Tony D

Yes, I have received some nebulous response from E-Bay Safe Harbor about resetting identities and stolen accounts, so his story may have indeed been legit. I think they will suspend him till they complete an investigation, so maybe that bodes well for him. I don't see the logic behind targeting someone in such a fashion, though. Unless it was done to give a bidding advantage. As for hiding bidders, I don't like it at all. I have had people snipe my stuff and then call me enthusiastically about the 'deal' they got offering to sell it to me. When I inform them they sniped an auction I was bidding on...they get less enthusiastic! "Sorry man, you bought it for $150, I was bidding $79, so that's what I'll give YOU for it!" Even with names shown it really doesn't dissuade people who are clueless. And with the proliferation of sites like Auction Sniper where all the bidding happens in the last 15 seconds anyway...you really don't have time to see who you are bidding against, anyway. What it does do, however, is give me a damn good idea what kind of person is bidding, and what they usually limit their bids to---meaning if I saw "Bidder X" on an auction that I knew I wanted...I'd nuke the bid bigtime to make sure I got it. I mean I have bid 2X what I think I could have gotten it for otherwise...and then listened as people on a forum complained about 'the idiot that bought it for $400 and drove the price up for everyone!' I don't do it often, but there is some stuff you just can't get. These light covers are still selling in Japan for less than 1/2 what the bid ended up being. And I can get them for that. So if I can get 'em, there's no reason to be stupid about the bidding. Now, a 'one of six ever made' Mechanical FI setup... in restrospect $400 doesn't see that high a price to pay! (Shhhh! Keep my identity secret!)

Norm, I don't post all that much! Finally they are approved! Burnie Burnie Go the Tires on Norm's 240...lining up against his bud's 700HP Supercharged ZO6 Norm, with his oversized Bong...How he gets such 'High' Revs from that stroker!!! Norm, doing the Pre-race 'tune up' The best shot of Norm in the race against the ZO6 after the light turned green...if you catch my drift!

Apparently same here---this is the response I received: " Dear XXXXXXXXXXX, Hi, this is tutima. I did't do anything. In this mornig I checked my e-bay, then I saw every bid was canceled. Also, someone use my e-bay id, then try to mess around other persons auction too. I was reported E-bay. I was victim too. By the way thank you very much to bid my auction. Tutima07 - tutima07 " The plot thickens.

So you were Bidder 12? I was in there beyond several of Bidder 11's original Bids...but I wasn't in there! I wonder who Bidder 6 was... I did send a 'WTF' post to the seller but alas it was like 15 minutes before the auction ended. I'll go check and see if I got a response. That language in the response you got looks bad, just on it's face.

Not only did I 'mark' him, I sent in a shill bid complain to e-bay. I have never had this happen before, and this guy is only 30 miles from my house, I generally know the people selling this stuff. I noted that while I may not have won the bid at that price, I would have floated on top for 'quite a while'. I was cancelled at 10:50, and all the re-bidding happened after that. "Bidder 3" popped back on the scope just after noon...with a bunch of others. Like Bidder 3 was someone special that the seller could confirm was making a 'real bid' perhaps---or a 'real fishing expedition'---my bid would have been well along into 'Bidder 11' territory + Something fishy, something fishy indeed. I don't like not seeing the bidder names, nope----don't like it at all!

Oh, well I guess they 'sold' to 'Bidder 6' after 'Bidder 12' did some last second spiking of the price to $717.15. But not to be outdone 'Bidder 11' did some damage as well... This makes me upset to say the least. I got to mark that seller---something SHILL FISHY is going on there, methinks!

Not all the bidders cancelled their bids, THERE IS SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON! My bid was CANCELLED by someone, I retracted NOTHING! I see now in the final minutes it's 'going up in price again'----yeah, a likely story. I received a notice in my e-mail that said 'a bid has been changed, you are currently the high bidder' and then the next e-mail in sequence said 'your bid has been cancelled'! All without my interaction AT ALL! FISHY FISHY FISHY!

