Mikelly

Looks good... I like how you raised the rear wing and have thought of doing the same with mine... close up that front grill and seal off the hood and you've got a real winner! Mike

Hubba Hubba! I like that Burgandy 993 as well, but hey lately I've been called a Porsche snob! Mike

Yasin, Which car in the pics is yours again? I forget. Great turnout and good collection of vintage muscle! Mike

Having been on the other side of that whole adoption process, all I can say is follow your heart and make sure you're 110% committed to the process. There are any host of reasons that a child could be in the adoption "system", and the fact that you're considering such a wonderful and life changing event (my wife and I are also "thinking" about this very thing) speaks of who you are. I recently sat in on a long term care insurance seminar and the jist of the speaker's talk was that 80 is the new 50 of the babyboomer era. There are lots of folks out there having children in their 40s. Why shouldn't they? We're living decades longer than our parents and grandparents. As long as you have the means, the moral compass and the long range planning (what happens if you die/estate planning kinds of things) then I say go for it and take comments here to heart. It will be a roller coaster of a ride, I'm sure, but one that will most likely reward in ways unimaginable. Mike

It gets real iffy. I've got a concealed/carry permit and depending on the public view point in the town you live in, busting a cap on a criminal could leave you in poor light. Sometimes it's better to just give up the car then roll the dice and deal with a "jury of your peers"... The other issue is this... So you give up your car to them, they jump in and are "fleeing"... You shoot them... Who'se the badguy now? That's a court case I don't want any parts of. Say you miraculously win that criminal case... What about a civil suit from the scumbag's family? It's real easy for us to sit here in the comfort of our homes and play "I wish that would happen to me". Reality is if it does, most of us "should" do exactly what icewtr did and just deal with the reality of scumbags on this earth... Mike

When you consider the large number of transactions that are conducted here between members, it's very rare that we have somone screw a member over, and in the past ADMINs have tried to help sort thru the mess... But as David said, it's rare and there's always three sides to a story. Don't get me wrong. There are asshats that screw people over for money, and as times get tougher financially, we'll only see more of it... As always, buyer beware. You're buying someone elses used "stuff". Mike

It's sad and tragic. Godspeed Scott Kalitta... Mike

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, and I'm only bringing it up because we ran into this after Jim M. Brought his Zcar to us and we did the coil overs on it with larger tires... Did you confirm that you have enough suspension travel into the fender well without contacting the flare? Jim's flares show evidence of inner contact and spiderwebbing. Some of it could be from the stiff suspension being more than the glass can take. But I also see evidence of the tire touching the glass on full compression. Just keep that in mind as you move forward. Mike

Actually, Being that I've been eating/breathing/sleeping porsches for the last 18 months, I have heard of a number of Porsche CV axles snapping, and they've all been on 750-1000HP monsters with much abused using drag radials and full on drag slicks. These CV axles are pretty much bomb-proof. They're expensive, but honestly, I think I paid more for my Q45 rear axle setup and those require 12 bolts per axle as well. Mike

I'd be concerned with bind in the adjustment between those two adjusters for the heim joints. This is what caused my rear arms to fatigue and crack with time. The vibration and the binde caused the tubing to crack. The reason that the MML and the AZC units work so well is because they compensate for this with independant toe adjustment. Mike

T1 Corvettes were running VIR at about 2:02s in qualifying. The Porsche Cup cars were running 1:54s at the last ALMS race there. My "best" run there in my beast has been a 2:09, but the car is much more capable than the driver is... Jim McNemar has driven his 380HP Porsche GT3 Street car at a best of a 2:04 in traffic. His new Z06 is running lows 2:0Xs... Mike

That's fast times for sure, guys, Congrats! Mike

That's a whole 'nuther ball of wax, but the two endurance races I've spectated at didn't have turn signals or flashers being used... Mike

So you posted asking for advice on what you should buy, but it sounds like you don't want advice. You want people to agree with your decision to buy the "wolfy" edition VW Jetta... Proxlamus gave you some real good data to make an educated, not emotional decision... Maybe you should go back and edit the title to more accurately reflect the desired response? Mike

Which is exactly why I stand by my earlier statement. I doubt there's a track marshal anywhere that would say "Yes, use your OEM emergency flashers instead of your nationally recognized pit in signal"... We had a guy kicked out of an event last year for flashing his lights. At that event we were all dressed down pretty well about using any lights on our cars other than the brake lights... Mike

John, I was discussing the value of waving to corner workers last night with a buddy of mine at dinner. I told him I always wave to each corner worker on the first lap of each day, since the course is generally a standing yellow... He asked me "WHY?". I told him that it helps remind me of where they are. Helps me anchor them to a specific location in my mind for each corner before I need them. Stopping and saying thank you to them when you're having lunch is generally well appreciated. Mike

I retorque my lug studs/nuts (depending on what Im' driving) before EVERY run session and I've been caught by surprise more than once to find a lug much looser than you'd expect... The joys of track abuse, brake/tire heat/ and cooling down... Mike

My advice here is to check with the track marshal. In almost 20 years of DEs I've never been told it was OK to use hazard lights for anything on track, and I've done track test days... Maybe that's ok where you run, but I've just never experienced it. And even in your logic, the Left Arm "fist" raised and being offline to pit in is all the signal you should give, while driving off the line. Mike

I'm a bit confused as to what exactly each of you expected... That's Hollywood and they do as they want. And the comment above about VD being better than that... How would you know? Have you spent personal one on one time with the guy, hanging at his crib? Clubbin' together? He's a celebrity who makes movies... He might also do a lot of other stupid or unethical things as well... They leaned on or sat on a bunch of old Zcars they know little if anything about. I'd have expected that and more. I'd have expected damage to my paint, possibly dents, and possibly damage to the suspension/wheels... You had an agreement, but reality is that when movie sets get rolling, things change quickly in the script, and directors come up with other ideas on the fly. This happened all the time in the 90s when I was associated with making movies... If you don't want your car used as a prop (literal terms) then don't get paid to let them use it, and don't let them use it. Mike

By "guard", you mean that thing every master carpenter, and craftsman chucks, because it gets in the way? I still have mine somewhere... Hope he heals well and tell him to take plenty of whatever they perscribe! He'll need it, along with a stiff shot of the Macallan! :2thumsb: Mike

Dan, Thank her family for us for her sacrefice for our country and tell the family we'll be saying a prayer for them. Mike

The sad reality is that we have lost some very good and very valuable members who left because the site grew to large and became to distant. Kind of like going to work for a very small company, feeling like you're part of the family, and then getting bought out by one of the mega-giants, only to be treated like yet another number... Reality is that we have a number of members we've dealt with over the years who step over the line, decide to butt heads with an admin, and then get admonished for it. They may quiet down for a spell, then come right back a few months later... We have a watch list for that very reason. Most of that stuff goes by behind the scenes and becomes a real headache to deal with over and over again. When it happens enough, you're going to get shown the door, even if but for a short time out. Bottom line is this is a party... The party will go on, if it's just Pete, Dan and I and a few hundred of our closest friends... We don't get paid much for this site, and we can pay to keep the lights on and the beer flowing if need be. We want everyone who is here to be here if they can follow the rules. If they can't? Have a nice life over on "www.I'M Unappreciated on HybridZ.com" because they will be shown the door, just like if they were at my shindigs... Mike

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185mph... GPS verified... NOT the Datsun... Previous owner made it to 204MPH, gps verified, and the footage was on the internet until he came to his senses and removed it... Mike