Vintage-TechZ

Thanks Marcus........I'll check them out, I love Mex ! Zhadman........cool,I'll pm you my cell # and we'll see about getting together.We can chat about our RB-Z builds or even check yours out too ??How far is Riverside from Ontario ? ...............Vinny

Hey guys, Just checking to see if any of you live near or in the Ontario Cali. area and would like to meet up to talk Z's ?? I'll be there from the 21st of this month til Dec. ist. I have to oversee a C.A.R.B. test site located on a Walmart/Sams club property for those two weeks. If anyone is interested, feel free to email me at ( vinceinatorz@hotmail.com). Even if you don't want to meet up, perhaps you'll clue me in on things to do locally if I get some time to spare ? Thanks,looking forward to any replys'. Vinny 8)

Yes that IS some Pro work right there boys ! It appears they refer tho using back gas or purge gas for the ports while fill-welding the chambers etc. Then that it has a 11.5 compression ratio without a 1mm headgasket.....12.0 if you DO use it.OR....perhaps the amount to be resurfaced or milled off the combustion face.Best I can tell........they are offering this as a service NOT as a HEAD for sale. They refer several times to the differences or optional steps and the change made from this as well as the fee's. Killer NA head for the proper cam for certain. Vinny 8)

WELL.....hopefully ,once the Japanimal is done and tuned ....any ricer jokes will subside ! I'll need to FEED it ricers and fisheads to keep her motivated...lol. It will be encouraging to see some weight and 1/4 mile times from the rear wheel cars as they begin to surface more and more so I'll have a baseline to aim for. It seems as though more and more RB-Z's hp goals are heading towards the 700hp mark like I was. Sounds like I'll own the 60' mark ,but I'll have to be pretty light or add more than 700hp to be top dog at any RB-Z competition. Geez..........more money still yet !Endless. Vinny P.S.- Joel .......you owe me a wild ride in your RB-Z just because ! lol..8)

You'll find new Hinges for G-noses here ............(http://baddogparts.com/index.htm ) Ken.... As far as the MSA nose goes ( app.700.00$ shipped)........My friend Brian and I fitted his up and found it required about 30 hours of attatching and reinforcing and re attaching ....then LOTS of body line building to correct all the misfittments there were. Its obvious they don't have a Z car to test fit their parts once pulled from the mold and then they attach they're mounting flanges.Or they would have caught this long ago before shipping them out. I'm building mine from steel to avoid all the problems......then I'll build the mold.( ..and yes Mikelly, it will take 10 months or more !) lol. Vinny 8)

Well I had to fly out to Ohio last minute for the week and arrived home to see these cars all went to buyers(of course). Anyone on HBZ that we know get them ?? I didn't recognize any of the Ebay handles used. I miss these deals constantly due to work........( steams a sigh) !! Vinny

God bless you and your family for raising such a brave and selfless son. My prayers are with him for a speedy recovery and continuing strengths. ..............Vinny

J Taylor, That car would cover the parts for many rare composite parts I plan to produce. If you don't HAVE to have it,I'd certainly put the poor Z to future family usefulness .It would contain (besides Bay mud) several RHD mold parts and the body kit too.I could always arrange some monies for you if it needed to be picked up immediatly.I'm in lower Missouri.Let me know so a bunch of us don't drive the price to the moon in the final hours. Vinny 8)

...........Well Damn. I wish I had SOME news .... I've called Joels number each day and their phone line is still down due to whatever.Man I pray he and his family are fine in the building they were planning on going too. I also pray his home is in good shape as well !Car too, but he needs his home right now in his life. Everyone Please pray for the best for Joel Soileau and family. .............Vinny

( In a Homer Simpson voice)....Mmmmmmm, naughty Wabbies !! Me likey !!lol ..........Vinny

I could have sworn that I read somewhere that the factory turbo pistons were made with a different Silica formula than the NA pistons for the exposure to detonation ?? Also that the upper rings were not thicker just hard chromed ?? I could be wrong...........any rebuttles veteran Z fans?? .......................Vinny 8)

