Car starts to miss and is slugish on accelaration , also # 6 cylinder is fouling !

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Asked by rcummingsb Sep 01, 2013 at 04:28 PM about the 1977 Datsun 280Z

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I have a 1977 datzun 280z that have owned since 1978 , 2nd owner, The car has always been reliable , it became hard to pass smog here in california , so i had the engine rebuilt and it smogged fine again , since about 2000 i have not driven the car that much , may be about 10-20 miles a month , i know its insane , suddenly it does not pass smog again ! it always starts and is fine below 3000 rpm ! does this sound like sticking valves or what ? Any ideas would be wonderful ,thank you!

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I will get to work right away checking these areas, thank you for somewhere to start my quest !!

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