johnc

I wasn't rude before the post on CZCC back in October but you never explained anything in the preceding 9 months, you just didn't reply to my e-mails, invoices, and PMs. Now after 11 months you finally reply after I post up the various e-mails and user names you've been using to contact me? C'mon dude. What am I supposed to think about someone who uses four different names and Hotmail accounts and who doesn't reply to specific questions? Good luck but I'm not taking the chance and selling you anything. Try Motorsport Auto for the spring you need.

Wow! Imagine the lawsuits... Wow!

I'm the guy that thinks you're trying to scam me as a vendor. H. Gustavo N. Caballero - el_nava03@hotmail.com Manual Gomez - adnanref86@hotmail.com Arturo H. Estaves - ate45545@hotmail.com Your shipping address is a Public Storage facility in Arizona. 102 E 7th St. CD 10 Douglas, AZ 85607 And now your name is Fernadoz with an e-mail address of: covarrubias_miguel@hotmail.com. I've received e-mails and PMs from this guy since January of this year. He uses a number of different e-mail addresses and offers "Instant Payment" when I send him a PayPal invoice. He won't send payment to a PayPal address and insists on a PayPal invoice. I called PayPal and the rep said scammers strip transaction info off the invoice and use it, under my company name, to send out bogus invoices. EDIT: Deleted something stupid I said.

I put a set of the KMAC camber plates on a customer car. It was missing a couple parts (the customer purchased it used) and I called KMAC to get the replacement parts. They shipped the parts express 3 days from Australia and didn't charge me a dime. The customer has been running them on his car for a couple months now and is very happy with the car. You will need to make/source a shoulder bushing to take up the OD/ID difference between the monoball and the shock shaft.

From a rational viewpoint, sell the car. You can use the money to buy another one later in your life. You can take pictures and sell it via e-mail easily. Just leave the signed title with a trusted family member. From an emotional viewpoint, ship the car to Oz or tell your family to shut up and let you keep something you love.

We don't care about the number of posts on this site, just the quality of the technical content. Huh? The main point of this site is the technical content. If you want social interaction, join Facebook. There are dozens of Z specific FB pages where you can socially interact with Z people. Here on HybridZ its about the tech. HybridZ is not a beginner's Z site. HybridZ is not a social Z site. HybridZ is not a touchy, feely make everyone who visits here feel good site. HybridZ is not like the Special Olympics where everyone gets a trophy for showing up. Its about the tech, its about performance.

Search please. All of this has been discussed here in excruciating detail over the years.

Most likely driveline alignment. http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php?showtopic=43993

Search on the term "spherical bearing" or "monoball." Pillow ball is an obsolete term.

Sitting on his ass in the shade.

I have a local painter who insists the I spray bare metal media blasted cars with WD40 if they are going to be painted by him. He said it comes off real easy (per Jon's example above) compared to the primer and epoxy painted cars most people bring him.

Another thing to remember is that what's on a race car (especially a professional race car) may have nothing to do with the sponsor logos or what the teams says is on the car. I crewed on a professional ALMS race teams who had their Hypercoil springs powder coated purple because they were sponsored by Eibach. The BMW professional team in the next pits had their Penske shock cans and other shock parts powder coated orange to look like Motons. EDIT: And the above situation usually occurs innocently. If you're a race team that has no shock sponsor and you're good enough to start winning, you'll be approached by a shock company to run their products. Well, that's all well and good and extra money/parts are nice, but you already have a winning setup and its mid-season and you have no more time or money to test and develop a completely different set of shocks. So, its easier to make what's working for you look like you're new shock sponsor. EDIT2: And what's on a professional, top level race team is most likely not anything you or I can buy. Yes, we might be able to buy the model Tein shock that was on those old rally cars, but we certainly can't buy the custom valving inside that was developed by the race team in conjunction with the Tein engineers. I worked with Penske and EMI racing for two years to develop a set of Penske 8760 shocks for my 240Z and the only way to duplicate that is through me.

Please remember that Dennis' article is in the context of autocross and road racing where performance is paramount. For a street driven car performance is less important. Tokico, lower cost Tein, Megan, etc. are fine for a street car that never gets driven at more the 75% of its capability. Its that last 25% of handling where good shocks stand out and make it easier to drive the car at its limit.

Back off the adjustable oil pressure spring. You're probably bypassing all the time.

The word "best" on Internet automotive forums leads to silly "Internet Engineering" arguments that we don't tolerate here.

Dennis Grant has a really good series on shocks that is well worth reading. http://farnorthracing.com/autocross_secrets6.html He used to have a "crap" page that named names and showed dyno plots of the JDM shocks being discussed here. Lawyers from those manufacturers went after him so he had to take it down. Couldn't afford the costs to defend the truth from Taiwanese (not US) companies that had more money and more lawyers. This is the last bit left from the "crap" pages:

There is no best. Rule 4:

Phantom Grip.

Good enough reasons.

Facebook.

So... how is this thread adding to the tech here at HybridZ? Is there a reason the I should not close it and send it to the tool shed?

Try talking with Ed: http://www.edpink.com/

If you are building you own suspension parts and using your eyeballs to measure things like camber, you are going to fail. Its extremely important to properly measure everything when building a suspension.

The top mounting of the shock shaft in a strut suspension must articulate both fore aft and laterally for both front and rear installations. Its the nature of the beast. In addition, the front should allow rotation but the can be handled with the normal rotation of the piston inside the shock body.