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That sucks man. Id hug you, I would, but if I do, Ill just snake my hand into your pocket and try to steal your wallet and neither of us want that. Really. Somethin along those lines.. A little bit ago I was helping to wetsand a new Impala at school as a favor to the guys workin on it, just to get it done.. Wasnt paying attention, we were shooting the ♥♥♥♥, goofin off, Im sanding and chatting.. I look down at what I'm doing and turns out I picked up a little rock or peice of grit.. Door and front fender were wrecked, right through the clear into the paint.. I thought they were gonna kill me. Had to stop everything and I had to repaint the panels, I was soo pissed.

Ok, so its nothing I havent posted before with one minor exception.. Its complete. Everything is hooked up and working. All we have to do is get the shift linkage done and she is 'finished'. The engine bay looks like damnit, I know, but once we get it running and worked in I'll start re-doing it bit by bit and cleaning it up, putting everything in some form of order and making it pretty. Currently we have an odd problem.. One wretched misfire issue. Wont rev past about 3100rpm's, stumbles, acts up, its pretty ugly. I dont know why.. Ive been over everything and I dont now whats wrong.. I'm gonna replace the plugs and wires and go over everything AGAIN and see if I can figure out the issue. I need to make a little pressure tester and check the intake and I/C for leaks, god knows theres a dozen, which will of course affect us, but its not the root cause of this. I figured I'd give a little update for the folks out there who have asked about it. It hasnt been forgotten but I havent had the time, motivation and money to deal with it with the Z, my SHO, my Z, my sisters crap-ass contour that refuses to run for more than 3 days at a stretch, my girlriends firebird and other assorted tasks in and around school, lol. You'd think I'd burn out, but I just want more, haha.

Ha, lots of black these days it seems. I hope to get my hands on that GN. Be sure to like.. pull the motor though. If you bring it down whole theres a good chance that motor may fall out of the GN and into my Z.. Purely by accident of course. *cough* I'd love to get the car in paint but finding the money is just impossible I think. Paint and clear would be close to 500$. School lets out the 6th of this month until January anyway, no way Id have the money in time. *sigh* lol. I need a paying gig, haha.

More shots of the SHO now that its 'done'. Its 100% finished up and if I had paint, it would be in it now, lol. I'm gonna seal it Monday, just so its all one color, but its not exactly required, ha. Its also now officially up for sale.. 1500$..(1700$ with cd player and my TR mids, ha) Any takers? It'll be in sealer before the buyer pics it up. Im gonna make a proper post here and a few other places soon, but I need to get the interior and engine bay cleaned and detailed before-hand so I can get a whole assortment of pics. The one shot of the front of the car is a bit unfair, ha. The hood was still wet so it was shiny, its overly flattering, lol. The actual color is the same black you see on the doors. Urethane primer thats been wet-sanded, so its a flat color. I know you all dig my super-duper two tone eh? CUSTOM! Ha. Spoiler isnt on in the pics but its finished as well and installed now.

Damn Ernie, that is some slick work you do. One of these days I hope to be half as good! As far as I'm concerned, post any non-Z pics you want, lol. I sure do.. ha. I love to see the work done on other cars.

Indeed.

No pics of mine at the moment, but heres a mental image.. Imagine a small closet, one of those standard 'keep your close and nothing else' type deals. Now throw in a Z shell, then a bunch of tools, then everything that used to be on the Z before it was stripped. Then a 210 pd dog, his bed, his chair, his TV, his dishs, then throw in a 140pd female, her dishs. Now some boxes with christmas decorations. Some dirt, and me! Germs cant fit in my garage right now =/

haha, nice. It'll be black for sure. I really would like it plainted that parchment color, but I'm not going through the trouble of a complete color change and the hell of trying to get that engine bay one color when all I intend to do is sell the car.. oooohhh no. It was black before and by god its gonna be black again, haha. They do look sharp in black to. I need to take a trip to a Mercedes dealer, or track down my aunt. She has a sharp Benz thats an off-black that I really like. Its pretty much solid but has a very very light tint of grey to it, I'd like to get the color code and give it some thought.

UO4lyf! God I had fun playing that game, first online game ever for me. Little naked mage with black sandals on, purple hair.. name of Mouse. I killed everyone that moved, it was pretty fun. I was such a bastard.. I'd love to know just how many poeple I chased away from that game. Shadowbane was worse, ha. We had the CCR's contact us (LoC/TDA) and request that we ease up a bit because we were chasing literally hundreds of poeple from the game. I play to grief..

Not to hi-jack or piggy back.. But I was about to post this one myself.. I need one as well, lol.

