JMortensen

So you're telling me you want to trust the police to protect you in the next terror attack? Or the Department of Homeland Security's balloons? Is it the gas meter guy snooping around your house that makes you safer? Is it Carnivore? Which of the govt's reduction of YOUR freedoms is helping to catch a terrorist? I'm not saying hamstring the govt in their search, but there should be enough legit things they can do to help track these guys down. BTW--funny fake headline from a few years back "ACLU defends KKK's right to burn down ACLU headquarters!" I think the govt can fight this fight without trampling all over the citizens. The govt should be pushing to get as many concealed carry laws on the books as possible. And I don't think hijacking another plane is going to happen, just because you'd have to have a whole plane full of sheep ready to die at the hands of the terrorists, since we all now know their plan. The president says this war is going to last for YEARS. Do you really want this kind of "rights curtailment" to go on for YEARS??? Do you have some examples of this happening in previous wars? I am very aware that PRESIDENTIAL powers are very often greatly expanded in wartime, much to the chagrin of Congress. I'm not sure that I've ever heard of civil liberties being curtailed with the exception of the internment of the Japanese in WWII. I can imagine habeas corpus was in the Civil War which could be argued either way, so give me another if you don't mind. I thought the whole deal with the Bill of Rights was that it specifically stated what the govt CANNOT do, while the rest of the document says just what it can and should do. I would imagine that the idea was that these rights should NEVER be compromised in a time of war, otherwise why have Amendment III, "No soldier shall be quartered..." Jon

Well, JohnC, I think I may have to differ with you. Since these guys are drifting and they want to break the back end loose ALL the time, I think it might be advantageous in that respect. To make a car handle well or drive well, you're obviously right, the sidewall flex is necessary, but these guys don't want to go fast or be comfortable. They want to go slowly in sort of a ballet/figure skating sort of a way. Jon

JohnC has done it. You may want to try to PM him. Jon

Pop, where are those statistics from? Almanac? DOJ? FBI? Not doubting the figures at all, just want to know the source. I had a discussion with a co-worker who also worked with inner city youths. She told me how they had no chance to make it, and how they had to join gangs and sell drugs just to survive. I asked her what would happen if a young man in that situation just got up one morning and walked from away from the bad part of town. Just threw some clothes in a backpack and just walked away. The ensuing struggle couldn't possibly be any worse than fearing for your life every day, right? She agreed, but said that these kids were TOTALLY DEVOID OF HOPE. They knew what life had in store for them. They were going to die on the streets or end up in prison, so they became calloused and hardened and didn't care what happened beyond getting high and selling drugs, and the occasional adrenaline rush from a firefight or running from the cops. They had this so ingrained in their minds that, as she put it: "They would never even think of just walking away." Sorry if this post came off as sappy, but that's really how I feel on this one. As to how you fix that situation, I have no idea... Jon

I can tell you this: don't plead guilty to anything thinking you're doing yourself a favor. My wife was involved in an accident where she was driving up our street and a Hummer backed up into the road and hit her in her Sentra. There was a tree right at the corner of the driveway, so neither one of them could see the other. The other driver tried to convince the judge in court that my wife was partially responsible by saying she was speeding (BS--she drives like a SNAIL). Since he had previously admitted that he was at fault for failing to yield, the judge refused to even listen to his argument that she was partially at fault, which in this case was a good thing. I don't know if ice is a defense for failing to stop, but I wouldn't go out of my way to say that the accident was my fault. Jon

You answered your own question. I think the answer to that is that people will start being responsible as soon as we stop PAYING them for being irresponsible... Jon

The second groove was for the smog pump in the US. I'm with Dan on this, the Euro damper's main benefit is smaller diameter/less weight. I have heard of failures, but I limit my rpms to 7K so I'm not terribly worried either. Plus it's got a much bigger bolt head on the front, so more torque to the threads. Should be less likely to come loose like my original ZX pulley did. Not sure if the rubber went away and the vibration loosened the bolt or the other way around, but I feel a lot better about the current setup. Jon

That's just sh!tty. I had a car stolen from in front of my house once. Felt so violated... Good luck, I hope you get it back quickly and undamaged. Jon

