2SixTZombie

Hey guys figured I'd update finally got my SUs on, and I love them. Vut I ws getting a really bad intermittent clog in the tank leaving me stranded after about 5 blocks. So I dropped the tank and had it hot tanked, then sealed it with red Kote. Boy those fumes are awesome! I was full tilt pupils dilated, starring at the empty can of red kote like its fine art, high. Pulled the bumper while the tank was down, then a friend helped me get some good pics for the hell of it.

Yeah I started on mine, October 2013, and it had DGVs on it bthyst were from when it was sitting, I tried rebuilding them to no avail. after months of trying exercise the demons from them, I gave up and bought another used set. Which along with a ton other stuff had my daily driving her by may, and then on my birthday, October 21, on my way back from work she started hiccuping and spluttering then died. Managed to limp her home, and found it to beasome type of carb issue, that I was trying to work out, then while taking for a spin after some tuning my carb linkage fell apart, resulting in one end of the engine under hard throttle, and the other end under none, which somehow resulted in me spinning a rod, in november I drove up to Minneapolis in a borrowed trunkless olds 88, bought an L28,put it in the trunk and drove it 5 hours back. I painted and installed it, along with a new centerforce, and all new gaskets. but didn't do much after that as the Christmas season was on, but this month I've been trying to figure what was wrong with the DGVs this whole time, now I've given up on them have a recently rebuilt set of SUs on the way that I scored on this site actually. Hopefully she'll back to daily duty by this time next week.

it was pushed into a shed for its last 10 months of storage, so the first thing I did was crawl on top of it, and install a battery, then used WD40 on all the carb linkage to break it loose the 280 hood led to plenty of rust on the DGVs linkage. Disconnected the fuel line and fed her some starting fluid, and she fired right up, for a few seconds. Drained the tank and filled it with 91 and seafoam. replaced a few lines and got her started for real fpr the first time in nearly 14 years. I had a vid but it was lost when my phone was stolen out of my Z while parked along with the last video of my Dad that a friend took the day before he died, but that was the first thing I did. I'll dig up some more pics tomorrow.

That worked, yes that is me a best friend in what was essentially drag washing my car, just to fuck with the neighbors

A list? maybe I should assemble a basic build thread. How do you guys load pics? I should be up there next month picking up a tranny, as mine makes some seriously cool noises.

Something strange, but worth mentioning. I lost tuhe original fuel cap on my brothers 83 Subaru, we replaced it, then it started pretty much what yours is doing one time we happened to pull the cap and made a woosh sound, and we were back on the road. Replaced it with a new cap and its been fine ever since. seems too simple but figure wuhen hunting a problem any possibility is worth mentioning.

Figured it was about time I joined this forum as I have been on Zcar.com,CZCC,HBz for a year and a half now. And this is likely where my particular Z most belongs. So just stopping in to introduce myself and my death trap. A good frien of my big brothers bought my Z out of Des Moines in 97, he daily drove it till around 99 where it sat for a few months and was eventually bought by my brother, he only drove it for about a month but stopped driving it due to several issues, I first met her when I was 6 in 2000 and thought it was the coolest car I had ever seen, well 13 years later this car hasn't moved, and thats when I got her, the years have not been kind. But within about five months of ownership she was my daily driver, and was up until an engine failure in October, but thats taken care of now. I've done so much in my 15 months of ownership that I couldn't even list it all. I actually need to start a build thread somewhere,but heres some semi recent pics. http://rs1341.pbsrc.com/albums/o760/GThawkwind/Mobile%20Uploads/P_20141126_160448_zpsa2b316d0.jpg~320x480 http://rs1341.pbsrc.com/albums/o760/GThawkwind/Mobile%20Uploads/P_20141029_133317_zps6834d6a8.jpg~320x480