Mikelly

Stafford County in a location called Marlboro Point. On Potomac Creek, it feed right into the river and onto the bay... So the assumption is I'll get ANOTHER boat... I miss my old boat... Even if it was a POS! Mike

Honestly, I'd not go the WRX route due to the abnormal amount of tranny and clutch failures I've been hearing about on those AND the EVO8s... If you can't afford to go the STI route, I'd buy a Neon SRT, or something more reasonable and cheap like a civic or ford (What's the new little hatch back???). Do some research and you'll see what I'm talking about... Mike

Well if all goes well, We will have full and unrestricted access to the upstairs of the garage by my Bday party on the 3rd of July. I have the lower landing and the lower stairs DONE, and the upper band, and joists are hung, and band braced. I finished pouring a pad for under the bottom step at ground level and I'll pour the post holes for the 6X6 posts tomorrow evening, then set the posts and finish up with the help I'll have on Saturday and Sunday... Should be done done, rails and all... I installed the door and windows a few weeks back... Then I'll finish up the vinyl siding on the garage and the end caps on the sofets and last few pieces of sofet... Did I mention we are already scouting places on the potomac river to move to? Pete will be happy, as it will move me about 20 minutes closer to his neck of the weeds, but about 20 minutes further from Jamie and Doug... My pocketbook will also be screaming... Places we're hoping to be able to buy are in the $650-800K range... thank god this place has gone WAY up in value! Mike

Very good comments by all... What I find so interesting is we preach tolerance of others to our friends abroad, Yet we can NOT come together on many issues politically at home . Terry, Once emotion enters into things, reason and sensebility go out the window. No good will come from the far left or the far right being "In control" of the house or senate. This is going to be one of the worst voting years in recent history. Mike

We can only hope that the extremists from both sides of the fence are culled from those heards... It would seem to me that there should be FOUR parties: The FAR Left The FAR Right The NEAR Left The NEAR Right Eventually the political environment we and our parents/ grand parents new, will be a thing of the past. I've spoken to enough senior gov't and military personnel, both active and retired, to know that none are happy with either party... Most are seriously looking for another alternative. It is funny, because most of us in defense industry/ Intelligence/ Gov't work in and around Washington are almost forced to vote republican because defense spending does up when republicans are at the helm... But a surprising number of diehard republicans are really frustrated with our current commander in chief... For reasons far and beyond Iraq. Mike 8)

I had pics on here somewhere showing the clearances I had... And based on my ride height, I was gonna have about 3 inches of clearance with my coil overs set about 1.5 inches between top of tire and bottom of fender (running 45 series 17s up front and 40 series 17s in the back). It really depends on how low you want to go on your settings... Mind you, Mine is just mocked up as I do NOT have the trans assembled to the motor and didn't when I had the motor in the car... this was all kinda guess work. However, based on my mock-up, it looked pretty darned good IF you can live with three inches. Otherwise you would have to chop them up like Tim did and make some try Y units. Mike

Uh, I don't know that I'd go the XR1 route... I've got that setup on the Vette and it is loud LOUD LOUD!!! But in a good way when you aren't droning on the highway!~ Mike