Well the 4th Amendment looks pretty clear to me, but I have no doubt that the issue has been argued in court. In searching online, it looks like those who challenge the right to privacy say that the word "privacy" doesn't occur in the Constitution. Apparently neither does email or telephone, and that is the type of loophole the Big Bro types are trying to use to violate our rights. The wording in the 4th Amendment is pretty clear, but hey, we also have all kinds of gun control laws that are a violation of the 2nd Amendment. That doesn't make it right, or make the Amendments any less clear. Jon

I think you're wrong... Jon

I think it's weird that anyone regardless of "liberal" or "conservative" bias would want the govt to infringe on any of their rights, but that seems to be the trend. So I for one am right with you Chap. But, the 1st and 2nd Amendments are the most important because without them the rest are just empty promises. They are #1 and #2 because they are the most important. Jon

WOW!!! Jon

You can just vent, and that works ok. The idea is to use the intake to suck the pressure out of the crankcase, which would free up a few hp and makes life easier on seals. Unfortunately, the stock setup puts the oily crap into the intake, which I would think would lose you a few hp. Jon

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What good has the gun done for humanity? How about helping develop the means of manufacturing that gave us the Datsun Z... http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi101.htm Jon

The resistance to registration is a lesson that history should be teaching to all of us. Registration is the precursor to forced disarmament of the people. Right now there are guns in one of every two households. If a Hitler or a Stalin were elected to power in this country, that person would have to deal with 145 million armed people (at least) before starting a new Holocaust or Red Purge. However if the govt knows where all the guns are located, they can round them up, just like Hitler did before the concentration camps. The reason the right to bear arms "shall not be infringed" with registration or any other BS is that the people who wrote the Constitution realized that we may one day need to fight off an oppressive govt again. Since they had just done so, they also realized that there would be no way to do that if the people didn't have guns. And I'm not talking "sporting weapons" here either. They had the same high tech muskets that the Army carried. Jon

My dad who fed himself and his family during the Depression with a rifle would probably disagree. Every day his dad would give him ONE bullet, and he would head off to the hills and try to find dinner for his family. I have a friend who's dad did the same for his family in the early late 70's and early 80's for several years. Jon

I know there is going to be a lot of division on this one, but I don't see how anyone can happily put their family in a car and drive on the freeway and be firmly against guns because they "cause violence". I don't believe that guns cause violence any more than that bus caused that motorcycle rider guy's head to split open and his brains to spill out on the road (thanks for that one too, Aux, still seeing that when I close my eyes at night). Look at the stats on deaths for guns and cars. Pretty amazing that we lose almost as many people per year in the US in car accidents (at least the last time I looked at an almanac) as we did in whole of Vietnam. Yet very few want lower speed limits or people wearing helmets in cars. Guns and cars are both tools. What worries me is when the govt says its too dangerous to ride a motorcycle, or too dangerous to ride without a helmet, or too dangerous to drive without a seatbelt, or too dangerous to own a gun. The govt doesn't need to look out for me thanks. Bad paraphrase of Jefferson or Franklin depending on where you read it: "Those who would trade liberty for security will end up with neither". If you don't want to own one, then don't. No one is forcing you. No one is forcing you to own a car either, but the goal should not be to prevent anyone from owning a car because of the potential damage they can cause. The best line in Bowling for Columbine is when Mike Moore says that Canada has the same amount of guns per capita, and only a small fraction of the gun related deaths. Perfect proof that one does NOT need to get rid of guns to stop the gun related deaths. Of course Mike takes the low road and blind sides Charleton Heston in the same vicious manner as that psychotic b!tch Rosie O'Donnell attacked Tom Selleck a while back. All those attacks prove is what @ssholes they are. The only one that made any sense in that movie was the South Park guy. His assessment of high school pressure to succeed was perfect. Oh, and Marilyn Manson too. His interview was good. Jon

Cheney: "I'm getting pretty good at this. You can't even see my lips move when he talks" Jon

"So then we put the electrodes on Saddam's nuts and WHAMMO!" Jon

That is AWESOME! Thanks Aux. Jon

"Extend the Patriot Act, come on, you can trust me! What's wrong, don't you trust me???" or "They DID have WMD's. I swear." or "I wish Cheney would get his hand out of my @ss" or "No no no. It's supposed to be DON'T tax and DO spend." I'm sure I'll have more... Jon

That sounds like a hard to build/fab version of the infamously crappy dual Weber setup... Jon

This is the way to go if you want a P90 on a NA engine, IMO. http://geocities.com/zgarage2001/p90.html Jon

Maybe he's got a planetary gearset at the wheels like a Hummer or a UniMog... Jon