TomoHawk

I don't th9ink so. I don't think I could see out of that, and I didn't see the SA 2000 sticker on it.

It looks like you didn't read the product description through. IYou can now get pads that have thte liquid in it so you can apply it to area too big to submerge. So, in addition to $1 of soda, you need a power supply, electrode(s) and you don't even know if it will work right until you practice on smaller items first. You better make sure the can doesn't turn into an electrode and dissolve. Maybe try a plastic container? LOOK. READ.

What? I'm surprised nobody mentioned the H.A.N.S device. I was originally going to try this topic as a poll: "Which helmet do you use or have?" I thought I'd have a little fun with a "serious subject. "

YOu should look into the Evaporust product. You can now get it in some pads that you put onto the affected area and it takes the rust off. But since you are going to immerse the item, you could just bip it in evaporust and it would get the rust off that way. http://www.orisonmarketing.com/corrosion/evaporust/evapo-rust.html

Actually, I started this topic because my search didn't turn up any recommendarion or useful stuff regarding helmets & competition. Maybe somebody else would like to start somed topics on clothing, shoes, support gear ( stuff you keep in the car) or whatever else? I think Zguitar (#2) and SuperDave (#4) had the best comments. thx.

I learned to wear a seat belt in the 80's. My car had vinyl seats, and if you didn't have it on, you'd wind up sliding onto the floor. It's also the state law in Ohio, and should be that way everywhere.

Vicky- ZCar.com? Why? Do they have members even more shallow than we have?

right, but you'd have to be observing yourself from far enough away.

No need to add a heavy rool bar, or some restraints that make it tough to get out. But your point about not being able to hear is good- I thought of that myself. Put your radio in the same category as a helmet, in that respect. Beany- If you can go 90 on the parkway around here then it -IS- a BIG DEAL. With stop signs every 1/4 or 1/2 mile, I can go faster than cars on a bicycle.

OK, in a car then, but you didn't say that in your original question. People need to think more, talk less. Hence the saying, "Light travels faster than sound, so he looked smart until he opened his mouth."

I don't think so...I think you'd be going 186 MPH, only in the wrong direction. But according to your way of thinking, you'd only be going 514 MPH in the same direction as before (only slower) It depends on your relative point-of-viewing. You'd have to be watching yourself go from some other point, as in geosynchronous orbit. But at about 24,000 miles away, you'd need a telescope to see yourself. To be going backwards 514 MPH , you'd have watch yourself to going 700 + 514 = 1214 MPH in the opposite direction.

That chrome strip is called a 'drip guard' It's like a roof gutter and keeps the rain from going off the side onto the windows or into the door crack.

Airplane for me too. I've been to about 300 kts in a race plane myself once. I pulled back on the throttle when the needle went off the scale- didn't want to break it. My dad's Cessna 182 with the new engine cruises at about 150 kts (about 170 MPH), on 1/2 throttle. FYI, did you know r/c sailplanes can go over 250 mph? No engine needed there. but it does take a little time to get enough altitude.

What if you put a microphone under the hood and amplify the engine sound? Or make your own engine-sound synthesizer?

Since there's no a/c, I'll be going about 90 down the parkway, so I'll probably need a helmet for that.

If you wanted to do soime rallies, or some speed laps or whatever ( even highway safety?), what kind of helmet would you get? Open face? full face? Maybe it would be good if somebody could post some general rules for helmet requirements & use. thx

Well guys, I've spent a few hours getting my fuel rail off my L28, so now I need to decide if I want to wait on a new one or to just clean and/or plate the old one. I took a look at the old one, and I think I'd rather have a new onethat's shiny & simpler than the old speghetti-tube. I had to take some notes & pictures so I can remember how things were. Will- you got your setup going yet? I've got some cash. thx

You're lucky you don't have a 280Z with efi, and maybe some emmissions control stuff.

I think it would be good to suggest a category so that you could just go out there and hammer the gas pedal- instead of racing in the streets or speeding on the highways. IMO, Zs aren't really for cruising the streets, although I would do that ( after I fix the rear break squeal & a better-sounding exhaust). Mid-Ohio is about an hour away, and I think they have open-track day. You think I should get a helmet? Somrething in a "Paul newman?"

What category would you put a Zed into? Vintage?

About that 1,000,00 hours... I would like to know how the manufacturer figured that number in the first place. was it on continuously, or 50% of the time or what? It might change things considerably. But I will agree will Carl this once, that the things will last so long that the cars will be memories when l.e.d.s will need replacing. Assuming nothing extraordinary happens. And good luck to Will on his search to find the ultimate do-it-all l.e.d. substitute for small incandescent bulbs.

114 years? how did you come by that figure. For automotive lights, I'd say they might be used on average about 1 or 2 hours a day, unless you're a nightttime courier or something (like moonshine driver?). So that means about 1 million days until they burn out. How many years would that be? If I use the word never in relative to gauge bulb replacement, it means more like a really long time, and for the average car (they want you to buy a NEW one every 3-5 years), 30 years is a really llong time. thx

Those square l.e.d.s are supposed to hjave 1,000,000 hours of operation. If you opened up your gauges and put in a string of l.e.d.s, you'd never have to replace them. If they were oem from the Nissan factory in 1970, etc., we'd be changing them out just about now, I would say.

Will- When I suggested the 10x10mm leds, Iit was that they be used for guage lights. the flat smd units were ment to be used to illuminate an area, not to project light long distances. BTW. MCD is MEGA Candelas. I know you meant to type mCd for milliCandelas. Same for MlM, whatever those are. j/k