auxilary

definitely not dirt cheap rims. they're CCW

two for one special today: draw own conclusions. yes, it's a woman. two: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/11/24/klan.initiation.ap/index.html

1. "Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)" - Eddie Irvine on the lack of overtaking in F1. 2. "You know you're in trouble when the first person to get to you after a wreck is carrying a beer" - NASCAR driver, Jimmy Horton, speaking of his accident at Talladega in 1993. 3. "The car is such a dog we should have tied it to the fence" - Dick Johnson, former Australian touring car driver discusses an obviously less than brilliant vehicle.... 4. "F1 won't change me" - Jenson Button, just weeks before dumping his girlfriend of five years and buying a Ferrari. 5. "Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon" - Jean Alesi on the dreadfully inefficient Prost AP02. 6. "He's just a total bloody idiot. Always was, always will be" - Derek Warwick on Rene Arnoux. 7. "Oh, we're just looing for the ear" - Niki Lauda replying to somebody asking what the former world champion was doing back at the site of the 1976 accident that nearly killed him at the Norschleife circuit. 8. "I am a non discriminating driver. I want to kick everybody's ass" - Greg Ray, IRL. 9. "The track is my canvas. My car is my pencil" - Graham Hill. 10. "Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best formula 1 driver that grand prix racing has ever produced" - A questionable quote from commentating legend, Murray Walker. 11. "Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to" - Bernie Ecclestone. 12. "Clark came through at the end of the first lap of the race so far ahead that we in the pits were convinced that the rest of the field must have been wiped out in an accident" - An onlooker describing Jim Clark's incredible first lap speed at the 1967 Belgian GP at Spa. 13. "My game is going wrong - the star is setting" - Ascari speaking to Fangio in 1955 - just four days before his death at the wheel of a sportscar. 14. "Jimmy ranked with, perhaps even out-ranked, Nuvolari, Fangio and Moss and I think we all thought that he was in a way invincible. To be killed in an accident with a Formula 2 car is almost unacceptable" - Bruce McLaren speaking of the great late-Jim Clark. 15. "Drivers are just interchangeable light bulbs - you plug them in and they do the job" - Teddy Mayer, McLaren. 16. "And that is Ralf Schumacher - son of Michael" -Who else but Murray Walker, ITV commentator? 17. "I think I've proved that, in equal cars, if I want someone to stay behind me... well, I think he stays behind..." - Gilles Villeneuve. 18. "Break a leg" - Grid Girl at 1999 British GP offering some 'advice' to Michael Schumacer pre-race. A few hours later Michael was in a hospital and his leg was in plaster, following an early race shunt. 19. "Christ - I used to complain that this thing was underpowered, I must have been mad" - Chris Amon after driving a 1970's F1 car up the hill at Goodwood. 20. "Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines" - Enzo Ferrari. 21. "I'm fine, but I'm going to need to change my shorts when this race is over" - Greg Moore over the car to pit radio after a spin in the Michigan 500. 22. "It's been 2000 years since a Good Friday was this bad" - Benetton tech boss, Pat Symonds speaking at the 2000 British GP, the site of another dismal performance. 23. "No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear" - Too much power is never enough....Mark Donohue on the Can Am Porsche 917. 24. "Are you here to race or to crash?" - Chico Landi addressing drivers safety concerns in Brazil in the 1980's. 25. "You might think that's not cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing" - Yep. Murray again. 26. "It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you..." - Alex Zanardi speaking to Louise Goodman on TV during the formers awful 1999 Grand Prix season. 27. "F--- off" - Yvan Muller to Peter Cox, during the postrace press conference at the 1999 Snetterton British Touring Car Championship night race. 28. "Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is" - Murray Walker. 29. "The man's an animal" - John Cleland speaking about Steve Soper, at Silverstone BTCC race, 1992. 30. "...if they have any more drive-throughs, they're going to have to start selling burgers and fries in the pit lane" - Charlie Cox commentating on a drive through penatly for Laurent Aiello at Silverstone BTCC round, 1999. 31. "Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal" - David Coulthard. 32. "You're a pack of Arseholes" - Jim Richards responds to a booing crowd on the podium of the controversial 1992 Bathurst 1000. 33. "You're a pack of lovely lovely people" - Jim Richards makes up for his 1992 speech after winning the 2002 event. 34. "The litte Mexican bastard tries to kill me!" - Jo Siffert on Pedro Rodriguez. 35. "Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken!" - Murray Walker. 36. "The passport changes but the blood doesn't" - Italian-American, Mario Andretti on the lure to drive at Ferrari. 37. "I knew I'd been beaten by the best driver in the world" - Rene Arnoux on his epic last lap battle with Gilles Villeneuve at Dijon 1979. 38. "When the flag drops, the bullshit stops" - Anonymous 39. "Finishing second means you are the first person to lose" - Gilles Villeneuve. 40. "In my day the drivers were fat and the tires were skinny" - Unknown. 41. "I want to stay in F1 but things have to get better for me to have a chance. No disrespect, but I won't go to Minardi" - Johnny Herbert, 2000. 42. "We'll be looking to give McLaren and Ferrari a run for their money" - Craig Pollock, BAR Team Principle, speaking prior to the team's 1999 race debut. As it turned out, BAR was even able to give Minardi a walk for their money, failing to score a single point. 43. "There's a bit of debris there, Rouse hits it, Oh, nice header from Menu!" - Murray Walker, Brands Hatch BTCC, 1994. 44. "Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal" - Kyle Petty, Stock Car driver. 45. "It was a Ford, so it didn't really matter" - Mark Skaife answering a question about a car fire in a touring car race at Barbagallo. 46. "I already tried that. Something heavy metal like. And sunglasses. But it didn't work I went to the gas station and when I left the guy at the counter said 'Bye Mr Schumacher' - Michael Schumacher on trying not be recognised... 47. "He's broken our camera lens that'll be six grand please Derek!" - Murray Walker after Derek Warwick crashed into a camera during a BTCC race. 48. "Presumably it's vitamin C they put in that Orange Arrows, Murray..." - Commentator Martin Brundle shows why he isn't a comedian. 49. "I want to win a couple of Indy car championships and I want people to say that Greg Moore was one of the best CART drivers that was ever around." - Greg Moore, speaking in 1997. In October 1999, Moore was killed in a horrible accident at Fontana. 50. "Rene Arnoux is coming into the pits ... lets stop the startwatch" - Murray Walker, BBC commentator. - Scott Russell

