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Because a wide body ZX would be the business? Put me on the pic-request list also...

ATHF is hilarious...The moonenites may be the best characters ever created ever, with the possible exception of Carl. I think I was one of the three people that saw that movie in the theater.

That's pretty impressive, Flash was not designed to handle 3-D by any means...My roomate that's on the programming track here was telling me that just telling Flash to count from 0-5000 in code would cause it to crash. We talked to the instructor a little bit about some of these engines that use flash to simulate 3-D and isometric perspective, but the consensus was pretty much that fighting the intrinsic limitations of Flash like that would be an uphill battle and not worth the effort in our time constraints. I also have a hard time believing you could use flash to build any kind of worthwhile 3-D object at the level you can with Maya or 3DSMax.

I thought you coded for flash in actionscript, what's "siwshMax?" I ask because i recently made two flash games as well, one a 2-D dogfighting game and the other a top-down traffic directing game. I didn't code it though, I just do the art and animations (the dogfighting game required hand drawn walk cycles for three dogs, but the traffic game all had the animations done with code-we used actionscript 3.0 for both of them). Right now I'm building 3-D models for a submarine combat game we're doing in Panda3-D using Maya 8.5. It's kind of a challenge, because it's a rapid prototyping class and we only have two weeks to do each game...

Ryan, those Impuls are awesome! They look serious in black, but I think if I ever get a mesh wheel, I'm going to do them in some garish color like safety orange or neon green...

http://cgi.ebay.com/1965-Fender-Mustang-Guitar-Refinished-No-Reserve_W0QQitemZ260163541060QQihZ016QQcategoryZ118989QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I've got a newer version of this, it's still my favorite guitar that I've ever played. It's kind of a "surf" guitar, but you can get a lot of cool sounds out of it because both the bridge and neck pickup have a rythm/treble/off selector switch which makes for a lot of fun sound customizability. I've also got a soft spot for SG shaped guitars, like the ESP Viper http://cgi.ebay.com/ESP-LTD-VIPER-1000-NO-RESERVE-SPERZELS-STRAPLOCK-SY_W0QQitemZ150163719832QQihZ005QQcategoryZ33038QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Nope, never got into it. The only webcomic I read is 8-bit theater at http://www.nuklearpower.com

because attention spans are shorter. Halo 3 didn't strike me as anything but a graphics upgrade. I wasn't impressed with the 1.5hrs of it I saw in my Production for Media class the other day (if you guys didn't know, i'm in a graduate program for video game design...I'm in the art track, but we all sit in on the production track because it's easy). The AI in Halo is weak, and the level design is nothing special in my opinion. I can't help but compare it to Bioshock, and it comes up lacking big time. I'll put it like this: no computer controlled enemy in Halo is going to drop down through a hole in the floor so they can come up the stairs behind you and shoot you in the back, nor will they pretend to be dead until you get close enough to them-both of these things happen routinely in Bioshock. Enemies in Halo rarely even chase you...the single player mode in the Halo games is so weak, the best way to win the game is to simply run full sprint and not stop for anything. You can almost beat the game without killing anything at all...

This snake, under the passenger doorjam:

I usually refer to mine as "The ZZZap!", even though it's not a real zzzap edition...although in polite conversation it usually just gets called "the Z." For those that aren't aware of the origin of the zzzap! moniker, enjoy: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=112218&highlight=camo+zzzap%21

find a used one. they used to be available, but now they pretty much just turn up from private sellers. there used to be somebody on here selling both styles (the one with the lip and the flat G35 style one) in the classifieds, I didn't check to see if they were still for sale.

Don't forget the Altimas, there are almost definitely more QR25DE equipped Altimas on the road than Sentra SER-SpecVs (and therefore more of them likely to become available in the boneyards). Something i found out the hard way is that the Altima uses different motor mounts than the Spec-V, so there may be more differences in the two than that.

The only rwd turbo I-4 in it's class? I suppose the usable backseat takes it out of the realm of the Sky/Solstice....I don't know how i feel about that one. I'm no hyundai fan, but i do hope is spurs some growth in that market. Maybe we'll finally see a neo-510 or throwback AE86 (or celica rwd, i'm not picky). Step in the right direction, just wish somebody else would've taken it...

there was an MR2 bodykit for the second gen MR2 i saw one time that had that configuration. i saw it once back when those cars were new, and have been unable to locate a photo ever since...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAhQhjsbVkg world's rustiest header is now in the mail with a pink bow on it...

that's a nice looking downpipe...TB looks a lot like the Stanza one that I have as well.

My '02 Altima 2.5S has 106k on it, 70k of that with the JWT balance shaft delete kit, an unorthodox lightened crank pulley, and a JWT lightweight flywheel/clutch combo. It's way faster than it should be, but being that it's in an Altima it's still not fast on the grand scale of fast. I've always wanted to see one of these motors go into an RWD platform, but haven't seen anyone come up with a tranny combo yet. The reason the rods are "underbuilt" as you guys put it is because they wanted to reduce the rotating mass of the engine. It wasn't designed for boost. Nissan used to advertise that the QR was something like 30% lighter than the KA24DE and even marginally lighter than the SR20DE. I'm on my factory head gasket, and have had no problems whatsoever with that. I AM however on my third mass airflow meter, but that all went down within the first six months of ownership. *edit* in regards to the rwd tranny: you say the frontier has those now? that really makes me wonder why this swap isn't more common for 510 guys at least...

even if it's marginally smaller than the S13, you can still fit the S30 TB inside the throat of it...

To clear that up: every early (single cam) KA S13 I had in front of me had the "linkage" on the opposite side from the way it originally mounted on my L28. The Stanza i ended up taking it from had the "linkage" on the same side, and it opened in the same direction as my L28e. Coolant passages on the bottom. I used the KA tps, but i've got a megasquirt. The pigtail that hangs off the tps is progressive, but the plug that goes directly into the sensor reads like the Z: on or off. I don't know if the plugs are compatible or not, but i needed the progressive one for MS anyway. The TB I used looks really clean, it doesn't have a bunch of extraneous crap on the top:

Just to open up some options, all the 240sxs that I saw in the boneyard had the butterfly on the wrong side for what I was trying to do. I started looking at the other cars there with KA engines, and realized that the FWD cars like the stanza or altima had the throttle butterfly on the correct side. After that, it was pretty much like the site that Brad posted, but just wanted to let you know it doesn't have to come from a 240sx.

Chewie, you're going down to china town next time...

Eric, I just made it back to Tampa for the weekend, and my trophy was waiting for me! That was really cool, a very nice trophy indeed. Thanks!

maybe they did a skyline swap

Right on. I thought you just really liked Rancid That car in your sig has an awesome hood. I've always wanted one of those...

You can "free up the hp" by just taking off the belt. Removing the system is "adding light-ness" in the words of Colin Chapman.