Tony D

Leyner Drill... Designed for operation by a two-man crew in near total darkness... I'm tellin' ya!

We can string up the pigs that ate him on Wall Street... I sill like the purification through pain approach. Sometimes the tried and true older methods appeal to me. What can I say?

BTW "Silver State" refers to Nevada. It's 318 between Hiko and Lund. It harkens back to the Pre-1973 National Speed Limit where Nevada didn't HAVE a speed limit. Many western states were 'safe and prudent'... Most of the time on a clear sunny day you didn't get a second look by Johnnie Law if you weren't cracking triple digits by a significant margin. Brakes came in handy when you came over a rise, saw a town, and saw there was a municipal speed limit sign posted (and usually a municipal revenue enforcement officer somewhere nearby...) Can the youngsters even fathom that concept?

"Click, Chunk, Click...." I really want to replace my Nugent Collection on 8 Track...but...

in all of this, have you verified that TDC on the pulley aligns with actual engine TDC? The L28 Dampeners are known to slip after 30+ years...

I gotta admit, when the phrase 'air horns' and 'air box' comes up, the LAST thing I think of is the Stock SU's. Then it's 'Air Cleaner Assembly' or there is a reference to removing the air cleaner assembly and substituting Aftermarket SU Tuned Ram Horns or some such nonsense. Heck, we haven't heard if it's the stock stuff he was running, or aftermarket...

No spectating at Silver State... Keep that in mind before you drive up there. Only way to spectate is to operate the radio relay for the safety crew, or participate. Spa and Nurburgring, on the other hand, have stands. And concessions. And beer after the racing day is over! Oh, a Waffles too!

This is the stock airbox backplate? Or Aftermarket backplate / horns?

Why do you need to 'upgrade the valvetrain' to run to 10K rpms? The valve train is not what needs to be attended to for that kind of RPM... Trust me, I know.

(Best Kelly McGillis) "So he's the one that shot down the MiG?"

Rodac, I'm telling you Rodac.... Or a Leyner Drill....

Bummer, I'll be in Spa Francorchamps attending the Old Timer 6 hours Enduro that weekend...

1850#? 840Kg??? Show me the weight slip on that one. Even with Hydrogen in the tyres, you're not getting a 260Z that light and still have it on the street. I second the B.S. Claim. Especially since, like Frank said, I weighed my trailer empty, I weighed my trailer with my 260Z in it, and I weighed my trailer with Franks 79 280ZX in it, all within the span of a few days. The weight tickets are in the glovebox of my dually, but I'm thinking there was a difference in weight of less than 300# between the configurations. And that was verified against the 'empty weight' that I did when I bought the trailer. Maybe the guy is smoking crack, and was floating up against the roof for negative bouyancy while on the scales????

Suggestion with the Neon: DON'T EVER ACCEPT THE BACK SEAT RIDE! Cardomain is down and I got to go to work, so I'll post the photo of 'why' later!

How sad... she must have been used to that type of 'short stroke', no wonder they resorted to such experimentation. If you're into short-strokin' everyone knows a Rodac is what you use, anyway... Sabre Saw, what foolishness!

Miatas and Neons have drivetrains and suspensions that are 20 years newer than most of the Z's competing. 78 vs 98. If nothing else that explains the retirements. Really, our first outing was nothing more than stupidity. And I'll remind you it was a NEON that lost it's clutch and was sitting in the racing line when we booted him up off the track at Thunderhill. A Neon getting rear-ended by a 77 280Z at 70mph put the Neon OUT of the race. The Z was back at it in the morning. I think repairs took a whole 45 minutes... Advantage: Z! Z : 1 Neon: 0 At least we took out someone before we got taken out by bigger metal... Bigger metal, BTW, that is still out there racing! That thing won't die, dammit!

Concerned we got all the money? I hereby revise my prior statement: Torture the hell out of the bastid first, THEN once we are convinced we've extracted the maximum pain and information from him... Throw him to a pack of hungry pigs. Big ones. Kill the pigs, and distribute the meat to the poor. Or to Madoff's customers. Either way, it suits me just fine. I think incarceration is getting off way light for what he did. WAY light. In days past there was a term: "Horse Whippin's to good fer him!" This is one of those situations. He should suffer. REALLY suffer. And know WHY he's being subjected to it. Only through the cleansing purification by pain may his soul be rendered clean to be judged by the almighty. "Confess, and ye shall have mercy..." Where's my Black Hood? I'll do it.