I have GC coils (i bought'em before ross started his shop, I think), so if you want to see pics of those, go to my gallery: http://www.datsunracing.com/gallery and see Suspension in the top portion

haha, you wish! i'm not even 1/4 way there. fuel system, fuel cell, wiring, engine management, intercooler, etc. i have a long way to go

simple: no one has one

yup. I'll clean and paint it, but this was just done to do a test fit, so if i scraped some paint, no biggie.

Link here

Today my friend Rob and I decided to attempt a trial fit and see about making mock mounts for the rotary in my Z. He's the guy hiding behind the motor. We bolted up an rx7 tranny to the motor, and figured we'd give it a go. the beast. twin turbo 2 rotor cosmo engine. Mistake #1: turns out it would've been better if we disconnected the transmission and jacked it up from underneath. But this worked ok in our favor, tranny went in more or less, and we got a good estimate where the motor would sit. This tranny is 3 feet long, and weighs about 100lbs. You can see the oddball mounts on the bottom of the block. It's very wide with all of the crap attached. This is where problems start. As you can see, it's about to clip the hood latch, and that's where the throttle cable goes. So, hood latch is going to be deleted. This is almost hte final position of hte motor, except it will be about 8" lower than current position Shifter hole and tranny lined up Oil filters on rotaries are in the rear, and if you can see the 2 little bolt holes, that's where the clutch slave mounts, and the clutch fork is on the top Close to final positioning, the motor needs to come down a bit to clear the hood and etc. Problem #2: the waste gate for one of the turbos hits the stock motor mount, the other reason we couldn't lower it. Tranny about 3" lower than where it should be, we lifted it up a bit to be in place, it fit, but I forgot to take a better picture. Comparison of front crossmember and the stock placement of rotary mount. I was brilliant enough to slip and twist my ankle, which is killing me at the moment, so we cut short, plus it was getting late. We will be doing another trial fit, this time with motor's intake manifolds and turbos removed, and making mock mounts to achieve reality. The motor sits more forward than I anticipated, and I may even be able to use the stock crossmember to run mounts off of, something like Alsil's ford setup with custom mounts to the rotary (in different place, middle of the block. Downside is sacrificing AC ) Full size pictures can be found HERE

reason you see so many 510s is because a 1st/2nd gen rx7 13b blocks are easily adaptable to mount into a 510, they're light weight and cheap. This gives the 510 better weight distributions, and accomodates the engine bay better (rotary is very short), with a Z, you can stuff almost any motor, and especially the ease of the chevy motor installs dwarfs the desire for a rotary.

