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Her business address is: 11700 E. Waterman #223 Hopefully she's not out of business for good, just temporarily. We've gotten quite spoiled by her service and ability to find some very hard to find items. It would be tough to go back to some of the other suppliers after Chloe.

1. Tech Support calls "YOU" for help. 2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL". 3. You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on. 4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other. 5. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out". 6. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. 7. You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face. 8. You have to get a 2d phone line just so you can call Pizza Hut. 9. You go into labor and you stop to type a special e-mail to let everyone know you're going to be away. 10. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it. 11. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete sentences. 12. You have met over 100 AOLers. 13. You begin to say "heh heh heh" instead of laughing. 14. When someone says "What did you say?" you reply "Scroll up!" 15. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep. 16. You turn down the lights & close the blinds so people won't know you're on-line again. 17. You know more about your AOL friends' daily routines than you do your own spouses. 18. You find yourself lying to others about your time on-line & when they complain that your phone was busy you claim it was off the hook. 19. You have an identity crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own. 20. You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth (online all night). 21. You change your screen names so much that you have to look at your own profile to see who you are. 22. Your kids are standing at your side saying, "Mommy, please come and cook" dinner and you would rather type another "LOL". 23. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time. 24. You won't work at a job that doesn't have a modem involved. 25. Your dog leaves you. 26. You have to ask what year it is. 27. You write a letter like this.. "dear tom, hiyas! how r u doin well I gotta go bbl!" 28. You name your pets after people you talk to. 29. You smile sideways... :-) 30. You sign on & immediately get 10 IMs from people who have you on their buddy list. 31. You look at an annoying person off-line & wish you had your ignore button handy. 32. You bring a bag lunch & a cooler to the computer. 33. Your significant other kisses your neck while you're chatting & you think "uh oh cyber sex perv". 34. You have withdrawals if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours. 35. You use AOL lingo in everyday life (if you still have one he he he). 36. You take a speed reading course to keep up with the scrolling. 37. Your buddy list has over 100 people on it. 38. Your worse comeback to a bully is "I'll slap ya w/a rubber chicken!" 39. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you have your first cup of coffee. 40. You have to inject no-doze into your butt to keep it awake. 41. You have your computer set so it goes directly into AOL's welcome screen. 42. You don't know where the time has gone. 43. You end sentences with 3 (or more) periods while writing letters by hand. 44. You get up at 2am to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer instead. 45. You don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo. 46. You enter a room & 23 people greet you w/((hugs)) or **kisses**. 47. You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme. 48. Your voicemail/answering machine message is "BRB, leave your s/n & I will TTYL". 49. You type faster than you think. 50. You got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL too & are now undergoing therapy in private rooms instead of at his office. 51. You want to be buried with your computer when it dies or vice versa. 52. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted. 53. You can actually read & follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your TV screen at the end of a movie. 54. People say, "If it weren't for your super reflexes in your eyes & fingers, you would have been classified as a vegetable!" 55. You dream in "text". 56. Being called a Newbie is a "MAJOR" insult. 57. There is absolutely no interesting chat in any room & you're really bored. 58. You don't want to leave in case you miss something. 59. You double click your TV remote. 60. You can now type over 70wpm. 61. You think about starting a 12-step recovery group for AOL junkies. 62. You are on the phone a minute & need to do something else & say "BRB" or "BBL". 63. You check your Email and forget you have real mail aka snail mail. 64. You go into withdrawals during dinner. 65. You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone in a room. 66. You stop speaking in full sentences. 67. You have gone into an unstaffed Tech Support room & ended up "giving" tech support to other AOLers. 68. You have to be pried from your computer by the "Jaws of Life". 69. You know what a "snert" is. 70. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to check your mail" & while there you "just wanted to see who was online".

That was a car that St. Stephen scrapped.... poor car, people just won't let it die in peace.

That one almost makes my parts car look cherry....

I just re-listed one of my OEM passengers side frame rails on Ebay. No, I don't have any LH rails... yet..... I have more than one I will be listing (no,I won't say how many I have) so don't get upset if you bid and lose this one. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7912265412

Well Craig, you got my vote. But I think with Kaelin asking for the keys you may need more than that....Valium maybe?

Put A/C in the garage so I can work on my car more often.... :lick: And that's what I've been doing. :bandit: I sent one of my cousins an e-mail and asked her to go by Chloe's shop next time she's in Wichita and see if she can find out something..... she only lives about 40 minutes or so away from Wichita.

Well, how about it Ed? Bad Dog? ZZTom? Anyone else I may be forgetting fairly close?

I've got some relatives that live close by.... maybe I can get them to do some checking....stopping by her shop would tell us a lot.

Without seeing them, I'd say it's possibly too much negative camber caused by worn out bushings or it could be damage done from a previous owners careless driving... Have the camber checked on both sides in the rear, and then you should have an idea where to start looking, whether or not it's on both sides or just one.

