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Recklessly driving around eating their pets. In Ohio, a new anti-hooning bill was signed into law in July 2024. The law increases penalties for hooning from a traffic ticket to a felony, and allows law enforcement to ticket spectators. Drivers who flee from law enforcement can be charged with a third-degree felony, which could result in jail time.

Has anyone else seen that their air filter housing does not seat fully against the seal even with an OEM air filter installed? I painstakingly refurbished the air cleaner housing. I re-used the rubber seals inside. The only replacement seal is the one that goes all the way around the periphery that is not making contact with the cover in the photos above. That seal came from Banzai. There is a gap of about 1/8" there - the outside periphery of the air cleaner cover is not touching the seal. The seals on the inside of the air filter back plate and cover are bottoming out on each side of the air filter. Is the factory air filter a bit thicker than the original?

Nice work. Can you post a link to the PWM?

I finished my LED pulse width modulator (dimmer) today. It’s pretty easy if you want to try it. Using a brass rod made it tough to work with hand files so I resorted to a bench grinder for some of it, but all you need to do is measure the length you want, grind the end into a tab to slide into the slot on the PWM control rod, and drill through them sideways so you can press in a retaining pin. It won’t stay otherwise. Sorry I forgot to photograph that part. I fabbed up a bracket out of a strip of steel with some holes and bends in the right places and it fits exactly like the OEM rheostat.

Jay Leno continues to display his lack of knowledge about the S30-series Z and Japanese cars in general. Another airing for the Katayama/Fairlady naming story thrown in for good measure. Utter nonsense. And apparently an RB26DETT engine has a capacity of three litres. Tricky stuff this Metric business.

Some things just cannot be explained. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1976-chevrolet-c20-pickup-5/

This will all reverse in time. All the boomer classics will start to fall in value, much like the 50s cars have. Sure some cars appeal to multiple generations (I think S30z more so than others), I'm partial to a split screen corvette, the old Corvairs, the Chevy Nomad wagons, and some other muscle car era stuff (XA/XB Falcon Coupes - AU market), but I'm an early Gen Y kid (born 82) and a lot of my generation and later born kids ar into the late 80s / 90s stuff. That seems to be where the growth in values will come from next. IMHO of course. Jay Leno garage featured 3 Japanese classics and asked which had appreciated the most in the last few years. I was somewhat surprised by the growth, but it's highly subjective and doesn't factor in rare models (I guess) probably based on Hagerty data which is very US centric and not globally aware of certain makes / models.. https://youtube.com/watch?v=znzi-nxV0bA&si=AVbQgNZeo5XV6HJE

I am pausing on the seat bottoms for now. I need to think about how to make them look right. It is going to require something other than just hog rings to secure wire in the flap to the wire under the Pirelli straps. More distance will be required to keep the material from being yanked down too far. In the meantime, I got the small parts back from the chrome plater. They came out nicely. These cost about $250 to have redone. Before removing the horn tone adjustment screws, I took some reference pictures: Today, I put the re-plated parts back in the horns: I attempt to put the adjustment screws back in their original positions. Now I just need to make some gaskets out of paper so I can finish assembling them and then test them out! I also was able to remove the rest of the exhaust valve spring retainers early this past week and get them shipped off to the guy that did the head for me. He turned the retainers in a lathe to shorten the "hats" and will get them coming back to me on Monday.

Recently i found that a seller in Japan was selling three of the Sports option / Competition / NISMO heat shields for the Mikuni triple carbs. which is there to prevent heat from the exhaust manifold going to the carbs / intake. The price was super fair and they seemed to be without corrosion, so i bought two of them just to be on the safe side: The thing with blind online-buy's is you never really know what you get. In this case they looked good. the silver one had been welded previously, but nothing that can't be cleaned. The strange thing was however as soon as i touched it, i had silver paint on my fingers. It seems it was just a rattle-can fix done previously. Nevertheless, they're still both in very usable shape and nothing a bit of cleaning and plating / painting can't fix. I currently have a set of triple Mikuni 40PHH's in stock for th eproject, but i have also a set of 44's in Japan waiting to be shipped with some other parts. so even though it all needs some work, at least i have a complete set now in very restorable condition and that all for a really fair price despite what things are going for today. Here's an exceprt from the japanese sports option catalogue showing the heat shield and the two part numbrs. Not sure what the cover is though. prably just some kind of insulating pad that went on the shield? after looking closer to mine, it seems like they have a cracked additional pad layer on it. Will need to figure this out in detail.

Mart I believe we are coming to a point now, that restoring cars from the 60/70's becomes so expensive, its easier to buy a restored one almost. Currently we are doing the 67 chevelle ss , 2 worn outs seats 1000 usd, 1 door panel 600, prices are going crazy, to when these cars where just 35-40 years old... I also start to see a trend where 60\70s classics are not for the " common man " anymore....