{"id":7478,"date":"2013-04-09T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T08:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2013-04-09T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T08:53:55","slug":"junkyarding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/09\/junkyarding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Junkyarding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This past rallycross the FX had been\u00c2\u00a0having power and driveability issues. Luckily this time I saw the CEL come on so I pulled the codes\u00c2\u00a0later. Turns out the error is from the AFM. Unfortunately perusing Root’s boneyard revealed 3 AFM’s in a addition to the\u00c2\u00a0one in the street FX and one in the rally FX were all bad. The street FX was in the best shape, it should be since it was a reman bought recently from NAPA, so I swiped that one into the rally.\u00c2\u00a0The street then got the next best one I could find.<\/p>\n

So this past Saturday I decided to go check out ABC in Pearl City. Haven’t been there in a while so might as well\u00c2\u00a0see what they got. Mostly overcast, but still hot. Not a single Corolla AFM to be found. In fact AFM’s seem to be one of the first things to go, there was hardly a car with one left! That being a failure, I was now in trolling mode, looking for anything to scavenge to at least make the trip out not a total failure. So far it was looking a little sad, I scabbed the “Ram Air” emblems of the sides of a Pontiac. I did find someones stash of horns in the\u00c2\u00a0trunk of a car.\u00c2\u00a0Hey, they left it there,\u00c2\u00a0it was free game! I took the pair of FIAMM with 90 degree outlet\u00c2\u00a0and two wire power. Hey, I left them the Made In Spain ones.<\/p>\n

I then went back to something I had seen when I first\u00c2\u00a0arrived at the yard, a Datsun 280Z. This was a pretty rare find, most everything in here is from 90’s or newer, with a few 80’s vehicles. This 280 must be fresh, it was up front and had almost everything intact, including the AFM! Did some Net searching and figured out this was actually a 280ZX, the fuel injection and uglyfying body\u00c2\u00a0elements should have told me right away. And some more Net searching confirmed the\u00c2\u00a0rememberence of hearing that the front struts can be used in a 510. They pretty much bolt in with the only modification needed are the spring perches. This nets you a lower height,\u00c2\u00a0cartridge capable damping, and larger vented discs. It was fairly easy to remove, technically only three nuts, two bolts, and brake line were all that needed to be removed. I did also detach the sway bar and front tension rod for more room. Eventually got them out, but it cost quite a lot of sweat. The forklift guy was cool enough to see me struggling and lifted the front of the car onto a pile of stuff.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Oh, and the other cool bonus item I grabbed was this funky work light that was in the 280ZX engine compartment, bolted to the inner fender bulge.\u00c2\u00a0I didn’t realize the little dome section detached from the egg until I pulled it out tonight,\u00c2\u00a0neat-o!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past rallycross the FX had been\u00c2\u00a0having power and driveability issues. Luckily this time I saw the CEL come on so I pulled the codes\u00c2\u00a0later. Turns out the error is from the AFM. Unfortunately perusing Root’s boneyard revealed 3 AFM’s in a addition to the\u00c2\u00a0one in the street FX and one in the rally FX […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1WC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7484,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}