I don't f'n believe it!!!

Alas it appear that good fortune has smiled upon my z's demonic possesion the causes it to run whenever it feels. I hooked the fuel pressure gauge up AGAIN for the hundreth time and on one run, 40 psi, come back, fire it up, 30, come back fire it 20. This is the upmost strangest pump failure I've ever encountered. But the shoe fits, so looks like I've got plans for the weekend made out for me, urrrg :wtf:

Amazing.. you know the answers to everyone's problem, except yours.. :lol:

Tell me about it, over the phone, problem found, on line, problem found, in front of my own blind ass overlooking the obvious, useless.

I've just NEVER seen em die like this, they either work or they don't that's what screwed me in over, so in the haste of things I'd put the gauge on, boom 40 psi, rip the gauge off and go hunt for rabbits elsewhere and drive myself batty.

:lol:
Good luck!!!

I love my pressure gauge. Right around 61 PSI at idle. As soon as you hit the loud pedal....down to 53 PSI or so. Almost instant. Kinda cool...except that tells me I am maxing out my pump.
So my new high flow pump gets installed next weekend.

Luck, peesh, I'll have company, I'll bring my freinds Jack John And Jim, the three wisemen and most befinately Mr. Miller to keep things in the high life. :cheers:

Reminds me, I better go tell the neighbors to keep their windows closed this weekend unless they wannna expand their vocabulary a bit :cya:

awesome

:lol:
I have only had one neighbor bitch about my car.
And it was 2PM on a Sunday afternoon. Said they can't focus on anything and it echoes through their house. Only when I rev it though.
Boo hoo....I have a performance car that I work on. It will get revved now and again.

haha well isnt it f'in nice to atleast know you found the problem now?.... this is bringing back memories of my pump change... favorite part had to be when the tank fell out and nailed me in the chest with about 4 gallons left in it... so much for it being "lodged up in there and needing a prybar" lol....

My favorite part when changing out the fuel pump on mine was when the car fell down a bit, almost crushing me.. swear, if you were watching you would've seen a first, a fat guy getting out from under the car in a second.

My favorite part when changing out the fuel pump on mine was when the car fell down a bit, almost crushing me.. swear, if you were watching you would've seen a first, a fat guy getting out from under the car in a second.
haha....i've never had the pleasure of changing one or seeing people getting out from under falling cars :/

...mm....mhhhmm..mmha......haha......hah.ahahaha.. .HEHEAHHAHA....AAAAHHHHHAahahah!!!


Thats kinda how I laughed when I read that. I can just see that happening....Its hilarious.

My driveway is on a slant so anytime a car is jacked up it gets exciting.

ha, we own a body shop, all repairs/modifications are completely safe :(

whats the fun in that??.....pansie....







j/k hehe...id kill for a lift...

The worst mechanical thing to ever happen to me , that nearly cause me to piss blood cause I was so pissed. Was stupid faulty fuel injector harness clips that were bent a little and not holding two injectors on tight. So every few rotations they would not fire and this took me way way way way too long to figure out.

PS- Fuel pump change super sucked for me as well.

:lol:
I have only had one neighbor bitch about my car.
And it was 2PM on a Sunday afternoon. Said they can't focus on anything and it echoes through their house. Only when I rev it though.
Boo hoo....I have a performance car that I work on. It will get revved now and again.

they're just jealous, and btw, why are you calling the 400 "slowass"?

my neighbers get pissed at me to, well just this one old guy down the street mostly. He says i "fly down this damn road like a drag strip, i have childeren, slow down". So i was like ok what ever. And the next moring while he was sleeping i did a dounut in the road next to his house. He is in a circle drive thing.

and quicksilver, i think he is talking about the old ls1.

they're just jealous, and btw, why are you calling the 400 "slowass"?
402ci. :wink:

It is funny. Plus...technically for what it is and where I race...it is a slowass compared to what it should be. :lol:
Nicknamed it 'Slowass' though. Maybe being a little modest and a little funny with it.

I have one woman way up the block that screamed at me slow down childrens live on this block. Although it was 11:15 on a school day, so I think she was under medicated. So I gave her a prescription for two smoking tires right in front of her house the following day. Most of my neighbors are cool though and request a smoke show from me.

and quicksilver, i think he is talking about the old ls1.
well never mind, i guess i was wrong.

and befor i we moved away from our old house, this was these old coupple and they got mad all the time for loud exhaust and we did not get along with them. So when we were on our last load of moving crap, we all got in ours cars and smoked out the street in front of there house, they were pissed.

well never mind, i guess i was wrong.
I am even using the screen name 'Slowass402TA' at a couple places. :icon16:

you want slow, take a look at the stock 305, ya it sucks,lol. Yours sucks gas and hauls ass, mine just sucks gas.

after the fuel pump swap I was between exhaust setups so the car was just running open headers.... well ofcourse I had to take her down the road for a test drive... and she fuckin roared.... so I pull back into the driveway... get out and all I hear is my neighbor screaming "hell yeah!!!" and jumping up n down lol...

i scared the shit out of this like 12 year old kid on a bike the other day, i was going down the road and he yell camaro's suck or something there were no cars behind me so i slamed on the brakes and my tires locked up on mainstreet and the kid looked back and peadled he ass off,lol

a fuckin semi pulled out right in front of me today in the 'maro and i locked them up and went sliding this morning....i really need some new tires, just cant seem to appropriate the funds to buy them...

i thought you had abs? or is it still fucked up?

my fuel pump change was definately an experience, actually i was changing the tank itself and just did the pump also since i had it out. I had the pleasure of a rusted piece of shrapnel from under the car fall down and impale my eyeball. I had to go to the E.R. and have it removed cuz I couldn't get it, and everytime I'd blink it'd slice deeper and deeper into the inside of my eyelid. safety glasses are my new best friend.

ouch! hurts just thinking about it.

