Silicone Boy's Z and garage of dreams

[jhaag]

On Friday I visited Ben at his house in a Denver suburb and I was mightily impressed. He has about a 3-4 car garage filled with treats! Besides the twin turbo Z under construction, there was a frame for a 7-type car leaning against the wall, a Hayabusa bike engine on the floor, a shifter cart in another corner and piles and piles of tools and parts. I joked with his wife that she should call me when Ben wasn't around and I'd bring my trailer and load up all the things he no longer 'needs' - all in the spirit of public service, mind you! . He has a Cobra kit roller at another location. Ben, you have a very nice set up and your Z is soooo close to being done. Visiting him was the highly of the week (heck, the highlight of the month).

 

John

[silicone boy]

My wife would probably pay people to cart parts away. In fact, she forced me at gunpoint to give someone on HybridZ some stainless steel headers for free! About a year ago, I had my first car I ever owned stolen from the parking lot at her dad's office (I was storing it there). It was a Rabbit GTI that I got after high school graduation 20 years ago and I tricked it out over the years. I loved that thing and I called it a classic landmark car, kinda like the prequel to the new MINI. My wife thought it was a piece of junk. I swear she had something to do with its disappearance, but she denied it. Anyway, I was so broken up over that that she let me get a $6000 3rd Gen RX7 off of EBAY--a little body work needed but a major score and I saved it from the junkyard

 

By the way, John has a super clean ZX conversion that served as the prototype for Motorsport Auto's conversion kit. It sounds awesome and is a lot faster than my Twin Turbo 280 (if only because mine is on jackstands)