Sad ...

Just saw this bit that Craig Ferguson did - LMAO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYBTlI1-fHg

Don't ever, never, flush out your transmission fluid after drinking too many beers! Especially when you pour the trans fluid into the oil pan.
1.) You overfill the oil pan.
2.) You have to drain the new oil & filter you just put in.
3.) You feel like an Idiot (because you are)
4.) For the love of God don't tell anyone!

I can use an extra set of eyes when I fire up my motor.....

Also, I have never done final rocker adjustment on roller rockers, I'd feel better if I had a little experience with me on that.

I'm figuring two weeks out....beer and food on me....

Quote:Water Wetter will help in the heat transfer from the engine to the coolant and back from the coolant to the radiator. It can help make your engine run cooler. It seems to have a greater effect when used without antifreeze, but it has helped my engine run cooler with a 50/50 antifreeze mix or greater. If one chooses NOT to use antifreeze, than you need something to provide water pump seal lubrication and anti-corrosives. Water Wetter can fill that requirement, also.

RACE ON!!!

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Now that is bad!!!

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I agree - Corvettes were actually pretty strong, with the 58s getting that 50 year push, but I see a lot of signs of weakness in the muscle car market ...

damn, i need to get my butt back in here. sorry about all your troubles :thumbright:

Really nice guy - if his book is any indication, he'll have a lot of opinions and won't be afraid to share them ...

Also, if you're a dumb-assed kid with a frozen lug-nut, do not prop up the wrench on a piece of wood and hit it really hard with a hammer, otherwise the wrench could fly up and break your glasses right in 2.

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Wow ...

Let's imagine that you're just a dumb-assed kid trying to muck around with the timing and idle on your old Grand Prix, having it in gear with the parking brake on, and the parking brake decides it's finally had enough of that crap, so the car starts creeping forward toward your future father-in-law's newly-painted garage door, and you're too brain-dead to just pull the coil wire to kill it. Well, if that happens, don't stand in front of the car trying to push back like Superman, because it just won't work.

welcome mojo

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Andy, it's just a baby Jag - it's the driver back here in the (freezing) Northeast (just got up to 20 degrees). They found some corrosion/leakage in one of the brake booster lines and re-aligned the actual brake switch: the feel is much better now.

biggrizzly, we do the exact thing with our annual NCRS chapter blowout - we stay the night at the inn across the street. Much safer that way ...

Hey Frank!!

Although I am not an active member here on Guru, word does travel! I have always considered you as one of the best sources of C4 information on the CF and yes I know about all the hassle some members gave you when they were banned - I had to deal with them on the other forum (which I am no part of anymore)

I think you found your home and you're with a bunch of really cool C4 guys and in time, I think you will become the C4 information center on the www.. Now that you're here, I'll come visit as well!

Wishing you the best

Have fun

Vinny

Don't forget to remove the drip tabs from the valve covers when installing 1.6 rockers unless turning your pushrods into fishing hooks was your ultimate goal.

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I drove a friend's 2002 racecar this summer. It felt really top heavy compared to what I'm used to. I think my stock C4 could keep up with it in the corners.

I'd really like to drive a new on on the street to see what it's like but, if I'm gonna take a trip, I'd want to take the C4 anyway.

I bought a WeldPak 100 10 years ago mainly because it was 110v and small enough to fit in the race trailer. It's a nice little welder for brackets and shop equipment. I wouldn't use it on a frame, but it sounds like you're just welding a bracket on so you should be ok.

Yea, HD has the wire. I think roll costs about $12, I haven't bought the flux lately, converted it to MIG. HD also has the tips.
Is the tip all garbaged up? You can usually get away with just scraping the crap off and if the hole isn't plugged up it'll work. If the wire's broken off inside, unscrew the tip, hit the trigger to push some more wire out. Then slide the cleaned tip over the wire and screw it bach into the gun.