I hear you recently received another container chock-full of parts, as well as two more 240 Chassis...and an LPG BBQ!

"Nissan had their fill of racing in the 90's and it almost bankrupted the company. " With all due respect Ron, the worldwide racing budget wasn't the problem with Nissan almost going bankrupt in the 90's. As a matter of fact, it was probably the only portion of the company that had a positive P.R. effect on the company's sales. Mismanagement Incompetence at the highest levels of the corporation had a FAR bogger impact on their financials than any racing support program ever did.

This is a common problem with people who do this conversion, or if you use DOUBLE spacers (and 75mm threaded studs to compensate for the extra length of double spacers) for more mid range torque with the SU's. What the common fix for these situations entails is either finding the correct linkage for the setup you have, or to take the linkage that goes from the pedal to the first bellcrank---it has a threaded end on it. You can cut it to 'close enough' length, and then make final adjustment with the threaded ball end, and lock it down. What is dangerous on both these conversions is that you DO have the possibility of making up a linkage that is too short (what it sounds like you have)---with a longer shaft it may still be too short, and if the linkage goes over-center you will LOCK the carburettor throttle shafts at about 1/2 throttle---BAD NEWS! Make sure your linkage is LONG ENOUGH and CAN NOT be pushed over-center to lock the linkage open. This is why I suggest the threaded solution---you can get it just right, and keep all the slop out of the linkages by having two adjustable links in the system. I have been running the double-insulators on my car for close to 7 years now, and it works flawlessly! Oh yeah, and you do have to be careful with putting on the lockwashers and nuts...if you use jam nuts it's easier, but you can still do it with the standard nuts and lockwashers if you put it together a piece at a time, and start all the nuts together, and tighten them down evenly. You have to remove them the same way. Good Luck with the project.

Less than the alternator...

I have seen Dry Ice Blasting used on cleaning large electric motors and it seems to work well. you must be ventilated, and the machinery is not cheap! I have some photos of the hopper, it think it was made in Germany. The job was cleaning an 8,000 HP Allis Electric Motor in Timmins Ontario, Canada. Siemens was doing the cleaning job.

O.K., I loaded five files from the Night at Farmington, they were taken 10/26/2006, so Norm was correct in that he had laid off as of APRIL 2006, but by that Summer he was running again, and I met up with him while in the area to make passes with my Rental Sentra and him with his 240. There are five photos of 'Norm the 12 Second SU Dude' in the Galleries under Z Photos, Miscellaneous; I punched the button by accident and they uploaded before I gave detialed individual notes-but it's all moot anyway you can't see 'em till they're moderated. So till that time comes, can't post em in this thread. That was Norm, Circa October 2006!

Yeah, that is a bit off, he's running this year--I think I was with him when I went to Farmington near the beginning of the season, or last fall before everything shut down... I can't remember. He had laid off for a while, but he was hitting the drags regularly this year. Give me a second, and I'll see if I can get an album started and put the photos I took of Norm while I was there, when I pull up the photos on my computer, I can tell when I took them and make a definite statement as to when it was!

Wow, already at $200! I had a set of those in Japan on my 75 Fairlady Z-S. Have only one now, due to a slight accident. I could repair the ring, but need the Left Plastic Cover to reinstall them...just the damned cover!

"Putting Holes in a Pristine Set" is not really a concern, as they are OEM pieces. The nut plates differenitate these from the Aftermarket Junk, and if the buckets come with the covers it should be of no concern 'having holes in them'! Stainless replicas would make a practical alternative, but I would keep the OEM pieces at hand if you ever part it out. As good as aftermarket peices are for functionality, the OEM pieces will always command the premium prices IMO.

Then meeting him at Farmington NC Drag Strip last summer and running must have been my hallucination. Norm laid off for a while, but he was running it last summer, as well as this summer...at least until something breaks. I'll try to post some photos of him against a 700HP ZO6...