Ernie, The 3.0's are a tad faster. The hp is the same but the 3.2's make 15 or 20 more trq, cant remember which. The auto transmissions just arent worth a damn. Its a pretty popular 'swap' if you have to replace the motor in a manual to just go ahead and get a 3.2 from the auto. takes a little tinkering, but not much to get it in. They do sing.. I'd like to get a sound sample but my camera's recorder doesnt do it justice. They just scream, its awsome, lol. My intake, MAF, Valve Covers, Coil Cover and assorted other odds and ends are actually painted with a rim paint they sell at autozone and the like. About 8k miles deep and the paint is perfect. Of course, powder coating would be vastly preferred, but for the cost, its tough to beat that kinda finish and look or 15$ and a day of work, lol. I have to be cautious of solvents and chemicals in the engine bay but I havent had a problem out of it yet! My plenum is a tad scuffed in a few places though due to the motor movement. Thats why the heat blanket thing (what the hell is the correct term? ha) isnt on the hood any more.. The engine moved so much it was rubbing it in a couple places and scuffing my finish. Need to get another one now that my engine is less mobile. BRQ, Thank you for the offer! I dont need any of them though. You could try out SHOForum.com and put them up for sale. I'm sure you'd find a buyer quickly. Edit, I always thought the SHO motor would be a fantastic plant for a Z. I have visions of a twin turbo 3.2 sitting way back.. Man it would be a baaaadddd ass.

Engine is the only thing worth half a shyte with these cars. Well, thats not completely true.. They have a version of suspension run on cop cars.. little stock body kit, etc etc. The motor is a 220hp/200trq 3.0 V6. Rev limit is something to the tune of 7800rpm. Yamaha built, top to bottom. Nothing Ford about it, cept the accessory junk, which ironicly is what keeps the motor from using the rev range it was designed for, which is in excess of 9k RPM's. They run about 15.2 stock with a competent driver. The motors themselves last forever.. Literally. Ive seen pics of 200k+ motors torn down for one reason or another and the cylinders still have the crosshatching visible, its pretty slick. The motor design is based on Yamaha indy car power plants and supposably in its original tune (this is simply what Ive 'heard') they made around 300hp and revved to just under 10k RPM. They sound pretty damn amazing to. 25/30-32 mpg if I'm careful. If you dip into the throttle though.. It drop to something like 12 or 13 feet per gallon.. Once the secondaries pop at 4200rpm you can practicly watch the gas gauge drop. They respond pretty well to the basic mods as well. Good amount of hidden potential in there. Sadly, Ford took a fantastic motor, crammed it into a less than fantastic body, then stuck on a lack-luster tranny and the IDIOTIC EECIV system.. Tossed on some accessories that required the motor being choked a little.. *sigh*. Ya know, they really are a fun car.. Its pretty stout, has black leather, 5 speed, good a/c, premium sound, seats 5 poeple easily, is comfy as hell. Really, if you want a car that does a little bit of everything, its stellar. Honestly I would kinda like to keep it, but I really want something 2 door and smaller I can really goof off with. Couple pics.. What it looked like before it got hit and one shot of the engine bay when it was clean (aka before i started the body work, ha). They really dont look bad.

Thats fantastic. I wish I was more local to the folks who'll have the cars. I would have loved to lend a hand with paint and body. Hell, I wish I had known about this earlier I would have been willing to donate myFairlady. Its likely not in as good of shape as would be desired though, ha. If i can be of any use, let me know.

Still body working the poor thing. Rags saw it a while back and it looks a *little* better now. We can all thank a hit and run in Wal-Mart parking lot for this.. I dont get alot of time to work on it, nor do I have the money when I have the time, but I'm making a push to get it done, or as done as I can manage by the end of this month. We (by we I mean three guys at school who are actually worth a damn and myself.) finished the body work up today, less the spoiler from hell and the front bumper from somewhere beneath hell. Monday when I get to school I'l turn the body over to Bryan, Jordan and Bob who will put the final primer coat on everything you see in the pics that isnt black while I sort out the front bumper and spoiler.. If they go well I'll have them in primer by the end of the day.. Next day is wetsanding, then sealing. Now, annoyingly enough, sealing will be the last thing i do for quite a while. Its just to even the color out and protect the primer and body work. Also make the car look more 'complete' since its actually going up for sale as soon as its in sealer.. 1500$ unpainted but ready, 2000$ once I get color down. When it comes time to paint all I'll have to do is scuff up the sealer and lay another coat before paint. Interestingly enough, I was in school for over 13 hours yesterday.. On my way to school one of the motor mounts finally gave out. They've been dieing for a while and basicly surviving by the limiters.. One of the limiters failed.. So, after I got some space in the shop and finished what I had to do on a couple little minor things in the shop I pulled it in and we pulled the mounts out, I re-welded the limiters and put some pretty tough and large bolts through the mounts to sandwich them back together. Its not perfect but its about as good as stock would have been, slightly better really. New mounts for this car are extremely expensive, so.. they got repaired instead of replaced. It took from noon-ish to 8pm to accomplish it. Those mounts are JAMMED in there, jeebus. Oh.. ha, color? Dunno. Maybe black pearl like on the Z, maybe that kinda off-black on some Mercedes I see or maybe just plain old friggen black, ha. Ya know, one of these cars done in (I beleive this is the correct name) Parchment White Pearl would be dope. If you've seen that white on some new caddies and escalades that almost has a pink hue to it in good light? Thats the color.. Would look great on a SHO but my car was already black, so I dont want to go through a whole color change just to sell the damn car. I'm hoping the spoiler works out. It was shattered. Not cracked.. shattered.. So i ground out the back of the spoiler, building channels along the cracks that i filled with fiberglass resin and laid over with mat, then on the other side I ground down channels along the cracks and filled them with semi ridged bumper repair gook, sanded them flush and coated with filler. I tried just coating with filler but the cracks on the outside re-appeared immediatly, so i chose to go with something that would adhere to the plastic and hopefully keep the cracks from re-appearing. Very similar repair planned for the bumper, except I'll be using the bumper repair gook all around, no fiberglass (bumper is ultra flexible).

