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Thanks! The roof deck is 5/8" plywood on trusses at 24" on center. The gable ends have a 12" overhang but I have 30" overhangs over the doors. The plywood deck is nailed with 10d nails at 4" on center and the clips are mid span. The clips are 16ga steel stamped into an H shape with the wide flange pointed down (if you lay the plywood out from fascia up to the ridge). The clips also space the long edges of the plywood so that they won't bow over time. They are not fasteners; they just block the plywood edges. This is going to have a galvanized metal roof and I didn't need to use 5/8" plywood. My design wind speed is 160 mph and even though I don't have any uplift greater than 1000 pounds, I opted for the thicker plywood, nail spacing, and truss straps that wrap over the top of the truss. My insurance will be lower, and, as you say, the cars will be safer. I also opted for impact rated windows and doors for the same reason.

Nice! I didn't even know they were available like that until I started poking around. I thought they were all built at "the factory". Glad to see they aren't. Adds credibility to the open source and community "heatkit" vibe. Good work.

Well that, and it's a shoe.

It's less than 200 miles from your house to the convention hotel cliff. How can this possibly not be a safe distance to drive your Z car? I drive further than that on a nwazcc weekend drive here.

A11-618-427 is the computer replacement that fixed the over fueling problem ?

Most of the Haltech is now wired up. I also managed to find a home for the Leopard 2 tank breather filter! Nestled nicely on the catch can!... I tapped the inside of the aluminum filter and threaded the nozzle to allow it to screw on and off! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You've brought up one of the positives in this epidemic. We're seeing it bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. It makes it pretty easy to see what's going on inside others that's normally hidden. Our lack of sympathy, empathy and compassion, in varying degrees, is a gauge of how Narcissistic we all are. In these strange times we can easily spot the selfishness in others but can rarely see it in ourselves.

Yes, verbal comments about this are wrong and there's no need to shame people. It's passive aggressiveness...the worst kind of bullying. I would classify this similar to discrimination. Just understand that anyone shaming others should be prepared for retaliation, weather it's a strong come-back or even a punch to the face. You never know what kind of pent-up frustration someone may be holding in and your comment could be the thing that sets them off. People are really stressed out right now and this just adds to the fire. Just move along and take your own precautions.

Some interesting data, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-coronavirus-face-mask-materials-new-study_l_5e99b576c5b6a92100e63129

Thanks Zed. Do you have a part number for that knock sensor? I poked around and didn't find anything. And I remember that Whisper 2000 thing! Back in the dark ages, us guys the engineering department would sometimes pool some money and buy stuff that we thought were funny or scams. Perpetual motion machines, X-ray glasses... That sort of thing. For entertainment. The Whisper 2000 was one of the devices we purchased for our collection.

It was for the turbo engines. Not sure it worked well. I had pondered some copper heating oil line, a flattened end, a bolt to the engine block, and a funnel in the cabin for my car. In the early days of my worrying about detonation. Here's the ZX sensor. There's ideas out there - https://www.nicoclub.com/archives/diy-knock-detection.html

Yup. Moore's Law in action. Coupled with the rise in fuel prices and the desire to reduce emissions? I found a few references to knock sensors being added to cars which did not originally come with one. But they were vague and I didn't find anything that came to successful fruition. Granted, I didn't look very hard though. So the 280ZX had a knock sensor? Is that the turbo version? I don't think the NA had one.

Well ...it was way too nice to be inside welding but managed to make a bit of progress ....

That operation with the relay removed is correct. There are three possible ways to light the warning lamp and they are "in parallel". If any of them connects to ground, the light comes on. By disconnecting that relay, you have simply removed one of the possible ways to connect the lamp to ground. The parking brake handle still works because it's still able to pull the lamp to ground even if one of the other paths (like the relay) have been completely removed. In fact, you said you have disconnected the brake fluid level switch as well, and the parking brake lever still lights the light. Same thing for the warning relay. Does that make sense? I'm trying to describe things for someone who doesn't do a lot of electrical work. Hope I'm not oversimplifying and or insulting...

My Honda hits a/f ratios of ~ 25:1 but advance is only around 31degrees then.

More pics from the body shop. It is really getting pretty close now. Nice to see.

It's a mulitlayer moral dilemma isn't it? Do you sacrifice people to save people who are too weak to handle the change in their lifestyle? How do you determine value? (Edit - sorry motorman, I didn't mean to imply that your friends were weak. The reasons for suicide are complex.) These discussions are similar to the environmental discussions, just more extreme. Loggers who "need" trees to cut down, and will cut down everything they can find. Fishermen who need to fish until all of the fish are gone. People need to drive their cars or fly to the global warming conferences. Human beings supposedly are "superior" to other animals because we are adaptable. We change as conditions change and control our environment. That's why we are spread around the world. If you dig down in to the rationale of the cure being worse than the disease, it mostly comes down to comfort. People miss their routine and society is designed to reward only people who do "work". The methods and means exist to learn to live with the virus. But, ironically, many people don't want to put in the real "work" to do it. We're almost back to the "death panels" from early Affordable Care Act discussions. Finally, a cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/apr/16/david-squires-on-the-coronavirus-hot-take-factory

I bought this pair of replacement seat belts at Motorsport Auto today. They are made by Retro Belt. The hardware for both sides is identical, yet the installation is definitely not the same on the left and right side. It seems like the hardware is set up for the passenger side. A couple of mounting mounting brackets have a bend in them, and they are both bent the wrong way for the driver's side. There are no instructions for mounting these belts in a 240Z ,by the way. There is a one-page instruction on some extra work needed to mount them in a '70-'71 (extra hole needs to be drilled in the car), but nothing else. That made the job much more difficult than it needed to be. Has anybody installed these belts and did they have the same issue? I'll call and ask the folks at MA when I have a chance.

get anything done Jeff :)

A very interesting article on the Covid-19 impact on the hotel industry - especially important as it might pertain to large convention gatherings. Of course, if there is a Fall seasonal resurgence of the virus, a lot of things might change even more. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/so-long-minibar-how-coronavirus-changing-your-hotel-stay-n1180226