I'm no fan of George Bush, although I think he did a wonderful job in the days following 9/11/2001. I think his reasons for going to war with Iraq were through blurred vision, and I think we were right to wage war on Saddam, only because we hade every reason to SINCE 1998. We didn't need to go to the rest of the world for approval and yet as short sited as Americans are, we forgot about everything signed and agreed to when we were parked outside the city of Bagdad a decade before... A bruital ruler signed and agreed to a host of conditions, then refused to uphold ANY of them without our constant pressure, and some things he refused even WITH constant pressure. Had there not been a 9/11/01, I'm convinced GWB would have been no more successful than Bill Clinton, and possibly worse. His manners in foreign affairs are lacking and he doesn't just step on toes, he sheers them off. GWB's saving grace has been the staff he has been surrounded by, as they ARE some of the best diplomats in the business, who have been through democrat and republican leadership, and taken their jobs for one purpose, to serve America. These folks have been working overtime trying to fix his image repeatedly, and I think they will eventual succeed and he will be re-elected. My fear is that our children will compare him to the likes of Ronald Reagan. We are winning the war on terror, in ways the American public will never be able to know about, and we have made significant progress in Irag, and in middle east as a whole. But WHY do we sit by idle and listen to the constant barrage of lies that is reported in the media every day? I agree, it is very disheartening for America to only get reports on the negative side of things. And for the LIFE of me, I do NOT understand why it is that GWB's advisors and campaign strategists aren't focusing on these very issues... The good. Here is another scenario... I keep hearing about how GWB "LIED" to the American public... He supposedly lied about WMD and about Hussein's ties to Bin Ladden. There was no lieing going on there folks... Intelligence reports from sources around the world and our own intelligence on the ground pointed evidence in those two directions, and quite frankly, Mr. Bush isn't that sharp... There is no tail waggin the dog with this guy... He isn't as quick witted as his father was, and that, if nothing else will save him from himself and the democrats. There were no lies. There was inaccurate intelligence that we made decisions on, based on the lack of cooperation on the part of Hussein and his ruling council. Had Saddam cooperated, quit playing shell games every time we had folks on the ground running inspections, we wouldn't have troops in the desert right now. No, The people of America LET BUSH down... He stood before us all and made it clear that voting for this war on terror meant a long and drawn out battle with an enemy NONE of us had battled before... This foe brought the battle onto our soil and attacked us, and as short sided and ignorant as the American public is, Our patriotic pride stepped up because it was the THING TO DO that day, and oh boy, much like gas after a bad bowl of chilli, that patriotic feeling also passed. Another thing that has stuck in my craw and I've heard no one key on this... President Clinton was president Clinton till the day he left office, as was every other president in my memory... President Bush is Mr. Bush in the press when they refer to him. Listen to a press report on something the president does. What is the purpose of this if not to show disrespect for him and display it to the rest of the world. We complain about the vision the rest of the world has of our government, and yet WE won't help repair that opinion of him by doing this ourselves, or allowing it at the very least. Regardless of our support for him, or oppistion against him, this to me is one of the biggest insults and wrongs we do every day... The last point I'll make and then I'll shut up on this subject... George Bush senior lost his election in large part when he aligned himself with the far right... Giving the opinion that it was OK for big Gov't to some into my bedroom and tell me what I can and can't do. I know a lot of folks on here are religious, so I won't tread those waters, but I will say this... Bush Jr almost made that same exact mistake. The whole ordeal with the FCC and the pressure they have put on talk radio, TV, and Hollywood was seriously doing him some big time damage and his advisers saw this... Notice the FCC hasn't been in the media as of late? By early April that whole issue was in the can, and people were quietly sweeping that issue under the rug... CSPAN wasn't even broadcasting the hearings anymore... Strange, NO? He's learning, Actually... Not he isn't because remember, he is REALLY NOT that sharp a guy, but his advisers are... And they are steering him. IF we have another four years with Bush (And I'm on the fence right now as to where I should vote, as is most of America...Again, lesser of two evils is what we're left with these days! ), we won't see the mistakes he made the first time around... He will be much more polished and much more controlled. I prey every day for the soldiers we have abroad, and I fear that the hostage taking and beheading will continue. It will get worse before it gets better for sure, but it will eventually get better. We are winning the war on terror. But make no mistake, wars come with a price we generally pay in blood. We can NOT do this half heartedly. We MUST finish this under whichever party rule we end up with in January. Mike Kelly

Actually I'm more liberal than you might think, and I'm actually an independant, not a republican... However, 18 years in my line of work and you get fed up... Either go in and do the job right, which by the way means SUPPORTING THE JOB THAT YOUR federally elected congressmen and women (Of BOTH FLAVORS) approved, or don't do it at all. You see, in America, We want it fast, we want it now, and we have the attention span of a three year old hopped up on sugar and caffeine. We can't stomach a war where our VONUNTEER soldiers go off to war and come home in bags... Yet, I can go back in the archives and pull up all the "SUPPORT" posts we got when the towers fell and the pentagon to its direct hit... Listen fellas, I sat and watched as my DCI, MR. Tenet resigned because of this whole mess... And the ONLY mistake that he made was not accounting for WHERE those WMA might go off to. Reality is that TONY BLAIR, Bill CLINTON, And Andro PUTTEN ALL believed (From their own sources) that Saddam still had the capability of unleashing a chemical attack the likes not seen since WW1. We didn't do a damned thing about Syria, and we haven't for 30 years... Anyone care to remember the US embasy and the Marine Corp barracks in Beirut, Lebanon? Syria and Iran BOTH directly aid terrorism, and we sit back and allow it... When we "Launched" our attacks this war, we should have done everything possible to coorden off the border between Iraq and Syria... Now, No WMA... It sickens me to sit back and listen to the LIBERAL press and the hollywood media spread their dung all over our airwaves and in our print... Whatever happened to reporting the FACTS without interjecting your own beliefs, opinions and thoughts into it? We DON'T have an honest media anymore and Joe America has no HONEST and balanced source to go to... We're no better off than any controlled "State" so long as we don't question, challenge and seek our own truths... Sorry, but this is NOT what I have risked my own life for... Mike

Jim (BLKMGK) and I talk regularly via e-mail and IM... Unfortunately he has fallen prey to the BOOSTED SUPRA's enticing juices... He is also getting into the custom tuning software programming thing, as he is now a beta tester for AEM. You can find him hanging out on AEM's website, in the BB section! He is still listed as a moderator here, and hasn't been booted. Mike 8)

