JMortensen

WAAAY OT, but I had to respond to crazy280: There are a couple of things that no one ever taught me but I'd like to pass on to you, and I'm saying this in the hope that it helps you, not to come off like a patronizing ******* (I'm worried it may come across that way, and that's not the intent). I'm not a senior citizen, I'm only 29, but my life has changed drastically in the last 5 or 6 years as a direct result of these few things that I learned the hard way. Your employment is a contract between you and your employer. It works BOTH ways. Your employer expects work out of you. If you do not perform he can fire you. I expect you already knew this... Here's the part that most people miss: you are not at your employer's mercy. If he doesn't provide the pay, benefits, or atmosphere that you want you can leave and find a better job. If you feel like a victim, find another job. I struggled under this one for the first 6 or 7 years of my employed life. An issue would come up and I'd sit in a confrontational meeting with the boss where they'd be telling me that "I'd better or else" and every time I felt victimized and subjugated. After learning this lesson, I gained leverage with my boss and I could say "this needs to change or I'll be looking for another job". I only ever had to leave one job after that was said, and just letting your employer know that you are aware of the value of your work levels the playing field a lot. Of course it helps a lot when your work has some value. Prove your value then let them know that you know your value. I was a really rebellious kid, rebelling at parents, teachers, pretty much anyone I could. When I got out of school I carried this through to my working life, until about 6 years ago. Everyone complains about the stereotypical crappy boss, and I did too. Finally I was at a job and I was arguing with the president of the company. Not casual argument, but we were in each other's face SCREAMING, and I was going to pack up my stuff and leave when the argument was over. At some point he basically screamed at me "If you don't like the way things are done around here, then change them!!!" and a little light went on above my head... I had come to a realization that the reason we were arguing was because I thought I had to be told what to do, and he thought I was waiting around to be told what to do. Since that day every employer I've worked for has loved me as an employee and I haven't worked anywhere that I didn't get more raises faster than ANY other employee in the company. I always had a strong work ethic but I had nowhere to put my efforts. I'd constantly complain about how my employers were wasting my skills and their money. Once I figured this out everything changed and I went from customer service rep #40 and $6/hr to the guy who does EVERYTHING from fixing the copier to working the phone to helping with the accounting and was raised to $14/hr in about a year and a half. That boss in particular just about shat himself when I borrowed a jack and jackstands and fixed the hydraulic lines on our little forklift. So to recap: some employers are assholes. Don't work for them. If you feel like you need to make a stand and fight for something at work, it is your RIGHT to do so. Let them know what you want, and let them know how important it is, but be prepared to do what you need to do before shooting your mouth off. Don't be adversarial with your boss. Try to work WITH them instead of FOR them, you'll get a lot farther a lot faster, and you'll be a lot happier too. And you won't be thanking God for a Union job...

I searched for the original post where we had gone over this particular kit IIRC, and couldn't find it. Not sure why that is. Anyhow, the kit definitely sounds like the one we were talking about last year. Progressive in the front, linear in the back. I was "sure" it was Tokico's packaged kit. I remember thinking at the time I wonder how that's going to react on the edge of traction in a bumpy corner. The only answer I can come up with is not very well. Sounds like a good way to spin your car to me...

Health insurance didn't pay for that? When I had a 40 mile ambulance ride I had to pay my deductible, but MY health insurance that I paid for covered the ambulance and the emergency treatment I got. The ambulance ride would have been $1200, and I didn't get lights or sirens... My point with taxes is this: You want health care for every citizen, you want cleaner emissions, you want more benefits for people who have been laid off, if you want all of these things, GO AHEAD AND WORK TOWARDS THESE GOALS. Start the Universal Heathcare Fund as a NPO and start taking donations from the 51 million people who agree with you. Start the "Greenhouse gases are really bad so we are giving incentives to people who trade in their Hybridz for Hybrids" movement, or start the "Cobra co-pay assistance fund" or whatever. The vast majority of the social programs that liberals push for can be attained without any gov't interference. Once again, I can't help but think how crazy it is to say "The gov't is F#CKING EVERYTHING UP!!! If only we could give them more of our earnings, then they could run MORE programs for us and then everything would get better." It just doesn't make any sense. If they suck at running businesses, then keep the businesses private, and run them through the "donations" that 1/2 the country voted for and called "taxes." And lets shut down all the businesses that we can agree that they can't run well. Makes perfect sense to me...