Your wire stick out should be about 3/8ths. before you start. 3/8ths above the work is also a good distance to start. You should angle the gun at about 30 degrees. It's harder to see the puddle but I get a better weld when the gun is angled back over the puddle.

What is the thickness of the bracket? Let me know and I'll sugggest the starting settings. Seems to me that if the wire's sticking, the heat's a little low.

This is Tobijohn's area of expertise, he normally checks in after 5:00 eastern time.

It's been a while since I installed front C5 brakes but I can't say that I'm
very satisfied. Problem is that after 1-2 hard breakings from ~120 to
stop breakes get overheated and start to scratch on something and start
shaking. If I let them cool down then it gets back to normal.
Everything that I installed is new. Original C5 Z06 calipers and pads and
I bought Durastop rotors (slotted/drilled).
I know that rotors are probably junk but anyway I think that brakes should
be better. I can't say that there is much improvement over stock 12"
front brakes that I had.
I still didn't install brake bias spring and I hope that it will improve things.

Now, I have a few questions;
1. Are you staisfied with your C5 brakes?
2. Do you have bias spring installed?
3. Is there any kind of aftermarket master cylinder available that is better that stock
unit and can be installed with not too many mods necessary?

Here are a few pics of my install.

before:



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after:

I get 9.5 regardless of the activity in my 89 FJ62 Landcruiser!

Straight 6, cast iron tractor engine.

GOnna do a vortec swap for better mileage and performancce.

The Dow futures are down 500 points for tomorrow. All indications are tomorrow will be bloody for the stock market.

I've retreated to a position of 41% cash. Not sure that's enough, anyone have any opinions on this? Better yet, anyone who knows what they're talking about have an opinion on this?

Done!

9 MPG's nuts unless it's a motor home. Heck my Silverado with a 5.3 and 120k on the clock gets 19 around town and 23 on a trip. I can tow a 3500 lb. trailer and still get 15 -16.

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We've been cheating Darwin for years in this country by helping to keep people alive that ordinarily would not make it. Then they have kids.

The outcome is our current society.

We need to get back to natural selection!

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I can relate, I grew up in SouthCentral Pa.

Very cool!

Oh and check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon-wheel_effect

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_brsX2W4dQ[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbC9a9HmdJY[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoKkPLJZprU[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4bZfXjNJew[/url]

Hey Frank, Thanks for everything you did do over there.
I will try to get as many people over here as possible.
You are a class act Frank. Thanks again, Steve

Just checked in at the office. Bout a foot of snow on the ground now and still coming. For entertainment we ususally watch the city folk drive their 4WD SUV's into the ditches and each other.

It is truely hilarious to see their faces just as the door handles start to make contact with the road! ANother cute trick is to stop in the middle of the road to install their chains. All the while directing traffic in t-shirts and shorts.

What the hell is wrong with folks from the city? Has the social engineering standard been dumbed down so far that common sense and consideration for others been removed from the genetic code?



I need to refill my Prozac!

I'll bet you guys dollars to donuts that the heater core fins are blocked with dust build up.

Does the A/C blow hard or is it just heat?

Logic is that the A/C fins would be clogged with dust from the condensation build up, and that is why I ask.

Never used the "flux core" but from my experience the gas shield is much easier to use.

I get 44 mpg from my Toyota TDi econobox . Diesel was $7.69 today, gas is $7.54. :shaking:

Frank, hopefully I'll still see you at an event or two. I still plan on going to the CI, if only to antagonize some people I could go on for days about how the CI used to be a fun free for all but has changed to an OT get together that has more to do with "I have more $$$than you do look at my new car" than just having a good time relaxing. Despite Adam B's best efforts the CI event has went downhill IMO.
You and I go way back on the forum, red crew, USS ZAD, burnout competitions etc. If nothing else we can get a C4GURU sticker on our window and show up :tongue: I'll still post over there some but as time goes by and this site develops I'll be here more and more I suspect. I still have alot of friends over there in the Southeast section.



