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I'm talking about street cars, but I have no experience with any high powered MR cars. The 350Z, RX8, and other "cheap" sports cars. Ask anyone who actually races their 350Z, sizing up the fronts to match the rear make the car neutral. On an MR I could see it being more neutral with more in the rear, but in general OEMS make their cars understeer by design for the lowest common denominator. I don't think Lamborghinis fall in that category, their LCDs usually have better sense than most.

Is it me, or is that fuel tank diagram have the fuel level sender on the side...

And he's not even driving...

The staggered tire setups were created by lawyers for OEMs, they increase understeer and make the car more predictable. They also have great marketers that pass it off as the "performance" look.

Interior has been revised a bit, but it's still an S30. I would second the later S30, they are easier to find running with less rust, and cheaper than their 240Z counterpart. FWIH, in 77 they found a better source of steel for the unitbody. I found a ZZZAP 280Z (Yellow '77 with decals) for just over $2,000 here. It was "running" and "driving", but had quite a few issues before it was road worthy.

If you copy someone's copyrighted work without their permission--using it as your own, it's stealing. What do you think would happen if their roles were reversed? The magazine would hound every lawyer they have at her. She's completely wrong to assume that the internet is public domain--a belief many people seem to have as well. Even without a copyright notice posted, most work is assumed to take a "default" copyright. As far as posting "teh nude pics", if they were consenting, there's nothing you can do about it. It's not "stealing". And if you weren't consenting but at that person's house/apartment, you're screwed. Unless of course you happen to be under whatever the age of consent is in your state, then the male (or female!) responsible for the picture/posting it gets to go on the sex offenders list for the rest of their lives as a pedophile.

Damn I want one of those.

The one time my boost controller lost control, I ended up cracking a head all the way down the middle, long ways (VG30E). Anyway, after I tore it apart, everything looked fine. So, I placed one of the pistons on the table. Once it tapped that table, one skirt fell off and most of the rings and ring lands fell apart. So I rebuilt it and made a bazillion horsepower.

What a coincidence! Just yesterday, at another 4-way stop near my house, I pulled up to it, as did another car to my left at the same time. Now, I didn't intend to make a full stop anyway, but it was intended to be close enough. I could tell the other driver also wasn't going to stop, and intended to go before me. Technically, I should have been able to go first since we arrived at the same time. However, since I figured she didn't intend to stop I just swapped to the gas pedal and went. She, still on the phone and rolling across the intersection, blared the horn and threw her hand up in the air like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!!?! OMG HOW RUDE". Yeah, how rude. I guess she thinks she's the only one allowed to break the law. I smiled and waved.

Logical. That's how I would put it. At least in the parts of Luxembourg, France, Belgium, and Germany that I drove in. 4 way stops? Inefficient. You'll hardly see them. Anyone to the right of you has the right of way, unless you are on the main road. That's the main rule I remember. And if you get in the fast lane, go fast or get out. I only encountered one driver who was going slow in the fast lane, and he moved after getting honked at. Honk at someone here and they either brake check you or go on without the slightest clue that they might be blocking other people. I'm still in awe at just how much better traffic flowed (even in Paris at times), than here. It makes me that much more aggravated when I come back stateside and see how utterly retarded some of the laws, and the average driver, are. When I returned home, right before my house there are two four-way stops before my house, pretty much right next to each other. Both are in a school zone. So guess how this pans out when people come to drop off or pick up there kids at this school? Ugh, sorry. OT rant.

Magazines are a dying breed...

EFI? If you are doing this pre-pump, I put a Spectre 2369 right out of my fuel tank to catch rust. Came with 3/8" barb fittings.

You don't have to remove the timing belt. But, if it is about time to replace it, might as well.

Modify the stock plate, add a drain hole and tubing to somewhere desirable?

The vast majority of "normal" people have no idea what "fast" is. They think fast is anything that looks sporty.

Those wheels fit perfect! I've got a set of 513s in 16x8+0, with 225/55 all around and they stick out. I can't tell if it's just the tire or my offset is too low. What size tires are those? Looks like a smaller tire width will fix my problem from those pics.