Heating the coils is unneccesary. Tokico Blues would work well. They're about a 2 or a 3 on the Illumina scale, but not adjustable.

They sell the Nissan unit rebadged as Power Brute. It comes with 12mm ring gear bolt holes in the carrier, and you can get some 10mm ID 12mm OD tubing and cut it into ring gear bolt sleeves if you have the earlier 10mm bolts which they used up to 86 IIRC. Search, it's been discussed fairly recently, or just PM me for the details.

I woulda pulled a Guy Montag on their asses and lit em on fire!!!

We've talked about the progressive and linear setup before and I don't think anyone was too hot on it...

http://www.differentials.com has the clutch type for $500.

When I first saw this thread I thought people needed to not judge so much. Then I saw the show. What a bunch o crap!!! Ron your car looked nice, I was glad to see Joe Demers in there too, as well as Les and the rest of the guys. My first Z, a stock automatic 72 that I bought when I was 17 did 0-60 in ~8.5. Those guys made those cars SUCK. 0-60 in 13.x... sheesh. And those twins are just lame. Maybe we should resurrect the "4 barrel manifold sucks" thread...

I bought a whole bunch of jets from ZR8ED, and about 1/2, maybe a little more are Mikuni jets. There are quite a few which I just cannot identify. I've only worked on the later style Mikunis, so I don't know if these could be from an earlier style (I **thought** all the jets were the same) or if they are from SK carbs or what. ZR8ED was into Webers so I'm sure he would have known if they were from DCOE Webers... The jet blocks have 2 different numbers on them. One bag says 7772.4 and another one says 7772.2. I'm used to OA, or 8. Anyway, I got some of the holes in my tuning tackle box filled, but not as many as I'd hoped. I'm looking to possibly offload these once I figure out what they are. EDIT--I should say that there are probably 80 miscellaneous jets of these types. I'm not just fixing to sell the 11 that I've taken pictures of... there are quite a few more. Some pics:

Probably 45's, you measure the other end of the carb for the size. I'm about to post about some weird jets I just bought that I think are SK jets. You can pull some of yours and see if they look like the ones I just got...

Keep in mind that a 20 lb 18" rim is still going to cause more parasitic loss than a 20 lb 15" rim, because of the diameter and the lever effect. Plus your going to need a 15 inch tall air dam and 10 inch side skirts to keep air from going under...

I can't believe the crap I'm hearing. According to the Dems, the only possible reasons for voting Bush are either that I'm stupid or that I hate gays. They don't understand me now, and they are so arrogant that they won't understand me in 4 years. I was watching the Daily Show last night and Jon Stewart was saying that the red states voted for Bush because there were too many gay TV shows on the air and voting Bush was a way to "strike back". I guess to a Democrat the "morals" cited by voters who chose Bush ONLY pertains to gays... Well, I'm FOR gay marriage and I voted Bush. I guess I must be extra stupid then...

If it is a clutch type it better be a 4 pinion...

The guys who espouse these wacko theories... THEY are the Jim Joneses and the Heaven's Gaters. Do you notice how John and Mike Kelly have been citing all the "Chicken Little" stories this election year? You have another Chicken Little story on your hands, but you are telling the rest of us that you think the sky really IS falling. The problem with the conspiracy theories is that there is always some fact that can be twisted around to make it look at least slightly plausible, and most people's reaction is once they start to believe the first little lie, they are willing to stretch to believe the second, then all of the other ones kind of fall into place until your sitting there in your pajamas convinced that Bush's govt is run by the church. When you contact the guys from the website and they say to you "We're making a compound. Everyone can come, but you need to bring 300 lbs of food and a gun..." take my word. DON'T GO. All I'm saying is read a BUNCH of conspiracy theories. You might see the conspiracy for a conspiracy when you read that Bush is a Satanist, no he's a totalitarian, no the country is being led by Christian fundamentalists, no Donald Rumsfeld secretly controls it all, no Cheney is controlling the US and all he cares about is Halliburton's profit/loss report. The more of them you read the less seriously you'll take it.