I've been trying to call her as well, no luck so far. :disappoin She left Feedback on 9 old auctions on 6/28, but oddly they all say they were posted at the same time?

Just wondering if we could get a short list of people who will be at the ZANY show in Syracuse, NY this coming weekend. I'll be there, along with Ken Lewis, Jeremiah (AxtellZ).... anyone else planning on coming?

I think you might be able to buy just the spacer from Modern Motorsports or JSK Innovations. MSA's price isn't too far off the market price when you figure it includes everything you need to do the swap including calipers. It's maybe 75-100 more than buying things seperately, but then, if you buy them seperately you run into a possibility they won't be compatible. Modern Motorsports offers a complete kit, and I think buy the time you include the calipers, it comes out pretty close.

I guess they could check for lateral run out on the output shafts to check the bearings. The R-200's are a PITA to set up because they use shims to adjust the preload on the pinion. I had an ex-Nissan tech do mine, and he said he'd rather work on an R-180 anyday. I'd just clean it out good, and take it to a shop with a dial indicator and ask if they can check for any lateral play in the pinion shaft or output shafts that could indicate worn bearings. Since you say the ring gear isn't worn or have any grooves from the pinion gear, I'd say it possible that everything is OK. Any wear in the bearings would show up as uneven wear or galling in the ring gear face.

Whoever made up that story doesn't know much about how the coolant flows through the intake/carb lines. The water control valve stops the flow of coolant at around 80 degrees or so, so once the engine warms up, there is no coolant flowing through the intake lines anyways. If the water control valve malfunctions, the hot coolant causes vapor lock. The coolant only flows through the intake/carbs long enough to promote quicker warm up after a cold start.

From what I've read about the Phantom Grip LSD's, they do work, not as good as a factory LSD, but not completely useless. They don't seem to last as well as they claim though. For 300 bucks, it might be OK for a street car, but if you were to autoX the car much, you'd probably end up replacing it sooner than you'd like. For some people, they'd rather spend half as much for one of these than to buy a good LSD in the first place. I was just reading a thread on one of the racing forums about them, and one guy who used it in his FWD race car said it worked fairly well for a while, but without warning it just quit. I guess if you wanted a "disposable" LSD, this is it.....

It's a common leaking point in the diff. As the diff wears(bearings, pinion and ring gear), the preload on the pinion bearing will change and allow movement in the pinion that will wear out the seal. Just pull the fill plug on the rear cover to check the level, and if the leak is that bad, I'd leave it slightly lower than the fill plug, perhaps just enough that you have to insert your finger in and bend the first joint of your finger to get to the fluid. If you fill it completely, it may leak even worse.

Sorry Victor, but IMO they aren't that nice compared to Panasports, especially considering the price of the SSR's......:cross-eye We all know how Pana's look on a Z, and they are a bit cheaper to boot. FWIW, with your car's color, I think a neutral color like silver, gunmetal, or somewhere in between is gonna look the best. Of course, if you don't spend a pile of money on wheels, you could always try powder coating the centers until you find the right shade or color to suit the car.

It all depends on what aspect ratio you are using when comparing overall diameters of 14 inch and 15 inch. I was speaking in general terms relating to stock 14 inch tires and wheels, but the same principle applies to all the wheel diameters as well. It would be pretty easy to go to a 15 inch wheel and end up with a shorter overall tire, depending on the aspect ratio of the tire and tire size availability.

Since you're an accomplished welder, you could also try this. Cut the bottom spring perch off and weld it back on the tube lower. One benefit of this would be the fact you could move all of them to the same exact measurement instead of cutting the coils and possibly not getting them all the exact same length. The springs you have are probably pretty similar to the Stage ll European springs that were in the Nismo Competition catalog, and they are rated at 122 front and 140 rear. And as far as your camber irrgularity side to side, you could just move the one pivot point out 1/2 inch to get them closer to being equal. Remember, if you lower it too much more, you'll either need the strut spacers, or move the pivot point up on the crossmember to get the roll center back in line where it should be.

Mark, the main reason I say that the smaller spread in ratio from the 3:54 to the 3:90 wouldn't be as noticeable is because you have to factor in the extra weight a 280 is carrying. In a lighter 240 the difference would be much more noticeable with a change of .36 in your diff than it will in a 280. Now, if you also change to a lower profile tire when you do the 3:90 swap, it will negate a lot of what I just said as the lower profile tires will help your overall ratio change. Going from a 70 series to a 60/55/50 series tire when you swap the diffs and you'll notice a huge improvement, especially if you go to a 50 series with an overall smaller diameter. The main reason I said a 4:11 might be better is for the weight difference of the 280 with all else being equal. That extra 500+ pounds makes a big difference. I raced against 240's with 3:90's when I had the 4:11 in the 280(motors were pretty close to the same output), and with the same sized tires they could still out accelerate me out of the corners because of the weight difference. Now, if I had had a 4:37 in the 280, I might have been pretty close.