I'm having a similar issue on a '77. I've had the tank "cleaned", replace the filter, and blown out the lines. There's still rust in the tank. When accelerating the car hits a wall at 4k in all cases. The more you drive it the lower and lower the fuel pressure goes under load. Will normally idle and rev fine in neutral. However, fuel pump has now been making weird noises and fuel pressure goes up if you knock it with a mallet (or tire iron...). Just recently started hesitating in neutral. So, the fuel pump is dying, I'm ordering a replacement. I've also installed a clear carb filter before the pump inlet, and it sure is collecting a lot of small rust particles. Not sure if something larger is clogging the inlet in the tank. If the fuel pump solves the problems I will be relieved, but I have a feeling I should take my tank back out and on to someone who can guarantee I won't have anything coming out of the tank except gasoline. The 4k RPM thing, at least from an EFI perspective, sounds like a fuel pump flow issue. Either by the pump itself and/or a clogged inlet.

You listen to dubstep? http://www.youtube.c...h?v=2WlrzkkkBQc EDIT: Wait, they play it on the radio? What channel?

Tony sure makes some long posts. Cliff's?

Yes, floormats. You sound like you want to believe it was somehow Toyota's fault. There were no electrical glitches discovered. And, no, I'm not referring to OBD Scanners. I am referring to GM's Tech-II, Nissan's Consult, etc. No disagreement here.

Here's some nice pictures and info from another forum: ------------------------------ There is been a lot of speculation on how this regulators are fabricated, and the quality of their components, so I decided it was a good Idea to take them apart side by side and evaluate their differences. Please let it be known that we fully stand behind any of this 3 regulators as we sell hundreds of them with a slim to none failure rate. However I know pictures speak more than 1000 words. And although they are very similar parts they have a few differences. Some are simply cosmetic, but there is also some differences it comes to their internals. I used standard -10 regulators because, that would be the way to do apples to apples comparison. No matter which size inlet you get the internal components are shared thru out the manufactures line up. Also know that I will be adding a Weldon regulator in the coming days to this thread. Looks wise the Fuelab one that comes in the most variety of colors as well as the smallest one of the group. The Aeromotive stands as the biggest unit, but also is the only one that comes fully assembled including the adjustment screw and the bracket to hold it. Both SX and Fuelab come with a bag that includes adjustment screw, bracket and hardware. Once a part is very easy to start telling differences, the Aeromotive is the only one that uses a stamped piece of sheet metal as spring cap, both the SX and Fuel Lab use a CNC piece of brass, but only the fuel lab has a ball in the top for the adjustment screw to sit against an important feature, so that the screw doesn’t wear the metal out over time. Once disassembled you can see, that the bottom of the diaphragm has a ball that sits against the base of the regulator in all of them, and the rubber material is obviously shaped differently in all of them. Even though to the naked eye it appears and feels to be the same type of material in all of them Like I said I would be doing the same with a Weldon in the near future, but for now be confident with any of this regulators you will get a quality piece. The only differences between them are look, price, and some structural differences that could sway a person one way or the other. Weldon time. Main points that I would like to highlight -CNC Hat like the SX and FueLab, However the ball on the top of it is not fixed so it simply rests there between the adjustment screw and the hat. -It is also the only one that has a sleeve in the bottom of the spring so that the spring sharp edge is not rested directly against the soft diaphragm material. - And for the return port It uses a sleeve inside the return port that is removable.

If I had failed or received a D in Cal 1 more time, that last time, I would have been required to change majors to a non-Engineering one. You can only repeat any single class 3 times in Engineering. That, and you can only drop 6 classes as well. I used the grade exclusion on my first Cal 1 attempt where I received an F, and my GPA went from 2.2 something to a 2.8, I intend to use it on the D I received as well. That puts me at 8/10 credits used for grade exclusion, but it will probably get me close to or beyond a 3.0 (yay me). I did at least one of the practice tests each time. Although my grade varied wildly. I got a 72 or something on the first one, a 92 on the second, and a 75 on the third. My final grade was a 60. The finals were always extremely hard. However, I still didn't complete all the homework, which would have helped. If there is one thing I am sure of now, is that to get math, you have to do problems, do problems, do problems. Now that I think about it, the Cal class we had together, I received a D. The one I am talking about in the above paragraph was the next time I took it. Mr. Smith decided not to take up homework that time. His rules for homework were ridiculous. There's no excuse for requiring students to write out the problems, and make up some sentence for something that requires a purely mathematical solution. Physics, I can understand, but Math no. Unless it's a word problem.