I have one woman way up the block that screamed at me slow down childrens live on this block. Although it was 11:15AM on a school day, so I think she was under medicated. So I gave her a prescription for two smoking tires right in front of her house the following day. Most of my neighbors are cool though and request a smoke show from me.

Theres a guy like that, that lives down the block from me, well I was driving by in the maro, and he was like "SLOW DOWN!" and I atuomaticly was like "Wtf?" :sly: so now everytime I drive by the guy (If he's out) I floor it and try everything to make my tires squeal.. i love pissing him off. :lol:

eww.....impaled eyeball.....

you want slow, take a look at the stock 305, ya it sucks,lol. Yours sucks gas and hauls ass, mine just sucks gas.

305's are capable of ALOT. There are some tircks that you can boost power massively, and most cost barely anything. My old carbed 305 'maro, would beat the snot out of my cousin's carbed 350 Z28. And now (when it ran) my TPI 305 kills my bro-iin-laws 350 GTA. And that's without the definative mod that cost the price of a gasket.

BTW, way to jack a thread guys :thumbsup: j/k

swear, if you were watching you would've seen a first, a fat guy getting out from under the car in a second.

Oh, yes i have, my father in law at the time well pushed 275. Anyway, My old 'maro's starter bolt (the LONG one)broke off in the engine block and needed to be chased out. So he was bored came over and lent a hand, we took turns turning the bastard out 1/8 turn at a time (sucks royally).

So it was his turn and i'm just sitting there and hear this creaking. Figured it was the pos garage in the wind. Then it comes again, except more with a metalic scraping tone. now i may be going blind, but my ears more than make up for it (a feature my kids have come to hate) and I knew it was from under the car. So it got deeper and told him "MOVE!" I have never seen him move so fast (with the exception of when he decided to evict a wasps nest :lol: ). As soon as he just got clear, WHAM!!! the car toppled over the jackstand straight to the floor, and the hood prop (broomhandle) shot through the sidewall of the garage right over our heads. I don't know what it is about 3rdgens, they spend enough time on jackstands :lol: and yet hate staying on them :dunno:

I had to go to the E.R. and have it removed cuz I couldn't get it, and everytime I'd blink it'd slice deeper and deeper into the inside of my eyelid. safety glasses are my new best friend.

Know what you mean, I spent a December saving up money for a house and Christmas presents doing side jobs every weekend. In one weekend I did 3 heater cores. Anyway during one of em, I made the dumbass mistake of rubbing the sweat off my forehead with my shirt sleeve, which just so happened to have fiberglass from the dashpanel insulation on it. Within a week my eye nearly swolen shut. Had to go around like that until April becase the stupid f'n Dr. Numbnuts thought it was a stye. Finally requested a new Dr. and wouldn't you know he immediatily knew something was embedded in my eyelid.

I tell you what, I will go through 5 root canals all at one time vs. that operation ever again.

So, after some thought on the matter, I think the plan is to park it. Mostly due to rising gas prices and there's no sense in dropping the tank now, replacing the pump, drving it somemore and let it's skin cancer (rust) get worse, to have to tear it all apart again to restore everything else.

Thus, it's time to clean out the garage, get the shitbox (chevette) tittled and tagged, and pray I have aenough room for the AMC to chill, otherwise find it an apartment to rent (or drive IT :D ). Wife plans on not starting anymore major house projects for the duration of the summer :bs: It always starts small honey :shakehead . And hopefully I'll be able to bag all the parts I need, oooh, that reminds me, swap meet this weekend :devil:

305's are capable of ALOT. There are some tircks that you can boost power massively, and most cost barely anything. My old carbed 305 'maro, would beat the snot out of my cousin's carbed 350 Z28. And now (when it ran) my TPI 305 kills my bro-iin-laws 350 GTA. And that's without the definative mod that cost the price of a gasket.

BTW, way to jack a thread guys :thumbsup: j/k
ya, but my 305 is not carbed it is tbi, and it has 120,000 on it, it is starting to get tired. So i will build a good 350 and i have decided to go tpi.

My favorite part when changing out the fuel pump on mine was when the car fell down a bit, almost crushing me.. swear, if you were watching you would've seen a first, a fat guy getting out from under the car in a second.

heh, If that were me... you'd have seen / heard a HUGE fart and a plume of brown smoke would have flipped that sumbich like 20 feet to the side.

My maro's on jackstands with blocks under the tires, and I'm STILL uneasy about getting under there.

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My maro's on jackstands with blocks under the tires, and I'm STILL uneasy about getting under there.

BE A MAN, WILL YA? :lol:

My maro's on jackstands with blocks under the tires, and I'm STILL uneasy about getting under there.
Doesn't even phase me anymore.
I am so used to be under a car half the time I use just the jack and one stand.

Doesn't even phase me anymore.
I am so used to be under a car half the time I use just the jack and one stand.

:iamwithst

What are you guys doing jacking the car up without blocks under the tires? I’ve never had a car falloff jack stands and I’m working on dirt.

I drove over the top of my ramps the other day in my achieva and Kasey, I've seen you around jack stands. I think the Jack stands are scared to be working around you,

Most of my neighbors are cool though and request a smoke show from me.

how abotu the nazi tho? lol