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Mistake. Sorry to the guys that "reacted". I spit the hook.

Calling someone out as a "troll" on an internet forum is a lazy, throwaway line and is often totally unjustified. Better to save it for people who are really trolling. Anybody here remember our old friend 'Burt'? Tony simply doesn't suffer fools gladly. Most internet communities are all the better for having someone like that around, and he usually knows what he's talking about, has been there and has bought the t-shirt to boot. Many of the people who have a 'negative experience' when interacting with him are not exactly paragons of virtue themselves. The occasional sighting of that dying art called passionate debate is - in my opinion - a good thing on an internet forum. Along with the noise and heat comes a little light, and - with open minds - we can all learn something new.

A very good friend put a familiar face to that flaw. It helped me learn to move on without going down to their level.

And if you do decide to move forward with the oversized rings and get to the ring grinding portion of the show... Just remember that details are important. You want nice clean parallel edges. You want square corners but you don't want burrs or knife edges. You need to remove the burrs, but you don't want to break the corners any more than that. It sounds easy. "File or grind the tips until you get the desired gap." But execution isn't as easy as the description. Plenty of info on the web to learn from. An admission from me... I've never done it. I have a ring grinder here (thanks @240260280), but after testing and measurement, I found that my ring gaps worked out fine without grinding. So I wasn't looking forward to doing it, and thankfully, I didn't have to.

I'm imagining the L25 means he put a 260 crank in his 240 motor and then had the block sleeved to run slightly undersized pistons he had custom made.

Had so much time off over the Xmas/new year break but due to Family commitments, new baby and spending two weeks in Western Australia’s beautiful southwest, progress on the car was non existent. I managed to strip my rear SU, so plan is now to buy a parts washer and clean everything in prep for replating and vapor blasting. Can’t believe how many individual parts make up a set of SUs! All parts very thoroughly catalogued and organized. Does anyone know the best place to source oem or equivalent fasteners for SUs? I have some screws with stripped heads etc I did receive my blemished zstory jdm muffler. Which is a very nice unit, and for 260$ aud including shipping I couldn’t resist. I don’t know what my plan is to minimize the blemish just yet. slight damage during shipping but nothing unfixable, may just need to have a machine shop shave the tip. im hoping I’m able to make some decent progress this year. Wish me luck Ryan

Happy new year everyone! May this year bring you much progress on your projects or many miles in your z. weatherstrip kit arrived along with rubber and grommet kit all from z car depot. I am 90% confident that the zcardepot kit is straight up the precision kit. All parts are corresponding to precision’s part numbers, arrived in a precision box, some parts did not come in precision branded packets but upon watching some of the precision installation videos on YouTube some of the packaging looks unbranded. Also came with a precision kit packing list. So unless z car depot goes through the trouble of restickering all their kit with precision part numbers. I’m pretty sure I have a precision kit. What I don’t get is the 200 USD price difference? Zcardepot 289 USD and from precision 468 USD! Rubber bumper and grommet kit was a bit of an impulse buy, but contains a lot of parts I assume I’ll need at some stage. My rationale in these purchases is that I will need door seals to start gapping panels and doors when I replace my outer rockers. Zcardepot had black Friday sales which meant the amount I saved covered the shipping I have to pay to get it to Perth. So I pulled the trigger.

I was the third owner, looking at this ad. I thought I purchased it from the first owner, but I purchased it our to New Mexico from Jim Campbell in the mid-70's from an ad in Auto Week. He had raced it and it had been in the run offs it was painted in the BRE Livery when I purchased it (the only picture of it in this livery is below). Les still has the car and is managing the upgrades. I will be picking it up in March if all goes as planned. As I the car is getting another start on life as a race car and there will be more information on this in the near future. PROJECT 29

I had an overcharging alternator in my 240 a few years back. The glass fuses under the radio would get too hot to touch. Maybe you could figure out which fuse associates with the heater fan and give a touch next time? Could be as simple as a new fuse.

This happened Monday night after the CFP win. Our future leaders. Thousands of Alabama Crimson Tide fans gathered together at the at Tuscaloosa's Strip to celebrate their team's 18th National Championship title on Monday night. Videos and photos captured several fans flooding the streets of Alabama less than a few hours after the Tide recorded a 52-4 victory over Ohio State at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The celebrations took place amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in the state of Alabama, which has reportedly seen a 30% increase in the last 14 days at an average of 4,272 cases per day.

That’s what I used too. Great combo and I’ve gotten used to the brightness now. Certainly helps others see us!! I haven’t switched back yet I agree with @heyitsrama on the tag lights being the older more yellow look, I plan to do that when I get it back out this spring.

Go Packers, eh?

I'm with CO. In the first vid, you can clear hear the rattle that I think you are describing. I can't imagine a scenario where that'd be detonation, especially at low rpm and no load. Since it's periodic, I'd suspect something running near engine rpm, but either faster or slower, so you're hearing a harmonic which syncs and "unsyncs" with engine rpm sounds (water pump, fan, alt). All of that said, the sound is peculiar in that it is particularly metallic, and is not suggestive of those components as they don't seem to have the "brass" to make those sounds. What a lot of help, right? Look beyond the motor!

Really hard to diagnose sounds like that over video. I would expect pinging at idle to coincide with the compression cycles, and the noise I hear is an intermittent buzzy kind of thing that is not at the same interval as the compressions. If I had to guess over the internets, I would look at your driven accessories first. Water pump, alternator... That sort of stuff. In any event, glad to hear you're doing better than you were. Those old needles really looked terrible and I'm glad the SM's have helped. So have you been out on the road yet? Idling is one thing... Engine under a real load is another. What oil are you running in the dampers?

Hey, just logging in for the first time in a long time. I did provide a picture of the car which was posted above the day I picked it up. It was in good shape and I had donated it to another "new" club member named Barry in Long Island. He was suppose to make it into a club track car but quickly dropped off the face of the planet and then listed the car on Craigslist months later. He never answered my calls or Craigslist emails as had let him know what he did was a huge dishonesty and didn't want him around our club. Hope you are able to track the car down by vin.

Green Bay, WI. Watching the Packers games. Lambeau Field. It's a party.