:icon18: You guys are too much. I'll print this out and give it to Mini GaleForce once he's able to read. I'm sure he'll appreciate it. :tup:

imaging seeing this in the middle of the night coming out of the bathroom... :ugh2: i think i'd crap in my pants too. :icon17:

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:icon18: Your house is a revolving door for Amazon. :bowrofl:

:bowrofl: i guess you're right. we drops lots of money on amazon every year. so much we file interstate commerce sales tax every year. :tup: i buy almost 99% of my goodies online.

Geeze, picky picky... 7mph over... bad cop, no donut for you! :shakes head:

Thanks Kenchan! Doctor visit is for me though. :p

oh, GL to your doc visit too. :tup:

:icon18: A word of advice, use a hot water bottle to ease the cramps.

woah, speaking of water bottles, i just found a bottle of toray waterbottle. shall i drink it to get carbon fiberized? :yum:

I do my fair share of e-commerce too. I would easily do 99% as well if I lived in the US. As far as the Z goes, everything had been ordered from the US using the interwebz. Just today I received my carbon fang cover... Still looking for a bodyshop. :shakes head:

hope you find a good body shop soon. :tup: is the fang cover from thezstore? (does it have the little vertical lip where it meets the car's vents?) if it's the evo-r one you will need to paint a little bit of the silver as it peeks out. also the bottom portion will need to be cut by about 1.5" if you have the front sport diffuser installed.

Yes it's from theZstore. There are vertical lips around the fangs, is that the EVO-R one? I assumed it was EVO-R and reluctantly bought it because I thought they were the only one available. I will be modding it (cutting it up) to fit my mines lip. My sport lp is sitting in the corner of my garage now. I've been thinking about donating it.

the one with the vertical lip is not the evo-r one and that should be ready to install. :)

indeed with the mine's front lip i believe you will need to cut the cf fang and put resin to make them match up. i recommend even painting it black and then respray over at the very end with clearcoat. :)


hummm... so shall i get a second small camera to aim at the cluster for my in-car vids (picture in picture via imovie) or shall i leave it as-is and get myself a 35mm f/1.8 prime for my D3100? :D

Good to know I didn't gt the EVO-R fangs. :tup: thanks for the good advice on the installation. I'll need to source out some epoxy resin now... Do they still use epoxy resin for carbon fiber? That's what I used back in the day when I was fabricating with CF.

I would get 2 more GoPro cameras, one for the cluster, one in the cabin looking out, and one mounted low on the outside filming the front wheels, or filming behind you. Ok, maybe you need three more cameras. :bowrofl:

Oh, one thing I didn't mention: He let me go. So, even though Hess was kinda being an *** for pulling me over...he didn't ticket me. :)

Ordered my 20mm spacers.

i would check online which resins are recommended for CF. since it's black cf it shouldn't matter but dont want it to get cloudy or anything.

:facepalm: oh man... :bowrofl: hahahaha!!



mr.happy- :tup: on the 20mm. :tup:

:tup: :tup: for both things :happydance:

From what I understand, epoxy resins are less prone to clouding compared to polyester resins which are used in cheaper applications.

The epoxy resins I've used have held up without a hitch. I bought a few yards of twill weave CF and epoxy resin just to play around with. My first project was a replacement handle for our dryer when the cheap stock handle cracked. A problem I found was common on this particular Kenmore Elite after a little research. (I also found that most home appliance complaints came from women who repeatedly broke their equipment by forcibly opening the doors once they had locked closed, and then subsequently called for class-action lawsuits against the manufacturer.) :shakes head:

Clothes dry 20% faster now. :eek:

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Good night boys!

Hello guys and gals!!! :tiphat:

Finally have time to check-in. :tup:

Going to the airport at 7:45am so I have about 6 hours of sleep, :tup:

Been to a supplier's HQ today in here, Jacksonville, a very very modern and grand facility they have. Hope it could be a longer trip... but the good is I am going back tomorrow and I can Z again.... :tup: :tup:




I hope this clown won't harm you......
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your body mustn't look like that!!! :icon17: :icon17:


Mr.kenchan I'll go for the 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4 Click Here



Looks like it's lighter and more rigid now too... :tup: :tup: :bowrofl:

good night ma'am :hello:

I know that I'm way late on this; I'm trying to catch up on all of these threads, but rule of thumb:

1. Speed limit 25 or less, go 5 mph under. These are usually residential rodes with kids.
2. Speed limit 30, go no more than 5 miles over.
3. Speed limit 40 or 50, go no more than 10 mph over.
4. Speed limit 55, go no more than 13 over.
5. Speed limit 65, skies the limit! :tup:

Mostly agree with this, except for point 5. It varies, but it's never a good idea, really, to go more than 10 over the limit. I wouldn't stomp the pedal just because 65 is the limit. Heck, there are 70mph limits out there. I've seen plenty of people pulled over on those stretches.

And I've been quite a few places where the speed limit is 10 or 15. Much like 25-30, you do not want to exceed this. Usually those limits are at places like airports or schools (with high pedestrian traffic) or publicly accessible military bases. You never want to speed in these situations.

