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I just wanted to bump this up. Business got busy and I didn't work on the design for a while. Fortunately for the shirts, things slowed down a bit and I finished up my artwork. In any case, here's what we ended up with: That design has been approved by the board and we're going ahead with it! I'll be posting up a new thread to take orders in a couple weeks. Right now I need to get past an event on the 17th that is going to take all of my attention.

My fiance rebuilds motorcycles for fun, rides them and dirt bikes, is my engine builder, and has in the past built herself a RB25 powered 240SX drift car which later donated its power plant to my Z build.

I actually wasn't tremendously impressed with the driver. I've spent a lot of time involved with pro-am drifting in Texas and have seen all levels of driver. He's not bad, for that matter he's a lot more confident than me, but I saw several points where he over rotated a bit and had to get way off the throttle to recover. Admittedly this is in the wet where that is exactly what you have to watch out for, but if I caught at least three-four of those in the video, I'm sure that at least a few of the ones he didn't catch were edited out.

They aren't horrible but I'm not tremendously impressed. The mustang wasn't holding all that much angle and the Z kept over-rotating and running out of steering angle. Editing probably left out an awful lot of spins and skids to a stop for the Z. I did look like the Z had something going for a bit of additional angle but not enough for serious competition.

Yeah, a lot more framework than that went into it before I was done with it.

I love the cabinets and work bench! Were those home built or bought from somewhere?

I was watching another thread and it gave me the idea for a "post your shop" thread. I'd love to see where people work and keep their cars. I've recently become a home owner and I'm working on a shop to call my own now, and I'd love to see what other Z owners have done with their work spaces. Here's a couple of pictures of what I'm working on, and have worked on in the past: Here is the shop I had in Austin. I shared it with a couple of other guys so I only really had room for three cars in there, but it was still pretty cool. Unfortunately it was also 20 minutes from my house and hot as hell in the summer, which in Austin meant most of the time. I kept it for a year and had some good times there, but ultimately I was glad to leave. I spent a year working out of my father's garage which kind of sucked, but it did give me a financial boost to get my own house so it worked out in the end. Finally, I got my own place. One of the big reasons I bought this house was that it had a carport that would be easy to turn into a garage. Before you ask, the original garage is taken up by a vinyl and screen printing shop and what little room is left has a motorcycle lift and project bike in it, so no room there. Here's the house as I bought it: I started work pretty quickly on the carport. Here's the beginning of the framework for the garage door and new entrance door: And the finished product: Unfortunately since I just got the back siding up I don't have the nice interior pictures showing off what I'd really like to see from everyone else - cabinets, tables, benches, etc. I need some inspiration for the fixtures in the new shop area. So, what do you guys have?

I'd love to have the money for something like that myself, but to be honest, I'd have to ask why you wouldn't just look to buy a piece of property and build your own man cave garage there. I suppose that there's the experience, or if you like living an inner city life and can't have the space there. Actually if I'm honest I guess the fact that I'm lucky enough to have found and bought a piece of property big enough to do what I want on it that is as close to the city as I want to be makes me a bit jaded. I've had a shop 15 minutes away from my house and I'm glad to no longer have to drive to work on my cars. Actually this thread does give me the idea for another thread - I'd love to see what people have set up for their garages... I'll have to start a thread here in a second.

Check your MAF. That sounds an awful lot like what most nissan engines do when you have a bad MAF signal and it goes into the appropriate limp mode.

That has come a long way! My shop was a block away when I still lived in Austin and I dropped by a couple times to see it early on. Looks so impressive now all put together!

In Texas you can file for a bonded title, not sure if that's an option in your area. My Z is the same story - passed away owner, several hands without a title - and a bonded title is probably how I will go about getting it back registered again.

Also curious on the total price. I'd be interested in a set without the switch installed. I'll be sourcing all of my own switches so that my interior matches but it would be worth a ton to get ready-to-go door panels shipped in so I don't have to mess with them.

To be quite honest most of these are from my miata and 240SX since the datsun is still in the "collecting parts" phase, but they still apply fairly well. When the people at the auto parts store know you by name and still can never guess what car to enter in the system. When you've spent more than 30 minutes in the back of an auto parts store looking for that perfectly bent radiator hose. When you have an entire box of used intercooler/radiator/exhaust pips laying around and can identify what every piece is, when you pulled it off of the car, and what bits have been cut and used elsewhere.

Nice work! +1 for a build thread over here. Would love to see what you are doing with the rest of the car.

Putting lots of stuff in a miata with the top down is fun! I've hauled a lot of crap in mine over the years. BTW I need your drivers side fender, you have my paint code!