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Well, the difference between your school and mine is that mine will be a Video Game Design Master's degree, and I'll be doing the character design art track. So my school WILL be drawing. That's why I'm working on my portfolio so hard these days. OTM, there's still time for you to do the Camo flames!

For the record, I work at a dealership parts counter, and due to a particularly odd set of circumstances involving downsizing and consolidation, I am now the ONLY person in my department at this particular dealership (my manager is based out of our sister store across town, and since there are only two people over there, I only see him in the morning). I don't have any wholesale business (since they transferred my parts driver and sold my delivery truck), and NO dealership has much walk in traffic. So my only responsibilities are to answer the phone (which rarely happens without wholesale), make sure the technicians have the parts they need (once they have their parts, I wait for them to come back), and try not to burn the building down. I got tired of counting the cracks in the ceiling during my 9 hour shifts (with no luch breaks) Hence the wheel painting...(and the multitude of drawings that appear in this thread and OTM's threads...) I'm just biding my time until august when I'm going to go back to school and get my Master's Degree, then I'll be making a career change.

I like my current wheels as well, but the tires are almost totally bald, and these have brand new Toyos all the way around. Although they are kind of an F'd up size (2 are 195/55 15 and 2 are 195/50 15-what can I say, they were free), I figured I'd throw these on for a change of pace.

Not only is it that boring, but it's slow enough that I actually DID THAT at work...I used to spend my whole day logged in to Hybridz, but now that they've locked it out, I'm forced to actually DO stuff...

I was sorry to see that one go as well...my last 78 280z weighed around 2500lbs with me in it. It was pretty stripped...The one I've got now is even more stripped than that one was, but I haven't gone to Publix to get it on the scale yet...

Isn't that picture from somebody's signature? Why don't you just ask whoever you got it from?

I've had a ratty old set of Momo Quasars that were missing the center caps in my closet as a spare set of wheels pretty much since i've owned my Z. they are 15X7" +30 offset, for those who are into that sort of thing. No they don't work without a spacer, but since my primary wheel is +38 offset, I'm already using spacers. Anyway, I got REALLY bored yesterday at work, and decided I'd re paint them to match. I used some old take-off saturn center caps to cover the unsightly blah in the middle. I haven't put any clearcoat on them yet, nor have I applied the momo center badges that I've sourced from Ebay (i've given up trying to find the actual center caps for these wheels long ago). But here is a before and after, let me know what you think: before after: Yes B_sosick, these are in fact the wheels that you wanted, so let me know if they meet your approval. I'll be sure and photograph them on the car once they are all finished, but I don't think that will be for at least a week. This one took pretty much a full day to do.

Ernie, nice wagon, but that two door is the business! If I were going to do a wagon, I'd give it a bit of rake towards the front, and it would have to have some nitrous. I've always liked the old JDM look of hanging your oil cooler out on the bumper as well, I'd probably do that also.

Hey, Mikelly's got 4,444 posts! That's pretty cool. I finally got an answer from my wife yesterday about the g-nose. I showed her HS30-H's car, and she was like "what's the normal one look like?" and so I showed her the ratty one on the Zfiberglass home page, and she was like "Eww, I like the other one better! How much is it?" I just had to laugh.

Well, good luck either way. I know whichever you end up with will turn out great! (would have been cool to see a wagon though...)

They wanted to see the crazy spoiler, so....

RacerX, did you ever get this car?

What type of credentials does it take to get in to SEMA, anyway?

I just went to the Tampa International Car Show, and Subaru had a WRC STi on display. I thought the spoiler on that car might interest some people that were involved in this discussion. I also have some pictures of the roll cage, if anybody wants them. There is a small spoiler at the top of the rear windshield also, which seems to be just like the one that comes on the over the counter STi.

Does that work for ya?

I like the look of Carbon fiber. It's light, stylish, and so long as it's made correctly, strong as well.

That's good to know, I was eyeing that part...

Get a Solstice GXP or Sky Redline 2.0 turbo engine. Or if you want, get a 2.0 Supercharged engine from an Ion redline or Cobalt SS. That would be a cool swap. I like Opel GT's...You could do a brown one like the car Don Adams drove on Get Smart. (now available for the first time ever on DVD from time life video...sorry, I've been waiting for that to happen for a long time)

I was thinking that too. What was the deal with that thing, by the way? What product could they possibly have been hawking for such a limited production car? Is someone finally offering a re-body kit to turn a Z into one of those?

I went to the marugen shoukai website from your post in the vendor section looking for the Akira bodykit that I thought I'd seen you offer once. I didn't see the lower valence there, just the really nice looking g-noses that they offer. Where did you get the flares and the valence, if you don't mind my asking?

That Volvo wagon might have been my favorite, although the ACT G35 with the flaming death bird paint job and the Lambo with the happy dolphin paint job were interesting to look at as well.

That California Z body kit is NOT doing that car any favors...What's the story with the louvered tray under the fuel cell? Anti-fumes?

OTM, that new drawing is scoop-tacular! What happened to the radiator upper support? I just got back from the Tampa International Auto Show. They had an exotic display, and Subaru had a real WRC STI on display. You guys thought MY wings were nuts, you should see the pics I took of this alien spacecraft...

There's some more videos featuring Q-bert. he used to compete in the DMC world championships with Mix Master Mike (the current DJ for the Beastie Boys) until they retired. Also they were both members of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz for awhile. Then they both went solo.

More like this one from www.jcaa.com: