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400 wheels is only 100 "sets" So lets see. If we group buy (with deposit) 33 sets, then perhaps Motorsports (who already handles the weels) could pony up and buy the remainder of the run (?) it would be a worth while adventure. I'd buy a set, they would be a heck of a lot cheaper than the Pannasports I'm considering. Anybody that close to Motorsports to propose the idea? I know sometimes they're difficult to deal with (so I've heard).

Don't think those will fit. Compare them to a block hugger disign and you'll see the difference. The sprint car headers look like they would hit the frame rails.

What do you want the engine to do? Drag race, top speed, autox. Once again, you're new to the site, use the SEARCH function, go get a book on engine rebuilding to run diagnostics on the engine comp check etc. Don't let my post discourage you but come on you have to do some work around here. Prices go to Summit Racing or Jegs they have online pricing. Best of luck, just figure out what you want the engine to do and what your final goal will be. I'd start with the brakes and suspension on the car if I were you. What good is power with out control? d

Work faster? It would probably be easier to just move the whole car as opposed to moving individual pieces. Just my .02

Hate to do this but.... (I'll delete it shortly haha) This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and therestaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice'sRestaurant.You can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantYou can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantWalk right in it's around the backJust a half a mile from the railroad trackYou can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantNow it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago onThanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at therestaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in thechurch nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray andFasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot ofroom downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn'thave to take out their garbage for a long time.We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd bea friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. Sowe took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VWmicrobus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headedon toward the city dump.Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across thedump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dumpclosed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove offinto the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of theside road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of thecliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pileis better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up wedecided to throw our's down.That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgivingdinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until thenext morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton ofgarbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." AndI said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelopeunder that garbage."After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone wefinally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go downand pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at thepolice officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with theshovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward thepolice officer's station.Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done atthe police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal forbeing so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, andwe didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us outand told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's stationthere was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we wasboth immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think Ican pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.Get in the back of the patrol car."And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to thequote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town ofStockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stopsigns, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to theScene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted toget in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds ofcop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, andthey took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circlesand arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what eachone was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not tomention the aerial photography.After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to putus in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want yourwallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting mywallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do youwant my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." Isaid, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out thetoilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he tookout the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll thetoilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obiewas making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a fewnasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went backto the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-tencolour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the backof each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossypictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and hesat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at thetwenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrowsand a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circlesand arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of Americanblind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and thejudge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossypictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of eachone explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Andwe was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats notwhat I came to tell you about.Came to talk about the draft.They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination oneday, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, soI looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted tolook like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wantedto feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and allkinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gaveme a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, Iwanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore andguts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," andhe started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and downyelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."Didn't feel too good about it.Proceeded on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections,detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to meat the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, fourhours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nastyugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they wasinspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving nopart untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see thelast man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only gotone question. Have you ever been arrested?"And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and allthe phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you evergo to court?"And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-tencolour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph onthe back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I wantyou to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W .... NOW kid!!"And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W'swhere they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army aftercommitting your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty uglylooking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Fatherrapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! Andthey was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on thebench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanestfather raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to meand said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the benchthere, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till Isaid, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on thebench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds ofthings, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held itup and said."Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked forforty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we hadfun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote itdown there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down thepencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on theother side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else onthe other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read thefollowing words:("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall toask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'msittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me andsaid, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprintsoff to Washington."And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is astudy in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'msinging you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similarsituation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in asituation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk intothe shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can getanything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, ifone person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick andthey won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking insingin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's anorganization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I saidfifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant andwalking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, andall you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on theguitar.With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here andsing it when it does. Here it comes.You can get anything you want, at Alice's RestaurantYou can get anything you want, at Alice's RestaurantWalk right in it's around the backJust a half a mile from the railroad trackYou can get anything you want, at Alice's RestaurantThat was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing itfor another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four partharmony and feeling.We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.All right now.You can get anything you want, at Alice's RestaurantExcepting AliceYou can get anything you want, at Alice's RestaurantWalk right in it's around the backJust a half a mile from the railroad trackYou can get anything you want, at Alice's RestaurantDa da da da da da da dumAt Alice's Restaurant

So what is the difference? Companies say "not for street use". Will they not stand up to street abuse, rough surface conditions (pot holes) etc?