I think Cal 1's failure rate is 40-60%. Keep in mind that Cal 2 has a similar rate--and these are the people that passed Cal 1. I strongly recommend taking Cal 2, at least, at TCC. Do the classes get harder? It depends. The higher level CS courses I'm taking now aren't that bad. Some aspects of the course are familiar, since I've been programming as a hobby since I was a teen. A lot of CS people, who don't have a problem with Calculus, failed the intermediate programming courses, Java and C. I look back and laugh at them, but then again, I have all this trouble integrating... But now in the higher CS courses, I'm figuring out all this theory that ties everything together, and I enjoy learning about it. Wanting to learn about a subject helps tremendously on your brain's willingness to learn. Where the real determination comes from is sticking through those courses that seem lame. Although I find quite a bit of Cal 1+2 interesting, seeing it's applications in my major, I still hate it... and hate the level of it they expect from you. But I'm taking it at TCC, and I can say it is much easier. If there's a couple employers that will wonder why I took math at a community college, I can live with it. For me, 6 or more hours was enough for my financial aid, especially since me and my girlfriend live off my wages (which is below poverty level). Except she's not married to me so they count feeding her and whatnot as "voluntary". Your situation is probably different. One story I'd like to share is one of an ME student that has a work-study job at my school. He was a stereotypical college male: short blonde hair, whitened teeth, tribal tattoo, constantly on his phone and facebook talking about "getting wasted". Yet he was done with Cal 3, and just finished doing Fluids, Statics and whatever it is that ME's take. This same person was on a computer in front of me, clicking on one of those "Make $8,000 a week, click here to learn how one [LOCAL CITY NAME] mom made this money overnight!" He proceeded to enter his credit card info to pay $4.95 for their "information" on how to make this money. He then turned around and asked me "Hey, do you think this is a scam?" After asking him what he was doing, and learning that his card had been declined, I told him it was best to leave it at that and check his account's transaction list for a couple weeks. I explained to him that it was a scam, and that the "news" site he saw it on was just a single page where all the links brought you to the same page. And that the information they have is just on how to use Google AdSense, information that's free elsewhere. I explained that they probably wouldn't steal his identity, just that they would charge him the 5 bucks for worthless information. So, the moral of my story is: If that moron can pass Cal 3 and graduate, then so can I. And that's what keeps me going.

0 Friends? I see how it is. You're pretty much in the same boat I was (and still am, really). I hate to reveal this on the internets, but I think I'll survive. I've been in college for 7 years. The first 3 were at a community college, where I just took the basics and tried out what I thought my major would be, computer science. I was tempted to switch to English after I dropped Cal 1 there. Then I transfered to UWYO, which was a great school. The math was still getting me but I loved the COSC professors and courses. Unfortunately, pretty much none of those courses transfered to UTA when I transfered here in Fall '07. The **** started to hit the fan at UTA. I failed Cal 1 twice. Well, I got a D the second time, but it doesn't count anyway. I stopped and took a look back at myself and found that I barely studied, worked 20-30 hours a week, had 2 houses (it's complicated...), a pool, horses, cats, cars, and a girlfriend/wife to maintain. So, after taking classes full-time for most of those 7 years, I decided to go part time. I wish I had done this earlier. When I started out in community college my parents insisted that I had to take 12 hours or more. For some reason, I always assumed I had to do this and never considered taking less. Big mistake. I wasted a lot of time and money (my parents and now mine) and credit hours getting a full load and then dropping half of the courses after census date anyway. So, now I'm studying more, actually doing my homework ahead of time, reading the chapters. You know, all the stuff they recommend. While I can't say I didn't "have time" before to do this, I just managed my time poorly. Knowing that I can't just flip my attitude over just like that, I decided taking 6-10 hours per semester would give me more room to breathe. So, the problem, I believe, started in high school. I slept through it without opening very many books. All I took away from HS was how to take tests. That is, how best to take a test when you do or don't know the subject matter. I passed Cal AB with an A and failed BC in high school (after I discovered it wasn't necessary, I just slept), but only Pre-Cal was required to graduate, so I thought I would be better off for college. Yeah, right. So, I entered college having the worst habits ever, and expected them to work in college. And in some courses, they did. But there's a big difference between English 1301 and Calc 2, or linear algebra. I had a point there somewhere but I can't remember what it was. Anyway, UTA has a great engineering program, it's what they are best known for. They also have a great Nursing school, so I've heard. Those two departments are growing like crazy. However, Calculus and a few of the intro engineering courses are designed to weed people out. UTA has a horrible retention rate, one of the worst in the country, IIRC. To try and keep their statistics for Engineering graduates up, they try and weed people out before they make it to the professional track. Even then it's still abysmal. I'm not trying to say that it gets easier, but the courses definitely lose the feeling of "they really want me to fail". Take as much as you can at TCC, it's cheaper, easier, and it all transfers over to UTA.

I always liked the 918 Orange. But the 411 Yellow is growing on me: