OlderThanMe

I now scan all of my sketches. I have a Lexmark 2400 all-in-one printer/scanner and it was like $50. The printer isn't the best though.

Of course if I go SR20 then the hood will be completely different. One bigger scoop in the middle with no bulge...sort of like the coffey hood

I was looking at my Z sitting in the garage and I think the hood vents are too wide and not long enough. They will probably change on Formula Z mkIII

check the bottom of this page(14) of my worklog and the last page http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=110183&page=14

I made a few changes to my Formula Z sketch. Now the Formula Z mkII open front fenders, top of fenders are now part of the hood, and a few other small things. This is REALLY close to the direction I am going to go with the body of my Z. I may just scrap the whole front frame above the main square tube and do a tubular setup. That will be in the future though. Maybe summer of 08 after my big motor build and the car gets drivable.

awesome...

I know... I can't help it 240Hoke... J/K lol

Yes I am much younger than my Z. The day I bought my Z I was 15, turning 16 the next day, and the car was 30...lol I am now almost 19...one of these young whipper snappers. PLUS I have already graduated from a local technical college with a diploma in "welding and joining technology". Now going for a degree in Mechanical Engineering at a 4 year college. I got a little ahead of a lot of people in knowing about welding by starting welding school at 16... Hey I lost 13 pounds in 10 days! I had this jaw surgery to wire my jaws together so I can only eat liquids for another two weeks. I had to withdraw from college because that kind of weight loss is not good for me. That was about 8% of my weight gone in 10 days! not good. I have started eating better by being at home though.

yeah... that nice 911... it was too fast to be out there with regular street cars...

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/941a2c4c-edd4-4cc4-bbd2-362547df3298.htm He was pretty quick but needs to smooth out his steering a little bit...it could be that the car is just too insanely fast though...

Diamond Racing Wheels!!! They only come in 15" and 16" sizes though. I got 4 15"x8" rims for less than $400 made to my backspace specs.

that is old news...sorry there.

Well since I am in Atlanta I guess I'll have to go there and test them out. Summit carries the intermediate road racing seat so their store should have one. jmortneson: that is a great price for a seat like tat with the cover! I'll have to look into that seat. mom'sZ: thanks for that link. Useful information! Doc: Thanks for your 2 cents. I'll take them... Jmortenson: I have sat in the rice seats at pep-boys and learned that if it looks comfortable it isn't always actually comfortable. That is why I think of it like buying a shoe...it can look comfortable and cost a lot but if you have the foot of bigfoot then it won't work...you would need a custom shoe. I think I would be in a 15" or 16" wide seat but I want to get the right one. It is hard enough to find pans that fit...too many people have a bigger waist size than inseam so with my grossly skinny (under 150 Lbs.) and tall(6') self I spend hours looking for a good pair of jeans that fit...I hope finding a good seat will not be too hard. Plus I will be taking plenty of 350+ mile trips so seat support is definitely important. I figure I'll spend $900 on a good pair of seats and harnesses easy.

thanks guys. here is a picture of the seat I am looking at. I really don'tmind the hastle of getting in and out if it will be a lot safer than the stock danger seats. I will be using a roll cage as well as these seats and the "cam lock" type harnesses.

I think the dr_hunt is near me right now because it is raining and raining and raining...lol

Awesome!!!

In Germany the old bug was actually called a "transporter" but that would not fly in the US and someone said it looked like a bug and it stuck... I think it is like calling a 240 a "Z" and calling a 350 a Zed...they are somewhat swappable. Calling a first gen a ZX does not fly with me though. Or calling a ZX a Z. It just gets confusing at that point. "Yeah my uncle had a 240ZX" is what I hear when I tell people I have a first generation Z. That drives me nuts.

I am now looking for a good seat to put in my Z and have been looking at a few choices. The Kirkey intermediate road racing seat is my favorite so far. Buying a seat seems to me like buying shoes and I don't know what size I want. I have a 32" waist and am 6 feet tall (yeah really skinny...). I am trying to figure out what width and degree of reclining I want. Short of making a jig out of plywood and seeing what width I would want how can I tell what size seat I should get? I usually like to sit upright and relatively close to the steering wheel so 10* of reclining seems like what I want but I'll tilt the seat back a few degrees so that I can move the seat closer to the steering wheel with my rediculously long legs. I will be putting some serious miles on my Z so the seat has to be right. The passenger seat will be wider so bigger people can fit and I'll make some foam wedges that attach with velcro for the skinnier people that don't want to slide around the seat. Are there any reccomendations or general rules of thumb for width sizing numbers? Thanks guys

looks like an L20a with the NAPS-Z head...not that great at all from what I have read.

I've seen that header before somewhere...in a book I think... let me check it out. Edit...I think it is the pacesetter header.

Are those flares going to be produced? I would REALLY want those exact flares...not too wide and go up high enough to not look odd

johnc is about to do some composite 280zx hoods...don't know how far he has gotten with them though. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=113282

eh...it is still pretty cool.

same here about slush... Hey prox...don't you like to play in the snow with your Z?

Here is a quickie of a Z with a GT40 nose.