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New rotors is not a gaurantee of straight, non-lumpy rotors. Take it from a first hand experience.

My Z is lowered from stock by 1" and I have the front camber bushings (eccentric) set to full negative and I get -1.3 degrees up front. I also have the "bump steer spacers". The car is totally streetable, in fact, it feels better on the road with the -1.3 camber up front. The noise added is minimal.

Awesome car. What wheels are they? I love them.

How could I forget this one...before I changed the bumpers. This was two photos with a garage in the backdrop. Backdrop removed, photos joined, and reflection effect added in Photoshop. Took about four hours to get it right.

Haha what a switch. I actually drove home with the A/C on in the car tonight because I miss the cold that we should be having here. It's about 60 and muggy here. Send that cold dry air, my turbo awaits.

Any details about the car...other than straight cut gears which sound awesome.

Hey Olderthanme, I know where you've been. Check it out. Here is a Stang at Limerock, Braking for Turn One. http://www.photoblink.com/imageview.asp?imageid=187794&groupby=authorid&value=6974&page=1 GTO-R, They were outbraking, passing, and out handling Porsche 911's easily!!! http://www.photoblink.com/imageview.asp?imageid=187360&groupby=authorid&value=6974&page=1

OK an excuse to go look through some digital albums.

Yeah I noticed that too. Here are un-shopped pics. http://www.hartge.de/html/indexuk.html

I have to be an "Alfista" the first three years of my life were spent in the back of a '66 Duetto in a homebuilt wooden crib, and my entire family is from Milan. The taste of lead is still in my head. Mom and Dad moved here to NY just before I was born. I 'gotta be loyal to the home town manufacturer!

I got my 1972 Alfa 2 liter to pass emissions with both the SPICA FI and later with double DCOE's. It was a matter of learning the systems. The SPICA was very complex, very few knew how to adjust it properly...and I mean Alfa techs! Setup properly, the Alfas ran well. The late 70's and 80's killed them though with, as you said, emissions. Alfa and clean shouldn't go in the same sentence. Oh and Alfas were reliable as long as you carried some tools with you. Of all my crappy cars, the only car that left me stranded was a 1990 Civic Hatch, twice. Go figure.

My good friend lives in Boynton Beach. He has a 2002 Vette Soft top. Deep Blue, tan top. He is very involved in the local Vette club there. I visit occasionally. Kevin is his name. Do you know him?

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IMHO: Driving a Z at 120mph is a sport. Driving a lexus at 120mph....well anyone can do it and talk on the phone. Also, there is one thing that is almost impossible or very difficult to reproduce in a Z. Safety. That said, I feel in much more control of the car in my Z and much more aware of my surroundings in my Z. If I was in a Lexus, I could daydream at 120mph...and that's not safe. Performance/Dollar of HybridZ can't be beat by most, if any, modern car.

My very first car was a 1972 Alfa Romeo Berlina. My dad imported his 1966 Deutto (Boatail Spider) from Italy and had a custom hard top made here in the States. His Duetto was the same red color as you show with the clovers on the front fenders. My Berlina rusted into nothingness. The motor was like candy. It was all worked so I pulled it and got rid of the car. The motor sat in my garage all dismantled, cleaned, and prepped, with all brand new parts to rebuild it along with dual DCOE Webers. I had intended to either find a GTV like shown, or a Duetto body and build it up. I never did. After I got my L28ET and my Z finished. I didn't feel the need to keep the Alfa Motor anymore. I ebay'd the whole deal. I wish I had kept it. That motor was SOOO advanced for its time. Hemi-head, sodium filled valves, crossflow, aluminum block with sleeves, domed pistons with valve reliefs, factory headers, mechanical fuel injection.....in 1972! The engine design has been around even much longer than that. Here is a car that was revealed at the Montreal World's Fair: Alfa Romeo Montreal It had two, four cylinder Alfa engines basically looked like they were "cut and welded" together to form a Hemi-V8 with dual distributors and dual fuel injection systems.

