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Well, after all said and done, John Coffey's comment made over a year ago is about to be put into effect. I need to notch out my passenger side frame rail about 3" in length, and about 1.5 " deep at most for header clearance, I assume it's safe to just cut out the portion, and weld in a 14 or 16ga steel plate to fill in the holes and reinforce the weakness I'll create by cutting a section out? Any specific tips/hints/tricks? There is clearance...but very very little. If the motor rocks side to side (it is on solid mounts) it will hit the rail. I can try tilting it a little bit, but I don't want to tilt the oilpan too much. Frame rail notching is sort of last resort, but I'd like to get all opinions on this prior to doing any cutting. Any severe cons ?

it's today's version of 'closure'. you lose a loved one as a result of your own ignorance, and try to point a finger at someone else and get lots of money

yay frivilous lawsuits! The family of a Garland girl who was accidentally killed last month when her father ran over her is suing a major car manufacturer for negligence. On October 9, David Clemens backed up his Infiniti SUV and tragically ran over and killed two-and-a-half-year-old Adrianna. "You just can't imagine the absence that is in our hearts right now with the loss of our daughter," mother Rachel Clemens said. "She rocked our world ... she was everything to us." The family is suing Nissan, the parent company of Infiniti. They claim new back-up video cameras or sensors which detect objects behind a vehicle were available, and should have been installed in their SUV. "This manufacturer was already putting it on some of its other vehicles, and it should have put it on this one," attorney Windle Turley said. In a phone interview with News 8, Nissan/Infiniti spokesman Kyle Bazemore said the child's death was "very sad, very tragic," but added that even when an SUV comes equipped with a back-up video camera, it's not fool-proof. "It's a convenience; it's not a substitute for proper reversing procedures," Bazemore said. "Drivers should always turn around and look." "Yes, it's our responsibility, but so many tragic things have happened with children because of that," Rachel Clemens said. Some research suggests as SUVs get bigger, so does the blind spot to the rear. Consumer groups estimate between 150 and 200 people - mostly toddlers - are killed in back-up accidents every year. Increasingly, consumers are demanding the new technology. "As you can see, if you had a child laying on a tricycle or bicycle, laying behind you, you would be able to see that sitting in the driveway," said John Boyd of JR's Custom Auto as he demonstrated one of the back-up cameras. "Our contention is that safety of this nature should not be optional, ever," Turley said. The Clemens family believes if their SUV had a back-up camera, Adrianna would still be alive. "She was my pride and joy," Rachel Clemens said. "She was a wonderful two-year-old that always had a smile on her face."

I work 2 blocks from Nissan R&D in pleasanton, hehe. When my Z is done, I'll pull up there and see what reactions I get

i've used HF ones several times. the key is to grease the threading before doing anything with them and buy 2 sets

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041203/D86O81GG2.html

you can mount to the frame rails. just make sure you reinforce teh metal with 3/16" thick angled steel and sleeve the frame rails

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I went w/ davyz a few years ago to get some strut tubes at a junkyard. the way i removed the spring was stand on fender, run seatbelt to spring, yank up as hard as possible. Spring somewhat shot out, but we were clear of the trajectory

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LOL @ johnc. use a $2,000 tool to remove something that requires a $10 tool to use

1146cc, 573 x 2 rotors. We should also stop calling the 5.0 mustang motor the 5.0, since it's technically 4.9 liters.

1980 had a carbed 12a 1.2 liter na motor, in 85 the gsl-se rx7 had a 13b fuel injected motor, last year for first gen body style. 85 yielded new body style, 86-88 had optional turbo2 making 180hp, 89-91 was revised 2nd generation (labeled series 5) that had GXL, SE, GTU, GTUs, TurboII models. Turbo IIs had 200hp. mazdas rotary cars are not under powered. They're perfectly balanced for handling. Try driving a miata - sure, it's balls slow, but it carves corners like crazy. Same goes for rx7s and the new rx8

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6236&item=4507181316&rd=1 On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the ugliest, it rates as "ASS"

in other news, apparently the 4 cylinder jeep liberty transmission is supposed to bolt up to the fwd srt4 motor. any takers on this swap?

the rotary is a hell of a lot simpler to assemble/disassemble than a piston motor. The REW's biggest problem was heat because of the US emissions and catalytic converters. This caused a huge backlog of heat, which in turn dried up vaccuum lines (which is why common modifications are silicon lines and efini y-pipe, which is metal instead of plastic that's prone to cracking). These are more along the lines of safety modifications. I am using a 13b-re. I am not using the stock ECU, I'm not using the stock twin turbos, and I have no exhaust restrictions. In fact, my exhaust is 3" all the way back, no cats, and a muffler that's a straight through design. Sure, it's loud and obnoxious, but it's freeflowing The RE motor is basically a cross between the REW and 13b-t from FC rx7s. The intake ports are 30% bigger, and exhaust ports are a bit smaller to produce more torque. My fuel is converted to a parallel 6an system with a 255lph fuel pump and 1680cc secondary injectors. Point is, sure, it has flaws, but as long as the owner knows the good and the bad, and knows how to avoid dealing with the bad, it's not a problem. I think my conversion will be just fine and dandy if it blows, great, I'll have a reason to do a street port and take out those annoying restrictive exhaust sleeves

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6911883 because it contains the references to god. Now, I'm an atheist for the most part, but this is ridiculous.

http://www.howstuffworks.com and type in ROTARY ENGINE into the search field. 3 rotor. Each rotor is 650cc. You've also never driven a rotary. Exactly. No offense, but because of that you come off very ignorant. How many people here set up a hybridZ for fuel economy? I know of only 1 person, and he's doing an electric powered Z, because that's his specialty. B20 is a honda motor found in the CR-V. 20B can do 20mpg in stock form. if you don't go over 2k rpm. Here, I'll solve that problem for you: I mean, who in their right mind would want that kind of weight distribution and 2100lb weight in full trim!?!?!?!? Not me!

spike thing is the chinese SKS, and that's the bayonet. In california, everything's costlier because of our commie laws. I can get an arsenal refinished SKS in AZ for 149, but it would cost 75 bucks to get it to california + registration

Just set your Illuminas on 5. You'll never even know the motor's running. Actually, rotaries do just fine on solid mounts.... like 180sx said, everything moves ina circle, there are no oscillations from pistons going up and down, so it doesn't shake.

I think Mikelly implied that he can piece together a kit consisting of the heim joint, threaded collar and misc, and you cut and weld your own control arms. No cores required

toyotas aren't THAT wonderful. 96-2001 4 banger camries that everyone and their mom praises for reliability have a huge problem with timing belt slipping on the water pump and bending some valves