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2 rear 255/35/R18 Pirelli's and 1 front 225/40/r18 7/32nds tread left. All run flats Purchased mid 2018 from the National Tire on tuttle. I had an incident with a pothole in Akron and that is why there are only 3 tires and not 4. pm make me an offer. Will consider trades for motorcycle tires in vintage sizes.

just as an addition, I wouldn't touch an R107 without the euro bumpers and headlights. That is the desirable setup and people spend for that specific look. There are enough euro imports and the parts are reproduced so there are enough of them out there that you can be choosy. I have to be honest, the R107 doesn't have the looks of the 190's or the Pagoda's, nor do they have the legendary reliable of an old diesel mercedes. they also made them for 18 years and they aren't rare in the slightest. I feel like the R129 will end up being more iconc and collectible before the R107 really increases in significant value.

The important thing is everyone is alright. Sorry this happened to you. As I said on facebook, I don't know how I can help other than to offer you guys a hot meal at our table anytime you need it.

interesting, did old school sbc's oil the rods first? or am I remembering something incorrectly. As far as debris, he hasn't taken it apart yet, but it sounds like he windowed the block. a mutual friend of ours was following him and says he saw flames out the bottom of the car and then oil smoke. I am hoping for his sake all the debirs decided to go out the bottom rather than up and he didn't bend any valves. Scoggin dickey and summit both offer new "replacement" LS1 short blocks but in reading the fine print they look like L33 5.3 aluminum blocks that are machined to LS1 spec. I don't think he's being too semantic about it being a specific ls1 block vs a ls1 spec short block as long as everything bolts up as it was before....however if the top end is trashed as you mentioned, perhaps a whole ls3 dropout from a wreck is the better option. was just reading about the reluctor wheel and the ls7 cranks for earlier blocks. interesting stuff.

with the LS1, assuming the heads, valves, cam, etc is still good, he'd just pony up for a new crate short block and swap over his parts. improved racing has a lot of cool stuff. I think with the ls3, he's looking at a Gen IV vs the gen III he has now, and that seemed appealing but I don't know how appealing to his budget it would be.

Ok LS experts, chime in. I have a good friend with an LS1 powered e36 bmw m3 road race car. This was a built car he bought a couple of years ago to do HPDE, Auto-x, and time attack with. Over the weekend at an event at pacific raceways he oil starved the engine. the current combination was dyno'ed at approx 420hp at the wheels, he's looking to keep that power level, maybe increase it slightly. The base block was a 5.7 out of an early 2000's camaro. here are the two things he's contemplating: - finding another 5.7 short block, sticking it in the car to get it back to operational with the stuff he has, and then building a better motor down the road - buying an LS3 or an LS7 now and putting it in the car and losing no ground but having a better platform to continue modifying. here are the questions: - which is the better path? - what can he do to avoid oil starvation during an event? He was just overfilling the oil pan and it was working but he wasn't watching his oil level at this event and it cost him. - is there a better suggestion for what to put in the car? (LT4? LSX? LSA?). It's a great chassis with current certs, already setup for an LS v8. discuss.

hey all, I recently acquired an aircooled VW powered vehicle (project post coming soon). Who are the local VW resources in town? Shops? Parts houses? clubs? who are the aircooled-v-dub guru's here in town?

+1 on this, I shipped a whole motorcycle frame this way from philly to here. Was right around $100.

Is any part of the FI using radio or other transmission frequency to operate? Maybe Bluetooth or wifi to connect to the controller? The primary purpose of resistor plugs, caps, et al is to reduce radio interference from the ignition system. Anybody who has ridden in a 50's Chevy missing it's radio shield can tell you about hearing the engine through the radio. You can get resistor caps too but I think those are just shielded rather than having an actual higher resistance. The only other thing I can think of is that it wants a specific resistor plug to track misfires. If that is the csn you can just add a resistor inline to the plug wire and while it won't tell you if your candle is out, it will read normally.

is it factory power steering? I've never had a cj5, only 7's and YJs (and XJs and SJs), although considering how much on the later ones comes out of the AMC parts bin it wouldn't surprise me if it was an option. I had a buddy with a manual steering cj5 and he put in PS when he swapped to a 304 amc engine.

Is that an actual pic of it? If so it's nicer than I thought it would be. Usually when a jeep guy describes rust you can put a hand through an exterior body panel. I don't think the cj5 was a power steering jeep, so the big wheel is a must. As for sliding in sideways, yep that's just how you get in and out of old jeeps. There are things you can do to make more room if you need it. With the cj7 you can use YJ sliders and seat platforms but I don't know if you can with cj5s.

Just finished hot rod power tour. Got back to NY this AM now have to drive back to Cbus this afternoon

I've never seen a stock cj5 outside a car show, why? Because bone stock they are terrible as a car ( great farm implements though). Honestly, as a put put that you have to garage to keep from melting back into the Ohio soil from whence it came, it's probably worth $1500 to you. To a jeep nerd? If it's as nice as you say, $3k tops but finding a jeep nerd who wants a stock cj5 is like finding a 17 year old virgin in New Jersey - very difficult and when you do you don't want to be around them. Most "jeep" people will just cut it up because it's not a cj7, and there is little value in a CJ jeep that isn't a flat fender, isn't a cj7 or 8, and can barely hold 55mph. If I were you clay, see if he'd take between $1500-2000 for it and then take it to trail quest and have the floors patched with restoration panels. Then put it on replica military truck tires and drive it to cars and coffee with a for sale sign on it every weekend till it sells for $4k

Spoiler Alert: Ken Miles dies. movie looks fun.

