 3.1 Stroker motor. Oh, and he is a hell of a driver too!
Yepp, that was the one. Big tires too. Plenty of good excuses why he beat me ...
Posted by: ConeDodger Jan 2 2012, 07:01 PM
Oh hell... I was talking to McMark today and he had an idea to hide a wideband A:F gauge inside the console ashtray... I am starting to warm up to it... Let me know what you think in billable hours
Posted by: McMark Jan 2 2012, 07:58 PM
Got the O2 sensor bung installed. So it's just a matter of wiring things up and making a mounting plate. 
Gotta order some smaller idle jets. The car was still running rich with the mixture screws 1/4 turn from seated. 
Posted by: McMark Jan 2 2012, 08:11 PM
Test fit...
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Posted by: ConeDodger Jan 2 2012, 08:35 PM
Very cool! So I can open it up when I want to see how I am doing and close it and I have a perfectly stock looking interior... Nice.
I wonder if the MSD will take up some of that rich running situation? At least below 3000 RPM.
Posted by: McMark Jan 3 2012, 04:13 PM
Turned out pretty well.
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Posted by: ConeDodger Jan 3 2012, 04:45 PM
DAMN!!!
Posted by: rick 918-S Jan 3 2012, 11:04 PM
Very nice Mark!
Posted by: PeeGreen 914 Jan 3 2012, 11:09 PM
Do you have that pristine dash in yet ?
Posted by: ConeDodger Jan 3 2012, 11:32 PM
Do you have that pristine dash in yet
?I do! Thank you once again... Funny thing about it is the car ran great before the dash went in. I removed the windshield to make it easier and butchered the old dash to get it out, then I installed the new one and transferred the VIN#. After I got done, I could crank the thing all day and wouldn't get it to fire. Turns out, someone had hooked up an electric fuel pump by running a wire all the way to the front and getting power underneath the dash. I thought it was some random old stereo wiring and eliminated it. OOoops!
It took a while to figure it out, and eventually, I will eliminate that and hook it up to the factory wiring harness in the back but yes... Installing the dash took the car out of commission for a month or so!
Posted by: ConeDodger Jan 3 2012, 11:45 PM
Mark, where did you take power from? Surely not the cigarette lighter!
Posted by: sixnotfour Jan 4 2012, 03:55 AM
Porsche Content;
Chev v-8 in a 944 Turbo Chassis , that's a Combo !!
Great gauge stash
Posted by: ChrisNPDrider Jan 4 2012, 02:58 PM
Was it Jim Newport in a black and gold Z? If so, he has a Rebello 3.1 Stroker motor. Oh, and he is a hell of a driver too!
That black and gold Z is one of my top 10 favorites of all the NorCal AX machines
huge flares, huge tires, huge motor, and mean-lookin
Posted by: ConeDodger Jan 4 2012, 04:53 PM
Was it Jim Newport in a black and gold Z? If so, he has a Rebello 3.1 Stroker motor. Oh, and he is a hell of a driver too!
That black and gold Z is one of my top 10 favorites of all the NorCal AX machines
huge flares, huge tires, huge motor, and mean-lookin
Kinda like this Chris? That thing kicks azz! He is a PCA member and I think a member here too...
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