What is the 'Rain' you people speak of, and why does it make you take shelter inside. This is a foreign concept to me...discuss further, please...

The cooling bodies are designed to work as a fuel return routing path. Any pressure you put there is minimal, but it's at least 1/8" thick mazak alloy and a gasket, so they should be good to about 60 psi (my blowthrough was running 25psi on the feed, and somewhere near that lift-throttle on the return line until I got my surge tank swirl pot orifice straightened out) The cooling bodies are run in series, usually with the back carb first. So flow from a feed rail from the pump would go Feed Carb 1, Feed Carb 2, Feed Carb 3, then to Cooling Body 3, Cooling Body 2, Cooling Body 1, Return Line to Tank. This puts the coolest fuel in the hottest carburettor first. If you run a cool can it helps. I had one made that was a 1 gallong thermos, and it would run 2 hours before the ice was totally melted and hot to the touch (water)...but MAN did it keep the carbs cool. One other thing, theorists and such aside... The COOLER you get the underhood temperatures, the better. I'm willing to give up the THEORETICAL loss of efficiency by running a 160F thermostat in the car, as opposed to a 190. The temperature coming off the radiator and blasting through the engine bay is at LEAST 30 F cooler under the hot day scenario using the 160 as opposed to 'standard' thermostat. Keep it around, you can use it in the Winter. But for the summer, it's a 160 in there, baby! I wonder what would happen if you hooked up a can of Radio Shack "Freez-It" or some R134 to those cooling bodies... Man, before the drag race, a quick hoze to freese up the mazak and precool the bottom of the carburettors... And almost to the DAY 4 years ago today...my last post on this subject in this very thread! I'm haunted, I'm sure! I digress...

I'm unaware of suspension failure being an issue in any LeMons retirement. I think that one is a moot point.

I'm all for execution on the general principle of scope of the fraud to send a message. But then again, I'm for execution for some traffic offenses as well, that's just me...

And to think in some places people actually use the words 'Parts for my Z are impossible to find...'

I was talking with this pretty young thing from Angeles City this past week... All was going fine till she mentioned she was born in 1988. Hey, I could be....you look familiar...I might know your daddy! Wakeup time for getting old. LOL I'm O.K. with the atmosphere there, but ECM is about the same and they are trying hard to attract tourisim. The gubbmint is stable, corruption relatively low for the region, and Singapore is just a hop away for emergencies. The Manila Hilton...ahhhh...decadence! LOL

22 hours on our engine before 'engine implosion'... The first car died due to on-track accidents (several)... Teh second suffered from inredible cheapness and thinking that we could run a junkyard engine with over 160,000 miles on it without doing a DAMNED thing to it other than precious bodily fluid changes and a set of spark plugs... I mean, it DID lead for the first 8 hours in Reno...then the rod went. If we simply time shifted the engine hours to subtract the 14 hours it ran at Thunderhill (I mean, guys, it was going over 100mph into turn 1 with no pan baffles!) I think if the Z's simply SLOWED DOWN they would take it. But the inherent nature of Z Drivers is to RUN HARD and running hard in on an unprepped junkyard engine isn't good. Mechanically, save for the Mopar savagely ripping the front 1/4 of our car off at Thunderhill, we have had no problems. Now the car awaits another test. Refine and tweak. The car is sorted, handles great, and over the course of two events we've dialed it in. No serious shunts last event means this car can compete again. Dig out that old accusump off the turbo engine from the junkyard...and we might just stand a chance! It was running STRONG at Reno. And hell, I bought SIX CARS for $600! When you start selling fenders and crap like that, the cost goes down. Especially when you have a European guy willing to pay your $400 for what you normally would toss to the scrap man. Frank raided my scrap trailer and we made out pretty god after Ad said he needed 1/4 panels and roofs... Three of each went his way, muahahaha! The rest went to scrap in Riverside!

Now, to hold out and hope Tony Robbins offs in some spectacular way and makes it the 'Annoyance Trifecta of Morbidity' this summer!