Tim240z

If you don't have anything nice to say....shaddup!

Soo.......where the hell is your car, Mat!!?

Crap...I should have jumped all over that, huh Scottie!!

Likely also a CYA statement so that if you use racing wheels for the street and you kill someone in an accident you can't sue them....I'm sure racing puts more stress on wheels than street driving (higher temps from tires and brakes, higher lateral loads from sticky tires in fast corners etc), so I am assuming that it is just a legal CYA....

Yeah...otherwise it will "Rust".. Looks really nice. I would make a 'cradle' for the bottom with rubber 'cups' to hold it at the tanks, and then do something similar for the top....

Mike (Mas280) has done several RX7 LS1 conversions. He would be a good source of info. I rode in one of his conversions and that sukka rocks!!!

Good deal Charlie!! Ya know...I remember the same things going through my mind the first time I pulled the Z out of the driveway "Take it easy"...."work out the bugs first before getting on it" Needless to say that all goes out the window as soon as the foot moves from the brake to the loud pedal....my maiden voyage left its mark (in tandem) in the form of 2 x 40' stripes on the street right in front of the house.....

Read this and compare with your ads.... http://forums.hybridz.org/announcement.php?f=65&announcementid=3

Stole this from another board, and many have likely seen it before, but funny nonetheless: HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive car parts not far from the object we are trying to hit. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing convertible tops or tonneau covers. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling rollbar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake line that goes to the rear axle. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETELENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting those stale garage cigarettes you keep hidden in the back of the Whitworth socket drawer (What wife would think to look in _there_?) because you can never remember to buy lighter fluid for the Zippo lighter you got from the PX at Fort Campbell. ZIPPO LIGHTER: See oxyacetelene torch. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on 541's, they are now used mainly for hiding six-month old Salems from the sort of person who would throw them away for no good reason. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against the Rolling Stones poster over the bench grinder. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar callouses in about the time it takes you to say, "Django Reinhardt". HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering the Interceptor to the ground after you have changed the spark plugs and trapping the jack handle firmly under the exhaust system and cracking the exhaust manifold. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering a car upward off a hydraulic jack. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters. PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor Chris to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit. TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup on crankshaft pulleys. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and hydraulic clutch lines you may have forgotten to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle. BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought. AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw. TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin", which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty suspension bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in West Bromwich, and rounds them off.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/09550e0796b84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

The seatbelts held to the buckle with a pop rivet!!

Since no pictures have been posted, I call BS on this puchase!

Looks like his little yellow bus took some steroids!

I love Oingo Boingo!!!

Just drove back in from Santa Barbara....lots of ash and smoke in the air.....Driving out this morning from the South Bay to Santa Barbara in the dark, it was a fantastic site: The foothills were glowing in the distance..

damn....

Probably Snap-On would be the best one out there.....

Outstanding!!!!

Have you heard of Junk Yards? Learn them, know them, love them....owning a Z car and visiting JYs at least once a month are a marriage that will never divorce....

That's OK....Mike probably hasn't figured it out yet himself!!

As always John, your work is well thought out and very thorough!

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=1194580&forum_id=100 Man-O-Man....beautiful!!

Bend a coat hanger to the correct shape and go hang out at the hose rack behind the counter at the parts store.......

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have Earthlink Cable modem service which has been 100% reliable for the 2 years that I have had it, so I am not worried about that. For $25 bucks a month, it appears to be a great deal, esp. since there aren't all the extra Government fees and taxes tacked on....I am paying $55 for basic service from MCI (which doesn't include out of area calls), so I will be saving more than $400 a year on phone service!

That's the stuff! YEs it does dampen sound...likely not as well as Dynamat and products designed specifically for that purpose, but well enough IMHO.