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Very cool. Someone needs to make a BRE vinyl wrap kit! I have installed Stonegaurd before and it's no walk in the park. I imagine vinyl is pretty labor intensive as well. The guys in the video made it look easy. Camera tricks.

Has anyone done a Z in a matte color, NOT FLAT? For example Silver, Black or any other as shown below? What is involved with painting mattes/semi-gloss? Do they hold up well? How do you take care of a semi-gloss? I am really liking what some of the exotics are doing with semi-gloss.

Think about all the resonance frequencies encountered from idle to 14,000rpms that have to be dealt with! Also amazing that there is no valve float, I assume. How much higher can desmodromic heads go?

I pulled a Taurus out of a snow bank with my WRX once. Love their AWD setup. Get some Blizzaks on there and it feels like it has claws on the ice and snow.

I'm not a pilot...just an RC pilot. However, I have plans to get my sailplane solo license. I just got the life insurance to keep the family happy. This Summer I plan on jumping into the local soaring program. Flying has been a dream of mine since I can remember.

Check this out....wait for the sound of the engine. WOW. Is that for real? http://www.hulu.com/collections/318/103969

Wow that looks like it could replace the unibody and serve as the chassis itself, with just a few more feet of tubing and plate! I would feel safe.

If you tapped them in with a hammer, they are probably tight enough. I thought you had them in hand tight. I installed mine with a hammer, in the wrong holes (different clutch), and had to pull them out of the Fidanza flywheel. I'll tell you what, they were in there TIGHT. I tried everything to pull them out short of drilling a hole behind them. I had to deform the aluminum holes by pounding on the dowels sideways, to pull the pins out. They don't come out easy at all.

I am not sure if this is fact but maps tuned with TS don't work properly with MT and vice versa. I ran into trouble doing this. Can anyone confirm or bust this myth?

I have had that happen before. It startles the crap out of you. I was shifting up, and ended up punching the dash with the shifter in my hand instead! LOL

No way to access from a port in the bell housing? Drill a hole and use a punch? Just trying to make it easier...

This is a REALLY old post but I do use the search engine and here is proof. Here is a neat discovery. The two block off grommets for under the tail edge of the hatch work to replace the wiper grommet on the firewall. Much cheaper and looks/fits just fine.

The older 240Z mechanical clocks, can usually be cleaned up carefully, lubed, and made to work. Also, the 77 and 78 clocks are more reliable solid state. Ahem. Are you sure you have 12volts at the clock wires? Had to ask.

It's probably this color. This is Joe's car, RAGS just back from paint jail. 350Z paint code.

That is a great looking restoration!! I can finally tell you. LOL.

But you are paying less for oil so you don't need the hedge effect. You were happy when it spiked. No? Sounds like you needed to invest in Propane for your benefit, not oil. http://ezinearticles.com/?Propane-Futures---What-Are-They?&id=2887798 Ouch! Electric heat is way expensive.

There is a reason they get $$$ for electric, gas, and oil. Partly because you cant just get or make it yourself. Partly because you don't have to. I found that shopping around and juggling contracts with other suppliers for gas and oil usually saves me a little bit (5% or so over a competitor). You also need to watch the quality of the product. I use both sources in my home. Both delivered by truck. With oil, I own the tank. With gas, I rent it. You need to follow the commodities and decide if you want to lock in rates or let them float. Lately, I have not locked in anything. I also keep the wood handy in case the price of oil rises, I will hedge with wood until the prices come down. Another thing you can do IF you have some extra cash is to go to buy some stock in the resource you are using. I bought lots of oil stock. If the price of oil rises, so does my stock value, offsetting the oil cost. If it drops, well, I don't need the offsetting. Win-Win. Or this: http://www.floridamoves.com/real_estate/Florida/Florida.htm?WT.mc_ID=301116020200000&WT.srch=1

Did a little more work.... BTW Long handled barbecue brushes from the dollar store, with the scraper blade on the end and the brass bristles, are AWESOME for scrubbing and scraping the dark side. 23 years of paint oxidation partially removed from a fender with a quick wax/cleaner.

Wood, if you can cut your own. I also save all my bills, junkmail, boxes, and burn them for heat. My stove has a catalytic converter in it. I bypass it when I burn junk. I once heated the house for a few days with the actual oil bills I had saved over a 10 year period.

I did not have to change shims but I am going to assume that you need to do the math... Example: Take .004 off the right shim and add 0.004 to the left one. This will give you more lash...roughly for estimation purposes, ignoring the angles and whatnot..Basically what you take out on one side, you add to the other side or vice versa. But I think you got that part down already. I am not sure what delta shim translates to what delta lash. Depends on tooth angles. I think that's your dilemma right? Here is an unverified statement that I found on the ALWAYS CORRECT internets. "The backlash will generally change about 0.007" for each 0.010" that the carrier is moved" Ref: http://www.differentials.com/install.html Can anyone confirm this? If that's true, you need to shimmy the carrier over by about 0.006 to go from a 0.002 lash to a 0.006 lash

I just put on AM in between stations and pretend I'm driving a zipper.

Butt steering! Like when we used to go down a snowy hill in the woods on a garbage bag. It's really second, and third order, driving. He is steering the derivative of direction.

Colin was the best. He was my favorite driver. He gave 110% all the time. Again, I highly recommend picking up a copy of his old Rally Simulator for PC, it's the best.

Looks like they got their patent well before I posted the idea in 2006. DARN!

I see it as another variable that does not need to be there. I guess instead of adjusting suspensions, you can just swap tires at the track until you find the one that suits you.