NismoPick

You'll wish you kept the a/c next summer... My drive to LA would have been a lot more comfortable with a/c.

snwbrderphat540

dont you people have T-tops, with my Z32 as long as teh tops were off i never once missed AC

NismoPick

Nothing like 102 degree wind blowin on your face.

snwbrderphat540

yeah, been there, it gets +100 in IL with 98%humidity lol. as long as you dont sit still outside, your alright. sure A/C would be a bit cooler, and a lot less sticky, but its definatly dooable. thats how i rocked it every day possible in my Z32 when i had her.... i miss those cars....

Bleach

not many Z-cars after 1981 had t-tops. It was a pretty rare option available only to the filthy rich

entropy31

nope. sure don't.

Bleach

I don't have t-tops either. Much too rare of an option for me.

JPerkins

oh yeah, i know its gonna be ruff in the thick of summer, but i rocked it without it this long so ole well. Besides, my 280zxt is my "fun Machine". You don't take your AC to the beach do ya? so i don't need it in my Zed.

snwbrderphat540

when i said it, i used you people, referring directly to nismo and jperkins, not the world. lol

JPerkins

I dunno what i bumped when i was takin all that AC stuff out but my oil pressure guage started workin normally again. usually at idle it would read Zero till you gave it throttle. Now it reads just under half at Idle. Is that normal?

snwbrderphat540

well, i know mines about 1/4 to a tid bit less.... but thats an S30... but a turbo oil pump

Spraguepsycho1

Mine reads straight up and down at an idle on both my ZX's, then pushes to the line above that easily once the rpm's start to climb.

Bleach

maybe you bumped the connector on the oil pressure sender unit.
unplug it and make sure it is clean and not oily

JPerkins

was bit long in coming but i finally got it on the lift at the auto-hobby shop and got some pictures of the underside. So here they are yall. Jury says?
(sorry they so big, dunno how to make em smaller. also available at my photobucket page. see link in sig)

NismoPick

Pretty nice underside. I've seen many that are a lot worse.

snwbrderphat540

yes we have ^^^

also i got a nice "underside" project im going to be starting. ill be post before and after pictures. hope to plesently surprise some people. including myself. lets just say, extra parts paint and plyurethane bushings and a couple days to kill FTW

frank280zx

i say get you welder out!!! it needs some frames and rockers

JPerkins

My thanks goes out to Thxone for his thread on Cheap BOVs. Now my car goes "RIIIiiiice!!". Too bad its an auto tranny runnin stock pressure. You really gotta get on it hard for the BOV to even engage. Oh well. Manual boost controller to follow as soon as my new Boost gauge gets in.

NismoPick

^^^ Hopefully you hooked up a vac line to the top of the BOV after taking that pic.

JPerkins

yeah. just to test it out though. i'ma pick up some new lines when the Gauge gets here. THat might be why i had to get on it so hard, cuz the hose i used was a bit too big and just barely fit tight enough.

JPerkins

got a mechanical boost guage and put it in. works great. BOV working good still. Car cranks and runs good, gets warm, starts loping bad at idle. this problem sounds annoyingly familiar...

well, i guess i'll take snows advise and pick up some electrical connector cleaner. Seemed to work for him. maybe it'll work for me too.

WildmaN

Believe it or not wd-40 works good for cleaning the contacts. Trust me I know I have used it. Also the Z guru here used it on my Z. When helping me dial for emissions last year. And I use it when I feel my fuel system is not working correctly.

Oh yeah also using it with a toothbrush, does the trick.

snwbrderphat540

and a sturdy pin!!!! so you can bend the mini spade clip connectors so they point inwards a bit. so they clamp and help connect. i used a furniture slider lol, had the perfect size nail/pin for the job

i also made sure all the connectors were flush with the front, sometimes they start to get pushed back in the clip so they make a poor contact.

JPerkins

alright gentlemen and ladies. Got that pop valve yanked out (god my knuckles hurt now) and my MBC installed as well (that damn turbo was hot as hell on my knuckles.....again) and a mechanical boost guage that reads to 15psi (the only thing i didn't hurt myself installing). intalled the MBC and turned it three notches from closed and tested it out, only to immediately stop and turn it back down from 30+ psi (rough esimate due to the way the needle on my boost guage jumped way the hell on the far side and kept going.) on only one notch the needle still jumps over to 15 and bounces when i get on it from stop. i can ease into it when i'm on the high way and it levels at around 10-13 psi. I tried to roll into it from a dead stop to see how the accelleration was at 10 psi and the car went "woooooAAA-A-A - POW!!!" I slammed the brakes, threw on the hazards and comenced damage analysis........No damage. Correction, no Obviouse damage. Car still runs just like always. But what the hell was up with that backfire? i know the stock system can't handle alot of boost, but uh....any z-vets wanna tell me what happened there?

(just to re-itterate a point made earlier on z-driver: Don't buy cheap equipment. buy an electronic boost controller. they are safer and far more accurate.)

JPerkins

Well folks, Rumbles no longer my car. So for me, this is where the widow-maker project ends. Perhaps his new owner will take up the vigil, but for me, its time to start working on Lady (260z Fairlady).