JMortensen

Boy that's dumb! That's taking my whole "big rims look like wagon wheels" thing to the extreme. Put the yoke on the horse and attach it to the front bumper, we're going cruising! On the plus side, those would probably take away 30hp and make any ricer type car REALLY slow off the line by affecting the final drive ratio, so maybe its not such a bad thing. If you're dumb enough to buy those, maybe you don't need that much power... I wonder if they're going to develop 25" rotors to fill the wheels up... Jon

Putting a 185 on an 8 inch rim is a different proposition though. It would be REALLY hard to get that tire to seat on that rim. Anyone else who has had a crappy tire mounting job in their lifetime like I have should be able to back me up on this. The beads of the tire will be nowhere near the rim, and they won't be even close to straight up and down. I don't know this for sure, but it seems apparent that the beads of a tire that is properly sized for the rim would be less likely to have problems because when given a side load the tire can flex a lot. If the tire is already flexed because you have a 6" tire on an 8" rim, there could be issues. Again, never seen it myself, but it always worried me, especially with the 4000lb Caddies riding on 185/50/13 on an 8" rim, vato style. I agree with Pete, if it doesn't make the car faster, don't bother. Jon

It's done for looks, it's the JDM style. I always wondered how much more likely debeading a tire and possibly digging a rim and flipping the car would be... Jon

Keep in mind the dude was DYING when he recorded all that stuff. The one that even I can't handle is his Bridge Over Troubled Water. I hate the original, so that might have something to do with it. I'm also a long time Cash fan, so I may be a little biased. Road trips with the family when I was 7, it was Folsom Prison Blues all the way, baby!!! Jon

If you buy a 50 gal drum it can get as low as $3/gal I'm told. At that point I'd rather buy race gas for $5/gal though. Jon

His version of the NIN song Hurt is better... Jon

Maybe I'm thinking about this too hard because I'm bored, but now I'm thinking that moving the rack down would be a way to fix the bumpsteer. Same thing I said before applies, if you were to move it down an INCH you'd still need to slot the crossmember to fix the control arm angle, but I'm convincing myself that lowering the rack (probably like 3/8") would be another way to fix the stock bumpsteer issues. My reasoning: if the control arms sit flat relative to the tie rods, then you need to raise the control arm pivots or lower the rack to fix. Since I have raised the pivots, then I would assume that lowering the rack would also work. Very few move the rack on a Z, so I guess I wasn't thinking about it correctly before. I was getting confused with some other vehicles I've worked on... sorry. Jon PS How about denting the header?

I just had a thought. You could relocate your front control arms down by slotting the front crossmember as I have done. I slotted it to raise them up, but I see no reason why you couldn't go down if there is enough room on the crossmember to allow a little movement. This would lower your roll center (not a good thing) but you might have enough room to fix the bumpsteer if you moved the rack. All in all a bad thing to do, but not as bad as moving the rack down and leaving it be. Jon

Usually the cure for bumpsteer is to raise the rack. This is the case with our Z's too. If you lowered it, you would make the bumpsteer worse. An inch is a LOT. I would think that would drastically change the bumpsteer for the worse, but of course I've never done it. I definitely would be against the idea of cutting and rewelding your tie rods or steering knuckles too. The 510 guys heat their steer knuckles and bend them, then heat treat them for Ackerman, if you decide you have to mess with the knuckles, that's the way to go IMO. I'd either lift the motor (realize there would be driveshaft alignment issues to work out if you went this way) or get a different set of headers. Jon

My former employer just called me about a similar scam. Apparently the one he fell victim to involves a person making a large purchase, and a "relay call" to a foreign country. Needless to say he got a fraudulent cashier's check, but only determined that after he had sent $1000's of dollars worth of merchandise out of the country. I won't do biz outside the US, period. Jon

The normal answer to this question would be "use the search function". Since the search funtion is not working, I'll tell you that this has been discussed a lot, people have done it, and if you dig through the brakes, wheels, suspension and chassis forum you'll find posts on it. Seems like people are using Ford parts, one guy found that the WRX rack is nearly identical to the Z rack, but I don't think he's gotten it installed yet. Jon

The best Soundgarden songs: Searching with My Good Eye Closed Like Suicide Jesus Christ Pose Birth Ritual Nothing to Say Jon

You could report him to http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com! Sorry, couldn't resist. FBI would be my first suggestion. Jon

http://www.thepetdoorstore.com Don't like to use the forum to advertise myself, but since you asked! Also, this would be easier to get done if someone already has an established consulting side biz, or if someone works for or owns a web design biz. Jon

Sounds like Dave wins!!! Jon

Search on http://www.mcmaster.com. You might be able to find them cheaper somewhere else, but McMaster Carr has EVERYTHING. Jon

Here's another two stories. When and buddy and I were gas welding in auto shop in HS about 12 years ago, he had an accident. He had a brand new welding rod and he had the car up on a rack, and was welding on a new muffler. His hands got sweaty, and the rod swiveled in his fingers and fell. The hot tip went through his coveralls, jeans, and undies and about 1/2" into his skin about 1" from Mr. Winky. He wasn't too happy about that, but the rod cauterized the wound, so it didn't bleed. About a month later some guys from the class were welding a banister on in front of the classroom. They finished and left, and about 30 seconds later I jumped up and sat on the banister. It took a couple of seconds for the heat to soak through my pants, then I jumped off and ran around like an idiot yelling "My butt is on fire!" for a few seconds. Luckily there was a large crowd on hand to see this. Jon

Also you want the front brakes to attach to the larger reservoir on the master. You can just bend the stock lines by hand so that the fronts go to the big reservoir and the rears go to the small one. Jon

I would use nutserts and stainless cap screws. Jon

Looking for a little help with my business's website. PM me for details. Thanks, Jon

A friend of mine pointed this site out to me yesterday, I thought that you would all get a kick out of it. The pictures are funny enough, but some of the correspondence is great too. This is the funniest crap I've seen in a long time. Especially the Akoye one. "Are you related to the famous runningback Christian Akoye? If so, can I get an autograph?" Simply priceless... ***There is some rough language in there*** http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/ Jon

Eat a bunch of oranges or pineapples and see how your GF/wife likes that... supposedly does the same thing. Jon

A good way to avoid air getting sucked in is to put a hose on the bleeder and put that into some brake fluid. This is also a good way to do a one man brake bleeding. You can leave the bleeders open and pump the brakes 5 or 6 times, no air gets sucked in, but the old fluid will come out. Then you just go close the bleeder and make sure the M/C is full and move onto the next wheel. Jon

Well I guess you won't be parking in 2 spots anymore... That is a pet peeve of mine too, so I can see why someone would do that to you, but I'd probably have done something a little safer, like stolen your valve stems out of your tires if I was going to mess with you (and it takes a lot more than parking in 2 spots to get me to that point). Jon

Sounds to me like an injector stuck open (yes I've heard of this before)and it hydro-locked. Can you put a mechanic's stethoscope on it and turn the key on? Should be able to hear it spraying. Or just turn the key on and leave the spark plug out and see if fuel comes out of the spark plug hole (assuming you have that cyl at TDC). I know some shops have fuel injector cleaner machines where they actually plug the injector into the machine, but I've never actually seen one. If you could find a shop that does that they can probably get it working again. Or you could just replace that injector. EDIT--You should change your oil when you get it fixed too. Who knows how long that's been going on. Jon