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"Straight-line acceleration is probably the first aspect of automotive performance that any intelligent driver gets bored with." Peter Gregg
- Any day your Z is running strong is a good day
- Better is the enemy of good
- Be ready to drop $1000 at any time on your Z
- The more work you can do yourself, the happier you will be
- Buy a factory service manual, if you can find one
- Driving three hours one-way to a good Z mechanic is worth it
- Don't try to strip your Z down, lose weight instead
- A ten pound loss roughly gains one horsepower
- A temporal association does not prove cause and effect
- The best year Z made is the best shape Z you can find
- All Z's are haunted by gremlins
- When in doubt, use Search on TT.net
- You are driving a 10+ year old high-performance car, things will break
- Old timing belts have looked brand new, except for the spot where they were broken in two
- The car does not make the man, the man owns the car
- Do not unecessarily increase the number of moving parts
- Reduce the number of moving parts whenever feasible
- Oil additives are temporary solutions at best
- Don't take your Z too seriously, it's just a car.
- Don't underestimate the pure pleasure of bone stock
- Wave at your fellow Z drivers (240-350 and Inifiniti G35)
- Don't get your undies in a bunch if a Z driver doesn't wave back
- The most important part of a house is the garage
- Keeping track of the cost of your mods is pointless
- You say knock, I say tick - a sound is worth a thousand words
- All ticks and knocks deserve a pull of the timing belt cover
- Boost jet size = spark plug gap (don't ask me why)
- A 50 HP gain deserves a .004" decrease in spark plug gap
- If your car hesitates or stumbles, first try different gas
- Fuel injector cc size roughly equals the engine HP the injectors can support
- Tires and exhaust were not meant to be pretty
- Buy a Dremel tool
- A clean engine is nice, a good running engine is better
- Toluene is good
- When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses before zebras
- These three things will make your turbos last forever:
| Change oil at least every 3000 miles, preferably with synthetic. | | After a cold start, don't boost until your oil pressure drops to normal. | | Don't boost during the last five minutes of a drive. If you must boost near the end of a drive, let the car idle for a few minutes before shutting off the engine. Or you can buy a turbo timer, but I hate those things :c) |
- Pulling the engine is easier than changing the spark plugs (not really)
- Investigate, don't ignore, any new sound coming from your Z
- Flow through a pipe is inversely related to the FOURTH power of the radius
- Physics rules all
- Knowing what you don't know is harder than knowing what you do know
- See one, do one, teach one
- Those who can, do, those who cannot, teach
- If you won't try then I must scry
- Caveat emptor, especially when buying on the Internet
- The problem with opinions on style is that not all style is opinion
- Resistance of a right angle bend in an exhaust pipe = 15 feet of straight pipe
- The left O2 sensor is 1/2 the price of the right, but the left fits both sides
- Don't swerve to miss any animal smaller than a miniature horse
- Around here, drivers side is left, passenger is right
- Get back to me when you know the difference between an A/F and A/R ratio
- Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler
- Not everything that can be counted counts
- Not everything that counts can be counted
The last three lines are quotes from Albert Einstein
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