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Mr. Unseen, your pellet gun is needed. @siteunseen https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/08/squirrel-attacks-nyc-neighborhood-fear “Suddenly the squirrel ran up my leg and I thought ‘it’s a small rodent, how bad could this be’, so I stood completely still and they next thing I knew the blood started to fly. It was a wrestling match that got very bloody very quickly,” Frederick said.

.......and tastes good in Brunswick Stew!!!

It sounds like a baseball into a catcher's mitt, THUMP.

Never actually been attacked by one, but am damned sure if the guy that hid these behind the driver side front fender of my 71 car (found during restoration), ever sees me, I’ll be missing small pieces of my butt!

Hey Ryan, I've got one. pm me when you get a chance.

My observations on the Phillips Island video as related to similar HP track days here in the USA: The difference in performance seems to me more related the driver's ability and not the car they were driving. Only a few were track prepped and I suspect on street tires, maybe even high performance tires but not race tires. Unless you have done a lot of track days having a "race" car in your rearview mirror can cause folks to let you go by so they can concentrate on their own driving. I race with a few vintage groups and they operate in one of two ways; specific classes based on HP and car performance (in the day in the USA such as A, B and C production SCCA cars) which run as a single group. It can also be B, C & D production with AP big block cars running by themselves or with others cars (lots of Zs , 911s and 914-6s). The other grouping is a mish mash of cars ranging from a 70 Camaro, a 911, a 930 turbo, 240/26/280 Datsun Zs, an Alfa GT V6, a Shelby GT350 Mustang, IMSA corvette, a 65 Barracuda or a Datsun 510. Each is in a different subgroup but on the track racing at the same time. My 72 Datsun with a fully race prepared L28 is only 2-7 seconds off the pace depending on the track and conditions (wet vs dry). As a Datsun driver I admit to getting a kick out of beating a Porsche (when I can) in the same manner that Bob Sharp, Sam Posey and Jim Fitzgerald did in their Datsuns. I use the later rear spoiler from the Sharp #33 car to remind a Porsche driver who's in front of them.....

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I'll bet squirrels are pretty tasty. They eat well, acorns, nuts and stuff, and seem pretty healthy. Here in the PNW we really need to start eating sea lions. There's plenty around now.

Ahhh, but by buying a thicker gasket, you are defeating your purpose. By buying a Stage III cam, you are improving the package. Why God created money!!! 😳

Good point grannyknot. I’m one of those that run 10.5 to 1 in my strokers, but a high duration, higher lift cam is supposed to solve that problem. I can’t make mine knock. I’m running Isky Stage III .490 lift with 20 degrees more than stock duration.

Keiichi Tsuchiya drives the Spirit Garage S30 race car around the Sugo Circuit for a Best Motoring special, and comes away impressed:

sorry, but that harness is installed in my car. I put some parts in for A/C just like you're doing. I installed the whole A/C control head with the 4-position switch and also swapped out my original blower resistor for the one that works with the 4-position switch. And that's the only A/C sub-harness I have, sorry. Another complication is that the 4-position switch has another feature built into it that deals with the A/C system specifically. It has an output pin that is essentially "The fan is not in the OFF position." And that pin is used to disable/enable the A/C system. You see, it's potentially damaging to the compressor to run the A/C if the blower motor is not spinning. You run the risk of slugging the compressor with liquid refrigerant. So they make sure the compressor will not run unless the fan is spinning. The 3-position switch has no such feature. So you can either "always just remember to turn the fan on when the A/C is running", or you can use the 4-position switch to interlock automatically and do that for you. After a lot of words above, the bottom line is... I recommend you get your hands on the sub-harness that came with the A/C cars and run the 4-position switch.

Love the leading and trailing calipers. Externally valves shocks.

OK, I'll keep an eye out. No rush..and apologies @Zed Head for hijacking the thread.

The standard gasket is 1.2mm, so you can't have a head gasket 1.25mm thinner. You can oval the mount holes in the tensioner and Slack side guide to take up the slack.

Actual rubber steering rack bushings, steering coupler and moustache bushings instead of polyurethane. No one agreed or disagreed about the door weather strip. Maybe it is no longer a problem?

The F54 block/N42 head L28 engine I use to own had a compression ratio of 10.5:1 The head had been ported, polished and decked. The engine was carburated and no matter what I did I could not get rid of a bad ping on acceleration even though I was running 94 octane. Eventually I had to install an expensive Kameari 2.0mm steel head gasket to bring down the comp. ratio. Now I know others run 10.5 and sometimes higher ratios and say they have no problems so I just mention this as a cautionary tale. I can't remember what the final comp. ratio ended up at but that .08mm extra solved the ping problem and the engine felt no less powerful than it did before.