I run Axxis Metal Masters on my WRX and my wifes Legacy wagon. For the street they feel incredible. They feel very grabby and modulate well right from cold. I don't know how they are on a track. They are available for the toyota upgrade. The only downfall is that they make black dust. I found this place very helpful. http://www.brakewarehouse.com they know ALOT about brakes and will help you search for the right pad no matter what caliper you run. When I called, they helped me to find pads that would fit in an unidentifed caliper I had.

I am a die hard Opera user. I've been using it almost since the beginning. My virus came from a trialware program for finding duplicate files. I got it from a "shady" website so it was really my fault. But I agree with Super Dan that the virus didn't kill the PC. It was an unrelated hardware failure that just happened a few days after the virus scan caught it. My IT dept at work feels that it was my processor since the PC was still reading the RAM off my video cards before locking up. I can't wait for my new overpriced Dell. Intel Duo2 2.13Ghz Proc. 2Gigs DDR2 RAM Nvidia 512Mb 7800GTX SLI Capable for future Dual TV Cards with remote Windows Media Center --upgrade to Vista included. 750Watts

Lag is over emphasized. It's really not that big of a deal. Go turbo, hands down. The only reason people even notice the lag is because it is much, much, faster under boost. Another good reason to go with an L28ET. It is the strongest, highest flowing form of the L series motors.

Crime doesn't pay unless you can own the rights to the funny videos of you acting stupid on the internet.

Yup memory and connectors in general can cause all kinds of strange issues. I tried reseating all the connectors. This time though, it was getting worse and worse, eventually, the motherboard stopped POST'ing. Too late now. I photographed all the parts and put them back in their original packaging; except the motherboard. Heading to ebay with a full warranty from me. I have now shifted focus to making a space for the new Dell that should boot right up after I plug it in. Fingers crossed. I will buy one of those external drive enclosures for my old IDE data storage drive so I can access it from the new Dell via USB. It has all my software, documents, photos, and personal stuff on it. I am getting over the crash and the big hit to my wallet. Credit to Sunday beer and football.

What kills me is that I always ran at least two antivirus/spyware methods. I also use ghost to keep an image on another PC. Even after all that, I get a massive hardware failure. It may have just been the motherboard going bad but like I said, I have no time to screw around anymore with this stuff. I am going to sell the parts on ebay with a money back gaurantee.

Why does spending shtloads of money always make me feel better. I did it. I got me a new dell. 3-5 days. I broke my DIY code from the past 8 years and bought a prebuilt PC. I must be getting old. It is probably twice as fast as the pile of parts that I am going to torch. Oh well that's life. Moving right along...with less money.

OK thanks guys but I am about to go outside and pour gasoline on it and light it up. I assembled it again and tested some more theories. NG. I am FU#KING done with it. My time is too valuable for this crap. Going to Dell.com or Alienware.com. TTYL.

Since this morning, Windows XP logo was coming up and then before it got to the login screen, it would go back to rebooting. Endless cycle. Sometimes the USB keyboard would activate, sometimes it wouldn't. When the keyboard would turn on, I could get to the BIOS and change settings....basically to make the CD drive the boot drive so I could install WinXP from CD. Once I got XP to start installing, I hit F6 to load the RAID drivers from floppy and then it would get to the point where it whould say "starting windows" and then a blue screen with a message about contacting the manufacturer of the computer. Once, it actually made it to the part where it detected the volumes so I selected the RAID set and I did the quick format. After the quick format, blue screen again. Something about corrupt files. I tried removing hardware to eliminate problems but nothing worked. The PC was working fine since the virus attack other than the occasional sudden reboot. All virus scans were coming up clean from Zonealarm and AVIRA, (up to date). I also always had Adwatch Agent running to keep eyes on the registry. I have built many PC's and from my experience all this points to a hardware glitch. These are the toughest to find.

I already had Zonealarm Pro Suite and AVIRA running on RAID 0 drives. I had all my data backed up on two additional drives. Which I plan to keep for the new PC. All my drives were scanned and came out clean last night. I already wiped the RAID set a few times while I was trying to reinstall the OS. At this point I am going to punt and buy a readybuilt. I got no time to screw around. The PC is already disassembled.