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Suede steering wheel and Suede gloves = sticky grip on the wheel

Silver provides radiant heat protection up to 1050°F and higher for short durations. Basically the silver can handle considerably higher temperatures then gold... higher then 1050* for short periods. Gold primarily operates around 450* and a max of 750*. Much lower then silver.

John offers a setup like this through Beta Motorsports http://betamotorsports.com/products/products.php?cat=10 A complete street and racing strut kit for the Datsun 240, 260, and 280Z. The kit comes fully assembled (with the struts shortened as appropriate for the shocks selected) and ready to install with the following components: 4 shocks of your choice: Tokico HP (non-adjsutables), Tokico Illuminas, or Tokico HTS for a street/track car, Tokico HTS, Koni 8610 singles, or Koni 8611 doubles for a race car. 4 EMI Racing Camber plates. 4 Hyperco 2.5" diameter 10" tall coil springs (your choice of rates). 4 EMI Racing threaded collars and lower spring perches. 2 front struts and spindles. 2 rear struts and hubs. 2 stub axles and companion flanges. 2 new inner wheel bearings. 2 new outer wheel bearings. 2 new grease seals. 2 new stub axle nuts. 2 backing plates (optional). 2 new spindle pins, lock nuts, and wedges Tokico Illumina shocks (BZ3099 front and BZ3015) rear. $3382.00 Now his assembly already has everything ready to go including new seals and bearings and a camber plate etc etc.. this is literally "bolt on". Just food for thought

Wow!! Thats fantastic news!! I just finished my Z32 transmission swap last year or so and had a custom driveshaft made, I was worried I would have to have it modified "again". Good to know I can just swap the input shaft flange!!!

I see one problem.. Where will the exhaust go?! You might want to notch the cross member to allow the exhaust to be tucked up and prevent scraping!!

ZNeder.. did you "spot" weld all those welds to give it a stacked, TIG weld appearance?! BTW - cool Suzuki GSXR throttle body manifold ya have on the workbench. Any pics?!

John beat me to it. More weight.. more parts and greater complexity.. which means more parts to fail or something to go wrong.

I will prob get some bad responses about this one.. but i've noticed on turbocharged cars.. especially with a larger turbo and a high RPM turbo "threshold" or "lag" ( i dont want to hear it Tony ) .. that while applying adequate pressure with your left foot on the brakes, and moderate pressure with your right foot on the throttle will keep the engine under load and almost instantaneous boost when you let off the brakes. I know this builds up the heat quite a bit in the brakes.. but the smooth transition from braking to full boost prevents the car from going into a wild oversteer situation...when compared to applying full throttle then a sudden surge of boost and oversteer.

Gabe I can't remember.. do you have a stock head and cam with minor port work to match the intake runners?!

I agree!! I have no problems answering the questions the way they are.. but after reading the description.. I was really thrown off by the reasoning behind the answer

Let me state the question that has been bothering me.. and it looks like some of you guys as well lol The description of the answer from the FAA says the following : Jeesh a lot of typing. SO anyway.. thats where i'm getting my confusion. Hell.. look at the two different answers on the questions that are virtually identical!

I wonder how much it costs.. or how much it will run me for a few days rental!! Seems like something I can do in my garage!!

Rolling parts your correct why I've been scratching my head.. it just seems backwards. The FAA needs to specify their explanation a bit more

This is random.. but check out the video I found on youtube with dry ice blasting on a 240z!!

that might make sense!! Im assuming now that the normal static pressure ports and altimeter/VSI have an instrument correction to compensate for the low pressure flowing around the aircraft.. to give you the stationary atmospheric pressure around the aircraft. ah ha

Apparently I've had a three day brain fart.. and I cant seem to wrap my head around this... I've checked numerous different books and reference articles... Now I must really really really not be thinking clearly.. but I thought that high velocity, fast flowing air around the fuselage was LOW pressure.. due to Bernoulli's Principle.. the fairly stationary, stagnant air inside the cockpit was HIGH pressure.. Example.. when driving in a car at a fairly high speed, cracking the window open would cause the "high" pressure air inside the cockpit to "blow" out or get "sucked" out to the high velocity, low pressure air outside the car. You can normally feel the air vents displacing more air since the low pressure outside is "sucking" out the high pressure air in the cockpit. *here is an article that backs up my statement.. http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae522.cfm * Someone help me get my head on straight.. even the FAA instrument written exam has this question.

I have a set for my 280z... i havent put them on yet.. but they look like the right part!

I'm going crazy... Can someone explain to me the major differences from gold and silver?! It was my understanding that gold is the best heat reflector followed by silver... but accoring to the specs listed on HPR racings website.. it seems like Silver Foil has better properties?! So why would NASA, Formula 1 and the McLaren F1 use gold?! I know Silver is nearly twice as heavy as Gold.. but.. what else could it be??!!! http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?tpc=Reflective_Film_-_Gold&form_prod_id=66,7_3153&action=product http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?tpc=Reflective_Film_-_Silver&form_prod_id=66,7_3152&action=product

HUGE difference Gabe!! I love the new video!! LoL sorry i wasn't trying to be rude.. just giving ya a hard time

um.. cool head.. but seriously guys?! Just buy a damn RB or 2JZ for the money. Your talking about putting a DOHC cam on a nearly 40 year old engine design.. its not going to make that much of a difference

Dear Lord.. please stop playing music over car videos.. how the hell am I supposed to hear the beautiful noise the RB makes?! hmm? hmm? Awesome runs JT!

Celica ***

Phil it depends on how bad your vacuum leak is.. but that might explain why the AFR's havent changed.. larger diameter runners and a higher plenum volume at high boost levels should change the AFR. a vacuum leak seems like it could be counter-intuitive