JMortensen

Sounds like that other guy doesn't understand how a progressive spring works. The linear rate springs won't compress at one end or the other. The whole spring compresses. The progressive rate springs have very tightly wound coils at the top end to lower the spring rate for the first inch or two of travel. Once the lower spring rate part of the spring compresses, then it gets into the higher rate. It's a spring that gives a soft cushy ride on a rough road, then has a more aggressive rate past that.

This one is answered by tannji: Plus there is the fact that Europe without exception has sided with the Palestinians and the US has not. You can make up your own mind about Israel/Palestine, but maybe our support of the Jews who seek to take over the 3rd holiest city in Islam might have something to do with their hatred of us. Then you can get into why they hate the Jews, which gets back to the Quran, etc. Europe on the other hand has not had such a friendly role in history towards Judaism... I suppose the scammers are afraid that we will take their money so they choose to steal ours as a pre-emptive move, not because they just want our money. Ridiculous.

Your mainshaft nut is coming loose I think. My transmission has never grinded gears, but I'm going to rebuild it because it has the mainshaft nut coming loose. I hadn't really associated the hard shifting with this problem because I only encountered that a couple times, but I did have trouble hitting second at an autox when I was trying to shift really fast. My main symptom is a bearing growl at idle with the clutch out, and more recently it pops out of gear while decelerating. Any of that sound familiar?

BS again Phil!!! I suppose that you haven't heard the stories of African children with polio because they thought the vaccine was a US plot to spread AIDS or make them sterile:http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Features/0,,2-11-37_1481952,00.html Yeah, those African Muslims love us... On a funnier note, you ever seen http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com? I know you won't appreciate the humor (since it's funny) but when the Nigerian scammers figure out that they've been caught they almost always start spewing some crap about Allah smiting us, etc. You say "They have little resources so we didn't meddle." You got that exactly wrong. It's "They have little resources WITH WHICH to meddle." Some extremist Muslims want to kill us for who we are. Bush says pretty lamely "It's because they hate freedom." That is just a lame statement, and it should be "because they associate the evils in a free society with the death of their religion and culture, and are trained from a very young age to counter this threat with violence and terrorism." Since we turned and ran in the 80's and 90's in the face of terrorism, they figure this will work. Not any more.

I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one.

As far as the frame rails in back go I am going to do them from the top, just haven't started on those yet. I think I'm going to use Tim240z's method and dremel some 1" slots, then fill them in. I think with the power settings I'm using that I might not even need to do that, I could just go slow and let the weld melt thru to the bottom rail, but I'm going to take the extra time to cut the slots in the top just to be extra sure.

Well I started to clean up the seams, then it got cold. Too cold to be out in the garage. Months passed, and my thumb became stinky. Finally the temperature warmed enough that I went back out to the garage. Here are my first seam welding pics, some are just cleaned up seams, then there's some actual welding. Keep in mind that I have about 3 hours experience welding, including the time it took to do this stuff. I did what John suggested earlier in this thread. On the floor to strut tower seams where there was a big gap I did 3 beads. On on the floor, one on the strut tower, and one to connect the two. Makes the welds big, but getting right in the seam just pulled the dum dum into the weld and made it very bird poopy. One other thing. I do not intend to go with the pubic hair look for my carpet. But I did have carpet installed in this car previously, and the insulation was glued down. So I'm wondering if anyone has any cheater type method for removing the glued down insulation pubic hair looking stuff.

You're pretty good at sidestepping arguments...

I was taking issue with this statement. Had nothing to do 911.

Your A/F ratios look pretty damn good to me. The A/F ratio drops to 10 because the velocity of the air goes to really low when you open the throttle plates, and at the same time the accelerator pumps dump a big pee stream of fuel into the cylinders that doesn't atomize and burn very well. This is what I was trying to explain in your last thread about the off idle stumble. When you don't have any velocity in the intake and you just slap the throttle plates open it's going to stumble because the engine looses most of its vacuum on the intake side until the engine speeds up and the velocity increases. I think you'll find that it runs stronger and pulls through that part of the rpm range better at 10:1 than it will with smaller pump nozzles. Again, this is where smaller chokes would benefit you (at the expense of top end). As far as chokes go, did you take them out? 44mm chokes would be... invisible...

That's not the argument we were having.

It doesn't matter what I dould do, but I'm a libertarian and I don't care what people do as long as it doesn't affect my life. What does matter is that you're talking about a group of people (fundamentalist Muslims) who are taught that we are the most evil people on the planet, that we are trying to corrupt their virtuous way of life, and who's holy book says that they need to destroy our culture, and that if they do not destroy us, we will destroy them. It seems like you don't want to deal with the reality of extremist Islam or wahhabism or whatever you want to call it.

This idea has already been stated before in this post, but I'll throw it out in a slightly different way... Even if this head yields a very siginificant increase in NA power, say it gets a 50 hp increase, and bumps a NA L engine like mine from 240hp to 290, I still wouldn't be able to race anywhere with this head in a "normal" Z class for autox or road racing. The class that a Z would be relegated to would be the same class that V8's or 2JZ's or RB's or Buick 6's would be in. So basically this is a $5k exercise in keeping the same block that the car came with and getting some power gain. In and of itself there is nothing wrong with that, but still it falls well short of the possibilities of even a very mildly build V8, and will probably weigh more when it is done. It's very cool, very expensive in pure $$$ for hp terms, and kind of pointless except to the purist who doesn't mind the bastardized head.

If my neighbors were the most crude, vile, and rich people I had ever seen, and they tried to convince me and my family and my children to turn to their vile, sinful, evil lifestyle I might get a little pissed, yeah. The only example I can think of is if I had a heroin addicted NAMBLA member living next door and he was constantly trying to seduce my children to his way of life. Yeah, that would probably piss me off pretty good. To fundamentalist Muslims we are that heroin addicted NAMBLA member.