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You should have towed a little trailer full of vacuum tubes and told them the dash computer is in there

I had taken a few Kawasaki 600cc engines apart before. Those bike engines are definitely a work of art

If only we had a section for that

nice find.

what do you mean by surging? do you mean the pedal was pulsing under your foot?

yup, that's one beautiful car.

haven't had it on scales yet. She'll be at around 1800

On a positive note, my knees clear the steering wheel with no problems now

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Sweet. that hood cutout looks like alot of work

Where did he say that?

On the plus side, fixing that is much easier than fixing weight distribution.

I have not weighed my car yet, but took a detailed account of components that went into it. When it's all said and done, I think it'll be 1800 lbs. This thread (http://www.usa7s.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2621&highlight=1800) has a breakdown of component weights and distributions on my seven. Even with the oversized engine and tranny, I should still have a rear weight bias.

One of the less impressive autox instructors I had managed to almost put my car up on a curb by doing that at the end of an autox run. The same guy managed to make a run in my car starting out in 3rd, and changing to 4th during the run. His comment after the run was "engine sounded different this time" LOL.

Ford did all the hard work

first dibs...

Exactly. The technique shown on that site worked fine on my first car, which was a plymouth with about a one mile gap between the pedals. On every subsequent car, including my x subbie, my vette, the FSAE car at Maryland, and the Rotus, I "heel" and toe by placing the ball of my foot on the brake pedal, then using the outside of my foot to blip the gas pedal. You have to adjust your pedals so when you press the brake pedal to the point that it gets firm, it's even - or slightly raised - relative to the gas pedal, so that it's easy to blip the gas pedal. Does it make a difference, HELL YES. You can downshift without upsetting the balance of the car at all. On a car like mine that has alot of rotating mass in the engine, downshifting without heel and toe can really upset the balance of the car when under heavy braking

he actually did a nice job blending the back. Too bad the front still looks like a Honda

The kid's name is: Robert'); Drop table Students; -- This is commonly known as a SQL Injection attack. On poorly written systems, a first name like that can basically wipe out an entire table in a database. It's not so funny when explained.

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I may be going down the same path. Neither my wife nor I are into playing any instruments. Maybe this will get the kids some interest in it. I know my older son secretly wants to play, but hates the idea of taking classes.

LOL. Those days are gone . Seat is bolted in. I do still have to find one of the seat belt bolts though.