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I'm not to up to speed on how that stuff works either, but without either a dedicated pump for the supplemental injectors or at least a higher output pump, wouldn't you get a significant drop in pressure when they open? Would that be enough to cause a problem, or would you not notice it, do you suppose?

You need a spacer for both of those offsets. 1.5" will do. The volks actually have 3mm less offset than the Wats, but a 1.5" spacer would accomodate either wheel. Lowering a lot may require fender rolling, but up to an inch lower I can vouch does not need rolling. I personally like the volks better. Here's how a 17X7/17X8 +38 offset wheel fits with a 1.5" spacer and a 1" drop if it helps you any.

I won't be able to do that for quite a while unfortunately. In addition to having an intercooler sitting right on top of the part in question, I'm storing the car in another city while I'm getting my master's degree, but christmas break is coming up in a few weeks so i could probably do it then if a verbal description won't do. Basically, i've got a Y-junction on the feed line so that the fuel enters the rail from both sides. The line to the regulator leaves from roughly the middle. The thought process on this was to ensure a stable supply of fuel to both the front and rear three injectors. It runs pretty well like this, but I don't have any instrumentation to tell me whether it works better or worse than running it the traditional way. I do have a fuel pressure gauge mounted on the rail, and it reads 45psi when the pump is turned on (however, this mounting strategy places it under the hood-difficult to read when under load). Almost any question pertaining to my motivations for doing things any particular way on this car can be answered with "why not?" or "seemed like a good idea at the time..." Which I'm sure is disappointing to the people on the board who take their engineering seriously (and rightly so). the best I can do on short notice:

How does plasma-coating work? I've never heard of that...Is it just some kind of extreme heat treating?

I'd be willing to bet the american version gets an NA V-8. I'd be very surprised if Nissan marketed a car in the states at that price point with a 6 cylinder of any configuration under the hood.

I bet that was done just just for the video.

So ron, BRAAP totally dropped the ball on this one. You're my last hope. When can we expect the burnout subforum?

Oh that is going to be so awesome it hurts...

Am I the only person in the world that thought the McLaren was dog ugly? I particularly liked the wiggly steering wheel in the top view of that video...

I think it's pretty cool that I made the list, but I'm totally voting for Mull's car. THAT guy's got dedication!

Haha! Awesome! I hardly think my build is approaching anything near the level of what either Mull or 1fastz is doing, but the actual thread where I did the paint job is approaching 8,000 views, so somebody must be into it...I think the better of the camo threads is probably this one: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=112218&highlight=operation+camo

Production for Media was only mildly interesting today...we were discussing the legal ramifications of running MMO's and how that pertains to copyright infringement. A recipe for photoshop slackery if I ever heard one.

No, it's an awesome idea. and you could totally screw the 71 quarter to your shift knob.

i also support that project...

"I'm Veritech-Z, and I support this project."

Did he show you his orange 383 powered street car? It's the business.... Brent is super cool, but whenever you want to buy a part, it seems like he just makes the prices up arbitrarily, and nobody else can quote you anything until they talk to Brent. But he does have anything you may want laying around the shop. He assured me I'd blow my headgasket as i bought a ZXT exhaust manifold to turbocharge my N42/P79 NA combo. It hasn't happened yet, but I suspect he's got more experience with these things than I do...

Bioshock is the only game we have for our 360...it's by far the best game I've played in a LONG time. Phil, I started it on Monday, finished it pretty much right before we left for the party on Saturday night (I'm actually WAY behind now in my art class, but I'll make it up...plus my instructor was super impressed with it-I just don't know if he realizes I was the one that made it). The director of my school was throwing the party, he used to be the COO of EA's Tiburon studio here in Orlando before he started this master's program with UCF. I'm the fourth class that's ever gone through it, so this was a party for the first 100 students (we're not actually at 100 yet, but it's in the high 90's). There was a pretty good representation of game related costumes. This one chick got a SWAT team surplus body armor and some Umbrella corp. patches, and was a shock trooper from Resident Evil. Also, a bunch of guys from my class dressed up as the characters from Team Fortress 2, which shipped out in the Orange Box like 3 weeks ago. Kind of a lame idea in my opinion, but they did a pretty good job of making the various costumes. Also, there was an awesome showing of GI Joe characters, from Zartan to Destro. One of my instructors came as Mario and his wife was Princess Peach. It was a pretty fun time. Also in the costume we had an Ipod full of ripped Big Daddy sounds blaring through some portable speakers. It went over really well. We're planning to send it in to 2k via www.cultofrapture.com to see what they think (maybe it will help when it comes time to start looking for internships/jobs, but probably not...). It consists of about 60' of .5" conduit, about 30' X 14" of aluminum flashing, 300 or so rivets, 8 sprinkler drains with clear coasters glued to the outside, some PVC flanges, two galvanized 2" to 1.5" reducers for the nose things, and a small cordless screwdriver stuck through a wooden circle to make the drill spin. Also some 1/4" copper tubing. It probably weighs in somewhere around 30lbs or so. Wearable, but really hot. I think we're going to try and get him into some costume contests around town in the next few days to try and recoup some of the costs, hopefully we won't lose to the girl in the least amount of costume...

Dude, you know what's the best part? I got to be Harry Potter so my wife could be a sexy witch... Sigh...I wanted to be Andrew Ryan so bad..."A MAN builds his costume, a PARASITE buys it at the store!"

and yes the drill works.

So here's the cool stuff you get to do in your spare time when you're in a video game design masters program: The reference: the materials: the progress: the results:

which rail do you actually have? I've got the JSK rail that has the barbed fittings so you can use stock injectors. this picture from before the turbo installation is unfortunately the best I can offer...

forza2 has a crap paint feature, you need to do this job in Tokyo Extreme Racer 3, it has a pixel by pixel paint program that doesn't limit you to predefined decal shapes. you can also change the reflectivity of your paint, so you could do primer if you want to.

Isn't TonyD's salt flats car hitting the aerodynamic wall at 174.something or other? I know he's kind of limited with what can be done power wise, but... Those are some powerful looking power seats they've got there...and that car's most likely had some interesting rust repair (the area above the tail light panel looks an awful lot like mine, and I know exactly how bad one needs to repair that area to get it to look like that...)

that many candles could really get out of hand...better make sure WifeofBRAAP has a flame suppressant system installed in the kitchen!