The most I've ever put on needles is Dykem to check that they are positively not rubbing on the jet. As stated above, they are a non-contact moving assembly, therefore no 'assembly lubrication' is required. Furthermore, they are both non-corroding materials (brass) so no 'preservative' should be required, other than a slight coating of storage oil like 3-in-1 or 10Wt ND before bagging and shipment. Any thick bodied substance has absoltuely no reason tobe anywhere near the inside of those assemblies. I have seen people grease the outer sliding portions of the Jet Assembly, though, and I don't think that is unacceptable at all. White Lubriplate 630AA or other Seal-Compatible Lubricant might keep choke-application wear to a minimium, and make actuation for startup really nice and smooth!

The first time I got the 'illegal headlights' ticket, the 'public servant' who was not the sharpest trainee in the lot said "sir, it's for your own protection, nobody will see you with green headlights" and all I can think of saying was "you sure as hell looked like Woodsy Owl as you passed by, I thought your head was going to unscrew the way you gawked at my running lights!" When I showed them the lights went out automatically upon illumination of the headlights his training officer said "Oh, COOL!"---but mr Trainee couldn't back down after his stupid statement, you know, loss of face and all. And right there, on my passenger seat was the current pulp copy of the CVC (California Vehicle Code) I could have soooo made him look like an idiot on the spot in front of his training officer! "Excuse me, the section of the CVC you're citing, could you explain this passage here where it says "can be any color when off"? You see when I turn the switch 'off' to 'park' the lights glow green, and when 'off' they are totally unilluminated...but when I turn the headlight switch 'on' the little green 20 watt lights don't come on at all, and even if they did, you couldn't distinguish it...sounds compliant to me. The second time around, the judge agreed, the first time, like I said...I wanted to extract my administrative pound of flesh to negate any sort of profit motive they had for the stop. Like sending a $1 check to a political canidate...it costs them $3 to process each payment, so the $2 net loss is a 'real help' to your policical adversaries! Yeah, I have absolutely too much time to devote to this kind of activity!

I'm with Chino on this one, I have double limo-tint on my work truck because I often have electrical test equipment in the back seat---and on trucks it's different than on cars! (CA) My wife's Frontier doesn't NEED tint on the side windows in back, because they are darned dark from the factory, can't see through them anyway. But I ALWAYS roll down my front windows when the cops come up. I've not been hit with tint ticket, but have had 'illegal headlights' from someone once. On that one, I scrawled a scribble across the 'name' line on the ticket, put a barely legible 'HBPD325' in I.D. number, and went to the courthouse with a bag of Nickles to pay my $10 fixit ticket court costs... I gave me great satisfaction to sit there watching them count the nickles... They had a machine for pennies, because I guess they get a lot of smarta$$es who think they will pay in pennies to tie them up. They just pour them in the machine and ZIP it's counted. But Nickles.... they didn't know how to set it up for nickles! Took them almost 20 minutes to count them while I hummed the "Alphabet Song"...And interspersed some 'Rock Around the Clock' intro lyrics...muahahahaha! Suck down three petty bureaucrats for about an hour of total man-time for processing the fee. Yeah, give me a ticket for 'illegal headlamps' and we'll see what happens next time... They did, I went to court, and the judge threw the ticket out because CA Vehicle Code says they can be any color when they are not 'on'. Not 'illuminated' but 'on'---meaning city lights are O.K. if the main beam is not 'on'... I gave the judge a photograph of a "new" mercedes showing the turn signal integrated in the same housing as the Main Beam and said "If my lights are illegal, your Honor, then aren't these illegal, as well?" He checked out my lenses, saw they were "DOT" legal, and said, "You're Right!" and dismissed the case. I wish I'd thought of it the FIRST Time and saved my $10 of Nickles! No I don't, the $10 was worth watching them count and keep loosing their places! Though, watching the dorks in Traffic Court with pathetic excuses for their tickets is entertaining as well. When I retire, I think I'll be one of those old people who watch what is happening in court. High entertainment, and no cable fees involved. Saves on the home A/C bill as well!