Now, how many people thought my SHO just blew it's engine :lol: ? Sorry to disappoint you all, check back in another 100k miles.

On the other hand, the Jet-Ski that we bought last summer is screwed. When we bought it, the engine would not turn over. After some WD-40 in the cylinders, the thing turned over and seemed to run just fine. Got it on the river at my uncles house, ran it for 10 minutes, the thing overheated. After an inspection, you could see water bubbling out from around the head cover bolts. Tightened them down, started up, ran 10 min, overheated. Decided the head gasket was blown, so I pulled the engine this past weekend and brought it home. When I tore the head cover off, this is what I found :x . The engine was rebuilt by the previous owner - have to love the helicoil repair :evil: . The bolts on the cover also only engaged the first 4 threads. The bottom head is completely screwed. Oh well, I wanted to put a new engine anyways.

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This looks like it could be pretty good as well. I don't think it'll beat Dust to Glory, Faster, or On Any Sunday but its got supermoto footage so I'm going to go see it

There's a Supermoto race on this weekend and I'd love to tape it.

yup, a 2-stroke blender. We sold a few long ago, still have one left. By far the coolest thing here. It's glorious. :bow: Anyone want it?

Is it a good or a bad thing when one member of your forum (which has over 100 people) has 13.42 % of all posts.

Its actually kind of depressing that I have so much free time here at work that I post on here more than mike during the day =-0

MM,

I got to drive at Watkins Glen, NY this past Monday and Tuesday. I thought I'd snip parts of writeups I did for some other lists that might interest this group:

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What an awesome event! I was fortunate to have a great instructor and that my car ran wonderfully (well, until the last session.)! We had outstanding weather with a brief hard rain Monday afternoon, but that quickly dried up and the track was green.

IÔÇÖd have to say that my favorite part of the track would be either Turn 5 (downhill Right after the Chicane) or Turn 7, otherwise known as ÔÇ£The toe of the bootÔÇØ because both were long, late + blind apex, and banked, so they were really challenging but also very rewarding when you hit it right.

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As for the car and the ÔÇ£Techy stuffÔÇØ this board likes to absorb:

Handling:

The handling felt really good!
My setup is:
Front: 300# Coilovers, Spax Sport Shocks, Stock Swaybar, 245/45/16 Fuzion ZRi Tires

Rear: Spax ÔÇ£SportÔÇØ springs and shocks, cossie rear swaybar, shock tower brace, 245/45/16 Fuzion Tires

Gutted rear interior up to the front seats

(Old setup:
Front: 300# coilovers, spax shocks, Stock Swaybar, 195/14ÔÇØ tires (Falkin Ziex)
Rear: Spax Springs and Shocks, Stock Swaybar, Rear Tower Brace, 195/14ÔÇØ tires
Full Interior)

ItÔÇÖs not a pure race setup but I thought it felt really nice and so did my instructor. No understeer when the line was hit correctly which was a problem I had prior with a different setup. I believe Cliff Walton wants to move to 500#ÔÇÖs in the front, up from #450ÔÇÖs. IÔÇÖll let him chime in here.

So basically the items that changed were loosing the rear interior, the tire widths and the rear swaybar.

My front tires are feathered though, so I need to look into what this means. Probably an alignment issue. IÔÇÖm very pleased with the Fuzion ZRiÔÇÖs. $88 for 245ÔÇÖs is a good deal and they grip plenty well enough for a beginner driver.

Engine:

The car made it through six 20 minute sessions and I was driving it VERY hard. I was hitting the readline (set at 7000rpm) frequently. Max Speed hit was 131ish on the back straight. On the 7th sessions, however, I think I blew a seal in the turbo and somehow I cracked my ÔÇ£RodÔÇÖs Header.ÔÇØ (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rodsheaders.com">www.rodsheaders.com</a><!-- w -->). So, I only missed one session and it allowed me to hit the road sooner. The crack occurred on a weld I had done to modify the header. The headers themselves held up wonderfully! The welding job on my mod needed to be better.

Header Coating:

Last event I didnÔÇÖt have the headers/turbo/downpipe coated (ÔÇ£Jet-hotÔÇØ type coating). This time I did, and I was thrilled with the result. The underhood temperatures were drastically reduced and the system cooled MUCH faster.

Cooling:

Another issue was cooling, the car got too hot so I need to get a better radiator in it. I think IÔÇÖm going to turn to Dave Godfrey for help on that, he seems to have it under control. Currently I have a SAAB 900 Rad with two Permacool 1500CFM fans. The fans work great, the radiator needs help.

Also the engine hit its 3000 miles-since-rebuild mark prior to this event so I changed the oil to Mobil 1 15w50. It smoked a little as it was warming up, but once it was hot and had been run it didnÔÇÖt smoke. Still working on what this means (and maybe it was the turbo slowly dying and not related to the oil type).

WhatÔÇÖs next?
So, future projects for the car, in order:
Fixing Turbo (and finding out why it happened)
Repairing Header once and for all
Compression check to see how everything held up
Getting a ÔÇ£FlapÔÇØ for the underside of the crossmember, mine has been gone for years and I hear it makes a huge difference.
Better Radiator, manual fan switch of some sort
Putting an inline oil cooler before the turbo
Chipping away sound deadening material from rear interior of car
Rollcage and Harnesses

This may seem kind of random, but at what age do you believe somebody is responsible enough to ride a motorcycle? I realize that this is very subjective, and depends very much on the person, but I figure there must be some number you guys would all be arround.

I ask because a friend of mine just bought a motorcyle. To be totally honest, I believe he's going to kill himself. He owns a 5th gen prelude right now. He's had his license suspended on and off for the last two years (hes 19). He probably has two or three reckless speeding tickets, along with a few accidents. He's an idiot on the road. Yet he went and bought a motorcycle (completely allowed by his parents, who he lives with when not at college). He's been riding it w/o a license, although he did just pass the class I heard.

This just seems rediculous to me. Like that story about the kid killing himself w/the viper (I forget if that was on here or H-T). Whats your guys opinions?

Tonight I added another part from a different model so I figured I'd list all the crap that you'll find on my pile that was intended for another model:

Engine/Tranny:
96 Integra LS Motor/Tranny
94-01 GSR Shift Linkage

Exterior:
Nothing really

Interior:
Integra Type R Shift Knob
Del Sol Seats
92-95 Civic Si/EX Cluster

Suspension/Wheels:
Rear trailing arms from a 97 Integra LS
Wheels from a 99-00 Civic Si

Brakes (this is where it is truly crazy):
Front calipers from a 94-01 Integra
Front discs are from an 89 Corrado G60
Rear discs/calipers are from a 97 Integra LS
E-brake cables are from a 94-01 2-door Integra (or 92-95 Civic Si)
Master cylinder is from a 91 Civic EX 4-door

All that remains from the factory?
Carpeting
Interior plastics
Dash
Brake booster
Front knuckles
Master cylinder reservoir
The shell
Hard brake lines

This is the dumbest thing I have seen on e-bay, and that is saying something.

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we need new contact info under "contact" on the navigation bar. Thayer's addy and what not.

also, we should put Lorena's GRM article (scanned picture, a document, whatever) under "articles" on the nav bar. i have a scanned copy if anyone would want to use that.