I apologize if many of you have already seen this or dissagree. This is in no way my opinion or anythng else. I am simply posting for an unusual side of a Journalist today. ........BTW, I agree with those of you who feel the township should rebuild, only with newer tech safety margins and perhaps away from the shore altogether...........I'm just glad we didn't loose any of our friends from HBZ.It could have been much different.It sounds like this city has had a slow go of matureing and growing.Lets all hope they can get a grip this time around...socially and governmentally too! .............Vinny (article) An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State by Robert Tracinski Sep 02, 2005 by Robert Tracinski It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster. If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild. Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting. But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster. The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong. The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view. The man-made disaster is the welfare state. For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency--indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country. When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11). So what explains the chaos in New Orleans? To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from aWashington Times story: "Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on. "The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire.... "Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders. " 'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets,' she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.' " The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored vests, riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad. What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super Dome? Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them? My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America. "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.) What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"--the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels--gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa. There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves. All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency. No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism. What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men. But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them. The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting. **********************************

REALLY ?? Cool..........nice to meet you Sam. So you bought Brians stuff ? Exellent. Post up some pix of your progress...its gotta' be coming along some by now. Love to see it.Those Wats were nice,as was the 3.0 and other goodies he let go of.Shame really.....at least they stayed in the family. ................Vinny

Very cool.........thats gotta be a cool feeling for sure .........Congrats for sure ! ...........Vinny 8)

Dave......I've got SO many CF tail panels to keep building...I just gotta' stay after it man. I wish I could come up with my friends.....but obligations my friend, obligations ! I would like to think I can make alot of guys happy in some little way with these parts.And everyone has shown huge patience and courtesy.....so I owe them. You know where I'm coming from. Vinny

I'll come up to help on the Z just to see your face grimace when you peel open those diapers !!lol. Oh man,,,hahaha......woah ! .....................Vinny

Hmmm? ....John, I don't think thats going to give a attractive finished edge once mounted. Not to mention when holes are relieved in Z hoods they loose some integrity in that static hold area.Granted several attatching points or Epoxy might stiffen it back up some....but not like a stair stepped flange would....Like in the factory hoods. Not trying to burst anyones bubble......I've just seen alot of hacked up good intents gone wrong.Your not going to want to do this to a new hood.....I would think ? JMHO.............Vinny 8)

Oh my God !..........where did you dig up that stupid Japan Emperial flag pictured Z of Shelby-Z's ?? I painted that on there one raceday at Heartland Park Topeka Raceway for grins for him to screw with some purists and we removed it the next week ! I am so embarrassed !! Haahahaha. Oh well....some things you can't put away deep enough ! .............Vinny 8)

New J.O.B. ( learning curve straight up !), new pregnancy .( wifey concerns)....new house ..( all that schtuff !)......man dude.....like I told you on the phone last week..........WOW........breathe deep and force a genuine smile and hold it for as often as you can. Grey hair to follow quickly if you don't make that a habit. There will ALWAYS be time to trick out a Z.....always. Vinny 8)

If your planning on spending the budget on a base coat clear coat 2-stage......then simply do a great job on your mask job. Like has been mentioned , don't build material unessacerily thick. I always based my first color and let it kick ,then lightly wetsanded it complete and making sure where the next color would lay was perfect ( devoid of texture). Then mask a perfect as possible cut line and use a "BACK MASK" method for the new color or second tone. Of course masking the other areas to avoid overspray,. Once it has begun to tack but not too late.....very carefully remove the tape and mask paper (not plastic) and continue on with clear unless you feel the edge has a build line thats too thick.If its bad, wait til its cured enough to sand and knock down the edges smooth enough to feel decent. You'll have to resand all in order to get at least a good mechanical bond to aid the next aplication of clear. Otherwise ...you would not ....and just sprayed the clear after the second unvail. and move on to cure in the oven or Sun. Wetsand slick over the tone line and the entire body within the manufactures stated time or deal with a brick hard surface to polish out. If you are a novice sander, polisher.......mask off any and all high or tall edges as they will buff fine usually without sanding required unless the texture is heavy and ugly.( we're shooting for glass...remember?) Best of luck............Vinny