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i had a sand rail when i was in high school made from scrap parts. it was worse than the z. no lights, no seat belts. completely open. fun as hell. pretty fast too with the wind in your hair. probably not that fast in actuality but it felt fast. being lit most of the time while driving it im sure helped out. jimbo

i have seen that 26" is the correct length fro the primaries. here is a link to another thread that talks about it. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=116979 monzters is awsome but will not work for most. if we kept the length as close as possible, it would be a plus. what that is i have no idea but i know i do not have that much room and it is a race car. let alone having an ac and other stuff in the way. 18"-24" i think would be doable. 18" of curly tubing is not tha much space. as far as flanges are concerned, i will cut off and add my own if ness. jimbo

+1 jimbo

1/2" flange. cold fusion made a run of them before and some one can do it again. i know the cad file is out here somewhere. match the diameter of the runners for the diameter of the pipes and as equal length as possible. jimbo

the pavillions is off of the loop 101 and indian bend in scottsdale. go up (west) the I-10 to the US60 east the north on the loop 101 to indian bend. make a left on indian bend and turn right into the pavillions parking lot. there is a home depot in there and the loud music is from the speakers on top of the McDonalds in the parking lot. lots of flashy cars. jimbo

theres El Paso BBQ (good bbq, nice place) in mesa off of the us 60 and stapley, very close to me, and Joes Real BBQ (great bbq, family place) in gilbert off of gilbert and elliot. im sure there are some places in chandler and awatuke that are closer but i have not been to them. if you are here on saturday, go up to firebird race way in the late afternoon. i will be there for my first HPDE and there is races as well. suposed to be up to 10,000 people there according to the promoter. grassroots motorsport mag is covering it. if you come up, look for a really slow white w/ primer spots 280z 2+2 that does not look like he knows what he is doing. that will be me. jimbo

next weekend we are having a hpde. starts at 4:00 pm and goes to 1:00 am. im sure that the track is lit, but i wonder what the word will be for the lights to be on in this instance. jimbo

after getting my 2+2 running after 8 years of sitting on the side of the house, the door weather stripping was toast. i saw the post for kragen, which i thought was affiliated with schucks and checker, i looked for stipping. all they had was adheasive style weather stripping. i went over to the local auto body paint supply store. this place has everything from nuts and bolts to pin stripes and body moldings. they had the weather stripping called circle on side. (the circle of foam is on the side of the moulding, pretty cleaver of them huh). 2.22 / ft. i thought 16' would be enough for the 2 doors. no i did not measure it before i left. 13' was enough for a 2+2 door. i will need to adjust the door locks on it because it is fatter than the old stuff but at $26.00 vs $80.00, i will take it. just another place to look at. jimbo

i ran mine directly in line with the frame rails in the engine bay. so in your pic i guess it would be close to "B". jimbo

the right gas is important indeed. i was welding and ran out of gas but did not realize it at first. why is it looking so $hitty. oh. ran out of gas. took the cylinder to get refilled and went home. hooked it up and same thing. crappy welds. wtf. took the cylinder back to the store and the guy looked at me and asked what i was brewing. im not brewing beer, like to though. im welding. you got the wrong gas there son. (i swear im hearing a banjo in the background as he gives the correct gas.) good to go. looks good. keep it up. jimbo

finally. IT RUNS. tried afm. mine im sure wrked untill i tried to take the cover off. opps. new afm. put fp gauge on there again. hits 40 psi and then drains to 10 in about 20 sec. of bad fuel pump? teid another. nope. ok. throw some tools around the garage:evil:. i took jumper cables from my truck and hooked it up to the pump. it works. turned on the car, 35-40 psi solid. so after consulting with clifton, i run new wires to the fuel pump as the hot wire was not hot. tonight i drove the car around the block several times. brakes need work. the car bucks around a little bit when barely on the gas. need to figure that out. in a day or two i will drive it over to coyote garys place for him to look at and get the ac charged up and anything else that i missed. things are looking up finally. any ideas on the bucking? jimbo