Edit, Thanks 80, I figured it out, much appreciated. Off to find some pics.. haha.

Umm, Ok, this is the crap I get into my head when I'm sitting here bored out of my mind. I want some pics of Z's on my cellphone to use as little backgrounds and what-not but I cant locate any through my cellphones little "shop online" feature.. Nor do I have a camera on the phone, nor access to a Z worth putting as my background, lol. Soo........ Anyone out there have any nice Z pics on their phone they'd like to send my way? ha. Austins Z would be a winner, lol. Dumb I know, but if anyone does and wouldnt mind sending em my way, PM me and I'll pass along my number. Thanks!

Oh damn.. I'm gonna have to try to scrape up like 20$ in a couple weeks and grab two pair.. I LOVE those. My last pair lasted me over a year, may the r.i.p. We can all thank me for welding with them and Bryans dog for getting ahold of them and finishing what I had begun.

The booth is pretty damn dirty. I spend a huge amount of time maintaining the booth while spraying, i mop it, wipe the walls down, my hoses, myself, If I stay on top of it its pretty clean. What all needs to be done before the car can be painted? Anyone need anything painted? haha. I need a paying job over the next couple months, lol. Eating water and noodles 4 nights a week and waiting to be evicted is annoying, haha.

Our Festiva's little IHI SCREAMS over the 3inch DP (dumping to nothing.. no exhuast ATM) when you rev the car. Its not even in gear, building no boost and sounds like the world is coming to an end, I.. LOVE.. IT..

My plan was always to cut out the indents and weld in new metal, flush. then just smooth with filler and an asston of good high build and move along! Im speaking from a 240 standpoint of course. I'll have to look at it again to make sure, but really, I thought it wouldnt be much more than adding some flush metal to replace the indents for the bumper.

Brandon is right. You eat sleep and ♥♥♥♥ those games once you get rollin. I haf to walk awayor I'd never have a real life, lol. Some poeple live the culture.. A bunch of game obsessed nerds playing games and talking about how hot the game chicks were made me sick.. Life my ass, i walked away. Started in UO, 4 years of my life to that game. 40+ hours a week.. was rediculous. I was one of the best, dont get me wrong (sorry, ego..) then moved to Shadowbane.. ToC by god, best and the best, untouchable and never lost an even fight in 3 years of playin. Then WoW.. Bah.

Interesting.. I love purists, they make me laugh a little. Well, laugh and want to pee in their shoes. Pee while laughing really. Hard to aim.. worth it though. We must be persistent. Always. So many motors. Ive been on a DSM kick.. how about a 4G63? hehe. Hm, What about the 'Busa V8's? Thats pretty damn exotic, ha. SHO motor is a tough little bugger. I dont know if its been done or not. How about something REALLY original, that no on has ever done before.. like a SBC? haha, just dorkin around. Really piss some folks off and build a turbo GSR honda motor or something, hahaha. Get a graphic that says "Datsun show, Honda go!" and then vomit a little bit.. haha.

Skinny, small poeple are so helpful, haha. I have a friend whos like 120 and a pretty stout driver. I use him when I need the best possible time, haha. Ive been so damn impressed with the DSM's. I think I'm gonna look for a 92 without a motor and find a 90 motor (6 bolt with an oil cooler) and swap it in. When it comes to it though, and 6 bolt car will be fine, I'll just have to J/Y the LSD or something. I cant decide on the ABS or not.. if I want it on the car. Its nice, dont get me wrong, but adds weight, though I dont think its hugely significant. *shrug*

*cough* 11.70's with two big guys in the car? Wholey hell.. That is one dirty motor you built.. jeebus. PM inc..

I did not know that actually.. Let me know when your taking pre-orders!