Good morning, folks! :hello: Taking the Z in tomorrow for its 15,000 mile checkup. I detailed her yesterday evening to get rid of the grime from the Boston trip. Now, she's looking :yum:. I still have to vacuum the interior, though.

Good to know the cop let you go.

I'll have to see if my carbon fiber supplier is still open. I haven't fabricated anything with carbon fiber/Kevlar for ~10 years. Sounds like the same stuff is used. Thanks guys :tup:

Good morning sir :hello:

A clean Z = :yum:

Hi guys. Wet Tues. Supposed to be nice tomorrow and Thurs. Wed. morning is time to get the ZL1. I'm going to get pics of both cars together. Just checking in guys. Have to get some sleep today cause I'm going to be up for a while getting the car. Keep safe guys. :tup:

Good morning guys. :hello:

lol! that's funny yah, definitely use epoxy but not sure if there are differences between them.

hey mr.alcheng! :hello: hope your trip back is (was) smooth! :tup:

thanks on the lens input. :tup: folks have told me 35mm would be better than 50mm for car since i can take shots without backing up via sneaker zoom. i can also get the slight distortion i like to emphasize roundness on some shots, and use for scenic shots as well. not sure.. i will need to think this over more.


you do realize the other speeds also includes kids in the car...


:tup: sounds great. GL with your project, mr.gale!


good morning everyone! :hello:

Speed limits and how they are assigned to various roads mystify me sometimes.
A verrry wide (could be a four lane road) street that is smooth and has great visibility is posted at 25mph. The next street over which is narrow, bumpy AND runs alongside the middle school, is posted at 35mph.
My neighbourhood, which is residential with lots of children present, has narrow streets that are barely two cars wide and necks down to the width of one car when people park in front of their houses, is posted at 25mph. I'd like to see it reduced to 15 or even 10mph.

I think some of the 65mph zones in PA carry a double fine and double points for speeding. I think NJ has the same.
I did a fair bit of driving in Ohio yesterday. I was going 10 over in the 70mph zones and was passing people like they were standing still. I have a feeling they are pretty strict there, too, now that I think about it.

Drove home from Pittsburgh this morning. Three and a half hours in a torrential downpour on the PA Turnpike. The RE-11's did great, but it's easy to see that the roadway wasn't designed to drain the amount of water that was falling from the sky this morning. I hit quite a few patches that resembled ponds and streams. That got a little dicey! :eek:

Good morning all.

My 2 cents on speed limit is around here you basically shouldn't go more than 5 MPH over the posted limit on any road except highway. Highway is 10 over Max. 7 over in a 55 MPH non interstate/highway road Can get you a ticket in Illinois....stupid I know.

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Finally getting it huh Fire!!! Congrats!!!

Hello Z friends :hello:

My take on speed limits is that I make up my own. I respect residential and school zones but highways or backroads all bets are off. Gimme a ticket, I dont care. I cant drive 55.

I'm just kidding about point 5. :icon17: In NY, it's common for folks to cruise at 80 on most interstate roads like I90. 75 mph is a minimum in the left lane. :driving: Some go higher for short stretches, but that's risky. 78 is usually safe. I've blown by troopers doing 82, and they didn't budge.

What I meant about kids is that there are kids running around and playing. I've personally seen 2 people get hit by cars in my life time on the block where I grew up. One was a 7 year old girl that I had warned several time that day to stay out of the street. I think that I was about 12 at the time. The other was a 16 year old teenager. Her brother was chasing her in the street and on the sidewalk, and then she darted back out into the street and collided with an oncoming car. She flew through the air like a baton. The car wasn't actually speeding. It's just that a car with its mass exerts a lot of energy (E = 1/2 mv2). She survived it and is okay today, but what an ordeal that was for her and her family. Therefore, on residential roads, I always creep, often less than the speed limit, especially when parked cars block my view.

7 over??? :eek: That was true in NY in the 1970's. I recall my mom talking about when she received a speeding ticket for going 62 in a 55.

i know wat you meant, it was a joke. :icon17: i have un-supervised screaming indian kids roaming around our community often. they run across the street like if it's their playground. :mad: where are their f-king parents??!!! :mad: HOA made several claims to their parens, but still, they are screwing around on the streets.

ive witnessed a lady get hit j-walking downtown about two decades ago. some guy in a mustang (of all cars) was going maybe 25mph through the busy intersection, he had the right of way... when she got hit, she flew up into the air maybe 4-5ft and ended up hitting the guy's windshield with her head. lady held her head as she rolled off the hood, but appeared to only suffer minor external injuries. the guy was also holding his head confused wtf just happened.

Uneventful drive into work today so I have nothing exciting to report on that end.

I did get to turn off a full three racks worth of servers, backup drives and other supporting equipment for an antiquated Heathcare system this morning! :eek: That's a rare occurance! The hospital in question has migrated off that system over six years ago!

Have a great day all! :hello:

this am 2 geeezers almost hit my G coming to work. one could have caused a serious if not fatal accident if i didn't make a very evasive manuver to avoid. i wouldn't have died, but the geezer's passenger could have.

i was like wtf, it's not geezer hour yet, stay home at least until 9am. :icon14:

If you're driving the z, no drive is uneventful :tup:

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