As long as the American public allow the politicians to spin this situation, we will continue to be victomized by terrorists who care not if we are republican or democrat. We need to either commit 100% to the "War on Terror" and DO IT RIGHT, Or pack up and go home... That means pulling out of EVERY nation that we have troops in. Go home, defend our borders... That means Israil, Europe, South Korea, Africa, Afghanistan, Central and South America... No support, no Aid, No intervention, and NO UN. Defend our own borders and turn a deaf ear and blind eye to the problems the rest of the world has... SECURE OUR BORDERS and deport everyone who is here ilegally... Mike

Well don't be disappointed if you don't find a complete motor for that price... I paid $450 SHIPPED for a complete Z06 intake/ TB/ Injectors/ Fuel Rails... There are deals out there, but I'm seeing most LS1 motors sell for $1000 and up. Mike 8)

One of the members on here e-mailed me with an offer a few weeks ago and I lost his e-mail in my shuffling to a new provider/ address... If it was you, please contact me offline! Mike

The year of the motor doesnt matter... The "Burn" or program on the PCM is what you need to be aware of... My 99C5 blew 296 at the wheels through 100K mile old cats and dual straight pipes. I know of two other guys with less "Mods" who turned 312 and 310 respectively... And their cars had the 2001 and new programing. HUGE difference. Also, I just found this out myself, but be aware that two of your mods are hit and miss. The underdrive pulley kits throw error codes spradically and the TB (Depending on who did it) MIght be a huge issue when it comes to making it idle... I just picked up a Shaner TB and was told it may not work for these reasons... How soon are you in need of a LS1? I'll have one available hopefuly in July sometime! Mike Mike

Don't let him fool you... Deep down inside, Scottie is a closet ATTENTION WHORE!!!! Couldn't happen to a nicer guy Scottie, Glad they gave you your five minutes! Mike 8)

Last Firday Tom Sumner and his brother came by for a visit. Tom has bought a number of parts from me over the years and he was in town visiting, so he decided to stop in... I had taken Friday off work since traffic in and around DC was completely hosed due to the Reagan Funeral activities. So we chewed the fat for a bit over cars, garages, gov't work, and things in general... Heck of a guy, and it made me think back and reflect on all the great members I've come face to face with in the course of this site's coming online... Overall, we've got one hell of a group of guys on this board! Mike

This reminds me of why I really was liberated the day I moved out of my appartment five years ago last month and moved into the house I own now! I remember the one time I had my appartment manager come over and tell me he was going to call the cops on me if I didn't quit working on my car... I was checking the oil! I told him that if he want to, to go ahead, but that I had another place I'd be sticking that dipstick (As I shook it at him, getting oil on him!)! He held his hands up and walked away... I never heard another peep! Mike

I have started ACTIVELY deleting posts where ANY of the vendors post the whole "I've got it to and mine is better because..." crap. disappointingly, I've had several vendor I generally hold in high regard pull this kinda crap and I for one have started targeting these posts... Just deleted one several posts and Bill your's and Mike's (ON3Go) rebuttles... We are looking at this guys. But there is no way I could recommend to going back to the other way. I absolutely HATE the new forsale board, but it does away with the BS that went on before. Mike 8)

They had my car as Zcar of the month, January 2000 or 2001 (I forget), and there are some members who are reasonable and have common sense... Then there are the Ron Stoy's of the world. I rarely ever go over to that site unless it is to buy or sell parts. Beyond that, there generally is NOT good sound technical info out there. Mike 8)

Do a search on S&S headers... Also, Look in the photoalbum. I posted pics a while back showing the clearance of the S&S 1 3/4 headers in my Z for a test fit. mike

http://www.clampco.com/products/vband.htm They supply ALL of BORLA's clamps... Much cheaper I believe. Mike

And to finance the hubs/brakes/ other crap I need... I'm selling the COMPLETE Outlaw 4000 front brake kit I have, including the 5 lug hubs, loaded with ARP studs, and new bearings/ seals, directional vented and veined 12.2 (1.25 inch thick) rotors on custom aluminum hats and loaded with HAWK racing pads... See the ad in the 4Sale Section... This is Mike Gibson's brake upgrade kit! Mike Kelly

Put me down for a set with bearings and races. Mike

Support? We don't need no stinking supports... That's what the cross member is for, right? I welded some 2 inch boxed tubing across the bottom of the front, joining the two sides. I also plan a tublar support running from the strut towers to the rails, and joined, again at the front. It will all be tied in, not to worry! Mike 8)

Pete, I've got 42# injectors for my setup... I know they will be a little more than I need for the 383 stroker, but We figure they should be able to be used with plenty of headroom for an eventual Supercharger IF I ever decide to bolt one on! Mike