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Post by Meerkat on Jul 10, 2017 13:09:26 GMT
This just came up on my YouTube feed. A bit stripped out for my tastes but wow, what a beautiful car
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Post by joeytalent on Jul 10, 2017 14:27:03 GMT
Hah, I actually have a replacement throttle body on its way with no BCDD valve. I think the goal over winter is to fit ITBs, depending on my garage situation. I can't even imagine how amazing that is going to sound. Going to start saving for this: otomoto.shop033.com/p/7830659/oer-itb-kit-for-l6.htmlI built my Megasquirt for my MX5, and would probably go the same route. Might buy a PNP kit this time because I'm lazy. Seems like an extreme way of trying to fix my high idle, but whatever. |
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Post by Bilbo on Jul 10, 2017 14:37:09 GMT
Two birds with one stone, fix the idle, and incredible N/A sound.
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Post by joeytalent on Jul 10, 2017 21:33:42 GMT
This just came up on my YouTube feed. A bit stripped out for my tastes but wow, what a beautiful car Yup, that's awesome. |
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Post by joeytalent on Jul 11, 2017 15:22:25 GMT
You guys seemed pretty into my previous posts about general USA stuff, so here's a bit of a photodump.
Arboretum, Cabin and WisconsinThis is going to be a bit of a longer post with a few more pictures, covering the past few weeks. I got a second hand 75-300mm lens, and went to the arboretum to test it out:     ![]() Yup, that works! I went away for a weekend at a friend's cabin, up near Brainerd. This was the first journey in the 280Z of any great distance with the new exhaust, so it was a good test. I didn't really take many pictures, apart from a couple over the lake of the sunset:   For July 4, we went camping in Wisconsin Friday - Monday. Saturday was spent hiking around a few state parks, which were a little disappointing, however that was completely made up for by Palfrey's Glen:    It was about an hour's hike alongside the river to get up to the waterfall, well worth the trip. The next day we headed over to the house on the rock, which is a complex of buildings housing collections of... well everything. It originally started as an artist's retreat, built and designed by Alex Jordan Jr in the late fifties, and slowly expanded in size and complexity along with the collections it housed. There's three main sections to the house on the rock; the original house which was built as an artist's retreat, the old American street, and then a large room of.. stuff.   All the instruments are automated, so you put a quarter in and then it plays some music (and yes, every thing is lit up in a special Amsterdam-red).     There's a massive room of just random stuff. I don't even know what most of it was.     The largest musical display was this full orchestra:  And for American Gods fans, here is the famous carousel. I believe it's the world's biggest:   And just for fun:  The whole place is a complete sensory overload, and takes around four hours to get around. There's load that I didn't picture, like the replica American street, or the giant blue whale being attacked by a squid - that's about four stories high. |
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Post by Bilbo on Jul 11, 2017 21:33:02 GMT
Incredible photos as ever mate.
These places look amazing.
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Post by Meerkat on Jul 12, 2017 9:32:09 GMT
Wow, great photos!
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Post by joeytalent on Jul 12, 2017 12:47:23 GMT
Thanks guys!
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Post by wannabe on Jul 12, 2017 17:09:25 GMT
That place looks like a horror movie set lol
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Post by joeytalent on Jul 12, 2017 19:29:53 GMT
That place looks like a horror movie set lol You're not wrong! I just got an email from my favourite Z-parts company. They've decided to ship (and charge) me for a Momo Prototipo and hub that I ordered in March, and subsequently cancelled when they said it would be 2 months to get into stock. Nice one. |
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Post by wannabe on Jul 13, 2017 9:22:58 GMT
That place looks like a horror movie set lol You're not wrong! I just got an email from my favourite Z-parts company. They've decided to ship (and charge) me for a Momo Prototipo and hub that I ordered in March, and subsequently cancelled when they said it would be 2 months to get into stock. Nice one.
I think rejecting the parcel should give them the message lol
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Post by joeytalent on Jul 13, 2017 12:55:29 GMT
You're not wrong! I just got an email from my favourite Z-parts company. They've decided to ship (and charge) me for a Momo Prototipo and hub that I ordered in March, and subsequently cancelled when they said it would be 2 months to get into stock. Nice one.
I think rejecting the parcel should give them the message lol
Heh, well I wouldn't actually mind the hub, as I have a NRG hub + spacer right now, and it has no crush section. I gave them a ring yesterday and they managed to grab the package before FedEx got it, so I still get the hub and no need to wait by the letterbox to refuse a parcel  All the stuff for doing my valve stem seals is now here I think, and assuming I get all my real job work done this week, I should get at least one full day of car work. The guides I've read suggest 4 - 5 hours for doing all the seals, so I'm going to attempt to do it in a day at a leisurely pace. Means I have to do another oil change as well - I bet the car has never had 3 changes in as many months before! |
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Post by joeytalent on Jul 13, 2017 14:45:26 GMT
In case anyone wondered what an overhead cam valve spring compressor looks like...  |
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Post by Rickster on Jul 14, 2017 7:34:06 GMT
In case anyone wondered what an overhead cam valve spring compressor looks like... Take a few pics of it in action please, interested to see. |
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Post by Fizbne on Jul 14, 2017 10:21:40 GMT
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD THAT EXHAUST SOUNDS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOD I'M CRYIIIIIIIIIING :'OOOOOOOOOOOOO
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