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My friend has the TTT mount in his car with a shortnose diff.

Was it the JCI driveshaft?

Can you post the diagram here? I'm interested and I am sure others would be too.

I have 3 mirrors for the Z and they all have bad silvering around the edges of the glass and the plastic housings are near the end of their life's. So I followed the resilvering article on classic z car to remove the glass from my worst one. So I took it apart, and it came apart very easy. I thought why not get a mirror with a similar style mount and swap the mechanisms over? Off to the pull a part I went, and 1 hour and $7.09 later I had a 2004 Hyundai accent mirror. It was just slightly larger than the Z and had the pivot ball about in the same place. 2 cars down was a 2004 Kia something or other that had the exact same mirror so I took a rock and busted the glass out of it to see if the mechanisms were similar. Close enough! Now when I got home the glass didn't come out of the housing of the Hyundai mirror in 5 minutes like the Z's did. I fought with it for over 1.5 hours with a few of each style of plastic silverware we had in the house and a few plastic scrapers from the garage. No luck and I finally chipped the glass. At that point I just wanted to see if my proof of concept would work. I got out the hammer and broke the glass so i could get it out. I put the Z pivot ball into the Hyundai housing and it works fine. All you have to do is get a little longer mounting screw for the plate that holds the pivot ball in since the Z has a slightly larger pivot ball. Next time I get a chance I will go back to the upullit yard and get 2. Take the one with the best housing and break the mirror out of it and take a dremel, hacksaw, or other instrument of destruction you may have around and cut the 2nd housing apart to get the glass out in 1 piece. Snap good glass into good housing and you have a mirror from this century with the little flip up switch on the bottom.

i remember a while back on the BritishV8 forum that some guys ripped the 2 bolts out of their aluminum covers. They had very high horsepower engines in their Triumphs. They use the R200 short noses in them. This is a fix you may be able to use: http://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?3,35516

Did any of you see how the new Ferrari F12 vented thru the fenders on top gear last night?

Do you have a picture of the downforce rear spoiler installed on a car ?

Thanks. Received the part yesterday and it looks good and fits in the horn pad nice and tight. While steering wheel is apart I'm refinishing the pwood so I won't be able to test the function for a little while longer.

Looking for a taillight bezel surround, the black plastic that goes around the tail lights for a 1978 280Z 2 seater, NOT 2+2. I want ones not cracked and with none of the mounting holes busted out. I will repaint them, so don't care if they have been painted before or not. Thanks. I am located in 70448. Will take even single if there's not a pair available.

There's also heat shrink clamps. Only problem is if one happens to fail on the road you can't change it out easily.

The old cars didn't have any emission regulations to deal with so the fumes were just vented to the atmosphere. They would come out of the carbs and a lot of cars back in the day had vented gas caps. That's why sometimes at the autocrosses you'll see some of the old British cars having gas come out of the caps on hard turns if their tanks are too full. Not a good thing.

I pm'ed you. I would like one.

www.drivingfast.net has some basic driving theory to go along with this.

Go to a u pull it yard and look for an early 80s BMW, 4 door preferably, as the cable will be longer. Their batteries are in the trunk, and since they charge a set price for battery cable, its really cheap. I got 2 of them, for under $20 for both, probably about 10 feet long or so each, 1 probably a little bigger than my thumb, and 1 about as big as my pointer finger. Also there is a really nice jump point under the hood it goes to you might want to grab too.

this guy has some interesting stuff. He also has a corner balance calculator that may be helpful, http://robrobinette.com/S2000Info.htm

Let me check to see if that's whats broken on mine( im sure it is) and if so I'm interested.

those upper links look really short. Are you getting a lot of roll steer with this setup?

My little british car would understeer in autox a lot. I picked up time by using trail braking.. waiting as long as possible and heavy on the brakes at the very last moment to shift as much weight as possible to the front tires. It cut down a lot on understeer and cut off a decent amount of time.

I emailed them and they said they don't know specifically about the fitting on a 280z, but they have dealers and resellers who sell them so they don't know every car they have been installed into. He said they do draw more amperage but you can get a relay harness from painless or summit for around $150 or they make one for $50. He said it plugs into your existing harness and has a positive and ground you just hook to the battery so they run off battery voltage and it takes the load off your switch and wiring.

So given the choice thee seems to be 2 common gear ratio setups on the T56. One has a taller first gear but with lower overdrive .63 i think. I guess a closer ratio trans and the other has a lower first with a higher overdrive .50 I think. What is the preferred one for a swap with a 3.54 rear? Are the gear ratios in te 6060 similar to the t56?

Lizard skin heat on both sides?

I sat in a Subaru BRZ the other day and they have narrow really nice seats. Unfortunately I didn't have a tape measure with me. Does anyone have one they can measure? They look like good candidates even though at this time they are probably impossible to find.

Those are nice. There's some other ones that use a lever instead of a knob, and I've seen them mounted inside some track cars so they can adjust them on the fly.

http://haloheadlights.co/ Has anyone tried these? And if so can you comment on the quality and the fitment? I've seen them for sale at car shows and they LOOK nice, but haven't seen any installed.

If you're just looking for the sound, 180 degree headers and Dr Gas frequency mod mufflers gets it sort of close.