FWIW, I think a guru get-together would be a great idea. Theres all kinds of possibilities. One thing that pops up at least in my mind would be regional events since many of us cant travel across the country. Instead of having our own track rentals or having a guru only event we could piggy back on some other events to keep it intresting, the participation up, and more activities at a lesser cost. For the Southeast we could get together at an event like the year one experience at Atlanta. Drag racing, autox, laps on road atlanta including an HPDE, car shows and vendors out the wazoo. Most of us are gearheads and car nutts anyways so this seems a perfect fit. Any input?

Bogus is right the 1st gen Cummings is a good motor.
Diesels can be very exspensive to own though. And diesel has gone up.
But diesel is the future.

The VW TDI is good choice. 50 mpg, but they're hard to find.

All the Mercedes get good mileage, gas or diesel. My E320 gets close to 31 mpg with 225 hp.

My 04 Explorer gets 15 and 22 mpg when its running.

The high cost of fuel is here to stay. Theres maybe 40 years of oil left at the long end of it. The US will exhaust its domestic crude in 2010.

Were at 65% imports now. Soon to be 100%.
With oil at 100% imports and China at close to that it doesn't look good for the US.

The only positive side is Canada has plenty of energy and few roads.
And they don't hate us.

There are a number of welding videos on youtube. Some are trying to sell you a DVD others are just demos of techniques. I did see one that has the camera behind a mask so they could show the formation of the arc and "puddle". YMMV

I sometimes think about going to BG but with the time away from work, the cost, the fact that I probably wouldnt know anyone I just go to a local cruise here..I never quite fit in with the cliquey crowd anyway.

whip

Ive started posing links rather than pics hoping it will help out.

Not sure what the problem is
with the auto-dark helmet,
I have one and love it. it was
a cheaper one too. The big thing
about mig welding is to be
absolutely sure your pieces you
are welding are super clean.
Rust, paint, grease etc. will give
you grief.

hurray! Glad to here it, Case! That's great!

midnight - if retirement was truly great, why aren't you in Ft. Myers???

Mornin' to ya. Colder than he11 again today. Nothing on my agenda, still waiting for my parts to be chromed. Being retired is great!!

don't fret this one... I think the new software will resolve these issues.

now that Chris Bangle is gone from BMW, their designs are begining to regain traction. I will say this, he created a new design look for BMW, which had stagnated. At the same time, he created a lot of talk. And sometimes, even 'bad' press is better than no press.

Has anyone here driven a newer BMW? It's a lovely piece. The drive is so sublime...

Did you get a Jag? Damn...

I am sitting here, enjoying the fact that I have heat in my 92!!! whoo-hoo!!!

My morning ritual is a couple of bowls of serial read the Guru and the comix whilst watching the weather channel. real taxing stuff.

Off to work... I have more meetings today... and it's supposed to rain most of the week.

Anyone know anything about old school Yanmar diesel boat engines?

Brian,

Thanks for the link. I downloaded the rulebook and plan to send it out to the racing committee for my club. We have our first planning meeting tomorrow night.
We host two drag races per year, but many of us want to try our hands at putting on an autocross event. I have been in contact with my NCCC Regional Competition Director who is a very competitive autocrosser. We plan on hosting an NCCC sanctioned event but the RCD tells me that it is all based on the SCCA book, so this is a great link for us.

I'm also looking for links and information on where to buy timing equipment, cones and the hardware required to pull this off.

Thanks
Don

My 94 seems to blow pretty good. Not nearly as hard as my Nissan XTerra which could peel your skin if you get to close to the vent, but I have not had any concern over the Vette's airflow. Seems to be in-line with most cars I have owned.

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There was a couple on the 2007 Hot Rod Power Tour from Iceland. They were driving their Mustang Shelby GT500. A blue, I believe 1969.

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Mine spins hard, just doesnt blow hard. The 87 did both, it would blow harder on 5 with the C68 as my 94 will on 4 with the C60, and they both made about the same amount of sound when set to simular speeds.