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Sorry for your loss.

Were these the exhaust seats? Did you have larger seats installed?

my son is like his dad, no innate math skills. he thinks too much. I tell him just do the drills and follow the steps until they are second nature. the talent can be developed.

Yea. My 280ZXT was a magnet for idiots too. Idiots would find a way drive into it, back into it, sideswipe it, door ding it, no matter where it was. It used to make me crazy. I think it was the color. It was metallic brown with gold trim. People just didn't see it.

Nothing worth having is easy. I was a pro musician with years and years of liberal/fine arts education before I went for the ME. I had 0 math skills and a real fear of math too. I started out at the bottom, with basic college algebra courses and worked up from there. I attended many colleges and universities over the years, but I always lost interest and dropped out. Engineering is hard and that is what finally kept my interest. What have you proven to yourself if you always go for the low hanging fruit? Anyway, I was 35 before I graduated with the BSME. As far as getting engineering jobs, of the best places to look for engineering jobs and break into the profession are while you are still attending school. I worked for professors who had engineering companies, worked on research projects and grants, worked for the department, internships, etc. Then you have something to put on a resume and you have some good references.

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Doesn't look like Tuner Cat supports '96, at least I didn't see it. Aparrently ODBII is hard. Found LT1 edit at carputing.com but it is $550 and locked to 1 PCM. Know of any others?

Not exactly Z stuff, but wondering if anybody knows what kinds of things you can do to one of these GM transmissions to pep it up. It's in a '96 corvette LT1 with the factory high performance suspension. I pretty much have always disliked the soft 1-2 and 2-3 upshifts as well as the lazy and usually inappropriate down shifts everytime I mash the go pedal.

Thinking about modifying my little tiny steel Tilton flywheel for a replaceable friction surface. It uses solid metal pucks for a clutch disk. Any ideas where to find the materials or what kind of material to use?

my son says next June?

No, it is the Microsoft game console.

Anybody seen Xbox live? My son has it - the MC racing game is pretty awsome. Plus live voice chat with folks all over the globe. He wants Project Gotham for Xmas now.

Not from banging those frame rails up. It just looks bad and tips some mechanics off that they are dealing with an idiot driver when you bring your car in for an alignment and then they will try to sell you the Brooklyn bridge.

I used to put big dents in the frame rails where they dog leg down at the firewall due to insufficent ground clearance with curbs, big rocks, logs, etc during off-road excursions.

Mebbie so. But if you have a monoball on the strut top, like those that come on camber plates, you won't have a D hole. Some big vice grips to clamp the top of the strut piston and an impact is the best your going to do. Oh and when the nut gets tight and impact driver spins the piston and the vice grips, watch your fingers, it hurts like a sumabitch to get your finger squished up in there.

I had a 260 that I put a spindle puller tool on, with heat and penetrating oil for weeks. They never budged. I gave up after the threads were sheared right off the spindles by the puller tool. The next step was to take put a sawsall to the pins in the gap between the strut and the a-arm ...... Be sure and put anti-sieze on those new pins ....

My own bad experience with the rear ZX calipers was in my '83 ZXT when it was a couple years old. Rears started locking up all the time and were looking pretty corroded and the parking brake stopped working and even with new pads and full adjustments it wouldn't pass inspection so I went to the usual auto parts places for rebuild kits or rebuilt calipers - none available. None available from Nissan either. They made me buy brand new ones for what seemd to be a simple problem that should be cheap and easy to fix and I was not a happy camper. Of course, back then junkyards and aftermarket had nothing for the ZXT's anyway. Nissan reamed you every time you needed something.

Some of the more expensive racing shocks won't fit or fit very tight into a 240Z strut tube and some 280Z tubes are a bigger OD/ID so yes, I have heard of this. Not sure what year 280Z tubes you need though for the bigger ones. I measured several sets that I have lying around and they are all the same ID/OD.

At one time in my ME career, a long time ago, lead a project to develop software for power plant designers called Heat Exchanger Workstation. Most of that knowledge has been archived in those hard to access places in my head, but something I may remember correctly is that heat is not measured by just the temperature. It is a function of temperature and pressure. Heat energy stored in the fluid, and a fluid at higher pressure will store more energy than one a the same temperature and a lower pressure. So if you are just measuring temperature, you aren't seeing the whole picture. That is one reason why you need to do the actual heat transfer calc's to see if a two pass heat exchanger is going to remove more heat than a single pass. It may or may not. I'm way to lazy anymore to do those calcs. I'm pretty sure you can find them in an SAE or ASME handbood or proceedings somewhere ...

On the other hand, there are some super fast F-body CP cars around too. Camaros, when setup right, can be potent autox cars that can match or beat a well setup Z.

John & Jon No fair beatin' up on the 16 PSI, 500 HP, street tired, 340 treadwear, soft springed, 2800 lb, monroe shocked street 'n strip cars. Heck, my little stock motor L24 with maybe 160HP gross, and monkey designed suspension smacks down twin turbos all day long on an autocross. Flame suit on!

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I don't have any positions open at my account, everybody is trying to keep labor costs down. I probably won't unless somebody quits. Last person quit about 3 years ago. And even then, there's that giant sucking sound of all the jobs going off shore. No one's immune. There used to be lots of small machine shops doing mfg work 20 years ago, and steel mills before that but no more. I see IT going the way of those skilled jobs. When my kids ask me what they should go into, I don't know anymore, maybe a plumber or a teacher? It's hard to predict.

Naw. I washed it off in the sink first and then let it dry off. Besides, I'm their boss so respect is nice to have, but fear works better (just kidding).