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Lizard skin is basically a paint so it SHOULDN'T have any voids for water and air to get into.

Thanks for the reply. I'm so ready to get passed the welding and get on the fun stuff. I've been gathering up the JY stuff I need over the past few months. I'm ready to get it off the floor of my garage and onto the car !

Thanks. The place is willing to swap over parts at no charge if they have them so I want to try to get as much as I can up front so I don't have to re buy it. Does the crank pulley on the gto stick out further?

Decided to order an LS1. It's from an 04 GTO. It has a cable driven throttle body. The seller said he could swap the cfb oil pan setup, shifter, and alternator onto it. He said he didn't have any 4th gen alternator brackets though. Is there any other 4th gen parts I need to have substituted for the GTO parts in order to use the JCI JTR swap parts? Thanks in advance.

Where can you get the shoukia?

Restoration specialties has tons of stuff, but they are old school. You may have to call them and actually talk to a person if you can't find it on their online pdf catalog. My previous classic car didn't have very much support in terms of replacement parts, but I found several things there that were almost exact or would at least do the job. Just get the measurement of the hole and the thickness of the metal. Seals-it has some good stuff too.

http://www.restorationspecialties.com/

I had the fatmat in my Sunbeam, and I didn't care for it. It's heavy and hard to install on surfaces that have lots of curves and crevices. As soon as I finish all the welding on my Z I will be trying out lizard skin on it. I've heard lots of good things about it, and know someone who has the spray gun for it already. It comes in both sound and heat so I will use both.

Ha I was not wearing gloves so my fingertips still hurt from it today. So not at the moment but maybe I will after I get a few more things knocked out on my Z.

Let us know what you end up using for a driveshaft. Did you use an off the shelf safety loop or make your own and can you get a picture of how you have it mounted while you're under the car next time? On a side note, there's some kind of virus or something that's been killing honey bees in large numbers all over the world. It was on the news a few months back.

I finally got a chance to go to the local upullit yard. There were 4 Hyundais there that were early 2000 models with this mirror in them so I grabbed all 4. The yard only charged me $10 for the 4 mirrors. Got home and took the on e with the worst looking housing and carefully cut it with a hacksaw near one end to break the plastic off. It took awhile because I was going very slowly but if you nick the glass or scratch the silver on the back of the mirror you would ruin it. Snapped the end of the plastic off and slid the glass out. Took the best looking housing and smashed the mirror into little pieces I could pull out. Put the Z arm into the Hyundai housing. It was VERY hard to get the glass in . Since the mirror is wider in the middle I slid it in starting at the middle going to the left. You should really use gloves and safety glasses. I was pushing and squeezing so hard I was expecting it to break at any second but that glass is tough. You'll see if you try to break the glass out of the one how hard it actually is. What ended up working for me was running very hot water onto the back of the housing. It seemed to have softened the plastic slightly. Try not to get water into the housing as there are metal parts in there. You dont want to create another spot that the Datsun wouldl like to turn to rust. Sliding it as hard as I possibly could to one side. Sort of squeeze the glass in enough so it starts to bow the plastic out and go between it. I then took a towel and folded it in half and put it on a piece of wood. I laid the mirror in it upside down and pushed very hard all around it. That got it started going in. Then I just had to snap it into the groove in a few spots after that.

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.