The MSA 6-1 has close to the "right" length runners. The 6-2-1 has primaries that are shorter than ideal according to How to Modify. When I was building up my car the first time around my roommate had a 6-2-1 header that he was going to give me, and I remember thinking I'd be better off buying the 6-1. It's been a long time (this was like 8 years ago) so I don't really remember what it was about it that I didn't like. I think it was the primary length and the fact that were obviously not equal IIRC. On the MSA 6-1 I had to grind down my Mikuni manifold to the right thickness so that the manifolds would seal with the normal washers. I seem to remember not having to do that with SU's, but again, its been so long it's hard to say for sure. The Nissan Comp is perfect lengthwise, you get your choice of primary size, and it is relatively expensive, and then you have to make your Y pipe or run duals all the way back.

That is all he's EVER contributed. He's only got 3 posts and they are ALL the same. You call us Bush supporters dumb, V8Datsun? OK fine. We're dumb, but there's a lot more of us, and we like to screw. Guess what's going to happen in the next election?

I did that the last time I smogged my Toyota truck, it had a very tired bottom end at the time and was burning lots of oil. Needless to say if you were within about 20 feet of the thing your eyes were burning due to the alcohol and I think I used a quart of alcohol with about 2 gallons of gas in the tank... but it passed!

MrWOT, are you kidding??? From BinLaden's tape from the Friday 10/30: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/binladen.tape/ In the video, bin Laden said he decided to attack the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1982 after the invasion of Lebanon by Israel, which he claimed was backed by the U.S. Navy. EDIT--I thought the video was funny!

Hmm... not a smog guru but I thought that one of the major benefits of EGR was to reduce NOx. Something about the combustion of the a/f mix with the exhaust gasses added wouldn't be as efficient. Efficiency makes NOx. Then again, I could be talking out my butt...

I haven't used it, but that sounds like a good idea! The whole deal with the pucks is your clamping a smaller surface area which puts more effectively puts more force on the pucks than on the larger surface area of a normal disk. The only problem I see with the idea is if you're one of these guys who slips the clutch to spool the turbo when you launch, then you'll be wearing on a much smaller surface, so the disk will wear out much faster. For someone like me who does autoxing and time trials this sounds like just the ticket though... might have to get one of those next time around...

One last thing, the roadster and Z transmissions are VERY similar. I think datsunlover is right that you can use the Z 4 speed, but I also think that the case differences are so minor that the Z or ZX 5 speed would also fit. I know some roadsters came with a 2 piece driveshaft and the transmission had an output flange on it with no slip yoke. This would be a bit of a problem in that you'd probably need to use the front 1/2 of a Z drive shaft and that back 1/2 of a roadster shaft if you used the Z trans, or maybe you could just have the Z one lengthened. Not really sure... but it's definitely worth some effort to check it out if you do go to the trouble of trying to adapt the bellhousing to the SR...

Why are you guys READING this stuff if it bugs you so much? Nobody is making you read it...

That search box doesn't work. Try the one in between the FAQ and Memberlist links at the top of this page. My understanding is that the 4 speed is the same one that came in the early Z's. Kinda crappy, with crappy shift linkage. I'm with the others, use the 5 speed that comes with the SR. It would be a lot easier to adapt the driveshaft than to adapt the bellhousing IMO.

True enough, but the Jehovah's Witnesses have predicted the second coming and Armageddon something like 7 or 8 times now. Jim Jones and all of his followers drank their Kool-Aid. You've got the Hale-Bopp guys CUTTING THEIR NUTS OFF and killing themselves in their Nikes. Through a friend I actually met a guy who bought land in Arizona believing that Nostradamus's prophecies would come true and CA would fall into the ocean, leaving him with ocean front property. I think it is an irrational part of human nature to think that the END IS NEAR, and it seems to be a pretty universal thing througout history. You were aware that just like 2000, on Dec 31, 999 people also thought Armaggedon was upon them, right? The problem with the conspiracy theorists is that they are very good at making connections. They can weave a tale that has you believing their crap at the end. "Evidence" abounds, and can be convincing if you aren't very skeptical. I was listening to one skeptic who was talking about the Bible Code, and he was saying if you looked you could find a pattern, and interpret a meaning, in the number of streetlights you find on particular streets in particular alignments, etc. All I'm saying is read more about conspiracy theories, look around you and see what is going on, and then judge for yourself what is true and what is false.