wow. thats not fair. he cut across the course. jimbo

i say just reinforce the hatch and make sure that the wing / hatch connection is trasfered through the body. im am worse off because most of you have the original hatch and i have betas fg hatch. i have a frame inside the hatch and will rest on a frame from inside the car so the hatch sees no force from the wing. jimbo

good job. jimbo

we will be flirting with triple digits by the end of the week. jimbo

i'm interested if the price is good. i would want the flange off for my turbo. it might be good to do that anyway. flanges are cheap and can be welded locally. id go mild steel as well. jimbo

they had gatorade on sale for .50 as well. the 32 oz ones. all flavors. im pissing fruit punch and lemon lime. jimbo

i rode for plymouth. that was at the end and i got pissed off at all of the crap that goes with pro racing. whenever i had a bad race, i got yelled at, whenever i won, the coach took credit for. dominic malvestudo (coach) was not much of one. i was still in contact with kent bostic who i trained with every day in new mexico for 4 years and made my schedule with his. i rode a couple of races in the shaklee jersey riding for kent when the rest of the team was not there. did the kilington stage race with him and the old tour of the moon race. that course was in the crappy cycling movie american fliers. my first coach was in that movie as well. he was at the last stage getting one of the bikes off of the roof of the van. those were the days. i miss it sometimes but do not wish to hurt like that ever again. one of my team mates andrew miller, got me eating cold chef boyardee in the mornings of hilly stages because the raviolis were smooth going down and if need be smooth going up. worked for him, it was nasty but worked for me too. jimbo

when i was a cat 1, i had a couple of teamates that did the amature version of it. more power to them. one of my team mates had a felt bike, one of the first generation ones. light as f. but to much of a wet noodle for my style. i liked something stiffer. im sure it has gotten stiffer since i retired. now jim can charge more for the frame set:icon44:. i remember racin against dean, vande veld, and zabriskie congrats jimbo

When i was a kid growing up in casper wyoming where there is not much to do when it is 20 below zero ( remember that Dr. Hunt? ) We would throw lots of snowballs at passing cars. ther would not be 2 of us, it would be like 12 kids. imagine that driving down the road and your car getting hit by 6-8 snowballs. in the summer we would launch water balloons instead. glad i do not live in snow now. my older brother confessed a while back that him and some of his buddies used to find old abandoned tires at the top of a hill at the entrance of paradise valley where we lived and roll them down the hill. at the bottom of the hill was a large lip and then the road. the object of the game, late at night, was to roll the tire down the hill and get it to fly in front of the car. there are no street lights so all you would see from the car was a flash of a tire flying past you. all went well untill someone let go a little too late and the tire caved in the passenger side door. he never did that again. its not a new occurance but it seem more rampant now. it maybe that the ammount has not increased that much but we hear about it more now. kinda like teachers and their students. jimbo

well, since you blew it up, it was NOT the strongest link in your set up, now was it. i guess stubbies. jimbo

vacume lines look good. afm boots are good. its posible that the fp is low. i will get the gauge on it again to make sure. what is is supposed to be at? jimbo

it will do that all day long and the plugs look ok. mabey the fp is too low, i have no idea anymore. jimbo

The FP is at 20 psi I think the last time I checked it. I blew out the lines with 135psi of air out of my compressor. The timing has not changed and the car will not stay on long enough to warm up. Only 20-30 sec at a time. Jimbo

Here is a short vid of my car trying to run. short story is the car sat for 6 years. I now want to start driving it again but i can not get it to run longer than 20 sec. I replaced the gas tank, flexable fuel lines, blew out hard lines with 135 psi, fuel filters, pump, injectors, new oil, filter, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, thermostat, water temp sensor. The afm works. All of the electrical connections look solid. i am out of ideas. I went through the FI Bible. No luck. i have been at this for a few months now and have searched quite a bit sor ideas. anything that you can come up with i would greatly appreciate it. In the video, the car does respond to throttle inputs, but dies on its own. Yes, there is an exhaust leak. I have replaced the gasket numerous times when i did drive it. And yes it needs a bath but i doubt that dirt is making it run like crap TIA jimbo