Cadillac certainly was "The Brand" in those times, but I don't know that the cars were all that great. Lincoln and Imperial were way more innovative, even MB had way more tech in their cars as well, but Cadillac coasted by mostly on styling and name. Compare a 1962 cadillac to a 1962 lincoln suicide door vert and you'll always come away thinking the lincoln is the better car. Compare any 60's one to any 60's imperial and you'll wonder why the imperials aren't more well known for how great and weird they are. I think the 2004 to 2014 CTS-V cars were probably the best Cadillacs that Cadillac ever made, and proved they could compete in a european dominated luxury market, something Lincoln and Chrysler failed at many times.

Come on cadillac, get your shit together. The 2004 to 2014 should not be known as the Cadillac heyday, you made great cars during that time, and you have the potential to make great cars again if you can just get out of your own way.

IIRC the extra cubes come from the increase in stroke (83mm vs 92mm for the 5.3). From what I have seen and discussed with people who run turbo LS motors, the short stroke is preferred because the crank is stronger (more journal overlap) and the rod ratio (short stroke long rod - 1.92 very close to the origina DZ302 in the '69 z/28) is better: less rod angle, less side loading of the piston, etc... I believe if you have the right cam, a valvetrain that can hold it, and heavy duty studs you can run the 4.8 all the way out to 7500 rpm. that's pretty good if you are planning to road race the car where you will spend most of your time at the upper RPM range.

auto-x is at kentucky speedway on june 11th. Its free for all participants.

1 week left before I leave for power tour. ZR1 has been fully serviced and is getting new shoes, should be ready by Friday. The stock bose radio has crapped out so doubtful we will have tunes for this tour, might bring a bluetooth speaker and do it that way. I am excited beyond measure.

I've seen it twice in dublin also. was wondering the same thing.

When I was handling antiques for my mother we wouldn't touch them, but most of these things traded in private sales from one individual to another. Some antique dealers would specify that it was "non operational" so they could sell it as a decor and avoid the transfer tax. In many cases the thing was missing enough pieces that it was a true statement. These days I would suggest trying your luck at a gun show or a person to person sale through a firearm forum or even CL. I see them on ebay from time to time but I do not know the rules on selling antique firearms on ebay. I don't know that any licensed gun dealer would touch it, but it doesn't hurt to ask - one that specializes in antique firearms would be the first stop. Armslist has a section for classifieds in columbus for antique firearms as well. Maybe try 580 antiques and gun envy first since they are down the road from each other.

Wages increased generally for all skill level workers because unemployment is low and there is starting to be a shortage of candidates, even at entry level positions. The wage increase isn't directly related to the tax plan though - just the general prosperity in the economy which the report shows the tax plan had little effect on. The cutting of incentive performance programs is a more nuanced conversation. In the banking industry following Countrywide and Wells, there is a regulatory driven shift away from performance bonuses because it has the potential to give incentive bad behavior and wasn't really monitored well. A lot of other companies not affected by regulation are moving away from it because it doesn't give incentive to work harder at the actual job, but rather employees learn to game the incentive system in order to maximize compensation with the least amount of work. It also creates a high turn over situation as there is only so much an employee can be motivated externally by compensation before they begin to feel burn out and diminishing returns in quality of life, which is not what you want in an environment where candidates for jobs are getting scarce. I think we are seeing a shift away from the traditional salesman commission compensation to a more stable structured incentive plan that reduces the long term stress of the old system. Still has nothing to do with the tax plan. https://qz.com/work/1176046/why-companies-should-get-rid-of-performance-bonuses-theyre-bunk/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/fotschcase/2018/05/15/the-key-to-an-effective-incentive-plan/#6352321631a7 https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/how-to/human-resources/2018/08/7-reasons-why-you-should-integrate-a-structured.html Bottom line: the tax plan made investors wealthy and pretty much did very little for everyone else. Plus it saddles the US with a growing deficit that is going to be pretty hard to ignore in by 2020.

yes: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guide-identification-firearms-section-8

I don't know who to take it to in town but here is what I do know from running across these back when my mom had a side business trading antiques. Tear gas pen guns were made from the 1920's to the 1960's. They were meant to fire small tear gas pellets (which you don't have) using a primer charge (which you do have). Think of them a predecessors to pepper spray self defense sprayers. They were discontinued for a while because people began modifying them to fire actual rounds, however you can actually still buy ones today (I don't know if they are considered illegal or not since they are single shot and small caliber). All the major pen manufacturers, including penguin, parker, hagen, as well as gun makers like colt and RF seldgely made them and they sold in the thousands. The one you have there looks to be a Hagen, made in Germany (although Hagen was a Minnesota company - like a mail order general store), sometime between the 1930's and 1950's. It is the "mechanical pencil" type as it actually functions as a pencil (most of these pen guns don't actually write). They were sold through ads in magazines and comic books. It should take a Smith and Wesson 38 (9×20mmR) tear gas load. I don't believe they are still available new, but there are plenty of unfired rounds out there. As for value? eh....there are literally thousands of these things floating around. Pen Gun fetishists will pay for rarer kinds, but the hagens aren't all that rare. Because it has the box it's probably worth a little more, but without the pellets it's just a conversation piece (unless you want to convert it to fire a live round). Maybe she'll get $50-$150 out of it on ebay, but who knows.

So it looks like those GOP tax cuts were pretty much lies and smoke to the regular american people. https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190522_R45736_8a1214e903ee2b719e00731791d60f26d75d35f4.pdf