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Don't worry about it Kats....I'm just playing with you. You should hear my French.....C'est bizarre! steve

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Here is a picture of the MSA covers--installed without the rubber gasket supplied--and painted, so you can REALLY see the profile better than clear and how much smaller it is than the opening. These things are absolute junk. This is a shattered (yes they do that if you look at them wrong), salvaged set that I caulked in and painted for cheap race car use. Perfect use! steve

Poor John...if only he knew his dedication to MSA was causing such a stir.... steve

>>>Moved at three, and stuck!<<< Hmmmmm..... that sounds to me like the 'less than 10 miles' catagory! steve

I won 'Worst PAint Job' and 'Best Dash'. steve

See? I really WAS there. And smiling! And there's Ron C. looking in my trunk. He's going, "Who the eff did this welding?!?!?!" steve

Don't over-think it. It could be where you graduated from High School. It could be where your parents still live. It could be where you spent your early teen-age years. Or your whole childhood. Yes, and I purposely left out 'I haven't grown up yet'. steve

God, I can't believe it took, like, 10 posts for someone to mention the GTV. It kinda looks like we have three different conversations going here... the 'nemesis' in the street, on the track, and in your yard.... I'm not going to sound like much of a homer here, folks, but I refuse to be myopic. In the street? Well, first of all street racing is dangerous and illegal and I don't do it. With that said, the answer--for 99.5% of all Z's on this forum--would be JUST ABOUT ANYTHING from F-bodies and Pony cars up throught the Corvettes, Porsches and exotics and down through new, high-tech cars with similar or better P/W ratios like Eclipse, Acura, Neon, yes and even well-prepared 'rice'. Sorry for that, myopians. The Z is a dinosaur with 130 horse and 2400+ lbs and a peg-leg. It's a SPORTS CAR, not a green-light wowwer. In your yard...well, I'm not going to touch this one. I don't play with rusty cars and you shouldn't either. On the track? Now here is where the playing field gets a bit more level, believe it or not. Classifications are important, yes, and so is the driver. I would say those two each make up a third of a winning formula. The remaining third is the fact that the Z is a really good road racing car. Even mildly prepared, the suspension geometry is nearly perfect and even a stock powertrain BEGS and PLEADS with you to run the wizz out of it. You can be much less concerned about proper classing on smaller tracks. On larger tracks, there is no way it can keep up with cars with higher end. Give it the tight, torquey stuff and away you go! Yes, at the expense of puffing a few heads up, you can beat 911's. But that's a horrible blanket statement. Racing is for fun. No one is going to hire you to drive for the Jaguar Factory Team. You go out and pass the field--of 911's and 993's and 914's and Boxters and Corvettes and Eclipses and Neons and whatever else is not being driven to the FUN level your car is and you find someone to race with. It might be a 911. It might be a 944 (they match up very nicely), it might be an E-36 or a Boxter. Last weekend I passed 911's all day long and had my arse handed me by an EVO. This kind of talk only leads to one thing: Sore elbows. steve

The difference is in the syllable stress. MUS-tache and mou-STACHE You must shave off your MUStache. That gentleman has a very distinguished mouSTACHE. When you are in the Care-a-be-an, you have a MUStache. When you visit the Ca-rib-ean, you sport your mouSTACHE. Poor Kats. steve

Born before 1970=Memory lane Born after 1970=History lesson: Remember when Slick50 was not available on every Kragen or Safeway shelf? It was sold personally by 'authorized representatives'--NOT stores. Like Amway! I'm not sure if it was structured pyramid-like, but I can remember the first few people I knew who sold it were definitely--how do I say this nicely--in the catagory of those who are constantly looking for that THING. That magical thing that will finally put them over the top. They were people we didn't give a large amount of credence to. It was $50 a quart and one quart would "coat the inside of your engine with Teflon". I don't remember there being 1st time treatments or supplements or boosters or fuel treatments or tranny additives. Just Slick50 for $50/quart. One quart would protect your engine for ever and make it last forever. Not exactly marketing for 'job security'! steve

Ditto. Multi-tip plugs DO NOT create a twin or quad spark. There is still only one arc. It will travel in the direction of the least resistance--to one of the electrodes. Those ads with the furious multiple sparks are a joke. Kinda like the pest-control guy's truck with the black widow spider on the side with the red hourglass ON IT'S BACK! Repeat after me: NGK BPR6 NGK BR6 NGK BPR6ES NGK BPR7 Maybe BPR8, but I doubt it Possibly BPR5, but I doubt it. Got to your local Car Quest or NAPA autoparts store and ask to see the NGK book nonmenclature. It is on the first page of the catalogue. It explains all the codes. If you have a seriously shaved head and/or domed pistons, you might want a 3/8 projection. Or go to sparkplugs.com. To quote one of my favorite people on here, "Bosch plugs belong in German cars. Autolites belong in Fords. Champions belong in lawn mowers." steve

Dude! Point Reyes is awsome! What a cool cruise. Drakes Beach is great. Fresh oysters hot off the hot 55 gallon drum/BBQ right on the beach. $1 each. your choice garlic butter of marinara. Wish I could come. One of my favorite places in the world. Stop in Inverness, get a bottle o' wine and cruise out to Drakes. North and South beaches on Point Reyes are great too, but completely different. The Natural history museum is wonderful, sepecially if you bring the kiddies. steve

You have a couple things confused. The Ohlone College event that occurred in 2002 and 2003 was Z's By The Bay one year and Z-Fest the other. It was put on by Ted Stokes at CLUBZ and Yuichi and Kyle at STRICTLYZ. It was not a ZONC event. The first year attendance was great for a first event and everyone had high hopes for it continuing. The second year was not as well-attended as was hoped. Who knows about a third.... I would not consider ZONC a good source of information concerning this event. ZONC has a long track record of not supporting or even advertising outside events. That is reason #'s 2 and 3. Here is reason #1: Blackhawk is a ZONC event. I saw a flyer recently advertising another z-meet at Blackhawk for 2004. I think it is usually in June or maybe May also. For information on whether ZBTB will happen this year, I would check CLUBZ's or STRICTLYZ's websites. MSA, Rio Vista, ZBTB and Blackhawk, all within 3 months. Then nothing until MSA the next year. Someone needs to put a show on in September or October or something. steve