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Yes Bill, I said they are for racing Z's. The measurements are part of the design, so no I won't give them out. Bigger than a pack of smokes, smaller than a coffee thermos. Prize of second incorrectwild guess? Still Nada!

Bill, first incorrect answer prize is? Nada.

Attached are two pictures of portion of my new design for racing Z's. Describe what it is, and ALL that it does, and you will receive a set free for beta testing when I get into production. Note the design is copyrighted and may not be reproduced without liscense. Photos of completed and installed device will follow in two weeks, contest ends then if no correct answer.

Master, The tie rod is the rod from the inner ball joint at end of steering rack to the steering arm (knuckle) bolted to bottom of strut and also the piece that pin of lower ball joint attaches to. The tie-rod and steering arm are two different pieces. The front lower control arm attaches at front cross member and the lower ball joint sits on top of it. The tension and compression rod (TC rod) also attaches to the lower control arm. When the TC rod and lower control arm are considered together as a unit they could be called an A-arm (A shaped, short bar of A being representation of frame of car from front X-member to TC mount pocket)

Minor point, but might help when communicating with others. The term CG (center of garavity) has been used often in this thread incorrectly. The term it has been substituted for is "ride height" and or "roll center" Yes, if you reduce the ride height you will lower the CG, but you can lower the CG without lowering the whole car (just reposition weight lower in the car). Ride height is fundementaly tied to the suspension geomety , the center of gavity is totally independent of the suspension geometry. The roll centers (one center for each end of the car) is related to how all the angles, distances, etc of the geometry produce an axis of roll from front to rear. Just helping to clean up the terms for everyone.

A rubber mallet in a drawer of knifes.

Ayad Allawi is in one tough spot. My prayers are with him, and his country. Does anyone know if there is a religious doctrine in Islam regarding ones conduct in such a situation? In Christian America the states interest seems to superceed any religious obligations to save anothers life.

Instigator, could we get back to the thread as it was progressing, a couple of pages of your idenity crusade is enough don't you think. Give us some meat and potatoes, add your two cents to our admittadly off topic discussion. A well thought out opinion (verses a scatter gun collection of "true-isms" would go along way to building others opinions of you to match your own. Now lets hear something worthwhile.

Remember at the beginning of this war. The first night the president ordered bombers to strike a building that Saddam was supposed to be in (supposedly their timing was slightly off--late). Why couldn't he have done that time and time again until sucessful? Why was an army and occupation necessary? He obviously thought it was the knock out punch the first night, why not the second, third, every night after? If the aim (now) was to remove Saddam, why was an army necessary. The Isralies would have dropped a team of special forces, attacked any suspected target and airlifted them out. I just don't understand our commander in chiefs thinking here.

Drunkenmaster, I hope you have opened some eyes. Euphemisms of war: "neutralized", "collateral damage","surgical strike", the list goes on. It usually means 4 innocents killed for every combatant. In our rush to deliver freedom to Iraq, have we lost sight of who is really bearing the cost? Are we rasing a new generation of Bin Laden's with the orphans of our war? Questions friends, not statements.

But only until Californians evolve into logical beings. Don't take offence Carl, your really not programmed to understand yet.

Steve, remember that no good deed goes un-punished. Your on your own here, see ya.

bpilati, Imron is good stuff, so is same thing from different company (Deltron), your right to wear respirator because the two parts form a urethane plastic, don't want to inhale drolets and have them form plastic in your lungs, very tough-used on airplanes and race cars, doesn't chip (as much), door dings with or without chips still suck.

Steve, I read the artical. Think he is pretty close, but not completely correct. You may think I'm a one ticket voter. Not true, I'm an independent voter. The kind both parties try to influence. My take on Clinton (voted for 1/2 the times) is he did a very good job, but was as shady as they come. Glad two terms are the max. GWB (never voted for him, but did for his daddy), I like him as a personality, but his policies are hurtful to the country. Also glad two terms are the max (though there is a good argument for single term limit here). I've always felt that absolute power corrupts absolutly, and so have always tried to make sure that one party does not control everything. My wife is fom Mexico and has told me about politics in MX under the PRI party for about 80 years. Not something we would want here. The republicans again control the presidency, the senate, the house, and the court (which will be re-stocked with fresh meat by this prez. Scary!). GWB wants to "reach out" to all americans. Why, the opposition is not capabile of doing anything except blocking changes to the constitution. The 49% of americans are at the total mercy of the 51%. The "Great Uniter" has his work cut out, but as I see whats on his agenda for this term (all with snappy misleading names) I don't see his reaching out as being any more then his first term.

Steve, what you said was that ALL media was to the left. I said that THE media (meaning the average of all media) started to the right (from the left) at about the time of RR. Their are still liberal media out there (remember the bru-ha-ha recently when Al Franken tried to start the only left style radio show that the right has used for decades), but on the AVERAGE the media is right of center.

After looking at all I'd say your right. Also hate to say that GW's mom is a babe compared to all of them.

Sorry, to hear Michael Moore was at convention. I work nights so didn't get to watch (relied on the media to write about the events). Who didn't the media tell me about at the other convention? Martha Stewart? The board of Haliburton? Rush Limbough?

Steve, not what I said. Did you say all T.V. and newspapers are liberal only and have been since the printing press was invented? That was a joke right?

Steve, the only information Cher is qualified to give is how to keep your face lift from splitting wide open. Some peoples "help" isn't even appreciated by the choir"! Michael Moore is a zealot who as I recall didn't run anybodies campaign, in fact I don't recall him ever being at any campaign event (except his own. It's America and I guess thats his right). Now if we could just keep loonie movie stars off the stage at national conventions (we do recall Charelton Heston, don't we) swearing that "they (DEM's?) will have to pry my dead fingers off my gun", then that would be progress.

Inf, thats the only benefit of age.

The Shaw of Iran was installed in power by our goverment to stabilize Persia. Anybody know how that experiment ended?(America held hostage day 365 with Ted Koppel after your local news) Then we supplied weapons to Iraq (the axis of evil Saddam) to control Iran. Didn't cost much cause the CIA dealt smack to pay for them (Iran-Conta) Russia (cold war enemy, currently our friend) wanted to control Afganistan. We supplied Afgan "freedom" fighters lead by Bin Ladin. Bin Ladin attacks the United States. We invade Afganistan to kill him (but miss, there-by guarenteeing GWB second term to finish business). Still not sure why we invade Iraq (2nd time), but maybe so son can tell dad that I can do better than you. Supposedly we wanted to stop Saddams "desire" (best fall back position so far) for weapons of mass destruction (don't other countries know that only WE get to have them?). At the same time that Iran is ACTUALLY making them. I feel so much safer now that George is winning the war on terror (say, how did the war on drugs end?????? Did the market dry up when GWB stopped using?) Study some history and you will learn that chaos therory (Jurrasic Park) is a fact.

Greyghost, I remember when the media was leftist (I'm old enough). Now that the country has turned the other way (starting about the time of R.R.) the media is firmly in the far right camp. The newspapers and radio stations are all owned by a few, which require the assistence of the powers that be to skirt anti-trust rulings. They know wich side butter their bread. The rest of the media is controlled by the Christian colelition which also knows how to by-pass the seperation of church and state by delivering the votes. Sorry buddy, but your premise died a long time ago. By the way, rock stars and movie stars are not the media. Their every move is covered BY THE MEDIA, if that is what People Magazine/Rollin Stone is. Steve, you will notice in my posts that I have not slammed the honorable G.W.Bush, only the policies of the majority controlled country we live in.