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ok, obviously you guys didn't read what i wrote. i said i never give money for ALL OF THE REASONS YOU HAVE LISTED. and i don't feel guilty about it. but for some reason i had a compulsion to do it just this time. Not counting today, I would say that I did not give more than $5 total in my life to panhandlers. The only time I gave money was to random people that would walk up to me at a gas station - simply so i could avoid a possible conflict and just to get rid of them. I pass 4 different bums panhandling on 3 corners on my way to work. They have their territories marked, and staked out. They are in the exact same spot with the exact same sign every day, doing the exact same thing. For some reason, my gut told me this ONE particular guy was an exception. Big deal, i'm out $20. I didn't take lunch today, so I can consider breaking more than even with an extra hour of work.

while i agree with you guys, and abide by the same logic, for some reason this was different. which is why i gave him money. i can't justify it, i don't know why. there are these guys on hte same corners every day i go to work. this guy i've never seen before, and i doubt i'll see next few weeks. i can't explain why i made an exception to the rule. hey, maybe karma will swing back my way or something!

but that's the problem... on impulse, i thought it would be rewarding... not for personal gain or anything. after i drove off, i felt like i made a mistake.

I am the same way, which is why i am puzzled why i gave him money. i wasn't under drug or alcohol influence, and i was in complete reason of thought. I just gave him 20 bucks. probably because this guy didn't look like he was the average panhandler who was pulling in 300/day, but maybe someone who just honestly wanted some money so he could afford to rent a hotel room to get cleaned up and go to an interview or something. maybe i'm just out of it completely...

i just gave one 20 bucks. i don't know why. his sign read "please help, need a job, homeless. happy holidays". nothing about asking for money, etc. He also didn't look like a crack addict or a regular homeless bum. But more like an ex-dot commie who failed to manage his money properly and ran into too much debt. I sat there at the light thinking about how I wish i could help him out, and wound up reaching into my wallet and handing him a 20. Maybe it was holiday spirit i should feel rewarded, but I don't. I also have a twisted sense of reality where i reason he could go across the street and apply at mcdonalds, and out of necessity he COULD get somewhere if he wanted/needed to. And at the same time I wind up thinking that if I was gracious enough in holiday spirit (and this is coming from an atheist) to give him a 20.... and he sees thousands of cars pass him daily... I bet he makes a lot more money than I do, especially during xmas season. It's like k-mart blue light special for them. ah... after writing that last paragraph, i see why i don't feel justified and rewarded for helping him out, because perhaps while he may have looked innocent, he got 20 bucks from me. That's what I get for acting on "good will impulse" once in a while. Ironically, after making this donation, i get back to my cube, check yahoo news, find this: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/021226/168/2xmrx.html&e=3

for one, if it's a 240sx caliper, remember that it's used on a heavier newer 240sx, not a 280Z. the rotor is also bigger, and you're also comparing calipers/disks to stock drums! Also, don't forget that most of your braking happens up front. Why would you bother putting a big brake kit on the rear, unless it was for show? on another note, have you ever held 240sx rear calipers? they're almost as big as stock 1st gen Z calipers.

Mike Ditka

my Z weighed in at 2427lbs with a full tank of gas, r200, no spare, toyota calipers, and 20lbs of tools

you can buy a complete conversion kit from scca for about $450. 2 rebuilt toyota s12w calipers, new pads, pins, and retainers, 2 nissan 300zx vented rotors, 2 machined alum. spacers, and proper sized bolts/lockwashers. only thing you'll need to modify is bend your own brake lines to match the toyota calipers, and get a set of stainless steel lines as well. http://fonebooth.com/brakes_zcar.html

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how much turbo lag is that? is that a t1000 or something?

easiest way to tell: turn one halfshaft. if the opposing side halfshaft spins in the same direction you turned yours, it's limited slip. if it spins the other way, it's open diff.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~fp3k-htt/diablo_svtt.htm a twin turbo diablo

if you can afford it, go with teins. the fact that they come with optional servos that allow you to control dampening with a push of a button... that just makes me giggle like a school girl. and the quality of the product is good

with those tire sizes, your overall rear tire diameter will be far greater than the front, as well as your sidewall is going to be a lot taller (ie. more flexible)

this is going to sound silly but... (and just to clarify, this is the two slots that hte spindle pin that attaches the strut to the control arm we're talking about) ...did you remove the little metal sleeves from factory that are in the holes? You have to remove a similar piece from front contorl arms as well. It's a little metal cylinder on hte inside that's pressed in.

of course it's rwd. i wouldn't expect a transversely mounted dohc 5.4 liter v8

Stupid Ford. Australia gets this Ford [falcon] GT with about 370hp (290kw, i think my conversion is correct) and 380 ft lbs of torque (520nM). 5.4L v8 with 10.5:1 compression. I don't like ford, but that's damn cool, and I'd drive that any day!

i'm a co-admin on clubsi... i go to local meets most of the time. there aren't any civics with huge spoilers big blinging rims or altezza lights. kinda weird, for a civic club

well, there's a difference between moving the pivot point for the control arms on the xmember, or installing a Bosch external fuel pump on national syndicated TV and using the same time teaching someone that you can use a household hairdryer and some soapy water to install a vynil decal

I caught the last 15 minutes of it, and all the technical difficulty and tips and tricks involved in installing sponsor stickers and vinyl graphics! Don't tell me that the show is actually making ratings on how to use a heat gun and a razor? what the crap is that?

2000 and 2002 would most likely have the exact same wiring diagrams, so I think you'd be safe getting a 2000 haynes manual. the only differences would be between the standard (ex/lx/stx) models and the acr/rt models. but i would assume the wiring would be 99% similar.

no idea how to do it on a 2nd gen (2000 and up) neon, but here's the first...can't imagine wiring harnesses being too different... http://members.rogers.com/quirk/tach.html has good how to pics and examples. and I just scanned this wiring diagram from my haynes manual (mine's first generation neon, 94-99)

also, just so you don't spend hours breaking tools and swearing, one of them is reverse threaded, so you'll have to turn clockwise to unbolt it. the passenger side tie rod is the reverse threaded one.

here's a quick link http://photos.yahoo.com/rb26datsun