Looking for a pic of the "new" gunmetal inset Panasport wheels with the polished lip but at different angles. Anybody? (Pic courtesy of Motorsports)

Will those fit a 240Z???? I'm interested, PM sent. david

Check out the mini gun exhaust.

What ratio are you looking for?

I'm running Trick Flow's I think for the price they're hard to beat. Solid roller cam, 3.70 rear and the butt dyno says... It's quick. No dyno number or 1/4 times YET, I will take this car to the track before the year is up AND get it dynoed. My goal!!!

Can it be offset using pipe at a 45deg angle? Tuf one I'm sure there is an answer, have you looked at any "hotrod" websites for additional EGR valves? david Ooooooh love the hood, mine is on the way schweet

I wouldn't recommend adding Scarab lettering to your car, I mean others have done it but it's kind of like adding the "Type R" emblems to a car if you know what I mean, you're advertising something that you don't have. But to each is own

Amen brother love!!!! Thank God it's Friday!!!

I'll have to check, I "think" it's a Scarab vented hood but many duplicated this custom feature during the 70's and 80's. Look close at picture #4 on the right side you'll see my 1973 240Z with a JTR conversion, so no need My bad it's titled as a 72 with a build date of 10/71 sorry for the confusion. The "scarab" is an winged beetle, an Egyption creature, Lights on top of the wheel are high beam, left and right turn signals, the red one, I don't want to know haha. Suspension mods are from Scarab, springs, bushings, 4 piston caliper brakes up front looks like stock drums out back. I was considering taking my AZ big brake kit off my HybridZ and bolting it up to this car but the Scarab is just too original to modify, according to a gentleman in Canada who also has a Scarab and tracks them religiously this is one of 10 know and registered Scarabs. I'm sure there are more out there but WHERE??? David Twins on the way and twins in the garage!!!

Haha got it!!! O happy day... 1971 "customer car" HLS30 12XXX Scarab #154 This car is sweet. Rides great, quiet, wife even said it rides like a "real" car. I am truly blessed to have obtained this car. If you would like to see a specific area of the car let me know. PICS:

A chick called my Cobra cute...but never the Z.

Purist? OK I’ve sold my FFR Cobra to purchase an original 1971 Scarab. The options on the Scarab are 350ci engine, louvered hood and inspection lids, Auto Meter gauges, Recaro seats, leather door panels and other things I’m not sure of. The current owner added Panasport wheels and is the second owner; he brought the car to Arkansas from California. First owner was a dentist in CA who drove the car very little. I would “guess†the conversion has less than 5K miles on it. Now the question… I’ve been kicking this around, I’m thinking about taking my LSD, CV axle conversion and AZ brake kit off my HybridZ and adding it to this car. In your opinion would these changes make the car less valuable from a collector stand point or more valuable? I should probably just leave it alone and just drive it to shows and such and keep my HybridZ for driving more aggressively. Next question the Scarab is white, nice paint too!!! Should I repaint my HybridZ to match the Scarab or go with my original idea of a dark gray? Remember I’m having twins around Christmas so this whole “twin†thing would go together nicely. Thoughts? Or should I just sit down and shut up? haha. d Pictures on the way...

Another source for bolts, check out Compomotive Wheels. I've talked to them on the phone about powder coating my Cobra wheels they seemed very knowlegeable and willing to help. Oh BTW u suk Nice find on the wheels!!!

If you are displaced or know somebody displaced by the hurricane and need a place to stay/relocate we have room in our home. Lisa and I discussed this last evening and are willing to open our home to a familiy in need. We live in NW Arkansas, there are jobs here and it's a calm easygoing place to live. We have also registered this offer on line else where. Contact me at dsommer479@yahoo.com or 479-721-3273 David

Use anti-sieze yes the silver stuff on poly, an old 4X4 trick won't wash away in water!!! d

Any word on Harrison this weekend?

Uh huh there you are Vincent... Uncle Vince you're gonna have to come down and change some diapers and help me work on the Z

Thanks guys. Mikelly I knew somebody around here knew, but that's fine when the "leaker of info" found out she was only a week or two along and things can go really wrong in the first trimester so I sat on the info. As far as the current Z although it's not "done" it's still driveable but needs paint and body work. When the Cobra sells I'll probably get it painted and try to finish it up by next summer, we'll see what the futrue holds. I'm not too concerned with cars right now I've got my hands full with still moving into our new home and trying to sell our other home. Anybody wanna lend a brotha a hand moving a garage? d