Pilgrim

Bonamassa is a real talent, and he CAN play wonderfully. I saw him at Red Rocks this summer and both I and my friends attending were let down by his performance. When he plays, it's all about him. Endless guitar wanking, going on in his solos much too long, and too much emphasis on his own originals which designed to let him go on and on. When he steps out of his "look at me, I'm the star" mode long enough to try a traditional blues tune or let someone else in the band really take some solo time, he's really good. Otherwise, he wore out his schtick in about 45 minutes. I love good guitar, especially living and dead musicans like Danny Gatton, "Richard" Dale, Santana, Popa Chubby and many others. I love Bonammassa's technique, just not the way he uses it when he performs. (Got a chuckle from the website automatically turning Dale's first name into D***. Therefore, I used Richard.)

I've had deep wells, both metric and SAE, in my tool box for 50 years. Most are 3/8" drive, but I also have full sets of 1/2" drive deep well impact sockets. And as noted above, sometimes 1/4" drive deep wells come in handy for small diameter bolts or tight clearance areas.

My thought was stuck rings.

It's plastic rather than rubber, but machts nichts. As a temporary fix, you can tape a quarter over the hole until you get a replacement plug.

That's pretty incredible compression. Wow!

Yes, it's not so much "I must have X# PSI", it's the difference between the high and low cylinders. 125 PSI is 86% of 145 PSI. You're good according to the manual, although since the alternative is rather extensive work, I wouldn't mind if pressure was less than 80% of the high cylinder. I usually do a wet & dry test to have some idea whether any lower pressures are due to rings, or to valves.

Excellent videos on the sync rings and the gear oils. Interesting premise about flow rate in the gear oils. I think that when I do my 280ZX Turbo transmission, I'll still use GL-5 as the manual recommends.

E Pluribus ACK!

Are you going to ask the same questions on every Z-car forum that exists? Slow down, do your homework and read the references provided. And if you use the lift points provided by the manufacturer (as shown in the photo earlier in the thread) it's reasonable to presume they will work correctly.

That's how it always works. When the first generation of Z-cars got a bit old and worn, kids got ahold of them and turned them into rusty, noisy hooptys. That happens to all cars that have any performance vibe about them. But many survived without that level of violation, and they're the ones we have today. I learned at ZCON that my '83 280ZXT is one of the cleanest and most original of its generation. That feels pretty nice!

Interesting. Eliminate the population and the disease disappears! Brilliant! Slightly hard on the population, but there you are.

Which is exactly why teachers should be under a vaccination mandate.

I suspect the answer to that will be available shortly after the vehicle goes into full production. I'm not sure what "never made it on the track" means, as there are plenty of them in competitive racing.

Agreed! Hindsight is always more accurate, innit?

The Z reveal at the ZCON track event:

Nice to see these photos. I posted a video of the Z reveal, but there's evidently not much attention to it. I have the brown/gold 280ZXT which was one row over from your car at the show. It was next to the red/black museum piece 280ZX.

I was at the ZCON event and shot video of the North American reveal of the new Z. The audio is weak, but here it is...

I should get a look at it later this week at ZCON in Colorado Springs.

I have clear memories of a '66 LeMans with a 389 and a fried clutch. When I started it in gear, the clutch held and it would go, and I could shift without using the clutch. Had to be crafty at stoplights, though.

I bought a 1977 Chevy Monza Spyder with the 305 V8. It was the first car I ran into which required the clutch pedal to be depressed to engage the starter. Probably the first week I owned it, I pulled the switch out of place from the clutch pedal assembly and wired it closed so that the starter could be used any time. When I'm working on a car, I really don't want to have to climb into it to use the starter. I and my family owned that car for 30 years, and not once did defeating that safety device result in damage or problems for anyone.

I'm surprised how much that reminds me of a BMW 2002 in the photos. Nice work!

Saturday the Colorado Z Car Club (Denver area) had an autocross at a Sheriff's training center where there is a nice asphalt area...they even provided the cones for us! I hadn't driven an autocross in about 22 years. My 280ZX has fairly new all-season tires, as they were about the only thing I could find in the original size, but what the heck. I aired them up to 39 PSI all around and had at it. There weren't many cars there - about a dozen - so we all got in plenty of runs. I had about 8 runs. It was a tight course, and I ran the whole thing in first gear, but that wasn't all bad because it kept the turbo spooled up so I had good acceleration power. Also good, my times dropped steadily. I started off at 58:xx, then ran 57:xx. then 56:xx, then 54:xx, and my last couple of runs were 52:xx. I managed to take off six seconds and didn't catch a single cone. The fastest time was set by a gent in a track-prepared 350Z at about 44 seconds. It also gave me a chance to make sure the new helmet I bought for the autocross at the national Z Car Convention in Colorado Springs fit well. I'm happy with it. That was a great way to spend a Saturday AM, and the sun cooperated by hiding behind cloud cover until about noon.

I have a big problem with the way the word "facts" is being used. A fact should be a true statement. There are no "alternative facts" or "untrue facts", there are simply facts. Those statements should be observably true in order to qualify as facts. Statements, assertions or opinions which cannot be backed up by evidence are not facts. They are assertions or opinions without proof. We know some things are facts. One of them is that in localities where vaccination rates are higher, the number of people catching the Covid virus is lower. We might debate why that is a fact, but it is not debatable because it has been observed and confirmed.

My wife and I have decided that international travel is out until at least next year; vaccination rates outside the US are quite problematic. Of course, there are plenty of interesting and beautiful places to explore inside the US.