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I've been following it pretty closely for the last couple of years. Wish I could affort it. Unfortunatley the class is not in a good state right now. There's pretty good forum that the front runners frequent. There seems to be a lot of bickering with rules and what not. http://www.gt-racecar.com

Thought some of you would like to see this. No pics of the chassis, too bad. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80766&item=4508518860&rd=1

I've always been partial to how the ole 'trapps sound on a Z, but they are a bit loud. A little while back, a friend and I swapped out a generic turbo muffler with a 4" suppertrapp and I couldn't beleive how much louder it was. We started out with 18 discs, and worked down to 12, which was still too loud, but we left it at that anyways. The car (280Z) was pretty much stock aside from a mild cam and MSA header. Looking back at it, I wonder how much quiter a 5" series would have been. The original location has plenty of room for it.

I've used Evercoat as well. All I know is I'll never do any panel repair again without it.

From the reading I've done, the glass must be annealed first, and then cut and tempered again after. They compared tempered glass to a balloon.

I'll have to lock horns with you here John. If your running an oil cooler anyways, it's not as if much is being added. Plus according to my engine guy, oil filter restriction is of a concern. With the dual setup this of course cuts it in half. I agree with 80LT1, on a street motor its overkill, but IMHO, on a race engine using higher viscosity oil, it's added insurance. Phil

I have a generic dual filter setup and this is the case.

Ron, I never noticed before, but do the bars that go towards the winsheild wiper motor, dead ended at the firewall? I think what dr_hunt was asking, and what I ended up doing, was running the tubes through both walls of the wiper box. The cross bar on mine is also higher therefore providing a spot for the bars to tie into the cage. I kept them as far down as possible in the box, and was still able to use the stock wiper assembly. Also, I hole sawed holes through the 1/8" plate steel and welded them on both sides of the box. From the outside, it looks itendical to Ron's on the firewall side. My pics are on zdriver.com, but the page has been under renovation, and I don't have any of the interior under the dash anyways. I beleive in "how to hotrod race your datsun" there's some decent pics of this as well.

The worst part is it was supposed to be out a year ago! As for the g-nose, hey better than nothing. Also, it looks from the pics that they might have Nurburgring! If so, that insane, the long course is around 12 miles long.

I'm glad to see they're bringing back the 240Z-Gnose. It wasn't in GT3, but was in GT2, 1/3 down page 4 on the link.

Mine pales in comparison to some of these stories, but it's kinda funny, and I somewhat got away with it. I had an '85 200SX, bone stock, and felt like going out to a rual area and letting loose a little. Found a stretch of road with nice long fast sweeping bends. Just as I was accelerating I noticed a motorcycle headlight way back there. I thought to myself there's no way it could be a cop from the one horse town I just left so I kept speeding up, and pulled away from him. Well I finally slowed down, the healight zoomed up with the red and blue, and I thought this is it, I'm going to jail. Turned out it was a State Trooper on a Harley. He of course asked, do you know how fast you were going, I honestly didn't know, "well I was doing 95 and you were pulling away!" He officially clocked me accelerating at 84 in a 45, but wrote the ticket for 20 over. I figure it was best to be thankfull for that and never fought it.

Aeroquip, and I'm sure others, make them. EDIT: beat me to it!

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I suppose a "rental fee" wouldn't be out of the question, it'll help recoupe some of the cost. They set me back about $400. Sounds like alot, but the digital scales are 3 times that much. I'll bring 'em. Phil EDIT: I'll probably be the "old man" at 30!

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If you guys feel like messing around I could bring my Ruggles' scales? The only thing is we need a decent level surface, with a pretty good amount of room. You could find out your corner weights then too.

I'm in, but unfortunately the car won't be. It's not exactly street legal, and I would drive it the few miles to Mat's, but the cylinder head is still in progress.

I have arizona's 12.25 brakes front and rear and am using them with 15x7 Panasports.

I've had good luck with Overseas Distributing, I think they're in British Columbia. Their prices seem to be a little better than Robello's. They run lots of adds in Grassroots Motorsports mainly for Weber parts, but do carry Mikuni stuff too.

I bought the DeVilbiss finishline, gravity feed, HVLP gun and was very happy with it. It's intended more for the hobbiest, and not for daily use. Somewhat inexpensive with some plastic parts. I beleive retail is about $150.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure aside from final assembly, the only thing on Harley's that are made in the USA are the engines? Yokahama tires on made in Japan wheels, etc.

Even though I'm not an SCCA member anymore, I did receive an issue of Sportscar recently. The fastrack did mention possibly changing the 100lb IRS penalty to something like 2% of the minimum GCR listed weight.

I've heard alot of talk about this, but as far as I know everything is still up in the air. What are some of the changes that are, or probably going to happen?

I posted this think back when there was a classifieds on the forum section, about 6 months ago. Wow, the price has come down considerably! http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/other/1062560599/1062560599ss.htm

Electromotive has had a DIS kit on the market for a good 10 years. This is what I have on my car. You have to fab up the sensor holder and mate the trigger wheel to the crank pulley. They also have "bolt on" kits for many engines including chevy and ford V8's.