Keep in mind, alleged ----------------------------- "Extra" has obtained footage of an alleged secret room in Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch! The never-before-seen footage obtained by "Extra" may provide insight into the world of the 45-year-old singer. The footage, more than fifteen minutes long, shows the king of pop's bedroom boasting an oversized red velvet and gold throne plus the four-post bed seen in Martin Bashir's documentary on the singer. The footage also shows Jackson's 10ft. walk-in closet packed with a bizarre collection of childish novelties, pictures of children, books and mementoes. Prominently displayed on a shelf was an autographed photo by "Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin inscribed with "Don't leave me alone in the house," reportedly a reference to the youngster's 1990 film. The most astonishing portion of the footage is a small, windowless bedroom that appears to be accessible only through a secret door located in the back of Jackson's closet. The footage shows the wooden door from two perspectives. First, it shows the door seemingly hidden behind a clothing rail holding an assortment of military-style costumes. The second perspective shows the same door from a reverse angle - what looks to be from within the "secret" room. Rag dolls line the stairs leading into the "secret" room

step 1. acquire a 1984 delorean step 2. outfit it with a mr. fusion and flux capacitor step 3. go back to 1970 and purchase a 240z brand new. step 4. put it in dry storage for 30 years with all fluids drained step 5. go back to your own time step 6. recover mint 240z with 0 miles. Then sell it for 25 grand step 7. use that money to buy a near-rust free Z from arizona/nevada and keep the rest in pocket. Don't forget to buy a 50 years in sports almanac before time travelling!

r180 - elongated rear cover. r200 looks like a stop sign. r200 left, r180 right

Good choice in color scheme!

that car's been planted there, that tree would not be able to withstand such an impact at that speed

i had to work last weekend, and I'll have to work this weekend as well, but if time permits, I'm going to bolt up the transmission, and trial fit it into the Z. I'll have pics up for reference if I get a chance to do this. If not, it'll happen next weekend. 73botiz was kind enough to offer to help manufacture and weld in the mounts for me, big kudos to him, thanks mike!

gramercyjam, wanna hook me up with a good job?

http://www.zerizon.com/SA/fireworks_factory_explosion.avi or, what can go wrong at a fireworks factory... WOW

Trust us, we KNOW where that pager went and why it stopped working. Honestly, if you tell the IT guys the truth, they'll have a lot more respect for you. When I had a short contract at Oracle years ago, some guy brought in a laptop. It smelled of cat piss, and since I have a cat, I'm rather familiar with the smell. I ask him what happened, and he said he came home, and laptop didn't work. I looked at him, and asked "What REALLY happened, because I know what the smell is." He said "my cat urinated on the laptop" me: "you're on your own here"

user comes up, and goes "Hi, my name is _____" and shakes my hand. Whatever, no biggie. I ask "what's going on?" She holds up her blackberry: "well, guess where this went?" me: "goddamnit... in the toilet. I'm not touching that" her: "yeah, so what do I need to do?" me: "You just shook my hand with that hand, GOD DAMNIT!" (*P@&%)(*^(@*&*%&@(*&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark, there are some REALLY funny stories about scarp and prison... it's just a matter of whether he wants to tell them or not. But he's been MIA because he enjoys hanging around civic forums revolving around drama

16 or 18 cold rolled steel. you can buy replacement floorpans from zedd findings for a reasonable price. http://www.datsunzparts.com/start.htm

i have a 2 rotor cosmo, available from 91 to 96 cosmo, 97 and up had the 20b

http://www.hybridz.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=23010

I'd nail that like a coffin and this concludes my very awful comment of the day